Self-Portraits: Stories Fresh Flowers You get 4 meddling Asian

You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue

he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian -- leaving nothing behind him but bad songs

The Assassin and the Desert

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy

A dozen roses

Self-Portraits: Stories Fresh Flowers You get 4 meddling AsianBringing together novelist Osamu Dazais best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self Portraits shows the legendary writer at his bestand worst Art dies the moment it acquires authority. So said Japans quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nations obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his deathand