Books by J. Philip Gabriel

Mrs. Amino, a wealthy widow, asks Maiko Rokujo, a securities broker, to act as a private detective and find her son, whom she hasn't seen in twenty-five years.

The unlikely alliance between Kafka Tamura, a fifteen-year-old runaway, and the aging Nakata, a man who has never recovered from a wartime affliction, brings dramatic changes to both characters as they embark on a surreal odyssey through a strange, sometimes violent, sometimes fantastical world.

A thorough assessment of the literary legacy of a highly original and influential modern Japanese writer.

Surveys the accomplishments of Oe and other writers of' the postwar generation while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "Post-Oe" generation.

An unrequited love for a woman devoted to Kerouac and the writer's life leads a man on a quest to uncover the mysteries of love and human longing after the woman disappears without a trace during her odyssey from parochial Japan through Europe to a Greek island, leaving behind only computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. Reprint.

Orphaned at thirteen, Hikotaro makes his way from Japan to San Francisco, where he soon dreams of returning home, but after being denied passage on Commodore Perry's ship, he returns to the U.S., and then back to his own troubled country.

Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released a gas deadlier than cyanide into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victim family members.