Books like The Setting Sun
After the war, Kazuko and her aristocratic mother lose their Tokyo house and move to a country villa, where they wait for Kazuko's brother, Naoji, to come home from the army with his addictions intact.
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The Post-Office Girl
A poor Austrian post-office clerk is briefly swept into a luxury Swiss resort by a rich aunt and returns to her village unable to bear the life she had.
No Longer Human
Three notebooks left by Oba Yozo tell how, since childhood, he has felt unable to understand other people, playing the clown to hide it, and how he has drifted from school to drink, women and worse.
The Sound of the Mountain
An ageing patriarch in postwar Japan listens to the mountain and contemplates his family's slow dissolution, beauty, and the nearness of death.
Territory of Light
Separated from her husband, a young woman moves with her two-year-old daughter into a fourth-floor Tokyo apartment flooded with light, and over twelve chapters, one for each month, tries to make a life there.
Of Women and Salt
In Miami in 2018 Jeanette, newly sober, goes to Cuba to learn about her family from her grandmother, and the story reaches back to her great-great-grandmother in a Camagüey cigar factory in 1866.
An Artist of the Floating World
In the years after World War II, a once-celebrated Japanese painter tries to arrange his daughter's marriage while slowly facing the propaganda he made for the imperial cause.
Lucy
Lucy, nineteen, leaves Antigua to work as an au pair for a wealthy white family in New York, and is in no mood to be grateful.
Paradise of the Blind
Hang, a young Vietnamese woman working in a Soviet textile factory, takes the train to Moscow to see her dying uncle, and remembers a childhood in a village torn apart by land reform.
Tokyo Ueno Station
The ghost of Kazu, a labourer from Fukushima who spent his last years among the homeless of Tokyo's Ueno Park, looks back on a life of work that began in the same year as the emperor's.
The Bread of Those Early Years
Walter Fendrich, who went hungry in the bombed-out cities after the war and now has money and a girlfriend, is sent to meet a girl from his home town at the station and falls for her on sight.
Fifty Words for Rain
In Kyoto in 1948, Nori, eight, the daughter of a Japanese aristocrat and a Black American soldier, is left by her mother at her grandmother's estate, where she is kept hidden in the attic.
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.