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Tales from a Mountain Cave
Stories from Japan’s Northeast
Häftad, 2013
204 kr
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The sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his past – in the mines, villages and ports of the region. The stranger’s hilarious, bawdy …
Isle of South Kamui and Other Stories
Inbunden, 2013
313 kr
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A young Tokyoite doctor accepts a post on a remote island south of Okinawa. When a highly contagious fatal disease breaks out, he has to choose between saving himself or saving others.A hormone-ridden teenage youth left alone with his young stepmother following his father’s death is consumed with …
Kingdom of the Wind
Inbunden, 2014
340 kr
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Journalist Takashi Hayami meets Ai Katsuragi, a member of a religious organization, Tenmu Jinshinko, which meets secretly at the tomb of the Emperor Nintoku. The group adheres to the nomadic way of life of its ancestors, which lacked family registers and fixed abodes, and flouts civic duties such …
Saffron Yellow
Av İnci Aral
Häftad, 2016
223 kr
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This book features the intertwined stories of three main characters: a director of a financial company, an artifact thief, and a call girl. İnci Aral uses the stories of these three characters to discuss themes of love and modernity, showing people struggling with issues of success and failure, …
Other
Häftad, 2016
223 kr
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Esin is an attractive, happily married Turkish woman with a modern, Western-oriented outlook and a successful career hosting business meetings in Istanbul. She would normally have nothing in common with Kubra, a conservative religious girl she met at college in the States. Kubra wears the Islamist …
Unto the Tulip Gardens
My Shadow
Av Gül Irepoglu
Häftad, 2016
223 kr
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The sumptuous Topkapı Palace in eighteenth century Istanbul is a place of breathtaking splendour where human foibles, love, lust and above all greed reign supreme in the lives of a sultan, a painter, a grand vizier and some of the world’s most beautiful women. Imperial favour has raised a graceful …
Eugene Onegin
A Novel in Verse
Häftad, 2016
223 kr
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A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.This is essential reading for anyone with a love …
Life Almost Still
Av Carme Riera
Häftad, 2016
223 kr
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In November 2007, Romain Lannuzel Erasmus, student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, mysteriously disappeared without a trace. This case remains unsolved, when the novel begins with another mysterious disappearance of Costantinu Iliescu, a Romanian student. His girlfriend and two of his …
Tanpinar's ‘Five Cities’
Häftad, 2018
209 kr
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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's ‘Five Cities’ was first published in Turkish as ‘Beş Şehir’ in 1946 and revised in 1960. It consists of five essays, each focused on a city significant in Anatolian history and in Tanpinar's emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and …
Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland
Av Ahmet Ümit
Häftad, 2019
260 kr
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Taking place in Istanbul, Salonika, Paris and Macedonia between 1908 and 1926, Farewell, My Beautiful Homeland is the story of lives that have been turned upside down by rebellion, revolution and war. It is the story of the Greek declaration of independence, of the Jews of Salonika being forced …
Fairy Chimney Soda
Av Ercan Kesal
Häftad, 2019
260 kr
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Dedicated to his father, Mevlüt, who made and sold his own brand of flavored soda or “Peri Gazozu” in a village in Anatolia, Fairy Chimney Soda is a collection of short stories by Turkish author, screenplay writer and actor, Ercan Kesal. He is clear-eyed as he mines his memories of childhood and …
Secret Dreams in Istanbul
Häftad, 2020
253 kr
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This is a work written by a very young writer who displays infinite maturity in terms of her ability to delve into the deepest recesses of character and make it possible to understand, for example, a grasping social upstart and a wife abuser, yet, at the same time, alongside the wisdom and …
Freetown Echoes
Tales from Along the Odokoko
Av Ahmed Koroma
Inbunden, 2026
276 kr
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Freetown Echoes: Tales from Along the Odokoko by Ahmed Koroma is an evocative autofiction that captures a decade of life along the Odokoko stream in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Through vivid memories and interwoven narratives, the book portrays childhood, community rituals, folklore, school days, and …
Day of the Angel
Inbunden, 2013
291 kr
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‘Day of the Angel’ follows the fates and fortunes of three generations of the Ushakov family, members of the Russian émigré community living in Paris following the Revolution. Against the historical background of totalitarian terror, famine and war, depicted in harrowing detail as an epic struggle …
Punk Samurai Slash Down
Av Kou Machida
Inbunden, 2014
340 kr
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Glimpsing an elderly man leading his blind daughter on a pilgrimage, Junoshin Kakiri, a ‘ronin’ or freelance samurai, swiftly kills him with a sword. Asked why he murdered such an innocent, Junoshin shares his concerns about the growing ‘Harahuhi Tou’ (Belly-shaking Party) cult to which the man was …
Kutze, Stepp'n on Wheat
Av Shinji Ishii
Inbunden, 2014
330 kr
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Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow ‘rat-a-tap, tapping’ his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze’s steps, Cat resolves to travel abroad and tread wheat alongside this stranger when he becomes an adult. But first, Cat must grow up in the small port town …
