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Sputnik, mi amor by Haruki Murakami ES
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Del mismo modo en que, en el viaje del satélite ruso Sputnik, la perra Laika giraba alrededor de la Tierra y dirigía su atónita mirada hacia el espacio infinito, en Tokio tres personajes se buscan desesperadamente intentando romper el eterno viaje circular de la soledad. El narrador, un joven profesor de primaria, está enamorado de Sumire; pero ella, quien se considera la última rebelde, tiene una única obsesión: ser novelista. Sumire conocerá a Myû, una mujer casada de mediana edad tan hermosa como enigmática, y juntas emprenderán un viaje por Europa tras el que nada volverá a ser igual.... continue
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Spy x Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo EN
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An action-packed comedy about a fake family that includes a spy, an assassin and a telepath! Master spy Twilight is unparalleled when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions for the betterment of the world. But when he receives the ultimate assignment—to get married and have a kid—he may finally be in over his head! Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath!... continue
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Star by Yukio Mishima EN
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A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells "action"; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film Afraid to Die, th... continue
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Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami EN
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Tsukiko is in her late thirties and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, Sensei, in a bar. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake and come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly into love.
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Sun & Steel by Yukio Mishima EN
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This is the personal testament of Japan's greatest novelist, written shorty before his public suicide in 1970. Through Mishima's finely wrought and emphatic prose, the mind and motivation behind his agonized search for personal identity is revealed. In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end fits into none of them. At one level, it may be read as an account of how a puny, bookish boy discovered the importance
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Anzu acaba de modelar y hornear un delicado jarrón de arcilla. Está satisfecha, lo exhibirá en su próxima exposición, y, como su forma le recuerda la de una campanilla, lo llama Suzuran. Porque Anzu es una joven y reputada ceramista consagrada al mundo de la loza tradicional japonesa. Está divorciada, vive con su hijo preadolescente y, por más que le insistan sus amigas, no quiere volver a enamorarse. Su apacible vida cotidiana, en una ciudad junto al mar del Japón y al pie del monte Daisen, se ve alterada de pronto cuando su hermana mayo... continue
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Territory of Light : A Novel by Yuko Tsushima EN
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From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth “Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” —Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times I was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . . It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to sq... continue
