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African Stories
Ben Okri
Voices of the Fallen Heroes
Yukio Mishima


A Pocket Classics hardcover collection of a century of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa, selected by the Booker Prize-winning Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri.

A new selection of Yukio Mishima short stories from the 1960s — his final decade — Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.

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