In a rare and remarkable conversation, Japanese baseball star Ichiro Suzuki talks about his life, his love of baseball, and living in America. Photos in color and b&w.
Following the bestselling triumph of "Kafka on the Shore," Murakami returns with a collection of stories that generously expresses his masterful fiction-writing skills. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform the full range of the human experience.
Hikotaro is only 13, but he's en route to the US, alone. When his ship is wrecked, he is rescued by an American ship, ending up in San Francisco, where he is adopted by a rich benefactor. Always longing for the village where he came from, he finally manages to return, finding a very different Japan from the one he left. And in his absence America ...
One of the most important Japanese novels of the last two decades, winner of the Tanizaki Prize Meet the households Kiuchi, Takigawa, Yasunaga, and Oda. In this gently twisted domestic fable, award-winning novelist Senji Kuroi explores modern Japan through the lives of four families who live on a typical street in suburban Tokyo. Beset by visions ...
This text presents a searching study of Shimao Toshio and his work. It is not only a thorough assessment of his literary legacy, but also aims to consider the broader issues relating to the emergence and nature of the postwar Japanese sense of identity. The book contextualizes Toshio's "dream stories" as a literary expression of wartime trauma, ...
This text surveys the accomplishments of Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and other writers of the post-war generation, while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "post-Oe" generation. It includes essays on Endo Shusaku, Hayashi Kyoko, Kanai Mieko, Kurahashi Yumiko, Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Nakagami Kenji, Oe Kenzaburo, ...
"Spirit Matters" is a ground-breaking work, the first to explore a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary Japanese literature. It draws on a variety of literary works, from enormously popular fiction (Miura Ayako's "Hyoten" and "Shirokari Pass" and the novels of Murakami Haruki) to more problematic "serious" fiction (Oe Kenzaburo ...
Geoff Harcourt has made substantial and wide ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post Keynesian economics in particular. In this volume more than 40 leading economists pay tribute to, and critically evaluate, his work. In particular, contributions focus on: the methodological foundations of economic policy making theoretical ...
Jem looked out over the Hundred-Towns - over the smoggy terraces, pitheads, manufactories, slaughterhouses, workhouses, shardrucks, the black swellings of other slag heaps. Over the furry points of streetlamp light. Over the ruddy patchwork of furnaces toiling to power countless engines, all night, all day, every night, every day. Over the ...
Sixteen-year-old Ginny's life is secure. Her mother is dead, but she's inherited her outstanding artistic talent, and she loves her life with her father in a seaside village in Wales. But the day a social worker arrives and old files are re-opened, Ginny's world cracks apart. Everything her father has told her about her family is a lie. And Ginny ...
This text presents a searching study of Shimao Toshio and his work. It is not only a thorough assessment of his literary legacy, but also aims to consider the broader issues relating to the emergence and nature of the postwar Japanese sense of identity. The book contextualizes Toshio's "dream stories" as a literary expression of wartime trauma, ...
From the bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, this is a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running and the integral impact both have made on his life.
Geoff Harcourt has made substantial and wide ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post Keynesian economics in particular. In this volume more than forty leading economists pay tribute to and critically evaluate his work. In particular, contributions focus on: debates in the area of Captial Theory the development of post ...
This text surveys the accomplishments of Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and other writers of the post-war generation, while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "post-Oe" generation. It includes essays on Endo Shusaku, Hayashi Kyoko, Kanai Mieko, Kurahashi Yumiko, Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Nakagami Kenji, Oe Kenzaburo, ...
The French philosopher Jacques Ranciere has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers' archives, his reflections on political equality, his critique of the traditional division between intellectual and manual labour, and his analysis of the place of ...
This encyclopaedic reference shows how to exploit VM/ESA, the premier IBM client/server and interactive mainframe operating system, with step-by-step guidance through evaluating, planning, installation, and operation. Written by two dozen IBM and industry VM experts and featuring detailed coverage of VM/ESA components, techniques, and exploitation ...
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