"An outstanding novel, based on the firsthand experiences of a special correspondent in Vietnam." - from back cover of book.

Very Extraordinary Mer

Children's Books

Kaiko, Takeshi

Arts, Music & Photography

Benson Music Group (Choral)

Seven stories that span a 20-year period in the life of one of Japanâ€™s greatest writers. Written with humor and keen perception, Kaiko introduces the reader to a fascinating range of characters.

Five thousand runaways

Literature & Fiction

Seigle, Cecilia Segawa (translator)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Dodd, Mead, & Company

Darkness In Summer

Kaiko’s first work to be published in English, this is a moving story set in Germany. Two people who were once lovers in their native Japan unexpectedly meet while on holiday, and their affair is rekindled once more.

Darkness in Summer

Contemporary

Peter Owen Publishers

Seven stories that span a 20-year period in the life of one of Japan’s greatest writers. Written with humor and keen perception, Kaiko introduces the reader to a fascinating range of characters.

Five Thousand Runaways

Religion & Spirituality

Tuttle Pub

"This intensely modern novel … provides vivid insights into the alienated condition of a certain type of Japanese whom we may so often glimpse in the streets of Rome or New York—intelligent, perceptive, and desperately lost between two worlds."—Ivan Morris, author of The Nobility of FailureDarkness in Summer is the first serious work of Japanese fiction to focus on the Japanese experience in the West. A man and a woman, separated for ten years, meet again, traveling together in Germany. They had been lovers long ago, in Tokyo; now, incapable of love, they are brought together by sexual desire and by their mutual desperation. No new passion, but their old obsession, may give them back the key to their lives, release them from their terrors, their rootlessness. The woman is a scholar who has come to hate the Japan that allowed her no seriousness, forcing her to pursue a career in the West; the man is a novelist-reporter, lethargic, an uncommitted observer of other people's wars, sunk into detachment by his professional familiarity with tragedy and chaos. They need each other, and yet they cannot fulfill each other's needs. They savor their world together with urgency as they move restlessly from place to place, finally parting again, to survive separately as best they can.

Darkness in Summer (Tuttle Classics)

United States

Tuttle+publishing

This autobiographical novel chronicles the narrator's journalistic encounter with the Vietnam War and his dilemma between experiencing the full impact of war and yet protecting himself from its horror

Into a Black Sun

Genre Fiction

Kodansha USA Inc

Into a Black Sun: Vietnam, 1964-65

Kodansha International Ltd ,Japan

Recognized as the author's finest work, Into A Black Sun blurs the line between literature and journalism, drawing on his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam to present an immersive depiction of the war. This is not a combat novel, but rather an Asian perspective on one of the wars that shaped modern America. He tells his stories of the men and women of the land, of the conflicted turmoil of their beliefs and lives and deaths, through prose brought to life through the five senses, realizing the jungles, brothels, and camps of the Vietnam War, with the diverse people entrapped by it.  And in the telling, he reveals the enormous contradictions that the war revealed in friend and foe alike.Long out of print, this edition brings Kaiko's immersive journey into the depths of the Vietnam War to a generation that is already forgetting the lessons learned there. 

Into A Black Sun

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kurodahan Press

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