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With humor and patience

A man seeks to prove himself as a hero

'Lonely Planet

Brimming with a love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection

Retrograde Laurin Brainard This is a book toThree stories of the ruined and the lost: Osamu Dazai at his most tormented. This collection unearths the Japanese literary legend's most controversial and exhilarating early career writing with strikingly original translations. Retrograde traces the life of an anguished youth in reverse; Das Gemeine features an aspiring literato with a dark past who hitches his wagon to an eccentric violinist; Blossom Leaves and the Spirit Whistle tells of an old