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2025 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: E/O Una scrittrice di nome Ruth che vive in un'isola al largo delle coste della British Columbia, trova un diario, portato a riva dentro a un cestino del pranzo di Hello Kitty. Cestino e diario sono probabilmente detriti dello tsunami del 2011, ed essendo il diario intatto, la scrittrice inizia a leggerlo. Veniamo così introdotti nella vita di una sedicenne che vive a Tokyo e che si chiama Nao, vittima di bullismo e figlia di un padre depresso. Ma è proprio il padre a farle conoscere la sua bisnonna, una monaca buddista che ha vissuto più di un secolo, e che in misura e tempi diversi aiuterà Nao e Ruth a stravolgere le rispettive vite affrontando il presente come condizione naturale dell'essere. € 21,00
Scontato: € 19,95
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2022 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: E/O Un anno dopo la morte del padre, un musicista jazz di origini giapponesi, il tredicenne Benny Oh inizia a sentire voci provenire dagli oggetti. Inizialmente preoccupato per la propria salute mentale e presto turbato dall'incapacità di arginare queste voci, Benny comincia a isolarsi da amici, compagni di scuola, e presto anche dalla madre, che a modo suo cerca di affrontare il lutto dell'amato marito e la difficoltà del ritrovarsi madre single con pochi mezzi. Attratto dalla biblioteca pubblica che frequentava da bambino, Benny fa presto banda con una ragazzina poeta e un anziano vagabondo che lo incoraggiano a non respingere le voci ma a provare ad ascoltare cos'è che gli oggetti hanno urgenza di dirgli, e soprattutto a trovare aiuto, ispirazione e salvezza nei libri e nella lettura. Attraverso il dialogo con gli oggetti, Benny riuscirà a riprendere il dialogo con il padre lì dove la morte lo aveva lasciato interrotto. Benny intraprenderà così un percorso spirituale non poi così diverso da quello della madre, che imbattendosi casualmente nel libro di una monaca zen troverà nella spiritualità e nella lettura il conforto e il coraggio necessari a riprendere in mano la propria vita facendo dell'assenza del marito tesoro e non catastrofe irreversibile. € 22,00
Scontato: € 20,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: E/O Quanto la faccia che abbiamo corrisponde alla persona che siamo? Cosa ci racconta una faccia della storia e della geografia da cui veniamo? Quanto ci dice delle possibilità che ci sono state concesse? O di quelle che ci sono state negate? L'osservazione della propria faccia allo specchio, è per la scrittrice e monaca buddhista Zen Ruth Ozeki abile pretesto e preziosa occasione per raccontare alcuni frammenti della propria vita e formazione, bambina e poi ragazza cresciuta da madre giapponese e padre americano di razza caucasica nel Nord America degli anni cinquanta e poi sessanta. Monaca buddhista, attenta alla tradizione Zen secondo cui "la tua faccia prima che nascessero i tuoi genitori" è la tua faccia originale, Ozeki inizia le sue divagazioni su identità e razza chiedendo: «Che aspetto aveva la tua faccia prima che nascessero i tuoi genitori?» Alla domanda risponde con questo breve memoir che è un'attenta esplorazione sociologica, politica, poetica, filosofica, spirituale e sentimentale. € 15,00
Scontato: € 14,25
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1919 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ruth Ozeki Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 11,70
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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Udaka Michishige, Yamagata Shuichi (PHT), Ozeki Ruth (FRW) Publisher: Kodansha USA Inc € 22,30
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1916 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: Restless Books € 11,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Levy David M., Ozeki Ruth (FRW) Publisher: Arcade Pub A fascinating, insightful, and wonderfully written exploration of the document. Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David M. Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and as we move into the digital age. We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds?letters and credit-card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages?yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as our reading and writing habits are being disturbed and transformed by new technologies and practices. An expert on information and written forms, and a former researcher for the document pioneer Xerox, Levy masterfully navigates these concerns, offering reassurance while sharing his own excitement about many of the new kinds of documents that are emerging. He demonstrates how today’s technologies, particularly the personal computer and the World Wide Web, are having analogous effects to past inventions?such as paper, the printing press, writing implements, and typewriters?in shaping how we use documents and the forms those documents take. Scrolling Forward lets us see the continuity between the written forms of today and those of the past.. € 15,20
