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Stories, Short Stories, and Short Shorts -
Asia
Most books on this
page are sold by imcbook.
IMC is located in Tokyo.
Most are also available from Amazon.com or other sources. Prices quoted
are in
US$ unless otherwise indicated. Prices do not include any
applicable tax or shipping charges. Also see novels, poetry,
business/communications
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A View From the
Chuo Line: and other stories by Donald Richie
$15.00, 2004, 127pp, paperback, A5, 0-9653304-6-X;
or 4-900178-27-6
In this collection of twenty-seven short stories Donald Richie has
shown people set in their ways but caught off guard by life itself. The
minimality of the form emphasizes that moment of truth which James
Joyce called an epiphany -- the revelation which he said was the only
reason for writing, or reading stories. The people are almost all
Japanese -- and Richie is not. Yet, though the peculiarities of culture
may form them, it is a common humanity which is his subject. If, as
Henry James once said, a story consists of a movement toward an
understanding, then these small works are true stories -- each plants a
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Worldly Pursuits: a novel in nine stories
by Hillel Wright
$20.00, 2004, 216pp, paperback, 139x215mm, 0-9687317-6-7
With luminous and articulate writing Wright tells the story of Wiley
Moon ... He has a lust for life and a passion that involves the reader
in his story. (W.P. Kinsella, Books in Canada). Readers with a taste
for nautical fiction will find much to enjoy ... The salt all but
sprays from the page. (Peter O'Connor, The Daily Yomiuri Tokyo). Wiley
embodies the spirit of a by-gone psychedelic era." (Fisherman Life
Magazine Vancouver)
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Faces in the Crowds:
a Tokyo International Anthology edited by Hillel Wright
$25.00, 2002, 254pp, paperback, A5, 0-935086-02-1
Authors: Ralph Alfonso. Dario Alvarado. Andrew Armstrong. Georgia
Borcic. Sylvia Charczuk. Peter Comaroff. David Cozy. Suzanne
DesRochers. Monty DiPietro. Kevin Dobbs. Susan Doyle. Melanie Drane.
William I Elliott. Stephen Foster. Wallace Gagne. Morgan Gibson. Jesse
Glass. John Gribble. Edgar Henry. G M A Iddriss. Satoshi Ishizaka. Jane
Joritz-Nakagawa. Crad Kilodney. Lew Keester. Hihiro Kizuki. Noashi
Koriyama. Lesley. Li Jiang. Ryu Makoto. Malinda Markham. Douglas
Marvin. Greg McElwain. Taylor Mignon. Gamal Mohammad. Kathy Murphy.
Stephen Nelmes. Steven Nickel. Leigh Norrie. Fujio Ogura. Blair Reeve.
Richard Russell. Torii Shozo. Tony Skevington. Frank Spignese. Spleen.
Gregory Strong. Barbara Summerhawk. Hirihisa Tajima. Shiori Tsuchiya.
Atsuko Ueno. Thomas Walker. Hillel Wright. Janice Young.
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Green Tea to Go: Stories from Tokyo by
Leza Lowitz
$15.00, 2004, 177pp, paperback, A5, isbn 0-935086-32-3;
isbn 4-900178-24-1
The latest book from author, poet, translator
and
yoga instructor Leza Lowitz. Eastern
traditions clash with much
more than Western culture in these twelve short stories and a novella
set in modern-day Japan. A Zen koan holds the key to the death of a
dolphin; a sculptor relives his father's death while shaping his art. A
British woman and her Japanese boyfriend fall in love with and
old-fashioned scale shop. An edgy English teacherr sets her sights on a
rising Japanese boxer. Two feuding American women take a strange trip
to the Spice Islands. A housewife arranges one last meeting with her
imprisoned Leftist lover. A yakuza charactar actor named Genji finally
comes to accept his face. The stories in this debut
collection from award-winning poet Leza Lowitz are not about samurai or
geisha, but people we might actually meet on a given day in the
nameless streets of Tokyo: the strange, the ordinary, the scarred, and
the real. Read what others have said of this lively
book:
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I Wouldn't Want Anybody to
Know: Native English Teaching in Japan - Eva P. Bueno
& Terry Caesar, editors. Preface by David Galef. $25.00, 252pp,
paperback, A5, 4-900178-21-7
This collection of essays aims to provide a human face to the teaching
of English in Japan by foreigners. Old hands will recognize typical
characters and chuckle. Newcomers will enjoy the read and be
forewarned. Anthology, stories, short essays, bits and pieces that will
help anyone new to Japan to appreciate the country including the
oddities that affect any Westerner before he or she checks in for a
first hotel night. Contributors include: Fritz Logan, Reza Fiyouzat,
Michael Pronko, Michael Narron, Brian J McVeigh, Alan Fisher, Laurie
Kim Delaney, Charles Kowalski, Andrew Baker, Jan Gordon.
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JUNGLE CROWS:
a Tokyo expatriate anthology edited by Hillel Wright, cover art by Akemi Shinohara, $25.00, 2007, 225pp, paperback, A5, 978-1-933606-12-5, 420g
Stories, poetry, musing by expat authors. [Also see FACES IN THE CROWDS on this page.]
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Nectar
Fragments: Stories by Michael Hoffman
$23.49, 2006, 550pp, paperback, 1-4259-1386-5,
633g
"Nectar Fragments is a thought provoking collection of short stories by
Michael Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman's book is unique. His style is quiet
drama. This book is divided into two sections. The first section titled
"The Presentiment" varies in setting from Shinobazu Pond to
19th-century Germany, where Dostoevsky lives in despair and poverty.
Part II is titled "Nectar Fragments". These short stories intertwined
together. Leonard Spector is a recluse writer living in Montreal who
suddenly
finds that he has a son. Spector is writing a story about Sara, Abraham
and Isaac. In "Abraham and Isaac: 1" a couple desperately want a child
but cannot conceive. Much as the Sara in the biblical story, this Sara
takes matters into her own hands. .......
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Rotary
Sushi: many kinds of stories by Hillel
Wright
$20.00, 2003, 216pp, paperback, 4-900178-22-5
Miracles, strippers, belly dancers ... ghosts and doppelgängers
... high seas adventures and sordid romance ... true crime and travel
in time ... just a few of the entries in Rotary Sushi.
"Hillel Wright's 'A Borges Trilogy' is a sophisticated homage to the
Argentine genius." Tom Sandborn, X-Tra West (Canada)
"One memorable story is 'Early Retirement,' in many ways a metaphor for
personal responsibility." Jim Bennett, New Hope International Review
On-Line (UK)
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