wyszukanych pozycji: 23
Fire from the Ashes: Japanese Writers on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
ISBN: 9780930523107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanese society from 1945 to today.
Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanes...
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82,72 zł |
Death by Water
ISBN: 9780857895486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-winning author.
An astonishing interweaving of myth, fantasy, history and autobiography, Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water is the shimmering masterpiece of a Nobel Prize-...
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50,87 zł |
Zapiski z Hiroszimy
ISBN: 9788381966559 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. "Zapiski z Hiroszimy" to książka wyjątkowa w bogatym dorobku laureata nagrody Nobla (1994) Kenzaburō Ōe. Ten reportaż lub – jeśli ktoś woli – zbiór esejów napisany został z punktu widzenia hibakusha, czyli „ludzi hiroszimskich”. Autor, jako młody pisarz i aktywista ruchu antynuklearnego, w 1963 roku był świadkiem politycznego rozpadu w japońskim obozie lewicowym podczas IX Światowej Konferencji Przeciwko Bombom Atomowym i Wodorowym, a tym samym rozpadu ruchu antynuklearnego. Faktyczne ofiary bomby atomowej zostały zepchnięte na peryferia społeczeństwa i polityki...
"Zapiski z Hiroszimy" to książka wyjątkowa w bogatym dorobku laureata nagrody Nobla (1994) Kenzaburō Ōe. Ten reportaż lub – jeśli ktoś woli ...
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32,90 zł |
The Silent Cry
ISBN: 9780802124784 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own personal crises. One brother grapples with the recent suicide of his dearest friend, the birth of his disabled son, and his wife's increasing alcoholism. The other brother sets out to incite an uprising among the local youth against the disintegration of the community's culture and economy due to the imposing franchise of a Korean businessman nicknamed the "Emperor of the Supermarkets." Both...
The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separatio...
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87,15 zł |
The Silent Cry
ISBN: 9781781255650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their own relationship. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Singling out "The Silent Cry," the Nobel Committee stated that 'his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture... Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling their family home leads them to an inescapable confro... |
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55,97 zł |
Somersault
ISBN: 9780802140456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first new novel Oe has published since winning the Nobel Prize, Somersault is a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders, the danger of zealotry, and the mystery of faith.
A decade before the story opens, two men referred to as the Patron and Guide of mankind were leaders of an influential religious movement. When a radical faction of their followers threatened to unleash an apocalypse, they recanted all of their teachings and abandoned their followers. Now, after ten years of silence, Patron and Guide begin contacting their old followers and reaching out to the public, assisted... The first new novel Oe has published since winning the Nobel Prize, Somersault is a magnificent story of the charisma of leaders, the danger of zealot...
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78,44 zł |
Futbol ery Man'en
ISBN: 9788381963893 / Polski / miękka ze skrzydełkami / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych. Po czterdziestu trzech latach PIW wznawia w serii Proza Dalekiego Wschodu klasyczną powieść Kenzaburo Oe "Futbol ery Man’en" w przekładzie prof. Mikołaja Melanowicza. Powieść japońskiego noblisty stawia pytania o to, jak przeżyć strach i poczucie zagrożenia, jak żyć w świecie przepełnionym brutalnymi przejawami amoralizmu.
O książce tej tłumacz napisał, że „należy do najlepszych powieści w dorobku twórczym Oe. Sumuje bowiem obrazy i problemy wielu wcześniejszych utworów w nowej i szerszej perspektywie. Autor przyznaje, że początkowo zamierzał napisać powieść... Po czterdziestu trzech latach PIW wznawia w serii Proza Dalekiego Wschodu klasyczną powieść Kenzaburo Oe "Futbol ery Man’en" w przekładzie prof....
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37,60 zł |
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels
ISBN: 9780714530482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Melville and Melville Studies in Japan
ISBN: 9780313286223 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Japan's introduction to Western literature came though American literature, as things European were imported to Japan via the United States. Prior to World War II, the Japanese read such writers as Washington Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, partly to practice their English. Today these writers are less popular in Japan, but younger Japanese scholars are turning more and more attention to Herman Melville. This book is the first English-language volume of Japanese scholarship on Melville. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in Japan, it presents a variety of attitudes from the... Japan's introduction to Western literature came though American literature, as things European were imported to Japan via the United States. Prior ... |
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382,20 zł |
Death by Water
ISBN: 9780802125538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity s struggle through modernity. In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter ego returns to his hometown village in search of a red suitcase fabled to hold documents revealing the details of his father s death during World War II: details that will serve as the foundation for his new, and final, novel.
