Books like Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness
Four novellas, among them the title story of a very fat man who devotes himself to his brain-damaged son, and The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away.
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A Personal Matter
Bird, a twenty-seven-year-old cram-school teacher who dreams of escaping to Africa, learns that his newborn son has a severe brain hernia, and spends the following days running from the decision in front of him.
The Silent Cry
Mitsusaburo, his marriage strained and a friend's suicide behind him, goes back with his wife to the family's village in a forested valley on Shikoku with his younger brother Takashi, just home from America, who wants to sell the old storehouse.
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Eighteen stories by the father of the Japanese short story, among them a servant sheltering from the rain in a ruined city gate and conflicting testimony about a killing in a grove.
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 Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A young monk becomes so obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto that he decides to destroy it.
Beware of Pity
A young Austro-Hungarian lieutenant's thoughtless kindness to a paralysed girl entangles him in an impossible engagement on the eve of the First World War.
The Street of Crocodiles
A son mythologises his father and their provincial Polish town in hallucinatory prose.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A gang of boys worship a sailor for embodying the heroic ideal, but when the sailor softens into domesticity, they decide he must be punished.
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 Red-Haired Woman
In 1985, a teenage boy from Istanbul takes a summer job digging a well with a master well-digger outside the city, and falls for a red-haired actress with a travelling theatre.
Cat and Mouse
In wartime Danzig, Pilenz tells the story of his schoolfriend Joachim Mahlke, a boy with an enormous Adam's apple who dives into a sunken minesweeper in the harbour and becomes a local legend.