Here we meet the gentle, self-sacrificing French youth, Gaston Bonaparte, a descendent of Napoleon. His trusting love of both people and animals makes all who meet him change their lives for the better. Gaston's adventures in modern Japan are presented as
One of the central masterpieces of 20th-century Japanese literature, The Gate describes the everyday world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Seemingly cursed with the inability to
