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b'Colin Marshall talks to novelist Todd Shimoda, author of 365 Views of Mt. Fuji, The Fourth Treasure and now Oh!: A Mystery of Mono No Aware.\\nShimoda calls his stories \\u201csomewhat experimental, post-modernish,\\ndealing with Asian or Asian-American themes to some degree, but also\\nbroad questions of existence,\\u201d or \\u201cphilosophical mysteries.\\u201d His latest novel documents an embodies a search for the elusive Japanese literary concept of mono no aware.
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\\nPersons/places/works/sites referenced in this interview, in the order mentioned
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\\nTodd and L.J.C. Shimoda\'s web site, Shimodaworks
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\\nTodd Shimoda\'s novels: 365 Views of Mt. Fuji: Algorithms of the Floating World, The Fourth Treasure and Oh!: A mystery of \'mono no aware\'
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\\nThe literary concept of mono no aware
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\\nNovelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
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\\nNovelist Kobo Abe (1924-1993)
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\\nNovelist Albert Camus (1913-1960)
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\\nAlbert Camus\' The Stranger (Everyman\'s Library)
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\\nThe Japanese concept of ikigai, or the worth of living
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\\nChin Music Press
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\\nKobo Abe\'s The Ruined Map: A Novel
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\\nAn excerpt of Todd Shimoda\'s Ruined Map sequel-in-progess, Why Ghosts Appear'