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Die Magie von Geschichten zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch Neil Gaimans Werk. So auch durch diese Kollektion von Erzählungen und Gedichten, in der ein mysteriöser Zirkus sein Publikum in Angst und Schrecken versetzt, Sherlock Holmes in einem seltsam verzerrten viktorianischen England einen royalen Mord aufklären muss oder eine Gruppe von Feinschmeckern nach der letzten ungekosteten Gaumenfreude forscht. Neil Gaimans erzählerisches Genie und sein beängstigend unterhaltsamer Sinn für schwarzen...
| Автор | Neil Gaiman |
Hamburg, 1912: Mina Deharde liegt der Kaffeehandel im Blut. Kein Wunder, verbringt sie doch jede freie Minute im Kaffeekontor ihres Vaters, mitten in der Hamburger Speicherstadt. Doch beide wissen, dass sie als Frau das Geschäft nicht übernehmen kann, und einen männlichen Erben gibt es nicht. Während Mina davon träumt, mit ihrem Jugendfreund Edo nach New York auszuwandern, hat ihr Vater andere Pläne für sie. Mina muss sich entscheiden: zwischen Pflicht und Freiheit, Liebe und Familie … Auftakt...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Ein verschollenes Tagebuch, eine Reise nach Irland und das Geheimnis der wahren Liebe Pennsylvania, 2016: Casey Walsh lebt in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt. Sie hat irische Vorfahren und träumt seit frühester Jugend von Irland. Eines Tages erzählt ihr Großvater vom Tagebuch der Auswanderin Aeryn. Casey ist fasziniert von den Aufzeichnungen, und die Sehnsucht nach der grünen Insel wird immer stärker. Als sie im Café, in dem sie arbeitet, den charmanten Iren Brayden kennenlernt, bietet er an,...
| Автор | Tanja Bern |
A dazzling debut novel about love, loss, and the courage it takes to start over.It’s 1994 and Adam, a drug addict from New York City, arrives at a kibbutz in Israel with a medieval sapphire brooch. To redress a past crime, he must give the priceless heirloom to a woman his grandfather loved when he was a Holocaust refugee on the kibbutz fifty years earlier. But first, he has to track this mystery woman down—a task that proves more complicated than expected.On the kibbutz Adam...
| Автор | Jessamyn Hope |
This classic Chinese epic features a new introduction by Daniel Kane, Head of Chinese Studies at Macquarie University and Cultural Counselor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing in 1996. China's most popular traditional novel, The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures is the story of the Monkey King, his incredible origin and downfall, and his epic quest to redeem himself with his trusted companions, as they face fantastic foes, demons, and monsters and have amazing adventures in their...
| Автор | Wu Cheng'en |
"Lane Dunlop's translations read elegantly, and his selection of modern Japanese Stories is both fresh and persuasive." —Donald Keene, Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.The fourteen distinct voices of this collection tell fourteen very different stories spanning sixty years of twentieth-century Japanese literature. They include a nostalgic portrait of an aristocratic Meiji family in Kafu Nagai's «The Fox,» a surprisingly...
| Автор | Lane Dunlop |
A classic tale that will captivate lovers of Japan, history, and epic adventure alike. Japan's most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty and revenge—and the basis for a Hollywood feature film starring Keanu Reaves— 47 Ronin is the epic tale of a heroic band of Samurai warriors who defy the Japanese Emperor to avenge the honor of their fallen master. The story begins in 1701 when the noble Lord Asano attacks an official at court. His punishment is swift and...
| Автор | John Allyn |
This Japanese Shinto book profiles each of the «Seven Luck Gods»—important deities in Japanese culture.The Seven Lucky Gods of Japan are a group of deities whose origins stem from Indian, Chinese, and indigenous Japanese gods of fortune. Not all of the gods are mythical beings. One of them is an actual historical person. Each of the seven gods has been recognized as a deity for more than a thousand years and each has had its own large following of believers. Gradually, however, these...
| Автор | Reiko Chiba |
This literary treasure provides one of the earliest glimpses into pre–colonial Hawaaiin culture.This book, one of six written by Dr. Westervelt, is a fascinating compilation of Hawaiian legends and historical tales. The origins of the Hawaiian people, the demi-god Maui's search for immortality for mankind, the coming of Captain Cook, the wars of King Kamehameha, as well as other aspects of Hawaii's incredible history fill its pages. Librarians, students, collectors, and anyone...
| Автор | William D. Westervelt |
Delightfully illustrated, this collection of Japanese myths and fairy tales presents readers with a rich folk tradition.Folk Legends of Japan contains of over one hundred Japanese folk legends. These have been selected by a distinguished American folklorist, drawn from expert Japanese transcriptions of oral legends, and carefully translated in such a way as to bring out the charming, unadorned, and sometimes disarmingly frank folk quality of the originals.Each legend is carefully annotated for...
| Автор | Richard M. Dorson |
Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, this Chinese equivalent of the English classic Robin Hood and His Merry Men is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny and has been thrilling and inspiring readers for hundreds of years. This edition of the classic J. H. Jackson translation features a new preface and introduction by Edwin Lowe, which gives the history of the book and puts the story into perspective for modern readers. First translated into English by Pearl S....
