Yasutaka Tsutsui

"When prototype models of a device for entering into patients' dreams go missing at the Institute fro Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people's dreams and send them insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground, and the future of the waking world at stake."--Cover.

Paprika

One of the most popular books by Tutsui, a stellar name in Japan. He is as famous as Murakami there. The animated science-fiction romance film won numerous awards and got positive reviews. It's an absolute classic. One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteenyear- old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes to be responsible for her paranormal abilities, she'll have to push the boundaries of space and time, and challenge the notions of dream and reality.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

A collection of offbeat short stories from an acclaimed Japanese author explores the folly of human desire in a world in which the fantastic and the mundane collide to throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray, in such works as "The Dabba Dabba Tree," "Commuter Army," "The World Is Tilting," and "Rumors About Me." 20,000 first printing.

Stories

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno

The Maid

時をかける少女 [Toki wo kakeru shōjo]

Peklo

Konec stříbrného věku

Estoy desnudo

Les Hommes salmonelle sur la planète porno

Gaku Tsugano

After finding a broken beaker in the science lab, Kazuko finds herself back in her own past and learns she can travel through time, but her attempts to use the ability to help others always change the future and may bring bad consequences.

The Girl who Runs Through Time

La ragazza che saltava nel tempo

筒井康隆全集

From JapanÆs Greatest Detective & Crime Writers

Ellery Queen's Japanese Mystery Stories

One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she believes to be responsible for her paranormal abilities, she'll constantly have to push the boundaries of space and time, and challenge the notions of dream and reality.

Girl who Leapt Through Time

Nanase cannot remember when she first realized she could read people's minds, but not once during her eighteen years has she ever questioned her particularly unusual ability. Yet, working as a live-in maid, she is inevitably drawn into the lives, thoughts and desires of her employers, with dangerous and at times hilarious consequences. From the sexual rapaciousness of her first boss to the grime and stench of the house where she works next and her third employer's inability to accept she's no longer young, Nanase's adventures are a picaresque journey into the inner sanctum of the lives and psyches of ordinary Japanese people.

Maid

Seicho Matsumoto

Features 12 highly entertaining stories by Japan's leading authors of crime and detective fiction The authors include Kawabata Award winner Yasutaka Tsutsui, Akutagawa Prize winner Seicho Matsumoto, Edogawa Rampo Prize winner Seiichi Morimura and Mystery Writers of Japan Award winner Kyotaro Nishimura This collection was selected and edited by the legendary American crime writers who published over 36 novels and dozens of anthologies under the name Ellery Queen This anthology features a new foreword by Japanese detective fiction expert Satoru Saito

From Japan's Greatest Detective and Crime Writers

Fifty-seven-year-old Takeshi has just been involved in a traffic accident. When he wakes up, he is in a strange bar, no longer crippled as he has been for most of his life, but able to walk without crutches in his everyday business suit. Looking around, he sees a number of familiar faces - Izumi, a colleague who had died in a plane crash five years before; his childhood friend Yuzo, who had become a yakuza and had been killed by a rival gang member; and Sasaki, who had frozen to death as a homeless vagrant.This is Hell - a place where three days last as long as ten years on earth, and people are able to see events in both the future and the past. Yuzo can now see the yakuza that killed him as he harasses a friend of his. The actress Mayumi and the writer Torigai are chased by the paparazzi into an elevator that drops to floor 666 beneath ground level. The vivid depiction of afterlife portrayed in &quote;Hell&quote; admits the traditional horrors, but subjects them to Tsutsui's unique powers of enchantment: witty, amusing, praised for its poetic style and the wizard-like light touch of the author's shifting focus, &quote;Hell&quote; is a masterpiece of surrealist literature.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Books

Your next favorite book is out there