Since his youth, renowned writer Kogito Choko planned to fictionalize his father s fatal drowning in order to fully process the loss. Choko has long... Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking, incisive examination of humanity s struggle through modernity. In...
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69,72 zł |
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
ISBN: 9780802139689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Wise and illuminating, "Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age "is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, one of whom is mentally disabled. K's wife confronts him with the information that this child, Eeyore, has been doing disturbing things -- behaving aggressively, asserting that he's dead, even brandishing a knife at his mother -- and K, given to retreating from reality into abstraction, looks for answers in his lifelong love of William Blake's...
Wise and illuminating, "Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age "is a masterpiece from one of the world's finest writers, Kenzaburo Oe -- winner of the No...
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56,65 zł |
A Personal Matter
ISBN: 9780802150615 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Oe for his "poetic force that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." His most popular book, A Personal Matter is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose...
Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World ...
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78,44 zł |
The Changeling
ISBN: 9780802145239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro sends Kogito a trunk of tapes he has recorded of reflections about their friendship, but as Kogito is listening one night, he hears something odd. I'm going to head over to the Other Side now, Goro says, and then Kogito hears a loud thud. After a moment of silence, Goro's voice continues: But don't worry, I'm not going to stop communicating with you. Moments later, Kogito's wife rushes in; Goro has jumped to his death....
Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned film...
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74,08 zł |
The Pinch Runner Memorandum
ISBN: 9781563241840 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.
This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.
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228,18 zł |
The Pinch Runner Memorandum
ISBN: 9781563241833 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.
This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.
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803,99 zł |
A Quiet Life
ISBN: 9780802135469 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A Quiet Life" is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of 20 gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a famous novelist; her older brother is brain-damaged but possesses a gift for music; and her mother's life is devoted to caring for them both. When her father is offered a visiting professorship in an American university, Ma-chan finds herself at the center of family relationships that she must begin to redefine.
"A Quiet Life" is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of 20 gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a famous noveli...
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69,72 zł |
The Crazy Iris: And Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
ISBN: 9780802151841 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edited by one of Japan s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan s best and most representative writers chronicle and re-create the impact of this tragedy on the daily lives of peasants, city professionals, artists, children, and families. From the crazy iris that grows out of season to the artist who no longer paints in color, the simple details described in these superbly crafted stories testify to the enormity of change in...
Edited by one of Japan s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary...
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74,08 zł |
Lovina
ISBN: 9781482616576 / Serbian / Miękka / 2013 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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45,76 zł |
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
ISBN: 9780802134639 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this title, a group of delinquent boys are abandoned in a remote village during the Korean war and manage to survive by stealing food and hunting, only to face the possibility of death when the villagers return.
In this title, a group of delinquent boys are abandoned in a remote village during the Korean war and manage to survive by stealing food and hunting, ...
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78,44 zł |
Lovina (Latinica)
ISBN: 9781492236047 / Serbian / Miękka / 2013 / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Japan na kraju Drugog svetskog rata. Ranjeni americki pilot pada u zabaceno planinsko selo, seljani ga hvataju, a o njemu brinu seoska deca. Crni Amerikanac postaje ljubimac dece u selu, oni se zblizavaju sa njim, ali, posle nesporazuma, pilot kidnapuje decaka - glavnog junaka, a decakov otac ubija crnca. Potresna prica o tragicnosti rata u do sada nepoznatom miljeu siromasnog japanskog sela. Kenzaburo Oe je dobio Nobelovu nagradu za knjizevnost 1994. godine, a za novelu Lovina" je u ranoj mladosti dobio najvecu japansku knjizevnu nagradu Akutagava.""
Japan na kraju Drugog svetskog rata. Ranjeni americki pilot pada u zabaceno planinsko selo, seljani ga hvataju, a o njemu brinu seoska deca. Crni Amer...
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45,76 zł |