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Brought to you by Penguin. On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. 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...

In this playful and daring interrogation of language, the globally acclaimed Yoko Tawada reveals the poetics, politics and potential of existing outside one's mother tongue. From Senegalese writers discarding colonial-enforced French to the increasing use of loan words in her native Japanese, Tawada deconstructs the ways in which the world shapes and is shaped by languages: their hidden systems of power, their sweeping histories and, ultimately, the people who claim, reject, adapt or romanticise them.

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe prompted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson – born frail and prone to sickness – might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. __________ Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any...

*** 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST *** *** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD *** *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The...

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian). Hiruko soon makes new friends to join her in her travels searching for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue.

Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though his beloved opera houses are open again, Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. He is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection Threadsuns by Paul Celan, but he can't get past the first question on the registration form: 'What is your nationality?' As Patrik attempts to find a connection in a world that constantly overwhelms him, he meets a mysterious stranger. 

En un futuro lejano, la humanidad está al borde de la desaparición. Dispersos en pequeñas tribus bajo el cuidado de unas enigmáticas «Madres», los últimos humanos intentan sobrevivir en un planeta irreconocible. Algunos niños nacen en fábricas, creados a partir de células de animales; otros se nutren a través de la fotosíntesis, como las plantas. Tal vez la continuidad de la especie dependa del mestizaje con estas nuevas criaturas, pero nadie sabe si los vínculos y la sociedad lograrán perdurar.

A bear, born and raised in captivity, is devastated by the loss of his keeper; another finds herself performing in the circus; a third sits down one day and pens a memoir which becomes an international sensation, and causes her to flee her home. Through the stories of these three bears, Yoko Tawada reflects on our own humanity, the ways in which we belong to one another and the ways in which we are formed.

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer...

Después de casarse con su amor de infancia, Riko se encuentra atrapada en una relación amargada por la infidelidad. Un día, por casualidad, se encuentra con un viejo amigo, el señor Takaoka, que le ofrece amistad, amor y una extraña evasión: vivir una vida paralela en sus sueños. Así, cada noche vive otra vida: primero, como una cortesana de alto rango del siglo XVII, y, después, como la sirvienta de una princesa en la Edad Media tardía.

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...

Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day...

Akiko ha poco più di cinquant'anni quando, stanca del lavoro in editoria e di una vita che le sta sempre più stretta, decide di licenziarsi. Ora, però, vuole trasformare il locale in un posto diverso, che la rispecchi, ricreando il brodo di cui non ha mai dimenticato il profumo, il suono delle stoviglie, il calore di un tempo che sembrava perduto.

Hey there - this is where you're normally supposed to write an engaging and captivating summary of what a show is about and convince someone who is sifting through thousands of podcast to pick yours for a listen. The problem is, I don't know what this is going to be yet. For now, it is a place where I am just kind of thinking out loud, sometimes by myself, sometimes with experts on things. I'll try to keep it interesting, and come back and update this when, or if, I figure out what, exactly, this is. If you want to know more about me, you can check out chrisyoko.com. For now, if you've made it...

Wir, eine Familie mit zwei Teens, haben unser Haus, Schule, Jobs und unser bisheriges Leben hinter uns gelassen und sind nun in der Welt zuhause. Wir leben dort, wo wir uns wohlfühlen und ziehen weiter, wenn die Zeit dafür kommt. Die Welt ist voller Möglichkeiten, Orte, Kulturen und Begegnungen. Wir haben uns auf den Weg gemacht, all dies zu entdecken. Der Schritt hinaus in die Freiheit war das Beste, was uns je hätte passieren können. Wir laden euch ein, uns auf dieser Reise zu begleiten, euch inspirieren zu lassen und an eure Träume zu glauben. Wir sind auch auf Instagram: @...

吉見町で過ごす人のあれこれを聞いてみる地域密着番組「よしみばなし」 あなたの町にいる、こんな人、あんな人。 吉見町への面白みが増えたらいいなと願う一時間の雑談番組です。 ロゴ製作：川井寛貴

筑波大学田中洋子ゼミで社会科学を学んできた学生･卒業生から、いろいろな話を聞いていくチャンネルです。留学、研究、さまざまな活動から日常生活まで、なかなか聞けない現場のリアルを発信します。

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Marion a toujours revendiqué sa féminité, même sur un terrain de basket. Naïm a fait ses armes sur la glace en commençant très jeune le patinage artistique.Nicolas a commencé le football après avoir rêvé devant les matchs de la coupe du monde 98. Fleur est sûrement la meilleure danseuse que je connaisse. Dix ans après leur bac, j'ai voulu raconter leur histoire. Que sont-ils devenus après ces années de sport étude ? Leurs témoignages s'entremêlent pour tenter de dresser le portrait de cette filière scolaire particulière.---Un documentaire audio de Yoko Trigalot. Martin ...