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A Family Supper Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Ishiguro is a prolific author; he has written novels, short stories, screenplays, and even lyrics. For more short stories by Ishiguro, see: "A Strange and Sometimes Sadness"; "Waiting for J"; "Getting Poisoned"; "Summer After the War"; "October 1948"; and "A Village After Dark".

For works by Japanese authors set around post-war Japan, see: Dazai Osamu's The Setting Sun; Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain; Hayashi Fumiko's novels Late Chrysanthemums, Downtown, and Floating Clouds; Ōoka Shōhei's Fires on the Plain; and Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility.

To learn more about post-war Japan, please consider: A Cultural History of Postwar Japan by Shunsuke Tsurumi; The Diplomatic History of Postwar...

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