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Sep.29.2008
MANOA: Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War, anthology ofJapanese literature in translation, Volume13, No. 1, Summer 2001. Contains Essays by Donald Richie, IshiiShinpei, Last Letters of Kamikaze Pilots (first-time publication intranslation), Testimonials from Taiwanese “Comfort Women,”...
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Sep.23.2008
This collection, Volume 2 of the Stone Bridge Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, introduces the work of three dozen of Japan's finest women poets who specialize in free verse. Poets such as Shiraishi Kazuko, Ishigaki Rin, Ibaragi Noriko and Korean-Japanese poets Chuwol Chong, Kyong...
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Sep.23.2008
Filmmaker and Film critic Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived in Tokyo on New Year's Day, 1947. Detailing his life, his attachments, and his ideas on matters high and low, The Japan Journals is a critically acclaimed record of both a nation and an...
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Sep.23.2008
A thousand years ago, Japanese women court poets created a written aesthetic of unmatchcd elegance and technical skill. Today, Japanese women poets write with equal sophistication in haiku and tanka about romance, family life, sexuality, divorce, loneliness, politics and the West. This first-ever...
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Sep.18.2008
February, 1945. The war is over, but for some the fight for survival is only just beginning. Alix is alone and desperate to flee. But when a ferocious snowstorm descends she must return to the shelter of her abandoned ancestral home. There, she is shocked to find her childhood sweetheart Gregor. As...
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Sep.18.2008
Sixty years divide two women but the discovery of a skeleton on a beach bring them together.
Shattered by a recent bereavement, Minna and husband Tom retreat to an isolated village on the Dorset coast, hoping to find the solitude that will allow them to cope with their loss and rebuild...
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