Mineko
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
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Author : Arthur Golden
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1999-11-09
Memoirs Of A Geisha written by Arthur Golden and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-09 with Fiction categories.
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.
Newcomer
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Author : Keigo Higashino
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-11-20
Newcomer written by Keigo Higashino and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-20 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger Award Spectator Best Books of 2019 'An intriguing mashup of police procedural and golden age puzzle mystery' Guardian International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender - Newcomer - as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a baffling murder. Detective Kyochiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Newly arrived, but with a great deal of experience, Kaga is promptly assigned to the team investigating the murder of a woman. But the more he investigates, the greater number of potential suspects emerges. It isn't long before it seems nearly all the people living and working in the business district of Nihonbashi have a motive for murder. To prevent the culprit from eluding justice, Kaga must unravel all the secrets surrounding a complicated life. Buried somewhere in the woman's past, in her family history, and the last few days of her life is the clue that will lead to the murderer. This is the second appearance in English of Police detective Kyochiro Kaga, the protagonist of the critically acclaimed Malice. 'Detective Kaga pursues the case of a murdered woman from suspect to suspect, through a nostalgia-tinged Tokyo of family-run shops and Ginza bar girls. Clever and charming' Sunday Times
Stranded
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Author : Douglas Wentworth
language : en
Publisher: Frank D'Angeli Publishing
Release Date : 2014-02-22
Stranded written by Douglas Wentworth and has been published by Frank D'Angeli Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-22 with Fiction categories.
****2012 Independent Publisher Gold Medal Winner for Sci-fi/Fantasy**** June 6, 2026. The War to End All Wars. As the bombs rain down, the starship PROMETHEUS, with its crew of six brave astronauts, escapes an Earth destined to become a lifeless, black rock. The cargo: A database of ‘stranded’, or digitized, human beings. The mission: To find a habitable planet, bring the strands back to life, and ensure the continuation of the human race. But the crew soon discovers that strands are being deleted, and they realize that someone among them is a traitor, a follower of The Chrysander, a rebel on Earth who had preached that humans had ruined one planet, so therefore had no right to inhabit and ruin another. And as the crewmembers are murdered, one by one, the human race teeters on the brink of extinction. Chief Scientific Officer Sandra Hapgood, the developer of the stranding process, vows to defend humankind at any cost, and she races against time to save herself, the remaining strands, and the future of humanity… “Douglas Wentworth instantly lures you into his web of murder, mystery, and suspense. Wentworth not only makes you wonder whether his chillingly human characters will save the human race, but if our own human race is even worth saving!” - C.P. Leacock, Author, ‘Roswell: Have You Wondered’
Translating Mount Fuji
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Author : Dennis Charles Washburn
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
Translating Mount Fuji written by Dennis Charles Washburn and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Washburn begins with Ueda's Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) and its preoccupation with the distant past, a sense of loss, and the connection between values and identity. He then considers the use of narrative realism and the metaphor of translation in Soseki's Sanshiro; the relationship between ideology and selfhood in Ogai's Seinen; Yokomitsu Riichi's attempt to synthesize the national and the cosmopolitan; Ooka Shohei's post-World War II representations of the ethical and spiritual crises confronting his age; and Mishima's innovative play with the aesthetics of the inauthentic and the artistry of kitsch. Washburn's brilliant analysis teases out common themes concerning the illustration of moral and aesthetic values, the crucial role of autonomy and authenticity in defining notions of culture, the impact of cultural translation on ideas of nation and subjectivity, the ethics of identity, and the hybrid quality of modern Japanese society. He pinpoints the persistent anxiety that influenced these authors' writings, a struggle to translate rhetorical forms of Western literature while preserving elements of the pre-Meiji tradition. A unique combination of intellectual history and critical literary analysis, Translating Mount Fuji recounts the evolution of a conflict that inspired remarkable literary experimentation and achievement.
S Seki
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Author : John Nathan
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-15
S Seki written by John Nathan and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to memorize passages from his novels and he is routinely voted the most important Japanese writer in national polls, he remains less familiar to Western readers than authors such as Kawabata, Tanizaki, and Mishima. In this biography, John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of a great writer laboring to create a remarkably original oeuvre in spite of the physical and mental illness that plagued him all his life. He traces Sōseki’s complex and contradictory character, offering rigorous close readings of Sōseki’s groundbreaking experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion. Drawing on previously untranslated letters and diaries, published reminiscences, and passages from Sōseki’s fiction, Nathan renders intimate scenes of the writer’s life and distills a portrait of a tormented yet unflaggingly original author. The first full-length study of Sōseki in fifty years, Nathan’s biography elevates Sōseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated the modernism of the twentieth century.
Geisha
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Author : Mineko Iwasaki
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2003-09
Geisha written by Mineko Iwasaki and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and the traditions surrounding the geisha culture.
A Beggar S Art
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Author : M. Cody Poulton
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2010-05-31
A Beggar S Art written by M. Cody Poulton and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-31 with Drama categories.
Essential reading for the growing number of Westerners interested in the roots of modern Japanese theatre
Mineko Grimmer
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Author : Mineko Grimmer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Mineko Grimmer written by Mineko Grimmer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Mineko
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Author : Rg Dillon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-03
Mineko written by Rg Dillon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-03 with Fiction categories.
Set in 17th century Japan, "Mineko" is a rich, evocative, harsh, and violent saga of a young girl's quest for vengeance.
Sanshiro
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Author : Natsume Soseki
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-11-26
Sanshiro written by Natsume Soseki and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-26 with Fiction categories.
One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.