A unique collection of thirteen short stories of science fiction andfantasy by authors such as Barry Malzberg, Philip Jose Farmer, R. A.Lafferty, Anne McCaffrey, Poul Anderson, others

Omega

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Philip José Farmer

George R.R.Martin

R.A. Lafferty

James Sutherland

Morio Kita

Anne McCaffrey

POUL ANDERSON

Miriam Allen DeFord

Science Fiction

fawcett gold Medal

A Japanese comic novel. This book is an amusing parody of a Thomas Mann saga set in a family-run Tokyo mental hospital. It also contains the sequel novel "The Fall of the House of Nire".

The house of Nire

Literature & Fiction

Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha International/USA, through Harper & Row

The House of Nire (Japan's Modern Writers)

Literary

Kodansha International

Ise-Tale of the Bamboo (boys and girls classic Museum of Literature) (1991) ISBN: 4062508028 [Japanese Import]

Kodansha

Phantom Mabuze and sunfish Dr. (Mass Market Paperback) (1984) ISBN: 4101131295 [Japanese Import]

Shinchosha

The lingering existence of his mother's and sister's spirits shape the narrator's entire coming-of-age experience as he struggles to overcome his obsession with the past. By the author of The House of Nire.

Ghosts

Kodansha USA Inc

The House of Nire will come as a surprise to readers who expect a Japanese novel to be a mixture of gloom and sensitivity. This one is unashamedly comic, and its view of human life derives from a warm curiosity that accepts the world as it is and wastes no time complaining about it. Readers will feel themselves in the company of somebody who understands with intelligence, judges with generosity, and often, sometimes uproariously, laughs and enjoys. The book relates the history of the Nire family from the end of the First World War to the end of the Second. We meet Kiichiro Nire, founder not only of the family mental hospital but of the family itself, for he has changed their real name to something more sophisticated. Kiichiro, in all his vanity, selfishness, and absurdity, is one of the great comic creations of Japanese literature. 
His children, adopted children, grandchildren, and any number of hangers-on including a friendly but flabby sumo wrestler whose career is going nowhere, form a cast of characters who, for all their oddities, tell us more about actual Japanese people and their lives than almost anything we have yet seen in English. And when, with the eventual fall of the House of Nire, the mood changes and the laughter dies away, one recognizes just how true to life this novel is and how involved in it one has become.

Kodansha International (JPN)

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