Instant Digital Gift Cards 💌
Christmas Gift Guide Gift Guide
Christmas Delivery Delivery
Store Hours Store Hours
Gift Cards Gift Cards

Boxing Day Sale is live! Up to 20% off 2000+ Books

Great Japanese Stories

10 Parallel Texts
By Various
Series: Parallel Texts
0.0 (0 reviews)
3.67 goodreads logo

Ratings/reviews counts are updated frequently.

Check link for latest rating. ( 318 ratings, 50 reviews)
Brief Description
Great Japanese Stories offers a captivating selection of short stories presented in their original Japanese with accompanying English translations. This new dual-language edition, featuring ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, celebrates some of the finest twentieth-century literature from Japan. The stories... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$2700
Elsewhere:
$3000
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Great Japanese Stories

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Great Japanese Stories offers a captivating selection of short stories presented in their original Japanese with accompanying English translations.

This new dual-language edition, featuring ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, celebrates some of the finest twentieth-century literature from Japan. The stories appear in their original Japanese alongside expert English translations, providing unique cultural insights and literary inspiration for language learners.

Ranging from a witty send-up of modern social graces to a powerful evocation of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, this remarkable collection includes works from beloved authors such as Abe Akira, Uchida Hyakken, Kawakami Mieko, Oba Minako, Betsuyaku Minoru, Haruki Murakami, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Hoshi Shin'ichi, Kono Taeko, and Ota Yoko.

Series: Parallel Texts

View all

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241634479

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 January 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Edited by Jay Rubin
  • Edited by Jay Rubin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 202g

Pages: 272

Collections

Biography & Memoir Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Parallel Texts Various

About the Author

Jay Rubin (External Editor) Jay Rubin is an American translator and academic. He is the translator of several of Haruki Murakami's major works, including Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Natsume Soseki's The Miner and Sanshiro and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. He is the author of Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words and a novel, The Sun Gods.

Also by Various

View all

More from General Fiction

View all

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Service & Delivery

Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Bookstore

Auckland Bookstore

We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.

Our Gifting Service

Our Gifting Service

Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.