Yoko Ogawa - Böcker

På en namnlös ö sprider sig glömskan som en epidemi. Saker har börjat försvinna från ön, och strax därpå även ur männi¿skors minnen. En dag finns det inte längre några fåglar, en annan inga mera rosor. Men för ett fåtal lever minnena kvar, och för...

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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino __...

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian Murderers...

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This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen' New York Times Each...

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*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *** *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island...

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På en namnlös ö sprider sig glömskan som en epidemi. Saker har börjat försvinna från ön, och strax därpå även ur männi¿skors minnen. En dag finns det inte längre några fåglar, en annan inga mera rosor. Men för ett fåtal lever minnena kvar, och för...

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He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to tak...

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Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities...

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In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room...

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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino_____...

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The award-winning author of "The Housekeeper and the Professor" returns with the twisted tale of an affair between a young woman and a mysterious translator.

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From Akutagawa Prize-winning author Ogawa comes a trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.

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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Years later, the writer's stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories she used to tell him. Meanwhile, a surgeon's lover vows ...

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A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses-until t...

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A deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects-r...

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"e;It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this ...

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In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room...

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Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities....

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This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen' New York Times Each...

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A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa-author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor.In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season cus...

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The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authorsFrom Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most inno...

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Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traum...

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' GuardianMurderers an...

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Der Zauber der Erinnerung Ein junger Mann kommt in ein abgelegenes Dorf in der Provinz. Unter Anleitung einer alten Dame soll er dort ein Museum einrichten, das eine Sammlung von Alltagsgegenständen beherbergt. Alle Gegenstände wurden von der alte...

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Der Poet unterm Schachbrett Ein Elefant, der auf dem Dach eines Kaufhauses lebt, weil er nicht mehr in den Aufzug passt. Und ein Junge, der daraufhin beschließt, nicht mehr zu wachsen, sondern sich stattdessen von einem alten Mann in die Kunst des...

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Der Klang der Liebe Eine junge Frau, die ein rätselhaftes Ohrenleiden hat, lernt einen Stenographen kennen. Sie fühlt sich auf geheimnisvolle Weise zu ihm hingezogen fühlt, und da das Reden mit ihm ihre Ohren zu heilen scheint, bittet sie ihn, ihr...

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Die dunkle Welt des Begehrens Die junge Mari macht eines Tages die Bekanntschaft eines deutlich älteren, faszinierenden Mannes. Sie folgt ihm auf eine einsame Insel, wo er an der Übersetzung eines Romans arbeitet, dessen Heldin ein grausames Ende ...

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"Nun, da er den Finken singen hörte, verstand er auf einmal, dass es tatsächlich eine Ode auf die Liebe war. Kein Lebewesen würde von einer derartigen Inbrunst erfüllt sein, wenn es um etwas anderes ginge als die Liebe." Zwei Brüder, die...

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Der Klang des Cembalos drang in die Tiefen meines Herzens vor. Langsam füllte er jene Finsternis, wo weder Licht noch Sprache hingelangten. Auf der Flucht vor ihrem untreuen Ehemann zieht sich die Kalligrafin Ruriko in ein Landhaus in den Bergen z...

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