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Okada John, Ozeki Ruth (FRW), Inada Lawson Fusao (INT), Chin Frank (AFT) Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr " No-No Boy has the honor of being the very first Japanese American novel," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword to John Okada’s classic of Asian American literature. First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel’s importance and popularized it as one of literature’s most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys." Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro’s "obsessive, tormented" voice subverts Japanese postwar "model-minority" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man’s "threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world." The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers. € 18,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: Large Print Pr A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore in this new novel from the award-wining, best-selling author of € 16,60
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: Penguin Group USA A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki?shortlisted for the Booker Prize ?A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace?and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox?possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home. € 16,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Ruth Ozeki Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 11,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: Thorndike Pr A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore. € 34,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Ruth Ozeki Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS € 12,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: Viking Pr A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki?longlisted for the Booker Prize ?A?time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace?and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox?possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home. € 25,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore. € 71,40
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2006 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth (FRW), Layne Cathy (COM) Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc Inside and other short fiction showcases the very best of recent writing by Japanese women writers today-including prize-winning novelists and authors never before published in English-as they explore the issue of female identity in a rapidly changing society. AMY YAMADA ("Fiesta"), widely published overseas and with many fans among Western readers, offers us a sophisticated psychological portrait of a sexually repressed woman. TAMAKI DAIDO ("Milk"), winner of the Akutagawa Prize in 2002, and talented young newcomer RIO SHIMAMOTO ("Inside"), paint two very different pictures of teenage life. The trials of a busy working mother are depicted by SHUNGIKU UCHIDA ("My Son's Lips"), who shocked Japan in 1993 with the publication of her novel, Father Fucker. YUZUKI MUROI ("Piss"), a prolific, popular and outspoken essayist, novelist and TV commentator, tells the sexually explicit and very moving story of a young Tokyo prostitute. Winner of the 1999 Akutagawa Prize, CHIYA FUJINO ("Her Room"), delves into the relationship between two women, one divorced and one single, with a subtle and powerful tale. Well-known essayist, JUNKO HASEGAWA ("The Unfertilized Egg") , makes a first foray into fiction with a hard-hitting portrait of the single thirty-something lifestyle. NOBUKO TAKAGI ("The Shadow of the Orchid") is a highly respected member of the Japanese literary establishment, and winner of many prizes, including the Akutagawa Prize in 1984. Her short story is a sensitive depiction of a moment of crisis in the life of a fifty-year-old housewife. € 17,90
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2004 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth L. Publisher: Penguin Group USA My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki's delicious debut novel, won a devoted following and was hailed by critics as inventing a new genre: the “eco-saga.” Now, Ozeki takes us to the heart of the potato farming industry. When Yumi Fuller returns to her hometown after a twenty-five-year absence, she comes face to face with an old friend, her aging parents, and her conflicted past—as well as the “Seeds of Resistance,” a rollicking environmentalist group that finds trouble wherever they plant themselves. With a quirky cast of characters and a keen eye for the vicissitudes of corporate life, political resistance, youth culture, aging baby boomers, and globalization, as well as the beauty of seeds, roots, and all growing things, All Over Creation offers something for just about everyone. € 15,20
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1999 |
![]() ![]() Author: Ozeki Ruth L. Publisher: Penguin Group USA Jane Takagi-Little, by trade a documentary filmmaker, by nature a truth seeker, is "racially half," Japanese and American, and, as she tells us, "neither here nor there..." Jane is sharp-edged, desperate for a job, and determined not to fall in love again. Akiko Ueno, a young Japanese housewife, lives with her husband in a bleak high-rise apartment complex in a suburb of Tokyo. Akiko is so thin her bones hurt, and her husband, an ad agency salaryman who wants her to get pregnant, is insisting that she put some meat on them - literally. Ruth L. Ozeki's novel opens with two women on opposite sides of the globe, whose lives cannot be further apart. But when Jane gets a job, coordinating a television series whose mission is to bring the American heartland, and American meat, into the homes of Japan, she makes some wrenching discoveries - about love, meat, honor, and a hormone called DES. When Jane and Akiko's lives converge, what is revealed taps the deepest concerns of our time - how the past informs the present and how we live and love in this "blessed, ever-shrinking world." € 15,20
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