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| | |  | | Beauty and Sadness | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$13.80 | |  | | The double nature of love, the perennial themes in Kawabata's work is at the core of this novel. nowhere else does he so clearly set out his preoccupation with the way sickness, decay and mortality are endlessly revealed at the heart of love's promise of immortality. | |
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| | |  | | East Wind Melts the Ice | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.63 | | | | Writing in luminous prose, Liza Dalby, acclaimed author of "Geisha" and "The Tale of Murasaki, " brings us this elegant and unique year's journal-- a brilliant mosaic that is at once a candid memoir, a gardener's diary, and an enlightening excursion through cultures east... | |
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| | |  | | I Am a Cat 2 | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | "I Am a Cat" is the whimsical first part of Soseki's brilliant novel in three volumes about the adventures of a world-weary stray kitten during the Meiji era. Over the course of his escapades, the nameless cat observes the foibles of upper-middle class Japanese society with sardonic... | |
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| | |  | | I Am a Cat 3 | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$10.29 | | | | Indulge yourself in the final volume chronicling the adventures of Soseki's anonymous cat as he, with acerbic wit and sardonic eye, observes the humans around him. See how its master deals with local schoolboys who keep hitting their baseball into his yard, how he can't get up in the... | |
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| | |  | | Integrated Chinese Level 1 Part 1 Textbook (Simplified Version) | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.63 | | | | Simplified Chinese characters. Level 1 Part 1 begins the first year of study in the Integrated Chinese series, introducing 350 characters. Students cover the basics quickly, with simple, graded activities on essential topics such as greetings, dates and time, shopping, and family. Pinyin texts... | |
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| | |  | | Masks | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.63 | | | | Masks is perhaps Fumiko Enchi's finest work and her first to be translated into English. In this stunning and subtle novel about seduction and infidelity in latter-day Japan and about the destructive force of feminine jealousy and resentment, Mieko Togano, a handsome and cultivated woman in her... | |
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| | |  | | Push (Precious) | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.63 | | | | Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a... | |
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| | |  | | River of Stars: Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$18.34 | | | | One of the most famous Japanese writers of the 20th century, Yosano Akiko is the author of more than 75 books. Although probably best known for her exquisite erotic poetry, Akiko's work also championed the causes of feminism, pacifism, and social reform. "River of Stars" is her first... | |
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| | |  | | Rolling the R's | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$14.89 | | | | A collection of vignettes revolving around plantation workers, janitors, drug addicts, and drag queens of Hawaii in the 1970s. | |
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| | |  | | Tale of Murasaki | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$17.19 | | | | Liza Dalby's novel is a brilliantly imagined chronicle of the 11th-century Japanese writer Murasaki Shikibu. As we soon discover, our narrator has a good many doubts about the writing life. "As I pondered this question of how to be a success at court," she muses, "I came to the... | |
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| | |  | | The Master of Go | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$13.80 | | | | "The Master of Go" is a true story about the competition between the "invincible" Master of Go and a much-younger opponent in the Master's retirement match, and intense single game that lasted for more than six-months, perhaps they could have used the game to launch a... | |
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| | |  | | The Tale of Genji | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$11.44 | | | | The abridged edition of the universally acknowledged masterpiece concerning the love of Prince Genji and life in the imperial court of Kyoto in the eleventh century. Translated by Edward Seidensticker. | |
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| | |  | | Thousand Cranes | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$13.80 | | | | Amid the serene and peaceful rituals of the traditional tea ceremony, a young man forms a new and mysterious relationship with the memory of his dead father as he becomes involved with his father's two mistresses. | |
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| | |  | | Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | "Youth, Identity, Power" is a unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America. Carlos Munoz, Jr, himself a leader of the Chicano movement of the 1960s, places the movement in the wider context of the political development of Mexicans and their... | |
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