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Kogito Choko, an ageing novelist, listens night after night to the tapes left by his brother-in-law, a famous film director who has jumped from a building, and tries to understand why.
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Deep River
Four Japanese travellers with separate wounds arrive at Varanasi on a tourist itinerary, and Endo tracks what the Ganges does to each of their unlikely faiths.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
A man haunted by the unexplained abandonment of four close friends makes a pilgrimage to understand what broke them apart.
The Enigma of Arrival
A writer from Trinidad settles in a cottage on a run-down estate in Wiltshire and watches the landscape and its people change over the years.
The Details
A bedridden woman with a fever recalls four people who shaped her life, turning each encounter over in compact, precise portraits.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
Men Without Women
Seven stories about men who have lost the women in their lives, including an actor who hires a young woman as his driver and finds himself telling her about his late wife.
The Gathering
Veronica Hegarty, one of twelve surviving children, brings her brother Liam's body home from England after he drowns himself, and the family gathers in Dublin for the wake.
Last Orders
Four men from Bermondsey drive to Margate to scatter the ashes of their friend Jack, a butcher, as his last wish.
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.
Veronica
Alison, a former model now sick and cleaning offices in California, looks back on her years in Paris and New York, and on Veronica, an older, abrasive office temp who became her friend.
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.
Kokoro
A student in Meiji-era Tokyo befriends a withdrawn older man he calls Sensei, whose long final letter reveals the betrayal that hollowed out his life.