Impedimenta okt 2026 (5 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sanshiro Ogawa leaves his peaceful provincial home and arrives in Tokyo to begin his university studies. In the vast, chaotic, yet fascinating metropolis, he encounters eccentric professors, intellectuals debating the country's future, students exploring life, and an enigmatic young woman, Mineko, whose presence introduces the turmoil and upheaval of first love. As he learns to navigate bohemian parties, heated arguments, temptations, and meaningful silences, Sanshiro discovers that growing up involves a mixture of daring and bewilderment, of feeling estranged from others and from oneself. With his unmistakable blend of delicacy, humor, and lucidity, Soseki crafts a novel that breathes like a vibrant urban fresco. Sanshiro is a meditation on identity in a Japan undergoing transformation, but also a mirror in which any reader can recognize themselves: that moment when life expands, the heart hesitates, and the world seems, at last, to begin. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fifteen stories in which poisonous flowers, unsettling animals, rural rituals, and overgrown gardens fracture everyday life. Hiroko Oyamada, author of \*The Hole\*, returns with a magnetic, subtle, and disquieting book: an immersion into the strangest, most beautiful, and most ominous side of Japan. A woman returns to her family home only to find herself ensnared in an ancestral ritual; red flowers linked to death invade a garden -- and a family lineage; a gecko clinging to a window transforms a pregnancy into an almost hallucinatory experience; a young boy discovers a wild, secret territory within a neighbor's garden. In \*Garden\*, Hiroko Oyamada gathers fifteen tales in which insects, plants, dogs, frogs, tadpoles, crabs, and spiders are not mere presences of the natural world, but silent forces that alter perception, erode routine, and open a door to the inexplicable. With precise, oblique, and addictive prose, Oyamada constructs a map of intimate anxieties -- motherhood, marriage, childhood, grief, familial pressure, the strangeness of the body -- and subjects them to a slow, fantastic contamination. The domestic, the vegetal, and the animal intertwine with a chilling naturalness, creating a unique atmosphere that is at once delicate and menacing. A master of subtle, deeply Japanese suspense, Oyamada transforms each story into a fissure through which the uncanny seeps in.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Witches, vampires, women who merge with their darkest desires, monstrous mothers, vengeful daughters, ladies with rotten souls, and young girls who laugh while everything burns. This Christmas brings Weird Sisters, a delightful anthology of stories by the grande dames of pulp fiction, expertly selected by Mike Ashley for the British Library. Fourteen authors--from the celebrated Margaret St. Clair to the enigmatic Allison V. Harding, by way of Tanith Lee, Baroness Greye La Spina, and even Lucy Maud Montgomery at her most gothic--contribute these murky, suggestive, and highly addictive tales, born in the pages of Weird Tales and other legendary magazines between the 1920s and 1970s.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A dog. A hole. A silver mine. And a gang of curiously well-heeled pigs. \*The Miraculous Moving of the Miller Mansion\* is the wild, true-life account of how a dog changed the destiny of an entire house (and everyone living in it). Written with humor and tenderness by the great novelist Dave Eggers, and wonderfully illustrated by Júlia Sardà, this is the story of a move unlike any other -- one involving logs, horses, mud up to one's ears, and a determination that can only be understood by anyone who has ever tried to change homes without losing their sanity. Blurring the lines between fairy tale and zany chronicle, between fable and history, Eggers and Sardà have crafted a picture book as beautiful as it is improbable -- populated by memorable characters and situations that defy all logic, save for the logic of sheer wonder. An ode to ingenuity, perseverance, and the delightful chaos of great family odysseys. Sardà, Júlia (illustratore).…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Walter Tevis -- the master of American letters who, like no other, explored the hidden facets of talent, defeat, and redemption in works such as Mockingbird, The Hustler, and The Steps of the Sun -- brought to the short story the same narrative precision and disarming tenderness that permeate his novels. The King Is Dead gathers, for the first time in Spanish, his complete short stories. Within these pages, a man receives a call from his future self; an actor and a young actress become entangled in a game of masks; an inmate finds solace at a chessboard; and the pool players of the old halls -- among them the legendary Eddie Felson, 'Fast Eddie' -- once again confront their destiny. Each story reveals Tevis's lucid and compassionate gaze, along with his profound understanding of loneliness and the impulse to keep playing, even when knowing the game is lost. Talent, failure, and the stubborn refusal to stop trying: Tevis demonstrates in these stories that he was also a master of short fiction.…