Genre :: Japan (7 books)

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  #189

  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  (13 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting..."

  

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  #191

  The Tale of Genji

  by Murasaki Shikibu

  (4 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "In a certain reign (whose can it have been?) someone of no very great rank, among all His Magesty's Consorts and Intimates, enjoyed exceptional favor."

  

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  #205

  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  (3 Reviews)

  96 Points

  "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to and FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music..."

  

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  #334

  Snow Country

  by Yasunari Kawabata

  (4 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country."

  

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  #365

  A Wild Sheep Chase

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition."

  

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  #400

  Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  50 Points

  "The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent."

  

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  #579

  An Artist of the Floating World

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (2 Reviews)

  10 Points

  "If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as ‘the Bridge of Hesitation’, you will not have to walk far before the roof of my..."

  

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