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The Cake Tree in the Ruins by Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly m ...Show more
The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui; Ginny Tapley Takemori
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens
On the first floor of the big house of the Moriyama family, is a small library. There, on the shelves next to the old books, live the Little People, a tiny family who were once brought from England to Japan by a beloved nanny. Since then, each generation of Moriyama-family children has inherited the res ...Show more
The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine by Ginny Takemori
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
Striking and eloquent stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body's water to save her son, and h ...Show more
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima (Ginny Takemori (Translator); Ian MacDonald (Translator))
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Prize-winning Japanese author offers stories haunted by history.
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