Hiromi Kawakami - Böcker

»Senseis portfolj ar som ett fotografi fran en underbar resa man gjorde. Man kanner en melankoli att det ar over, men ar sa glad att man var dar.« // SANDRA BEIJER [ARETS BASTA BOK 2021] Jag har fortfarande svårt att fånga vad det var som var så s...

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Jag har fortfarande svårt att fånga vad det var som var så speciellt. När jag försöker greppa det försvinner det. När jag tror att det har försvunnit dyker det upp igen. Senseis portfölj är en stillsam och charmig berättelse om ett möte mellan två...

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Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, ...

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Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there wo...

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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 ...

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Senseis portfölj är en stillsam och charmig berättelse om ett möte mellan två ensamma människor i Tokyo: kontorsarbetaren Tsukiko och hennes trettio år äldre före detta lärare. Tsukiko är 38 år och lever ensam. Hennes liv har kanske inte riktigt b...

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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. ...

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At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesita...

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Senseis portfölj är en stillsam och charmig berättelse om ett möte mellan två ensamma människor i Tokyo: kontorsarbetaren Tsukiko och hennes trettio år äldre före detta lärare. Tsukiko är 38 år och lever ensam. Hennes liv har kanske inte riktigt b...

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»Ein wunderbar leichtes Buch über das Glück.« Berner Zeitung »Wir handeln nicht mit Antiquitäten, wir handeln mit Trödel«, sagt Herr Nakano zu Hitomi, die sich um eine Aushilfsstelle in seinem Laden bewirbt. Der eigenwillige Nakano, ein Herr alter...

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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: naïf, magical, and freque...

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This "gentle, humorous novel" follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker ( The Wall Street Journal ). The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers ...

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This "e;gentle, humorous novel"e; follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker (The Wall Street Journal).The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers w...

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Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, Sensei in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him Sensei (Teacher). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and...

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Both startlingly restless and immaculately compact, Manazuru paints the portrait of a woman on the brink of her own memories and future. Twelve years have passed since Kei's husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three-year-old ...

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Hiromi Kawakami is well known for her many novels and microfiction in translation, and Dragon Palace is her first story collection to be published in English.  These eight stories are masterpieces of metamorphosis and transformation, infused ...

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The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance. In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparentl...

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The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers'The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and br...

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Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, ...

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Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, ...

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Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there wo...

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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 ...

Läs mer »

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. ...

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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.I...

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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 ...

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At first, Tokyo appears in these stories as it does to many outsiders: a city of bewildering scale, awe-inspiring modernity, peculiar rules, unknowable secrets and, to some extent, danger. Characters observe their fellow citizens from afar, hesita...

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Wenn Nishino küsst, bleibt die Welt stehen Nishino ist der perfekte Liebhaber, der die geheimen Wünsche jeder Frau errät. Aber warum hat keine seiner Lieben Bestand? Mal sucht Nishino selbst das Weite, mal wünscht er sich, dass die Geliebte bei ih...

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