Terminal Boredom

Author : Izumi Suzuki
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788739887

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Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki Pdf

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on. Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O'Horan.

Author : Izumi Suzuki
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788739900

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Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki Pdf

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis Japan The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on. Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O'Horan.

Author : Hilary Leichter
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566895743

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Temporary by Hilary Leichter Pdf

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.” This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120833836

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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Pdf

Satire over engelsk overklasseliv i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet med Tony i centrum som en ung gentleman, der må se alle sine illusioner om kærlighed, ægteskab, slægt og historie briste

Author : Mieko Kawakami
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782276722

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Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami Pdf

A witty, moving story of adolescent love and loss from the acclaimed, prize-winning author of Breasts and Eggs “Haruki Murakami listed Kawakami as his favourite young writer, so you're going to want to snatch up this lovely coming-of-age story about a boy who becomes obsessed with a woman who sells sandwiches” — Bustle In her English language debut, “ceaselessly growing and evolving”novelist Mieko Kawakami renders an adolsecent voice with laser precision (Haruki Murakami). “Ms Ice Sandwich” is a name I made up, of course. I thought of it the minute I first saw her. Ms Ice Sandwich’s eyelids are always painted with a thick layer of a kind of electric blue, exactly the same colour as those hard ice lollies that have been sitting in our freezer since last summer. A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and he wants nothing more than to spend his days watching her coolly slip sandwiches into bags. But the complexities of life keep getting in the way – his beloved grandmother's illness is only getting worse, and his mother seems to be totally ignoring it. There’s also his faltering friendship with his classmate Tutti. As she invites him to join her in thrilling games and fantasy, the boy begins to enter a whole new world of imagination. Wry, intimate and wonderfully skewed, Ms Ice Sandwich is a poignant depiction of the naivety and wisdom of youth, just as it is passing.

Author : Maki Kashimada
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609456528

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Touring The Land of the Dead by Maki Kashimada Pdf

“A delicate, layered exploration of family, trauma, and memory . . . An intriguing introduction to a significant voice in contemporary Japanese fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews Two tales about memory, loss and love, both told with stylistic inventiveness and breath-taking sensitivity. Taichi was forced to stop working almost a decade ago and since then he and his wife Natsuko have been getting by on her wages. But Natsuko is a woman accustomed to hardship. When her own family’s fortune dried up years during her childhood, she lived a surreal hand-to-mouth existence shaped by her mother’s refusal to accept her family’s new station in life. When Natsuko sees an ad for a spa and recognizes the place as the former luxury hotel where she spent time as a child, she decides to take her sick husband, despite the cost. But the overnight visit triggers hard but ultimately redemptive memories relating to the complicated history of her family. Modelled on a classic story by Junichiro Tanizaki, Ninety-Nine Kisses is the second story in this book and it portrays in touching and lyrical fashion the lives of the four unmarried sisters in a historical, close-knit neighbourhood of contemporary Tokyo. “Magical.” —The Guardian, Most Anticipated Fiction of 2021 “An ethereal novel combining two tales exploring memory, love, and loss.” —Vogue (UK) “Kashimada’s writing is exceptional.” —The Spectator “While Kashimada’s stories, like Murakami’s, resist easy interpretation, the former revel in the beauty of experience, whether sorrowful or joyous, affirming life in all its strangeness, horror and mystery.” —The Times Literary Supplement (UK) “Only Kashimada can create this kind of world.” —Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police

Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811227988

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Chasing Homer by László Krasznahorkai Pdf

A classic escape nightmare, Chasing Homer is sped on not only by Krasznahorkai’s signature velocity, but also by a unique musical score and intense illustrations In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed—careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed—a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this instant, an instant that had no continuation … Krasznahorkai—celebrated for the exhilarating energy of his prose—outdoes himself in Chasing Homer. And this unique collaboration boasts beautiful full-color paintings by Max Neumann and—reaching out of the book proper—the wildly percussive music of Szilveszter Miklós scored for each chapter (to be accessed by the reader via QR codes).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780345499745

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Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Guest
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061992520

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One More Theory About Happiness by Paul Guest Pdf

“In these lyrical, searing pages, Guest manages to break our hearts and put them back together again.” —Ann Hood In the tradition of Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face, One More Theory About Happiness is a bold and original memoir from the acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning poet Paul Guest, author of My Index of Horrifying Knowledge. A remarkable account of the accident that left him a quadriplegic, and his struggle to find independence, love, and a life on his own terms, One More Theory About Happiness has been praised by Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children, as, “Smart and honest and clear eyed and above all, humane.”

Author : Naivo
Publisher : Restless Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781632061324

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Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo Pdf

The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a twisted, long-denied family history, a rift opens that a rapidly shifting political and social terrain can only widen. As love and innocence fall away, their world becomes defined by what tyranny and superstition both thrive upon: fear. With captivating lyricism and undeniable urgency, Naivo crafts an unsentimental interrogation of the brutal history of nineteenth-century Madagascar as a land newly exposed to the forces of Christianity and modernity, and preparing for a violent reaction against them. Beyond the Rice Fields is a tour de force about the global history of human bondage and the competing narratives that keep us from recognizing ourselves and each other, our pasts and our destinies.

Author : Elspeth Barker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668004616

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O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker Pdf

"Originally published in Great Britain in 1991 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd."--Title page verso.

Author : Maryse Condé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Autobiographical fiction
ISBN : 0813927676

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I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé Pdf

CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from FrenchThis book has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agencY

Author : Shari Low
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007334964

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My Best Friend’s Life by Shari Low Pdf

Want what she's got? Think again...

Author : Nick Harkaway
Publisher : Random House
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407005621

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The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Pdf

The Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out - but there's more to the fire, and the Pipe itself, than meets the eye. The job will take Gonzo and his best friend, our narrator, back to their own beginnings and into the dark heart of the Jorgmund Company itself. Equal parts raucous adventure, comic odyssey and Romantic Epic, The Gone-Away World is a story of - among other things - love and loss; of ninjas, pirates, politics; of curious heroism in strange and dangerous places; and of a friendship stretched beyond its limits. But it also the story of a world, not unlike our own, in desperate need of heroes - however unlikely they may seem.

Author : Christie Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743316860

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Snake Bite by Christie Thompson Pdf

Having just finished school, the summer of 2009 presents endless possibilities for 17-year-old goth Jez. Living with her alcoholic mother in a government rental in Canberra's outer-suburbs, with little money or future prospects, her time is spent with emo Lukey trying to conjure quick fixes for their boredom - tatts, piercings, drinking, Xbox, weed and pills. Alienated and intimidated when Lukey becomes sexually involved with the effervescent Melbournite Laura, Jez renews a friendship with her neighbour, Casey, who's working as a stripper and raking the money in. When Casey's bikie punk brother Cash enters the picture, Jez is besotted, though also terrified with good reason. At the same time, Jez's mum hooks up with a local bartender placing a strain on their already fragile relationship. Over the summer, Jez runs a gauntlet of new experiences and discovers she is not quite ready for the world outside her neighbourhood. Filled with humour, brilliant observations and shocking revelations, Snake Bite is a contemporary Puberty Blues.