Books like Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Twenty-four stories from across his career, among them a waitress granted one wish on her twentieth birthday and a monkey in Shinagawa that steals people's names.
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After the Quake
Six stories set in the weeks after the 1995 Kobe earthquake, about people shaken by it from a distance, including a bank debt collector whom a giant frog recruits to save Tokyo from a worm underground.
First Person Singular
Eight first-person stories in which an ageing narrator looks back on youth and chance encounters, from a talking monkey who scrubs his back at a hot-spring inn to a jazz record that should not exist.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Seventy very short stories Kawabata wrote across his life, few longer than two pages, of chance meetings, love, death and the turning seasons.
The Lantern of Lost Memories
In an old-fashioned photo studio between life and death, Mr Hirasaka helps the newly departed look back over their lives through a lantern of memories and step back into one moment to photograph it again.
The Lake
Gimpei Momoi, a former teacher who lost his job after an affair with a pupil, can't stop following women he sees in the street, and his memories drift back to a lake of his childhood.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.
Strange Pilgrims
Twelve stories of Latin Americans in Europe, written and rewritten over eighteen years: a deposed Caribbean president in Geneva, a woman who stops to use a telephone and ends up in an asylum in Spain, a ghost in a Tuscan castle.
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
In a Kyoto building that isn't on any map, the Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic for the Soul sees only the patients who manage to find it, and its doctor sends each of them home with a prescription: a cat.
Bliss Montage
Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.
A Pale View of Hills
A Japanese woman living in England recalls her life in postwar Nagasaki, and the gaps in her story conceal a truth she cannot bear to face.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Debut stories populated by werewolf-girl boarding schools, Minotaur cowboys, and sleep-disordered children in Florida swamps.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.