Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness...(展开全部)

Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness...(展开全部)

In South of the Border, West of the Sun , the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime-- beginning in Japanese--has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who once worked as a sushi chef; Nora, the German woman who loves Nanook but is equally concerned with social justice and the environment; ...(展开全部)

著：多和田　葉子（タワダ　ヨウコ） 多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ） 小説家、詩人。1960年東京都生まれ。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業。ハンブルク大学大学院修士課程修了。文学博士(チューリッヒ大学)。1982年よりドイツに在住し、日本語とドイツ語で作品を手がける。1991年『かかとを失くして』で群像新人文学賞、1993年『犬婿入り』で芥川賞、2000年『ヒナギクのお茶の場合』で泉鏡花文学賞、2002年『球形時間』でBunkamuraドゥマゴ文学賞、2003年『容疑者の夜行列車』で伊藤整文学賞、谷崎潤一郎賞、2005年にゲーテ・メダル、2009年に早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞、2011年『尼僧とキューピッドの弓』で紫式部文学賞、『雪の練習生』で野間文芸賞、2013年『雲をつかむ話』で読売文学賞、芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞を受賞。2016年にドイツのクライスト賞を日本人...(展开全部)

Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn t be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in ...(展开全部)

Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who once worked as a sushi chef; Nora, the German woman who loves Nanook but is equally concerned with social justice and the environment; ...(展开全部)

著：多和田　葉子（タワダ　ヨウコ） 多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ） 小説家、詩人。1960年東京都生まれ。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業。ハンブルク大学大学院修士課程修了。文学博士(チューリッヒ大学)。1982年よりドイツに在住し、日本語とドイツ語で作品を手がける。1991年『かかとを失くして』で群像新人文学賞、1993年『犬婿入り』で芥川賞、2000年『ヒナギクのお茶の場合』で泉鏡花文学賞、2002年『球形時間』でBunkamuraドゥマゴ文学賞、2003年『容疑者の夜行列車』で伊藤整文学賞、谷崎潤一郎賞、2005年にゲーテ・メダル、2009年に早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞、2011年『尼僧とキューピッドの弓』で紫式部文学賞、『雪の練習生』で野間文芸賞、2013年『雲をつかむ話』で読売文学賞、芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞を受賞。2016年にドイツのクライスト賞を日本人...(展开全部)