London. Abacus. 2016. Originally published in Japanese as Byakuyako. 539pp, paperback. A twenty-year-old murder A chain of unsolvable mysteries Can one detective solve this epic riddle? When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins..... More
London. Vintage Books. 2005. New Edition. Translated by Philip Gabriel. 505pp, paperback. 'Kafka on the Shore' follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from..... More
United States. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. Black and white illustrations, viii + 165 pages, index, paperback. Pierre Loti's novel "Madame Chrysantheme" (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in..... More
London. Peter Owen. No date. (circa1965). First UK Edition. Translated by Alan Turney. 184pp, hardback in lightly soiled dustjacket. Foxing first pages and edges, price clipped dustjacket. Good copy. An artist leaves city life to wander in the mountains on a quest to stimulate his artistic endeavours. When he finds..... More
