wyszukanych pozycji: 47
Thirst for Love
ISBN: 9780099530275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself in love with the young servant Saburo. Tormented by his indifference, yet invigorated by her desire, she makes her move, with catastrophic consequences.
After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. Bu...
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50,87 zł |
Spring Snow
ISBN: 9780099282990 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - provincial families, a political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them.
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - provincial families, a political and soci...
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50,87 zł |
Patriotism
ISBN: 9780811218542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. By now, Yukio Mishima s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel. A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. He and his beautiful loyal wife decide to end their lives together. In unwavering detail Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the couple s seppuku that follows."
By now, Yukio Mishima s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary leg...
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48,62 zł |
Death in Midsummer
ISBN: 9780241678947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
Der Goldene Pavillon
ISBN: 9783036961576 / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. 1950 steht der berühmte Goldene Pavillon in Kyoto in Flammen - das Feuer gelegt von einem jungen Mönch des Tempels. Berührt von der Geschichte des jungen Mannes, den er im Gefängnis besucht, verarbeitet Yukio Mishima sie zu einem Roman und formt daraus einen Höhepunkt seines Schaffens. Der junge Mizoguchi stottert und wird von den anderen Kindern ausgegrenzt. Mit jedem weiteren elenden und einsamen Moment wächst seine Sehnsucht nach dem Wahren und Schönen. Als er Novize in einem berühmten Tempel in Kyoto wird, ist er gebannt von der allumfassenden Schönheit des Goldenen Pavillons....
1950 steht der berühmte Goldene Pavillon in Kyoto in Flammen - das Feuer gelegt von einem jungen Mönch des Tempels. Berührt von der Geschichte des ...
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67,88 zł |
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
ISBN: 9780679752707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha district, he cannot escape its image. In the novel's soaring climax, he tries desperately to free himself from his fixation.
Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stuttere...
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72,77 zł |
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion: Introduction by Donald Keene
ISBN: 9780679433156 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych.
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.
Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto's famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure's aesthetic perfection and it becomes his one and only object of desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beauty lies in an act of...
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsess... |
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113,19 zł |
The Frolic of the Beasts
ISBN: 9780241386705 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial philanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven to an act of violence that will bind this strange, terrible love triangle together for the rest of their lives. A starkly compelling story of lust, guilt and punishment, The Frolic of the Beasts explores the masks we wear in life, and what happens when they slip. 'One of...
The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writers Koji, a young student, has fallen hopel...
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50,87 zł |
The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion
ISBN: 9781857151695 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period.
Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, ...
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76,32 zł |
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
ISBN: 9780099284796 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic.
A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mothe...
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50,87 zł |
After the Banquet
ISBN: 9780099282785 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife.
For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, ...
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50,87 zł |
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
ISBN: 9781784879723 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
Death in Midsummer: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9780811201179 / Angielski / Miękka / 1966 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nine of Yukio Mishima s finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated modern Japanese who turn out to be not so liberated from the past as they had thought."
Nine of Yukio Mishima s finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depi...
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64,48 zł |
Spring Snow: The Sea of Fertility, 1
ISBN: 9780679722410 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Yukio Mishima s "Spring Snow" is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, "The Sea of Fertility. "Here we meet" "Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae.
"" It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae,... Yukio Mishima s "Spring Snow" is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, "The Sea of Fertility. "Here we meet" "Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this...
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72,77 zł |
Beautiful Star
ISBN: 9780241441091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,87 zł |
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
ISBN: 9781784875428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call objectivity. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ships officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard this disillusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying.
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousnes...
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55,97 zł |
Złota pagoda
ISBN: 9788306034271 / Polski / Miękka ze skrzydełka / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. „Odwagi dodawał mi fakt, że i mnie, i Złotej Pagodzie groziły na tym świecie te same niebezpieczeństwa. Znalazłem sposób, by powiązać siebie i piękno. Czułem, że został przerzucony most pomiędzy mną a czymś, co mnie odrzucało, co nie pozwalało mi się do siebie zbliżyć.
Myśl, że ten sam ogień, który strawi mnie, prawdopodobnie strawi także Złotą Pagodę, nieomal mnie upajała. Dzięki temu samemu przeznaczeniu, temu, że miała nas dotknąć ta sama klęska, ten sam niepomyślny ogień, światy, które zamieszkiwaliśmy, nabrały tego samego wymiaru. Moja... „Odwagi dodawał mi fakt, że i mnie, i Złotej Pagodzie groziły na tym świecie te same niebezpieczeństwa. Znalazłem sposób, by powiązać sieb...
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33,25 zł |
The Sound of Waves
ISBN: 9780099289982 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Features Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them, Shinki must risk his life to prove his worth.
Features Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue...
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50,87 zł |
Runaway Horses
ISBN: 9780099282891 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor's rightful power.
Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the ne...
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50,87 zł |
Leben zu verkaufen
ISBN: 9783036961682 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. »Leben zu verkaufen. Verfügen Sie frei über mich. Ich bin männlich, 27 Jahre alt und kann Geheimnisse wahren.« Als Hanio diese Anzeige schaltet, ahnt er nicht, was er damit auslöst. Bald findet er sich auf einem wilden Ritt durch eine Welt voller blutrünstiger Gangster, vergifteter Karotten, verzweifelter Junkies und verliebter Vampirfrauen wieder. Während sich um Hanio herum die Leichen sammeln, bleibt er wie durch ein Wunder am Leben und fragt sich, wie diese Höllenmaschine gestoppt werden kann. Nur: Ist es nicht schon viel zu spät für einen Sinneswandel?
»Leben zu verkaufen. Verfügen Sie frei über mich. Ich bin männlich, 27 Jahre alt und kann Geheimnisse wahren.« Als Hanio diese Anzeige schaltet, ...
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63,36 zł |