Product Description: Kazami, joven estudiosa de literatura, investiga el misterio que rodea a un libro de cuentos titulado N.P. Su autor, Tekase, que escribia en ingles, paso gran parte de su vida en Estados unidos y se suicido a los cuarenta y ocho anos, dejando dos hijos...read more

Product Description: Cinco personajes que, tras vivir momentos dolorosos, se preguntan sobre el sentido de la vida, y sobre la posibilidad de ser felices, vertebran los cinco relatos que componen este volumen. Si, en «La casa de los fantasmas», dos companeros de universidad traban una intensa amistad que tras una larga separacion se convertira en un amor profundo, el segundo relato, «¡Mamaaa!», narra la historia de una joven que trabaja en una editorial y que, tras un incidente, tardara en recuperar la fe en las relaciones humanas...read more

Product Description: Tres jóvenes que atraviesan un periodo difícil de su vida son las protagonistas de este bellísimo volumen de la escritora japonesa Banana Yoshimoto. «Sueño profundo», «Los viajeros de la noche» y «Una experiencia», los tres relatos que componen el libro, exploran a través de esas jóvenes los mundos que se abren cuando todo parece desmoronarse y sólo queda el vacío, mundos poblados por sombras que de pronto se hacen presentes en la vida de cada día...read more

Product Description: Maria Shirakawa, la narradora de esta delicada historia, tiene que marcharse a Tokio, en cuya universidad va a estudiar. Deja atrás el hostal Yamamoto, un lugar idílico frente al mar en la península de Izu, donde ha crecido junto a su madre...read more

The author of Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi offers two novellas, one about a young woman's dream about an ex-lover while on a hiking trip, and the other about the sister of a woman lying in a coma. Reprint.

Product Description: With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature...read more

Having grown up by the sea alongside her charismatic invalid cousin Tsugumi, Maria moves to Tokyo and encounters an entirely different world of university enrollment and impending adulthood, and spending a last summer with her cousin, she comes to a new understanding about home and family. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

These six stories explore the themes of time, healing and fate, and how urban, sophisticated and independent young men and women come to terms with them.

Three extraordinary novellas narrate the individual stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep--a sleepwalker mourning a lost love, a woman unable to remain awake who is involved in an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, and a woman whose dreams are haunted by a woman she once confronted in a love triangle. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A celebrated actress dies under mysterious and shocking circumstances, leaving behind an unconventional extended family that includes her novelist fiance, a young brother with mystical powers, and a younger sister, the narrator of the story. 50,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

In the wake of a celebrated Japanese author's suicide, the publication of his final collection of stories, written in English, becomes thwarted when its translators also decide to kill themselves after reading it. Reprint.