Yoichi Funado's Chronicle of Sand is a sweeping adventure novel set against the Middle East after the Iranian Revolution and the Kurdish struggle. Two Japanese lives cross amid nation, ethnicity, faith, and betrayal.

In the dust of the Middle East, ideals and violence sweep human lives along.

Kaoru Takamura's Fire of God is a suspense novel centered on a nuclear facility on the Sea of Japan coast. It follows men confronting a modern flame with taut prose and social intensity characteristic of her early work.

Around a Promethean fire, a lonely plan begins to unfold.

Shizuka Ijuin's Kaikyo is the first part of an autobiographical trilogy about a boy growing up in a small Seto Inland Sea port town. Childhood memory, family, and place rise with lyrical force across the strait.

In a town divided by the sea, the sorrow and warmth of childhood remain alive.

Ryushi Nakamura's Jizoki follows a monk who wanders into a village threatened by flood. As rain continues and villagers grow restless, the man nearly made a sacrifice creates a tense, fable-like drama.

In a rain-bound village, one monk searches for a way to survive.