The collection includes three short stories: THE HOUR OF THE CAT. PLAYING WITH YOUR FINGERS. DEMONSTRATION OF HELL Eimi Yamala was born in Tokyo in 1959. She...

Amy Yamada is one of the most prominent—and controversial—novelists in Japan today. She burst onto the scene in 1985 with her short novel “Bedtime Eyes,” ...

...Now in Japan a real renaissance of “female” culture, which has been suppressed for so long, is unfolding. Literature, as the most sensitive of the arts, w...