YOTA - Fiction & Literature 1

Fish talk is a story about a little fish who is born in a lawyer's office, behaves like a marionette and finds his way out of the fish tank... A ray of sunlight tricked and slipped its way through t……続きを見る

Fish talk is a story about a little fish who is born in a lawyer's office, behaves like a marionette and finds his way out of the fish tank... A ray of sunlight tricked and slipped its way through t……続きを見る

Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military histor……続きを見る

FOUR is a short story of four chapters which is about four best friends who seem perfect but have their personal wars and issues beneath the surface. They deal with jealousy, envy, fidelity, lonelin……続きを見る

Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military histor……続きを見る

This short novel is about a pastor's son who has run a woman over by mistake and killed her in the process. He confesses to his Reverend of a father. How is this tragedy managed as expected of a pas……続きを見る

This book features conversations between Donald Keene, a preeminent scholar of Japanese literature, and Shiba Ryotaro, the author who continued to contemplate the human condition through his origina……続きを見る

Auch aufgrund des zugesprochenen Prix Décembre und einer denkwürdigen Lesung durch Patrice Chéreau in Avignon wurde Pierre Guyotats Buch in Frankreich als sensationelle Rückkehr des Autors zu Litera……続きを見る

Herkunft berichtet von der sinnlichen, emotionalen, geistigen Formung eines Kindes, das zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs in einem Dorf im Südosten Frankreichs in eine alte, katholische Familie ohne ……続きを見る

A young Tokyoite doctor accepts a post on a remote island south of Okinawa. When a highly contagious fatal disease breaks out, he has to choose between saving himself or saving others. A hormone-rid……続きを見る

A young Tokyoite doctor accepts a post on a remote island south of Okinawa. When a highly contagious fatal disease breaks out, he has to choose between saving himself or saving others. A hormone-rid……続きを見る

A young Tokyoite doctor accepts a post on a remote island south of Okinawa. When a highly contagious fatal disease breaks out, he has to choose between saving himself or saving others. A hormone-rid……続きを見る

There has been growing scholarly attention to questions about the revival of religion and religiosity on global social, cultural and political fronts and the emergence of a ‘post-secular’ society. N……続きを見る

'Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1……続きを見る

In seinem letzten Buch erinnert Pierre Guyotat seine Erfahrungen als junger Rekrut der französichen Armee in der Endphase des Algerienkriegs. Konfrontiert mit militärischem Drill, dumpfer Schikane u……続きを見る

« Cet Idiotie traite de mon entrée, jadis, dans l’âge adulte, entre ma dix-neuvième et ma vingt-deuxième année, de 1959 à 1962. Ma recherche du corps féminin, mon rapport conflictuel à ce qu’on nomm……続きを見る

Once upon a time in Japan, there was a province where parents who reached the age of sixty had to be abandoned deep in the woods on a hill called Ubasute-yama... Was the story based on a real practi……続きを見る

The Mikoshiba barony army lays siege to the capital city of Pireas, but Ryoma faces a predicament. While a direct charge would result in needless casualties, prolonging the siege runs the risk of a ……続きを見る

With the Kingdom of Rhoadseria firmly in his grasp, Ryoma uses his dispute with the noble Romaine family to expedite the stabilization of the nation. At the same time, he seeks reinforcements for th……続きを見る

Clouds above the Hill, a long-time best-selling novel in Japan, is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highl……続きを見る

Clouds above the Hill is the best-selling novel ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and hi……続きを見る

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatev……続きを見る

WHAT YOU DID TO GIRL A short story about female circumcision in the South-South area of Nigeria. A young girl loses her mother and is taken back to the village to live with her grandmother. Her gran……続きを見る

Pierre Guyotat vertritt eine literarische Extremposition, für die es kein Beispiel gibt. Sein zweites großes Erzählwerk »Eden, Eden, Eden« entstand 1970 und wurde sofort nach seiner Veröffentlichung……続きを見る

Edo Japan Encounters the World continues the conversation, begun nearly twenty years earlier in The People and Culture of Japan, between scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene and historical no……続きを見る

Desire Mensah, a disgraced schoolteacher in her thirties, sees moving to sleepy little Cape Coast, Ghana, as her chance to get away from a shameful secret not buried deeply enough. And maybe, just m……続きを見る

Humming Sweet. Bitter Sweet. Explore the heights and depths of love and the balance in between. Lovebirds are the smallest species of parrots and are native to the forests and savannas of Sub-Sahara……続きを見る

This collection draws from scholars across different languages to address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yōko. Yōko, born in Japan (1960) and based in Germany, writes and presents i……続きを見る

This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars ……続きを見る

In Ryotaro Shiba's account of the life of Japan's last shogun, Perry's arrival off the coast of Japan was merely the spark that ignited the cataclysm in store for the Japanese people and their gover……続きを見る