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Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers
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Long-awaited by teachers and students, Read Real Japanese Fiction presents short works by six of todays most daring and provocative Japanese writers. The spellbinding world of Hiromi Kawakami; the hair-raising horror of Otsuichi; the haunting, poignant prose of Banana Yoshimoto; even the poetic word-play of Yoko Tawada whatever a readers taste, he or she is sure to find something of interest and value in this book, suitable for students at the intermediate level and above.
As in real Japanese n...
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Page Count:
256
ISBN:
1568365292
ISBN13:
9781568365299
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Kinokuniya JP
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similar in difficulty to Read Real Japanese Essays: Contemporary Writings by Popular AuthorsL29
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a little harder than Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and EnglishL27
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a little harder than また、同じ夢を見ていたL23
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Another excellent intermediate-level graded reader
Like its counterpart "Read Real Japanese Essays", Read Real Japanese Fiction combines audio narration, six Japanese short stories, an English gloss, English grammar notes, and a J -> E dictionary to create a fairly all-in-one learning experience.
I would definitely recommend only tackling this if you're at an intermediate level; N3 at absolute minimum grammar-wise, though N2 wouldn't be unappreciated either. Vocab's not a huge issue, given the easy look-up of any unknown words in the book's dic