Eighteen-year-old Liu runs away from home into Japan’s underground youth culture, where he meets the seductive, body-pierced Ama and mysterious tattoo artist Shiba, pals whose increasingly reckless behaviour leads Liu to make difficult choices. Reprint of the original printing of 50,000 copies.
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We meet Kafka Tamura, a fugitive adolescent, and Nakata, an old simpleton who is drawn to Kafka for reasons he doesn’t understand. In a truly amazing voyage, famed novelist Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and souls slip out of their bodies to make love or
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Franz Kafka’s short novel “The Metamorphosis” (original German title: “Die Verwandlung”) was originally published in 1915. It is frequently considered as one of the twentieth century’s major works of fiction, and it is widely studied in colleges and institutions around the Western world. The storey starts with Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, waking up to
3 books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author.
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In this work, there are many voices: children’s voices, adult voices, underground voices—but Holden’s is the most eloquent of them all. He lets forth a finely articulated yell of mixed sorrow and joy, transcending his own language while being delightfully faithful to it. However, he keeps much of the suffering to himself, as do most
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Yun Dong-ju, a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity, was born and nurtured in northern Manchuria during Korea’s colonial period. His posthumously published collection of poems, Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poems, is one of Korean readers’ all-time favourites. I suffered, even when the breeze shook the leaves, since I didn’t want to have
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Discover the love storey that has captivated over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars.Until love gave them everything to lose, they had nothing in common…Louisa Clark is a regular girl with a regular life—a steady boyfriend
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“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing while doing the trick but yet manages to convince you that he has supernatural abilities… While everyone can tell a storey that resembles a dream, only a select few artists, such as this one, can make us feel as if we are dreaming ourselves.” —The
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a storey about irreconcilable love and infidelities in which Milan Kundera explores the essence of twentieth-century ‘Being,’ giving a wide range of clever and entertaining philosophical musings in the process. Kundera’s masterful novel, first published in 1984, combines the extremes of comedy and tragedy and was immediately recognised as
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The magical storey of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd kid who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure, is told in Paulo Coelho’s masterwork. His quest will bring him to riches unlike anything he could have imagined—and far more rewarding. Santiago’s journey teaches us the importance of listening to our hearts, recognising opportunity, learning
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