Books like The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
Across one long night in Kyoto, a black-haired college freshman sets off alone to drink and explore, and the upperclassman who adores her keeps contriving to cross her path, through bars, a used-book fair and a festival.
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The Elephant Vanishes
Seventeen early stories, from newlyweds who hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night to a housewife who has stopped sleeping altogether.
The Hearing Trumpet
Marian Leatherby, ninety-two, deaf and toothless, is given a hearing trumpet by her friend Carmella, overhears her family planning to put her in a home, and is packed off to a strange institution for old women run by a cult of self-improvement.
The Husbands
Lauren comes home from a hen party to find a man in her flat who says he is her husband. When he goes up into the attic, a different husband comes down.
Equal Rites
The Disc's first female wizard fights for the right to attend Unseen University in a world where magic is strictly men's business.
Still Life with Woodpecker
Princess Leigh-Cheri, an exiled royal and environmentalist, falls for Bernard Mickey Wrangle, an outlaw bomber known as the Woodpecker, in a love story built out of dynamite, pyramids, a pack of Camels and the moon.
The Rosie Project
Don Tillman, a genetics professor who lives by strict routines, designs a questionnaire to find the perfect wife, and then meets Rosie, who fails every criterion and needs his help to find her biological father.
I Am a Cat
A nameless cat belonging to a Tokyo schoolteacher observes his owner and his owner's Meiji-era circle of scholars, businessmen and gossips with the cool contempt of his species.
My City: A Hong Kong Story
Ah Gor, a young man just out of school, takes a job with the telephone company and wanders Hong Kong, in a playful, childlike portrait of the city in the 1970s.
Pnin
A displaced Russian professor at an American college bumbles through faculty politics and small-town life with a dignity that makes the comedy ache.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Yumi, raised to summon spirits by stacking stones, and Painter, a young man who hunts nightmares with his brush in a city of endless night, wake to find their lives bound together across two worlds.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Richard MacDuff, a software engineer, is drawn by his old Cambridge acquaintance Dirk Gently, a detective who believes in the interconnectedness of all things, into a mess involving a murdered boss, a ghost, a horse in a bathroom and an Electric Monk.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
As a teenager, a man was told by the girl he loved about a town surrounded by high walls, and decades later, after she vanished, he leaves Tokyo to run a small library in the mountains, where the walled town and the real world begin to blur.