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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers...

*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *** *** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD *** *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The...

Before she was the galaxy's most feared bounty hunter, she was a survivor. Experience the thrilling origin story of Samus Aran in this action-packed science fiction adventure! When a ruthless Space Pirate raid led by the terrifying dragon Ridley decimates the mining colony of K-2L, young Samus is left as the sole survivor. Rescued and taken to the rugged, hostile planet of Zebes by the enigmatic avian race known as the Chozo, she is raised to become the ultimate protector of the galaxy. Undergoing radical genetic modification to survive her new environment, Samus is gifted with a legendary,...

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un MacDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso.

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day...

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language."

Después de casarse con su amor de infancia, Riko se encuentra atrapada en una relación amargada por la infidelidad. Un día, por casualidad, se encuentra con un viejo amigo, el señor Takaoka, que le ofrece amistad, amor y una extraña evasión: vivir una vida paralela en sus sueños. Así, cada noche vive otra vida: primero, como una cortesana de alto rango del siglo XVII, y, después, como la sirvienta de una princesa en la Edad Media tardía.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. __________ Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any...

Before the world needed a hero, it just needed a spark of humanity. Step into a thrilling, action-packed novelization of a legendary rivalry! Mega Man: The Robot Masters reimagines the dawn of artificial intelligence through a gripping, grounded sci-fi lens. In the near future, the golden age of robotics is ushered in by the brilliant Dr. Thomas Light and his ambitious partner, Dr. Albert Wily. Together, they envision a world of perfect anthro-robotic symbiosis. But when Wily’s thirst for absolute, god-like control drives him into the shadows, a fragile global peace is shattered. Wily ...

The novel Manos: The Hands of Fate is a chilling literary reimagining of the infamous 1966 cult horror film, expanded into a full-length psychological and supernatural horror narrative. Set in the sweltering American Southwest of the late 1950s/early 1960s, it follows Michael, Margaret, their young daughter Debbie, and their loyal dog Peppy on what begins as a routine family road trip toward White Sands and beyond. As tensions simmer in a strained marriage—marked by unspoken regrets, faded intimacy, and Margaret's vivid, haunting memories of past passions—the family veers off the main ...

New York City is sweating through another grueling summer—until a freak blizzard buries Manhattan in ice. For the city’s resident web-slinging vigilante, it’s just another chaotic Tuesday. But when he tracks the storm to its source, he doesn't find a supervillain. He finds her. Ethereal, devastatingly powerful, and entirely alone, the Ice Queen has come to the city seeking a quiet, frozen sanctuary. He is loud, relentless, and fiercely loyal to the millions of warm bodies crowding his streets. She demands absolute, silent zero. It should be a short, brutal fight. Instead, amidst the ...

Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany. They are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In chapter one, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a best-selling autobiography.

Are you learning Japanese and looking for more opportunities to speak? This Podcast drill is exactly for you. Simply repeat after me - while you are commuting, cooking or even in your bed. The drill also includes plain style dialogue, which is an informal style spoken in daily life among friends and family, and also in Anime. Now more shadowing practices are available, too. Have a go and get fluent soon! --- Learning Nihongo is fun, ne. More drills and full transcripts/translations (on your smartphone! + PDF) are available on Patreon.

In this playful and daring interrogation of language, the globally acclaimed Yoko Tawada reveals the poetics, politics and potential of existing outside one's mother tongue. From Senegalese writers discarding colonial-enforced French to the increasing use of loan words in her native Japanese, Tawada deconstructs the ways in which the world shapes and is shaped by languages: their hidden systems of power, their sweeping histories and, ultimately, the people who claim, reject, adapt or romanticise them.

They wanted a superhero. They’re going to get a scientist. Forty-two-year-old entomologist Jenna Raleigh retired her superhero alter-ego, the Red Bee, eight years ago. But when her ex-husband calls her to a Florida wetland to investigate a bizarre ecological anomaly, she walks into a carefully laid trap. Swarms of hyper-coordinated mosquitoes don't just attack her—they recognize her, triggering a dormant, arthropod-adjacent mutation inherited from her great-uncle, the original WWII-era Red Bee. Jenna quickly uncovers a chilling corporate conspiracy. A shadowy biotech network is using ...

Hermosa alegoría sobre el amor y la renuncia, "La bailarina" es una de las piezas más delicadas del japonés Ōgai Mori, máximo exponente, junto a Natsume Sōseki, de la literatura nipona de la era Meiji. Fruto del viaje de Ogai Mori a Alemania, país al que se trasladó para perfeccionar...

It’s hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth—Yoko Tawada’s rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change—but surprising her readers is what Tawada does best: its sequel, Suggested in the Stars, delivers exploits even more poignant and shambolic.

John Aman was born in 1915 and trained by the mysterious Council of Seven to transcend human limitations. In the 1940s, the world knew him as a pulp-fiction hero, but today, he is something far more dangerous to the status quo: a truly private man. By phasing into a state of "dark matter," John can slip between atoms, bypass high-tech security, and exist as a null value in a world that demands total visibility. But the world has changed. The Algorithm—a self-evolving, predictive AI—has moved beyond mere surveillance capitalism into "governance without government". It doesn't just track ...