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Una sorella e un fratello decidono di trasferirsi nella casa della loro infanzia a Tokyo, nel quartiere di Suginami. Per lunghi anni sono stati separati da una distanza incolmabile ma ora, adulti e soli, Miyako e Ryo cercano insieme un nuovo equilibrio tra i ricordi che disordinati riaffiorano: il ticchettio ostinato degli orologi amati dal padre, le piante di Mami nel piccolo giardino, le colazioni della domenica, i giochi nei caldi pomeri...

“How can a person resist?”—The Paris ReviewStories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty—in a world where the laws of t...

From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of reproduction, ecology, evolution, artificial intelligence, communal life, creation, love, and the future of humanityIn the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observati...

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Record of a brief night was first published as Hebi o Fumu in 1996.

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From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty—in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don’t apply. Meet a shape-shifting con man, a goddess who uses sex to control her followers, an elderly man possessed by a fox spirit, a woman who falls in ...

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical-"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naif, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre" (Financial Times).A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree, a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer, an old man with two shadows, one docile and ...

Un hermano y una hermana retornan a la casa de su infancia, al lugar de la felicidad, de los deseos y de los secretos prohibidos a punto de ser revelados. Los recuerdos luminosos se mezclan con los que irrumpen arrasando con todo: el tacto delicado del lino se mezcla con el tumulto que huye del ataque con gas sarin, los silencios dolorosos de la familia con el sonido de los insectos de montana. Con la maestria casi artesanal que la caracteriza...

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Poetisch und präzise erzählt Hiromi Kawakami von zehn Frauen und Nishino - und der Frage, wann aus Verliebtheit Liebe wird.

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep it safe, you never know when you might need it.In Kawakami's super short 'palm of the hand' stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's house for thirty years / an apartment block leaves ...

A new edition of the bestselling Japanese novel, now including the short story "Parade". Ties in with the publication of Kawakami's new novel, "The Ten Loves Of Mr Nishino".

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter/one is the girlfriend of a classmate, another the best friend of Nishino's latest conquest. Some are entranced by Nishino, others care more for their freedom, their children (or their cats).As we come to learn of the torments, desires and delights of each woman, a portrait emerges of a complicated man whose gre...

A brief, disquieting companion to the bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, set during a summer afternoon and featuring a mischievous pair of creatures called tengu

Who loves Mr Nishino?Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love.Bereaved Shiori is tempted by his unscrupulous advances. His colleague Manami should know better. His conquest Reiko treasures her independence above all else. Friends Tama and Subaru find themselves playing Nishino's game, but Eriko loves her cat more. Sayuri is older, Aichan is much younger, and Misono has her own conquests to make.For each of them, an encounter with elusi...

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