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Pinball, 1973
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023
Pinball, 1973 is Haruki Murakami's second novel, first published in Japan in 1980. Together with his debut Hear the Wind Sing and his third novel A Wi…
Kokoro
People's Literature Publishing House · 2019
Kokoro is a novel from Natsume Sōseki's late period. Serialized in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun and Osaka Asahi Shimbun from April to August 1914, it was p…
Blank Canvas
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
Painter Dino has been plagued since childhood by a sense of ennui, feeling disconnected from everything around him. He tries to forge a connection wit…
No One Turns On the Light
People's Literature Publishing House · 2023
The stories in No One Lights the Lamps often have the quality of prose essays: the language is gentle and exquisite, the smoke of memory rises on all …
The Lost One
Taihai Publishing House · 2021
This is a new work by the young fiction writer Shen Dacheng, and in it her singular imagination takes a few more steps forward. A person who dozes off…
The Law of Non-Self
· 2026
At seven, Lin Xu watched his sister drown. In that instant his consciousness seemed to hover above the pond, and from then on he learned to watch life…
Running Underground
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026
As a "book of the city," this volume offers far more than a record of spatial movement; it is an in-depth observation and writing of "the essence of u…
A Street Without Seasons
· 2024
The residents here unite under the concept of "the street" to face the outside world, yet as individuals they are lonely, and they seem always to clin…
Even If You Don't Work Hard
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024
"The human heart never seems to tire—always wanting to strive a little harder, always wanting to draw a little nearer." From the author who has won th…
More Die of Heartbreak
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2022
A marvelous story of a man who keeps his distance from an age of desire and yet lives a fuller life. I follow my uncle, not only because he is a botan…
No Longer Human
Chongqing Publishing House · 2019
No Longer Human means having lost the qualification to be human. The novel consists of five parts—a preface, the first notebook, the second notebook, …
No Longer Human (Zhangyue Classics)
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2019
No Longer Human is a classic work by Osamu Dazai, a leading writer of the "I-novel" genre, drawn from his own experiences. It is renowned worldwide an…
The Stranger
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2019
"They said Mama died, and I didn't cry; that's heartless—I deserved to die. The next day I fooled around with my girlfriend; that's unfilial—I deserve…
The Man Who Studies Monsters
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026
This short story collection comprises 25 standalone stories. These fantastical tales reveal the deformed, lonely, alienated, and grotesque sides of mo…
The Box Man
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2017
Structured around the notebook of the "Box Man" and interspersed with fragments from different times and places—an anonymous article, an abrupt parabl…