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Superfrog Saves Tokyo
Haruki Murakami
Book Anthology
· ISBN 9780593834138
The Penguin Book of the International Short Story
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary HubThe best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih AlameddineIn The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages, and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo,” Haruki Murakami brings us a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to p...
Stories in this book (34)
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The Illumination of Santiago
Nona Fernández
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Apples
Gunnhild Øyehaug
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+ Stack
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My Sad Dead
Mariana Enriquez
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War of the Clowns
Mia Couto
6
One Minus One
Colm Tóibín
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The Flower Garden
Mieko Kawakami
8
Night Women
Edwidge Danticat
9
The July War
Rabih Alameddine
10
Cattle Praise Song
Scholastique Mukasonga
11
Garments
Tahmima Anam
12
Rotten Stench
Eva Kurniawan
13
Amira, Who Knows
Rawaa Sonbol
14
Petite Mort
Zanta Nkumane
15
Girl
Jamaica Kincaid
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The Fruit of My Woman
Han Kang
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Vertical Motion
Can Xue
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You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town
Zoë Wicomb
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Squatting
Diao Duo
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Sparks
Carol Bensimon
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Exhalation
Ted Chiang
22
The Ugliest Woman in the World
Olga Tokarczuk
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The Good Denis
Marie NDiaye
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+ Stack
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Frogs
Mo Yan
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On the Occasion of Our Fourth Divorce Anniversary
Lana Bastašić
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Loba Lamar’s Last Kiss
Pedro Lemebel
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The Free Radio
Salman Rushdie
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The Wounded Man
Abdellah Taïa
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Forty-Eight Steps
Paxima Mojavezi
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Magnificat
Linnea Axelsson
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A Bright and Ambitious Good-Hearted Leftist
Adania Shibli
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Islands
Aleksandar Hemon
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Offside
Cristina Rivera Garza
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An Unlucky Man
Samanta Schweblin