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Tuttle Classics eBook Series

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  • Mistress Oriku

    Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse

    by Matsutaro Kawaguchi ...
    Translated by Royall Tyler ...
    Series series Tuttle Classics
    "Royall Tyler's translations are nothing short of superb-crisp, restrained, ably balancing the ribald and the profound."-BooklistSensitive, compassionate, and indomitable, Mistress Oriku has abandoned the pleasure trades of Tokyo to run an elegant teahouse on the city's outskirts. Despite her hopes for a quieter, less hectic life, she finds she can't escape her involvement in the city's creative, ... Read more

    $7.28 USD

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  • Saraswati Park

    by Anjali Joseph ...
    A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author.Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer – the last of a dying profession – sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishing missives for village migrants, disenchanted lovers, and when pickings are slim, filling in money order forms. But Mohan's ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Teahouse Fire

    by Ellis Avery ...
    “Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong KingstonThe story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Sound of Water

    Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

    Series series Shambhala Centaur Editions
    Over 200 of the best haiku poems from Japanese literature, translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators and now in one giftable volumeThe haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Water

    A Novel

    by Bapsi Sidhwa ...
    An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there, in a novel by "a writer of enormous talent" ( Newsday).Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi's rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow's ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to ... Read more

    $11.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Counterfeiter and Other Stories

    by Yasushi Inoue ...
    Translated by Leon Picon ...
    "These three stories illustrate Inoue's versatility, his mastery of detail and his control of narrative structure. Inoue presents the tale as mystery and solution, the tale as psychoanalytic exploration…, the tale as emblematic social history."-Arizona QuarterlyIn The Counterfeiter, a writer is commissioned to write the biography of a famous painter but becomes fascinated by a man who produced ... Read more

    $6.47 USD

  • Novice to Master

    An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity

    by Soko Morinaga ...
    Translated by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ...
    Everybody loves Novice to Master! As you'll see in the glowing endorsements and reviews included below, this modern spiritual classic has been embraced by readers of all types.In his singularly humorous and biitingly direct way, Zen abbot Soko Morinaga tells the story of his rigorous training at a Japanese Zen temple, his spiritual growth and his interactions with his students and others. Morinaga ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Japanese Haiku: The Four Seasons

    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
    Series Book 2 - Peter Pauper Press Classic Haiku
    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional ... Read more

    $2.69 USD

  • Kitchen

    by Banana Yoshimoto ...
    The acclaimed debut of Japan's "master storyteller" ( Chicago Tribune).With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Banana Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an enchantingly original book that ... Read more

    $11.15 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eat Sleep Sit

    My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple

    by Kaoru Nonomura ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer in Tokyo to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training temples in Japan. This book is Nonomura's recollection of his experiences. He skillfully describes every aspect of training, including how to meditate, how to eat, how to wash, even how to use the toilet, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Wild Geese

    by Ogai Mori ...
    Translated by Sanford Goldstein, Kingo Ochiai ...
    This modern classic, written in 1913, was the source for the highly acclaimed film, The MistressIn The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against the background of the dizzying social change accompanying the fall of the Meiji regime. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. She is surrounded ... Read more

    $10.43 USD

  • Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher

    Introduction by Alexander McCall Smith

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism.Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ... Read more

    $9.99 USD