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...ever to adorn a Japanese novel. Since Japanese are unaccustomed to Western-style embraces, Hoberecht went into what he calls "great, quivering detail." (To one hot-blooded chapter the publishers added a solemn subtitle: The Ethics of Kissing) Last week, as his royalties piled up from Tokyo Romance (240 pp., 18 yen or $1.20), Hoberecht was rolling in yen-which he could not spend outside Japan. A publisher was hounding him for rights to an English-language edition. (Hoberecht wrote his book in English, got a Japanese friend to have it translated.) A Tokyo newspaper wanted to run the book...
...SHORTER NOVELS OF STENDHAL (552 pp.)-LIverighf...
WOMAN OF THE PHARISEES (241 pp.)-Francois Mauriac, translated by Gerard Hopkins-Henry Holt...
BRIGHT DAY (286 pp.)-J. B. Priesfley -Harper...
ANIMAL TALES (510 pp.)-Compiled by Ivan J. Sanderson-Knopf...