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Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Breasts and Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko's daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement...
Author
Series
Kuai books volume 18
Publisher
Cheng bang wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文（繁體）
Author
Series
Chun ri wen ku volume 114
Publisher
Chun tian chu ban guo ji wen hua you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
On the first day of spring in Kamakura, a rapid train derailed, resulting in many casualties. About two months after the accident, the grieving bereaved families hear a rumor. A female ghost is said to exist at Nishi-Yuigahama Station, the nearest station to the accident site, and if they ask her for help, they can go back in time and board the train on the day of the accident. Every member of the bereaved family went to see her. A woman who lost...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic multigenerational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation"--
In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to run a marathon herself. She summons Korean shamans to hold an intense, transcendent ritual to connect with Lee...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yayoi, a 19-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino. No one understands her aunt's unusual lifestyle. For as long as Yayoi can remember, Yukino has lived alone in an old gloomy single-family home, quietly, almost...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...
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