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Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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A collection of 20 fairy tales from Japan including "Chin-Chin Kobakama," "The Serpent with Eight Heads," and "The Tea-Kettle."

Author: Daniel Schreier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139487418
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
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This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for language spread and change.

Author: Varios autores
Publisher: Alianza Editorial
ISBN: 8413628199
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 190

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La presente antología -publicada ya en Alianza Editorial con el título El espíritu del agua- reúne treinta y dos cuentos tradicionales japoneses entre los cuales el lector encontrará, entre muchos otros, algunos tan inolvidables como el del pescador Urashima, el de la mujer de la nieve o el del gato vampiro de Nabeshima. Se descubren en ellos algunos de los temas clásicos del imaginario propio del país del Sol Naciente. Dado su carácter insular, es casi una constante resaltar su relación con el mar y con los animales, reales y ficticios, vinculados a este medio. También con los zorros y con los tejones, con los que siempre convivieron los japoneses, pero a los que nunca pudieron domesticar. Y, por supuesto, el fuego, lo fantástico, el mundo del más allá, las mujeres celestiales... y los finales tristes y melancólicos, debidos en parte a un ancestral culto estético hacia la belleza que perece, hacia lo que no es eterno.

Author: Karl Alberti
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1633396657
Category : Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 119

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Este libro es una colección de 24 cuentos japoneses, de los cuales muchos nunca se han traducido con anterioridad. Karl Alberti (que tradujo los cuentos del japonés al alemán) publicó el libro original en Alemania.

Author: Yei Theodora Ozaki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788417419691
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 366

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Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671532855
Category : Bereavement
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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After her beautiful younger sister commits suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory. Struggling to remember what she has lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey, accompanied by her dead sister's lover and her clairvoyant brother.

Author: Hiromi Kawakami
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593765819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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"A parable about memory, mythic characters, and confessional regrets . . . An ethereal, resonating literary gift" (Booklist, starred review) from the internationally bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo. "On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together. “Tell me a story from long ago,” Sensei says. “I wasn’t alive long ago,” Tsukiko says, “but should I tell you a story from when I was little?” “Please do,” Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room, arguing with each other. They had human bodies, long noses, and wings. They were tengu, creatures that appear in Japanese folktales. The tengu attach themselves to Tsukiko and begin to follow her everywhere. Where did they come from and why are they here? And what other invisible and unacknowledged forces are acting upon Tsukiko’s seemingly peaceful world?"

Author: Hiromi Kawakami
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609455320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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The story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him at one point in their lives. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, ten women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino. Like a modern Decameron, this humorous, sensual, and touching novel by one of Japan’s best-selling and most beloved writers is a powerful and embracing portrait of the human comedy in ten voices. Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. A little like Nishino himself . . . Winner 2020 Pen Translation Prize Praise for The Ten Loves of Nishino “If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love The Ten Loves of Nishino.” —DozoDomo (France) “Agile, inventive fiction.” —Booklist “An intriguing portrayal of romantic attachment.” —The New Yorker “The women in this collection are vibrant, lusty, and clearly the agents of their own love lives . . . . Kawakami's novel treats its feminist themes with a light hand but still slyly lands its points.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author: Angel Rama
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822352931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.

Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671532766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Six short stories by a Japanese woman writer known for her unusual themes. In Blood and Water, a woman abandons the religious commune where she was raised, goes to the big city and finds another idol of worship, a charismatic lover. The story looks at the connection between spiritual and romantic fervor. By the author of Kitchen.