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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from ...

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Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions ...

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Twenty Plays of the N¿ Theatre

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Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmar...

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers f...