For the last twenty years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with Mayumi Inabas story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo. We follow their everyday joys through the seasons, as May...Loe edasi...
The Bookshop Woman is a true story about a Japanese booksellers year of self-discovery using a dating app to recommend perfect strangers the book that will change their life...Loe edasi...
The perfect gift for cat lovers, now in paperback: a beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime Heartwarming...a beautiful read for cat lovers ev...Loe edasi...
The Bookshop Woman is a true story about a Japanese booksellers year of self-discovery using a dating app to recommend perfect strangers the book that will change their life...Loe edasi...
For the last twenty years, Japanese readers have been falling in love with Mayumi Inabas story of life with her cat Mii, after she rescued her as a newborn kitten from a riverbank in Tokyo. We follow their everyday joys through the seasons, as May...Loe edasi...
The Bookshop Woman is a true story about a Japanese booksellers year of self-discovery using a dating app to recommend perfect strangers the book that will change their life...Loe edasi...
SEIZE THE SUMMER!It’s the second-years’ last shot at a proper summer vacation before third-year responsibilities kick in, and what better way to spend it than by living it up in the country? Mitsumi and the gang are Ikajima-bound, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oni Press,US, ISBN-13: 9781637150948)
Turning Japanese is an illustrated memoir that chronicles MariNaomis experiences working in illegal hostess bars in San Jose and Tokyo while attempting to connect with a culture that had eluded her since childhood. A vulnerable, searchin...Loe edasi...
Tokugawa Ieyasus decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shogun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated the Edo period (1600-1868), so named because Ieyasu after the battle e...Loe edasi...
From the James Tripee Award Winning author, Fumi Yoshinaga, comes a casual romance between two 40-year-old men and the many meals they share together.A hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of lif...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520359307)
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-May-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520308213)
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Re...Loe edasi...
Wadhwa focuses on the Indian Diaspora in Tokyo, and analyses their lives as Indians there using a combination of interviews and participant observation as well as secondary data. She examines their lifestyles, fears, problems, relations and expectati...Loe edasi...
The divine live among us...in a flat in western Tokyo! After centuries of hard work, Jesus and Buddha take a break from their heavenly duties to relax among the people of Japan, and their adventures in this lighthearted buddy comedy are sure to br...Loe edasi...
Because Japan , is a truly unabashed account of the less publicised side of life in Tokyo for a foreigner. The book offers a witty, vivid and honest insight into the daily life of a British Expat over the course of two years....Loe edasi...
Shiro and Kenji are now well past their youthful years, and with a stable relationship and a stable career for them both, what could possibly go wrong? But Kenji finds himself in a bind one evening after a few drinks with one of his hair salon regul...Loe edasi...
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change Compelling......Loe edasi...
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A &;captivating&; (The Washingto...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stone Bridge Press, ISBN-13: 9781611720730)
60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball. Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of...Loe edasi...
Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.Follow author Robert Whiting...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Apr-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Europa Editions, ISBN-13: 9781609456511)
From one of Japans rising literary stars, two mesmerizing novellas told with stylistic inventiveness and breathtaking sensitivity about memory, loss, and love.Touring the Land of the Dead tells the story of Taichi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Picador USA, ISBN-13: 9781250206428)
An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residentsFrom 1632 until 1854, Japan’s rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypn...Loe edasi...
