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The Gate

The Gate

2005 ·
·3.95·605 Ratings ·213 Pages
“ Don't count the days, make the days count. ” ― Muhammad Ali
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    ·3.72·375 Ratings
    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
  • I Am a Cat: I

    1989·
    ·3.47·300 Ratings
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    1997·
    ·3.91·488 Ratings
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    2002·
    ·3.81·1,412 Ratings
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    2005·
    ·3.84·108 Ratings
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    2001·
    ·3.71·4,540 Ratings
    I am a cat. As yet I have no name.So begins one of the most original and unforgettable works in Japanese literature.Richly allegorical and delightfully readable, I Am a Cat is the chronicle of an unloved, unwanted, wandering kitten who spends all his time
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    2011·
    ·3.91·808 Ratings
    "An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay at a near-deserted inn he soon finds himself drawn to the daughter of the innkeeper. This strange and beautiful woman is rumoured to have abandoned her hus
  • Light and Darkness

    1916·
    ·3.79·103 Ratings
    Published in 1917, "Light and Dark" is unlike any of Natsume Soseki's previous works and unique in Japanese fiction of the period. What distinguishes the novel as "modern" is its remarkable representation of interiority. The protagonists, Tsuda Yoshio, th
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    1988·
    ·3.97·267 Ratings
    Written in 1908, this absurdist novel about the indeterminate nature of human personality anticipates the work of Joyce and Beckett. Almost devoid of plot and characterization, it unfolds within the mind of the protagonist. His ruminatations constitute th
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