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Girl who Leapt Through Time

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes to be responsible for her paranormal abilities, she'll constantly have to push the boundaries of space and time, and challenge the notions of dream and reality.

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Alma Books

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1846881889

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9781846881886

Hell

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Hell

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

Fifty-seven-year-old Takeshi has just been involved in a traffic accident. When he wakes up, he is in a strange bar, no longer crippled as he has been for most of his life, but able to walk without crutches in his everyday business suit. Looking around, he sees a number of familiar faces - Izumi, a colleague who had died in a plane crash five years before; his childhood friend Yuzo, who had become a yakuza and had been killed by a rival gang member; and Sasaki, who had frozen to death as a homeless vagrant.This is Hell - a place where three days last as long as ten years on earth, and people are able to see events in both the future and the past. Yuzo can now see the yakuza that killed him as he harasses a friend of his. The actress Mayumi and the writer Torigai are chased by the paparazzi into an elevator that drops to floor 666 beneath ground level. The vivid depiction of afterlife portrayed in "e;Hell"e; admits the traditional horrors, but subjects them to Tsutsui's unique powers of enchantment: witty, amusing, praised for its poetic style and the wizard-like light touch of the author's shifting focus, "e;Hell"e; is a masterpiece of surrealist literature.

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Alma Books

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1846882559

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9781846882555

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

Stories

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

Stories

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

A collection of offbeat short stories from an acclaimed Japanese author explores the folly of human desire in a world in which the fantastic and the mundane collide to throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.

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Pantheon

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0307377261

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9780307377265

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

An irresistible mix of imagination, satire, and humor, these stories by acclaimed Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui imagine the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide. The opening story, “The Dabba Dabba Tree,” details the hilarious side effects of a small conical tree that, when placed at the foot of one’s bed, creates erotic dreams. In “Commuter Army,” a sly commentary on the ludicrousness of war, a weapons supplier becomes an unwilling conscript in a war zone. “The World is Tilting” imagines a floating city that slowly begins to sink on one side, causing its citizens to reorient their daily lives to preserve a semblance of normality. And in the title story, we see how obscenely absurd the environment on Planet Porno appears to a group of scientists. The stories in Salmonella Men on Planet Porno winningly combine madcap hilarity and a sharp eye toward the insanities of contemporary life.

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Vintage

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0307476715

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9780307476715

Paprika

A Novel

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Paprika

A Novel

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui's masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a mind-bending narrative about a psychiatric institute that has developed the technology to invade people's dreams. When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake.

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354

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Vintage

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030737727X

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9780307377272

Girl who Leapt Through Time

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Alma Books

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1846881889

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9781846881886

Maid

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Maid

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

Nanase cannot remember when she first realized she could read people's minds, but not once during her eighteen years has she ever questioned her particularly unusual ability. Yet, working as a live-in maid, she is inevitably drawn into the lives, thoughts and desires of her employers, with dangerous and at times hilarious consequences. From the sexual rapaciousness of her first boss to the grime and stench of the house where she works next and her third employer's inability to accept she's no longer young, Nanase's adventures are a picaresque journey into the inner sanctum of the lives and psyches of ordinary Japanese people.

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Alma Books

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1846882540

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9781846882548

Hell

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Hell

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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1846882559

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9781846882555

Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories

From Japan's Greatest Detective and Crime Writers

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui,Seicho Matsumoto

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Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories

From Japan's Greatest Detective and Crime Writers

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui,Seicho Matsumoto

Features 12 highly entertaining stories by Japan's leading authors of crime and detective fiction The authors include Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui, Akutagawa Prize winner Seicho Matsumoto, Edogawa Rampo Prize winner Seiichi Morimura and Mystery Writers of Japan Award winner Kyotaro Nishimura This collection was selected and edited by the legendary American crime writers who published over 36 novels and dozens of anthologies under the name Ellery Queen This anthology features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito

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4805315520

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9784805315521

The Girl who Leapt Through Time

Tokikake

By: Ranmaru Kotone,Yasutaka Tsutsui

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The Girl who Leapt Through Time

Tokikake

By: Ranmaru Kotone,Yasutaka Tsutsui

After 17 ordinary years on Earth, Makoto Konno's journey was about to be ended by a freak accident. Then, life gave her a reset button. With her newfound time-leaping powers, she immediately sets out to wipe off all the little annoyances in her daily life, from failing grades to iffy relationships that she can't handle. But as her time-leaps get more frequent, she is forced to realize that every change she makes has profound repercussions that she can't foresee...and should her powers fail her, the consequences could be disastrous...

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192

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9812762019

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9789812762016

Maid

By: Yasutaka Tsutsui

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Maid

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1846882540

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What the Maid Saw

Eight Psychic Tales

By: 康隆·筒井

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What the Maid Saw

Eight Psychic Tales

By: 康隆·筒井

Nanase works as a maid to avoid revealing her ability to read people's minds, but her psychic powers inevitably draw her into the lives of her employers.

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Kodansha Amer Incorporated

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0870119923

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9780870119927

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