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A complex and unusual love story set in contemporary Japan, highly evocative of life there, and sensitively portraying relationships between westerners and Japanese. I find Joiner's style reminiscent of the classic Japanese authors, particularly Kawabata, Soseki, and Tanizaki. A somewhat hidden gem of a book.
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Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery after his marriage to a Japanese woman has failed.
After Nozomi abandons Sedge and their marriage, taking all their money and leaving him with a ceramics shop he can't manage alone, her brother and his wife offer him a lifeline at their Japanese hot spring inn until he can get back on his…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
You've seen the film, or one of the film versions. The book is even more darkly tragi-comical, and the psychological penetration is astounding for an author writing well over 200 years ago. Witty, sophisticated, and despite all the wickedness, surprisingly moral.
One of the most `modern' of eighteenth-century novels, Les Liasons Dangereuses is the brilliantly observed and vividly rendered story of two libertines and the innocent characters they plot to destroy.
