Japanese By Spring

Author : Ishmael Reed
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140255850
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese by Spring written by Ishmael Reed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and its glorious perks (including a house in the Oakland Hills). He spends most of his time trying to divine the ideological climate of the school and obligingly adapting his beliefs to it. When Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor, who promises to teach him Japanese by spring, suddenly becomes the school's new president and appoints Puttbutt as academic dean, the fun really begins—for Puttbutt sets out to stir things up and settle old scores. Turning every contemporary political and social movement on its head—from feminism to nationalism to jingoism—this boistrois and irreverent novel manages to be by turns hilarious and totally serious. "One of the funniest satires of university politics I've ever read. Ishmael Reed is funnier than Norman Mailer or Gore Vidal." —Leslie Marmon Silko "Reed is, as always, an American original; a wiseguy whose wisdom is the real thing," —The Boston Sunday Globe

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030783431X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spring Snow written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.

Author : Tomoka Shibasaki
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782272704
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spring Garden written by Tomoka Shibasaki and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Akutagawa Prize A sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope set in modern-day Tokyo—an “unflinching . . . powerful” showcase of the best in contemporary Japanese literature (Shelf Awareness) Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon as the remaining tenants leave. Since the death of his father, Taro keeps to himself, but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs, Nishi, as she passes on the strange tale of the sky-blue house next door. First discovered by Nishi in the little-known photo-book Spring Garden, the sky-blue house soon becomes a focus for both Nishi and Taro: of what is lost, of what has been destroyed, and of what hope may yet lie in the future for both of them, if only they can seize it.

Author : Masaaki Tachihara
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0893469971
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wind and Stone written by Masaaki Tachihara and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mizue, a housewife, and Kase, a traditional-style garden designer hired by her husband to landscape their home. As the garden takes shape, Mizue wakens to a new sensuality and desire, and her carefully structured life begins to crumble. Explores the psychology of human passion in an oblique language filled with references to art and aesthetic values.

Author : Natsume Sōseki
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Spring Equinox and Beyond written by Natsume Sōseki and published by ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume dissects the human personality in all its complexity in this unforgettable narrative. Keitaro, a recent college graduate, lives a life intertwined with several other characters, each carrying their own emotional baggage. Romantic, practical, and philosophical themes enable Soseki to explore the very meaning of life.

Author : Kuniko Mukoda
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781880656099
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Name of the Flower written by Kuniko Mukoda and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mukoda's wonderful stories vividly present the strengths and sorrows of modern Japanese women.--Gail Tsukiyama "Superbly rendered into English."--Publishers Weekly

Author : Hideo Furukawa
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 178227328X
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slow Boat written by Hideo Furukawa and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez Trapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is not a passive loser, content to accept all that fate hands him. He attempts one last escape to the edges of the city, holding the only safety net he has known - his dreams. Filled with lyrical longing and humour, Slow Boat captures perfectly the urge to get away and the necessity of finding yourself in a world which might never even be looking for you.

Author : Matsuo Basho
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611725275
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basho's Narrow Road written by Matsuo Basho and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chronological account of the poet's five-month journey in 1689 into the deep country north and west of the old capital, Edo, the work is in fact artful and carefully sculpted, rich in literary and Zen allusion and filled with great insights and vital rhythms. In Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages, poet and translator Hiroaki Sato presents the complete work in English and examines the threads of history, geography, philosophy, and literature that are woven into Basho's exposition. He details in particular the extent to which Basho relied on the community of writers with whom he traveled and joined in linked verse (renga) poetry sessions, an example of which, A Farewell Gift to Sora, is included in this volume. In explaining how and why Basho made the literary choices he did, Sato shows how the poet was able to transform his passing observations into words that resonate across time and culture.

Author : Hosai Ozaki
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1880656051
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat written by Hosai Ozaki and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku and occasional essays from an eccentric personality.

Author : Aya Kusch
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781797211749
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cats in Spring Rain written by Aya Kusch and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely observed portraits in words and ink elevate the everyday adventures of cats: taking a nap on a Buddha statue's lap, daintily eating a rice ball, courting the neighbor's cat. This curated collection of poems, prints, and paintings will leave you inspired to cultivate the serenity and wonder embodied by these creators - and by the cats themselves. Presented as a sweet, jacketed paperback with thoughtful design touches, this volume includes each poem in both English and Japanese.