Haruki Murakami
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Lan xiao shuo volume 919
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中文(繁體)
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Everything here seems to have one thing in common, that they all "want to be spoken." Haruki Murakami! "The so-called death is a very special event. I often think that a large part of a person's life is the energy or the sense of loss brought about by the death of others, or something like that. But she's so defenseless about these things, that's it." Artfully selected between fact and fiction, Haruki Murakami's eight sketches. It's a lot like a carousel....
64) Burning
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Korean
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Follows an alienated young man whose suspicions begin to grow when a free-spirited woman he loves suddenly disappears after her boyfriend confesses his secret penchant for burning down greenhouses.
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English
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Ryünosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashömon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as 'The Nose', 'O-Gin' and 'Loyalty' paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests,...
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Korean
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A South Korean man bumps into a former, but forgotten childhood classmate one day and he hits it off with the young woman. An immediate romantic tryst follows, but the young woman plans to leave for Africa in a few days. She asks her rediscovered friend to feed her cat while she is away. He does so and is eager for his new romantic interest to return. The situation quickly becomes complicated, however, when she returns from Africa with a mystery man...
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This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Yuten Sawanishi's 'Filling Up with Sugar', from Shin'ichi...
69) Norwegian wood
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日本語
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Tokyo, the late 1960s. Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe's personal life is similarly in turmoil. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. But their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that...
70) Norwegian Wood
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日本語
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Watanabe lives with the influence of death everywhere. That is, until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not–outgoing, vivacious, and supremely self-confident—marches into his life and Watanabe must choose between his past and his future.
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Chip Kidd: Book Two: Work: 2007-2017 picks up where Book One left off showcasing his impressive body of work from the past decade as well as new works yet to be seen this year. We see not just hundreds of his recent projects, but the working processes behind them--thoughts, sketches, revisions, scrapped drafts, and triumphant final versions.
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A giant talking frog and an elusive cat help a listless bank employee, his traumatized wife, and a lonely accountant seek meaning in their lives and possibly save Tokyo from catastrophe in this animated feature based on stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The feature debut of composer Pierre Foldes, the film won the Jury Special Mention at the renowned Annecy Animation Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Anima Festival in Brussels....
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"One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary."--
74) Burning
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Korean
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A searing romantic thriller about a young man whose suspicions spin out of control when the free-spirited woman he loves disappears.
75) A Touch of Magic
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English
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"Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the
children's minds...The children thought lions, and there were lions..."
-From The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.
Andrew Lam's
The Palmist
performed by James Naughton
A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller
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" Some fantasies are better left unsaid. Beside's I don't need to act on my dirty dreams, not when my fiancé and I have the kind of afater dark adventures others dream of - wild, daring and oh so frewuent. I can't risk losing him by voicing my deepest, dirties desire...""--Page 4 of cover.
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"The rules of the game were simple. One weekend. We play our roles. Actually, we play lots of roles. I get the info I need for a secret work project. We go back to how we were. That's what I proposed to handsome, clever, commanding Jake. That's what he said yes to--this decadent gift of a weekend that would get me out of trouble. But that's not what happened when our nights together in Vegas ended..."--Page [4] of cover.