| Автор | Shi Naian |
Chinese Ghost Stories are a selection of the most entertaining Chinese traditional tales of the strange and fantastic. Hearn had a great affinity for the traditional ghost stories of China, and these stories clearly inspired him as he penned subsequent works. Set in richly atmospheric locales, these tales speak of heroic sacrifice, chilling horror, eerie beauty and otherworldly intervention.This completely reset and pinyin-converted edition of Hearn's classic work contains a new foreword...
| Автор | Lafcadio Hearn |
“A tour de force combining a commanding mastery of historical fact and detail, a comprehensive understanding of the human spirit, and a poetic quality of expression that transforms the hearts of all those it touches.” —The Japan Foundation NewsletterKumagai Naozane was a Japanese warrior famous for having taken the head of the young and handsome samurai Atsumori. This episode has become one of the best-known and best-loved stories in the Japanese historical classic,...
| Автор | Donald Richie |
This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe.Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates...
| Автор | Edogawa Rampo |
These twenty-two Japanese tales open to Western readers the world of fantasy in the legendary literature of Japan—a world of ogres, monkeys, goblins, and priest, of spelling-casting and rescuing people.Rich in variety, Legends of Japan includes tales of the supernatural, magic, and deities, as well as tales of romance and intrigue. The vividness and aesthetic appeal of these stories is enhanced by twenty-two woodblock prints from the studio of modern Japanese illustrator Masahiko...
| Автор | Hiroshi Naito |
Yurei Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional ghosts and spirits. Surviving encounters with angry ghosts and sexy spectres. Haunted places. Dangerous games and how to play them. And more importantly, a guided tour of what awaits in the world of the dead. Yurei is the Japanese word for «ghost.» It's as simple as that. They are the souls of dead people, unable—or unwilling—to shuffle off this mortal coil. Yurei are many things, but...
| Автор | Hiroko Yoda |
Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons: for example, between the novels of Murasaki Shikibu and Marcel Proust, between the Portuguese poet Torga and the haiku master Issa, and between the picaresque novel in Japan and in the West....
| Автор | Armando Martins Janeira |
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, by King David Kalakaua, who lived from 1836 to 1890, is a remarkable work. It combines many traditional Hawaiian legends with stories about historical incidents, such as the death of Captain James Cook at the hands of Hawaiians in 1779 and the destruction of Hawaiian temples in 1819.No other collection of Hawaii's myths has come so directly from a literate Hawaiian. King Kalakaua ruled his subjects with sympathy and understanding and had a deep respect for...
| Автор | King David Kalakaua |
"Royall Tyler's translations are nothing short of superb—crisp, restrained, ably balancing the ribald and the profound."—BooklistSensitive, compassionate, and indomitable, Mistress Oriku has abandoned the pleasure trades of Tokyo to run an elegant teahouse on the city's outskirts. Despite her hopes for a quieter, less hectic life, she finds she can't escape her involvement in the city's creative, intellectual and political circles.Oriku finds herself...
| Автор | Matsutaro Kawaguchi |
This collection of Vietnamese mythology will be of great interest to cultural scholars as well as people of Vietnamese descent.The history of every country is reflected in its myths and legends and this absorbing collection of thirty-two stories vary from the sweep and grandeur of past battles, to the wit of parables.While a number of Chinese fables have absorbed into the folk-lore of Vietnam, The story of Tam and Cam' is the Vietnamese version of a Chinese Cinderella story. Most of these...
| Автор | George F. Schultz |
Yokai Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional monsters and creepy-crawlies. Yokai are ethereal sorts of beings, like ghosts, nearly always encountered at night; everyone has their own take on how they might look in real life and what sorts of specific characteristics and abilities they might have. This book is the result of long hours spent poring over data and descriptions from a variety of sources, including microfilms of eighteenth-century illustrations...
| Автор | Hiroko Yoda |
Literary twist on Peter Pan Author's re-imaging of Neverland as the place children go where they die and the roles our childhood figures take in that land are dazzling and delightful Weaves an interesting fictional back story as JM Barrie is a character in the book and the «Wendy» character inspires him to create Peter Pan. Will be doing galley giveaway at BEA Author lives in New York Author is established writing professor at City College and her short stories have been published widely...
| Автор | Jessica Stilling |
Eine geheimnisvolle Kugel rollt durch die Zeiten. Nur wenige Menschen haben die Fähigkeit, ihren besonderen Klang zu vernehmen, einen Klang, der ihrem Leben eine neue Richtung gibt, der sie bezaubert, animiert und inspiriert. Als der verhinderte Schriftsteller Izaak in New York die Kugel von einer schönen Unbekannten mit Namen Eliza erhält, verändert sich auch sein Leben auf mysteriöse Weise: Endlich findet er für seinen großen Roman den Stoff, nach dem er so lange gesucht hat. Er erzählt die...
| Автор | Frederik Hetmann |
Die junge Journalistin Holly freut sich darauf, eine ganz besonders exotische Seite Afrikas kennen zu lernen: die Insel Mauritius. Dort soll sie den reichen Abenteurer Connor Maguire interviewen und über seine Suche nach einem Schatz berichten, den seine Vorfahren vor über 200 Jahren auf dem Inselparadies versteckt haben sollen. Als eines Tages die Leiche einer jungen Frau an den Strand gespült wird, erkennt Holly mit Schrecken, dass aus der harmlosen Reportage eine gefährliche Jagd nach den...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |