wyszukanych pozycji: 6
At the End of the Matinee
ISBN: 9781542005180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel. Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makino’s concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by powerful moments of connection. She’s drawn by Makino’s tender music and his sensitivity, and he is intrigued by Yoko’s refinement...
Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel. Classical g...
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65,14 zł |
The Fall of Language in the Age of English
ISBN: 9780231163033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in...
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own la...
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120,12 zł |
Phantom Lights and Other Stories by Miyamoto Teru
ISBN: 9784902075427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Presenting a new collection of stories exploring the perennial themes of Miyamoto Teru's fiction, narrative sketches of the world-class world of the Osaka-Kobe region of his childhood employing memory to reveal a story in layered frames of time with consummate skill. His work examines the mutual proximity--or even the identity--of life and death, often touching on such grim topics with a touch of humor. Stories of personal triumph and hope are often set in situations involving death, illness, or loss, but what might be the stuff of tragedy in the hands of some writers turns into stepping...
Presenting a new collection of stories exploring the perennial themes of Miyamoto Teru's fiction, narrative sketches of the world-class world of the O...
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63,44 zł |
The Nobility of Failure
ISBN: 9784902075502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long recognized as a core book in any study of Japanese culture and literature, The Nobility of Failure examines the lives and deaths of nine historical individuals who faced overwhelming odds, and, realizing they were doomed, accepted their fate--to be killed in battle or by execution, to wither in exile, or to escape through ritual suicide. Morris then turns his attention to the kamikaze pilots of World War II, who gave their lives in defense of their nation in the full realization that their deaths would have little effect on the course of the war.
Through detail, crystal-clear prose and... Long recognized as a core book in any study of Japanese culture and literature, The Nobility of Failure examines the lives and deaths of nine historic...
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97,61 zł |
Salad Anniversary
ISBN: 9781782274575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
The Fall of Language in the Age of English
ISBN: 9780231163026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in...
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own la...
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120,12 zł |