Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before, and discovers that she is now a painter, living with..... More
New York: North Point Press/Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1996. First North Point Paperback Edition, Second Printing. Paperback. From a Japan Times review (July 4, 2015): “Palm-of-the-Hand Stories” is a collection of 70 very brief stories by Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata that were written between the early 1920s and 1970s. It..... More
London: Vintage, 2020. Tyler Comrie (cover design). Trade Paperback. Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first..... More
London: Harvill Secker, 2019. First U.K. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is a limited edition. Only 100 copies printed. Each individually numbered. This is copy number 89. Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous work. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, which praised it as a “fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale..... More
New York: New Directions Book, 2018. John Gall (cover design). First published as a New Directions Paperbook. Fifth Printing. Paperback. NDP 1405. Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani. Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Library Journal Best Books of 2018. Yoko Tawada’s..... More
Tokyo: The Yoseido Gallery, 1966. Paperback. Staple-bound. A Catalog of artistic works by Japanese artists with photographic reproductions, some in color. More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2019. Keenan (book design). First Printing. Paperback. A New Directions Paperbook Original Translated by Sam Bett. All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone..... More
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