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Mina S Matchbox
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Author : Yoko Ogawa
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2024-08-13
Mina S Matchbox written by Yoko Ogawa and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-13 with Fiction categories.
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 them. “A story of first enchantments and last gasps…Effervescent." —New York Times Book Review “Yoko Ogawa is a quiet wizard, casting her words like a spell, conjuring a world of curiosity and enchantment, secrets and loss. I read Mina’s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end.” —Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides. The family is just as beguiling as their mansion—Tomoko’s dignified and devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, and her dashing, charming uncle, who confidently sits as the family’s patriarch. At the center of the family is Tomoko’s cousin Mina, a precocious, asthmatic girl of thirteen who draws Tomoko into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. In this elegant jewel box of a book, Yoko Ogawa invites us to witness a powerful and formative interlude in Tomoko’s life. Behind the family's sophistication are complications that Tomoko struggles to understand—her uncle’s mysterious absences, her great-aunt’s experience of the Second World War, her aunt’s misery. Rich with the magic and mystery of youthful experience, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time—and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse.
Mina S Matchbox
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Author : Yoko Ogawa
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-08-15
Mina S Matchbox written by Yoko Ogawa and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-15 with Fiction categories.
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. 'Beguiling' New Yorker After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. While the 1970s transform Japan, her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion is a place out of time; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pet pygmy hippo. Equally beguiling are Tomoko’s relatives, especially her cousin Mina. Their growing friendship draws her into an intoxicating world – one full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. Rich with the magic and mystery of youth, Mina’s Matchbox is an evocative snapshot of a moment frozen in time, and a striking depiction of a family on the edge of collapse. ‘Beautifully composed’ Financial Times ‘Effervescent’ New York Times Book Review ‘Transfixing’ Time 'I read Mi’s Matchbox like a besotted child, enraptured, never wanting it to end' Ruth Ozeki
Mina S Matchbox
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Author : Yoko Ogawa
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Release Date : 2024-08-13
Mina S Matchbox written by Yoko Ogawa and has been published by Pantheon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-13 with categories.
The Passion According To G H
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Author : Clarice Lispector
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1988
The Passion According To G H written by Clarice Lispector and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
A disoriented and confused young woman looks back on her life and her place in the world."
Revenge
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Author : Yoko Ogawa
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2013-01-29
Revenge written by Yoko Ogawa and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with Fiction categories.
"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -- Alan Cheuse, NPR Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. 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. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. An NPR Best Book of 2013
The Diving Pool
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Author : Yoko Ogawa
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-04-02
The Diving Pool written by Yoko Ogawa and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Fiction categories.
Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more sinister tale of greed and repulsion. Driven by nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo. There she finds an isolated world shadowed by decay, haunted by absent students and the disturbing figure of the crippled caretaker.
A Cosmology Of Monsters
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Author : Shaun Hamill
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date : 2020-06-02
A Cosmology Of Monsters written by Shaun Hamill and has been published by Titan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Fiction categories.
"I loved it, and think you will, too." --Stephen King Stephen King's It meets Stranger Things in a tender and terrifying coming-of-age tale of haunted houses and the monster at the door. Noah Turner's family are haunted by monsters that are all too real, strange creatures that visit them all: His bookish mother Margaret; Lovecraft-obsessed father Harry; eldest sister Sydney, born for the spotlight; the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a gifted writer and storyteller – the Turners each face their demons alone. When his terminally-ill father becomes obsessed with the construction of an elaborate haunted house – the Wandering Dark – the family grant his last wish, creating themselves a legacy, and a new family business in their grief. But families don't talk about the important things, and they try to shield baby Noah from horrors, both staged and real. As the family falls apart, fighting demons of poverty, loss and sickness, the real monsters grow ever closer. Unbeknownst to them, Noah is being visited by a wolfish beast with glowing orange eyes. Noah is not the first of the Turners to meet the monster, but he is the first to let it into his room...
Under The Rainbow
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Author : Celia Laskey
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2020-03-03
Under The Rainbow written by Celia Laskey and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Fiction categories.
"Essential." - The New York Times Book Review When outsiders on a mission arrive to change a small town’s attitudes, residents and newcomers alike end up transformed. Big Burr, Kansas is the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone—or so they think. But when a national nonprofit labels Big Burr “the most homophobic town in the U.S.” and sends in a queer task force to live and work there for two years, no one is prepared for what will ensue. Still grieving the death of her son, Linda welcomes the newcomers, who know mercifully little about her past. Teenage Avery, furious at being uprooted from her life in L.A. and desperate to fit in at her new high school, fears it’s only a matter of time before her classmates discover her mom is the head of the task force. And Gabe, an avid hunter who has lived in Big Burr his whole life, suddenly feels as if he’s in the crosshairs. As tensions roil the town, cratering relationships and bringing difficult truths to light, both long time residents and new arrivals must reconsider what it means to belong. Told with warmth and wit, Under the Rainbow is a poignant, hopeful articulation of our complicated humanity and the ways we can learn to live with each other and ourselves.
Coming Back
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Author : Jessi Zabarsky
language : en
Publisher: Random House Graphic
Release Date : 2022-01-18
Coming Back written by Jessi Zabarsky and has been published by Random House Graphic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-18 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
A beautiful graphic novel fantasy romance that follows two young women who have to go on their own separate adventures to discover the truth about themselves and about each other. Preet is magic. Valissa is not. Everyone in their village has magic in their bones, and Preet is the strongest of them all. Without any power of her own, how can Valissa ever be worthy of Preet’s love? When their home is attacked, Valissa has a chance to prove herself, but that means leaving Preet behind. On her own for the first time, Preet breaks the village’s most sacred laws and is rejected from the only home she’s ever known and sent into a new world. Divided by different paths, insecurities, and distance, will Valissa and Preet be able to find their way back to each other? A beautiful story of two young women who are so focused on proving they're meant to be together that they end up hurting each other in the process. This gorgeous graphic novel is an LGTBQ+ romance about young love and how it can grow into something strong no matter what obstacles get in the way.
Supreme Court Reports Annotated
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Author : Philippines. Supreme Court
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Supreme Court Reports Annotated written by Philippines. Supreme Court and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.