Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“alex shishin”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alex shishin”
Skip side bar filters
  • Among Predators: A Tale of Paris

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Residing in Passy, Paris, Greek-American journalist Rick and African-French Martiniquean Yolanda, author and ex-model, lead a socially active and domestically quiet life. Unexpectedly they are asked by the wealthy and powerful Ogawa family, through Rick's old editor in Tokyo, to let their daughter, Masami, homestay with them. This changes their lives. Their acne-ravaged and troubled Japanese guest ... Read more

    Free

  • Ebisu Bridge: A Tale of Modern Japan

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Homeless and disabled, Motoshima Saburo, 58, sells The Big Issue on Osaka's colorful Ebisu Bridge, a short pedestrian thoroughfare filled with tourists, lovers, artists and hustlers of every stripe. Constantly struggling with both destitution and loneliness, which he compares to a jail where one is both prisoner and warden, Saburo falls into a moral battle with Ken, an aging toy boy and "dating ... Read more

    Free

  • Fidelity: Episodes from Three Lives in Japan

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Set in the Osaka-Kobe area, the interconnected erotic stories of Fidelity: Three Interconnected Lives in Japan concern the unpredictable and labyrinthine symbiotic relationship between American expatriates Hank Hashimoto and Aurora Tanabe and the eccentric Erina Wada, nicknamed "Booger Eater" by Aurora. Both women love and leave Hank, only to return and leave and return to him again. ... Read more

    Free

  • Nippon 2357: A Utopian Ecological Tale

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Thomas Redburn, American expatriate living in Japan, falls down drunk off his bicycle one night and wakes up onboard a time machine flying to 24th century Japan. His benign abductors take him to a nearly perfect ecosocialist world. War, poverty, inequality and all forms of discrimination no longer exist. The ecological crisis that brought down the old order has been reversed. In this classless and ... Read more

    Free

  • Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots.One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that runs between Vladivostok and Moscow and that twice carries him ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Cyber Dust Stories: Lost Internet Short Stories and Essays Centering on Japan

    by Alex Shishin ...
    This is collection of Japan-oriented essays and fiction that once were published on the Internet between 1998 and 2004 and vanished with the demise of online journals and webpages. The essays are "In the Shadow of His Ancestors" [Review of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. By Herbert P. Bix.], "Is There Depleted Uranium in Japan's Future?" [with Jens Wilkinson], "Slapstick on the Precipice: ... Read more

    Free

  • The Fishmonger’s Daughter

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Set in the maritime Japanese city of Akashi, "The Fishmonger's Daughter" concerns a superficially westernized arts supply shopkeeper who lives in the vicinity of the famous Uonotana Fish Market. He is having a prolonged love affair with a rich and eccentric married woman from Osaka. After she breaks off their relationship, he finds himself drawn to the fish market's Japanese authenticity and a ... Read more

    Free

  • Slimming Down

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Mel, a master teacher at prestigious high school on Long Island, envies Philip, an underpaid adjunct college language teacher, because he lusts for his beautiful wife, Chiharu, a business woman working in Manhattan. Mel deserts his "fat" wife, Janice, and their children for an English teaching job in Japan. Janice suffers a dark night of the soul because she is convinced she in fat. She recalls ... Read more

    Free

  • The Bridge of Dreams and Predators: Two Short Novels

    by Alex Shishin ...
    Two cities, Paris and Osaka and two short novels about desperate lives.Predators: A Tale of ParisResiding in Passy, Paris, Greek-American journalist Rick and African-French Martiniquean Yolanda, author and ex-model, lead a socially active and domestically quiet life. Unexpectedly they are asked by the wealthy and powerful Ogawa family, through Rick's old editor in Tokyo, to let their daughter, ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • A Tale of Three Lions

    Series series African Library
    Set in Africa the novel tells the story of three lions and the humans who encounter them. The first lion is called "Umslopogaas" and is a fierce warrior who is feared by all who know him. He is also known as the "Lion of the Zulu" and is said to have killed more lions than anyone else in Africa. He is a skilled hunter and fighter, and his reputation is such that even the mighty king of the Zulus, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Work. Rest. Repeat.

    A Post Apocalyptic Detective Novel

    by Frank Tayell ...
    Death Comes To Us AllIt is sixty years since a great war made the Earth uninhabitable. The few survivors took shelter within towered cities. They, and now their descendants, have only one goal: to construct colony ships so that they can leave the ruined planet in the hope of establishing a settlement on Mars.The first of those ships is nearing completion. If the species is to survive, then nothing ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Three Musketeers: The first book in The D’Artagnan Romances

    New Revised Edition

    Finally The New Revised Edition is Available!The first book in The D’Artagnan Romances. The Three Musketeers is set in the 17th century; it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, inseparable friends who ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus