Sputnik Sweetheart

sputnik sweetheart

Literature & Fiction

Haruki, Murakami

Literary

Kodansha International Ltd ,Japan

A Dark Night's Passing (Japan's Modern Writers)

Naoya, Shiga

Contemporary

Doctor's Wife (Kodansha Women Writers)

Sawako Ariyoshi

Six stories in quest of the hidden treasures of Asia's past from Japanese historical fiction writer, Yasushi Inoue.

Lou-Lan and Other Stories (Japan's Modern Writers)

Yasushi, Inoue

Short Stories & Anthologies

More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures, Tun-huang is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.

Tun-Huang: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Into a Black Sun: Vietnam, 1964-65

Kaiko, Takeshi

<p>Explains how to use traditional Japanese wrapping techniques to decorate presents of a variety of shapes and sizes</p>

Gift Wrapping: Creative Ideas from Japan

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kunio Ekiguchi

Crafts & Hobbies

Creative Cards: Wrap a Message with a Personal Touch

Yoshiko Kitasawa

"A Wild Sheep Chase" is one of Murakami's most fantastical novels. An advertising executive, infatuated with a girl who possesses the most perfect ears (an erotic charge for him) uses a picture of a sheep with a star on its back. This catapults him into a weird adventure to find the mythical sheep up in the wilds of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island. There are strange encounters, a hotel with an extra disappearing floor, and other oddities. "A Wild Sheep Chase" is an early Murakami work, but its remarkable and individual voice makes it one of the most thrilling of his books. It is superbly read by Rupert Degas with an edge of Raymond Chandler.

A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel

<p>A thorough approach to the ancient art of origami, beginning with its history before moving to the basic forms and folds. The book includes 31 examples, divided into those that can be used and played with, animals and plants, and decorations. It includes how-to-fold diagrams.</p>

Origami in English (Kodansha Bilingual Books) (English and Japanese Edition)

Arts & Photography

Yamaguchi, Makoto

Sculpture

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