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In The Miso Soup
It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires.
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The Moon Princess
"Exquisite color and movement."—Booklist"A feast for the eyes, and a great introduction to Japanese folk tales." —The Daily Yomiuri"Simple yet absorbing tale. These strong, recommended children’s classics will please kids who love lively and unpredictable plots." —Children’s Bookwatch"Brimming with the familiar and great themes of loyalty, courage and generosity." —Asahi Evening News"Sumptuous illustrations" —School Library Journal"Would make an excellent gift for any child, in Japan and abroad." —Tokyo Today
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The Adventure of Momotaro, the Peach Boy
"Exquisite color and movement."—Booklist"A feast for the eyes, and a great introduction to Japanese folk tales." —The Daily Yomiuri"Simple yet absorbing tale. These strong, recommended children’s classics will please kids who love lively and unpredictable plots." —Children’s Bookwatch"Brimming with the familiar and great themes of loyalty, courage and generosity." —Asahi Evening News"Sumptuous illustrations" —School Library Journal"Would make an excellent gift for any child, in Japan and abroad." —Tokyo Today
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Popular Hits of the Showa Era
A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society, Ruy Murakami's Popular Hits of the Showa Era is a literary karaoke act combining manga and street culture It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism and karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown. In Murakami's inimitably brutal and brilliant style, Popular Hits dissects the gender and generational conflicts of contemporary society in a hilarious satire. Murakami is mercilessly funny as he tracks his characters' evolution from twits to scholars of guerrilla warfare'New Yorker 'One of the funniest and strangest gang wars in recent literature'Booklist Ryu Murakami's Popular Hits From the Showa Era is translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy and published by Pushkin Press Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. His novels include Coin Locker Babies, Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition, In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland, with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
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Otogizoshi
Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to Oba-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Taro (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious.In spite of the "gloom and doom" atmosphere always cited in reviews of The Setting Sun and the later No Longer Human, though, Dazai's cutting wit and rich humor are evident in the entire body of his work. His literature depicts the human condition in painfully blunt and realistic terms, but, like life itself, is often accompanied by a smile.
€ 11,00