Новинки Хироми Каваками

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings - but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world.

Unfolding over geological eons, Under the Eye of the Big Bird is at once an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it and a meditation on the qualities that, for better and worse, make us human.

From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of reproduction, ecology, evolution, artificial intelligence, communal life, creation, love, and the future of humanity.

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of "Mothers." Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings--but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world.

Unfolding over fourteen interconnected episodes spanning geological eons, at once technical and pastoral, mournful and utopic, Under the Eye of the Big Bird presents an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it.

Они заключили негласный договор о разделении одиночества…

Чарующая история о современной Японии и старомодной романтике. Книга переведена на 14 языков!

Цукико ведет уединенный образ жизни. По ее мнению, она не создана для любви и привыкла коротать одинокие вечера в баре, где однажды случайно встречает своего школьного учителя.

Он тоже живет один в слегка заброшенной квартире, где собирает странные предметы.

Учитель и Цукико заключают между собой негласный договор о разделении одиночества. Они выбирают одну и ту же еду, ищут общества друг друга, и им трудно расстаться, хотя иногда они пытаются убежать: учитель – в воспоминания о бросившей его жене; Цукико – о бывшем однокласснике.

По мере того, как Цукико и учитель сближаются, течение жизни отмечается нежными намеками на смену времен года: от согревающих до освежающих напитков, от распускания почек на деревьях до цветения сакуры…

Это трогательная, забавная и захватывающая история о современной Японии и старомодной романтике.

Цукико ведет уединенный образ жизни. По ее мнению, она не создана для любви и привыкла коротать одинокие вечера в баре, где однажды случайно встречает своего школьного учителя. Он тоже живет один в слегка заброшенной квартире, где собирает странные предметы. Учитель и Цукико заключают между собой негласный договор о разделении одиночества. Они выбирают одну и ту же еду, ищут общества друг друга, и им трудно расстаться, хотя иногда они пытаются убежать: учитель — в воспоминания о бросившей его жене; Цукико — о бывшем однокласснике. По мере того, как Цукико и учитель сближаются, течение жизни отмечается нежными намеками на смену…

あ、また時間に捕まえられる、と思った。
捕まえられるままに、しておいた。

小説家のわたし、離婚と手術を経たアン、そして作詞家のカズ。
カリフォルニアのアパートメンツで子ども時代を過ごした友人たちは、
半世紀ほどの後、東京で再会した。
積み重なった時間、経験、恋の思い出。
それぞれの人生が、あらたに交わり、移ろっていく。

じわり、たゆたうように心に届く大人の愛の物語。

Состоящая из коротких, связанных друг с другом, 26 сюрреалистичных историй книга, в которой повествуется о жителях одного района в пригороде Токио, где творятся какие-то странные дела. В первой истории рассказчица по пути домой обнаруживает спрятавшегося под деревом угрюмого ребенка. Дитя поселяется у нее в квартире и живет там тридцать лет, не взрослея и не меняясь. Дальше следуют другие сюжеты — о доме, наделяющем жильцов разными свойствами (от быстрорастущих бород до способности слышать мертвых); о старике с двумя тенями; о мужчине, который разводил птиц, а теперь рискует попасть в куриный ад; о таксисте, устраивающем экскурсию для…

Открывается номер публикацией «На два голоса» – рассказами японских писателей в жанре сверхмалой прозы, традиционно связанном с развлекательной литературой. Но представленные ниже образцы «сё:то сё:то» (от англ. «short short»), написанные корифеями «высокой» прозы Экуни Каори, Хирано Кэйитиро и Каваками Хироми, осваивают не присущее этому жанру серьезное содержание – супружеская жизнь под увеличительным стеклом прозаической миниатюры. Перевод и вступление Екатерины Юдиной. Стихи старейшего из живущих ныне датского поэта Кнуда Сёренсена (р. 1928) со вступлением и в переводе Норы Киямовой. «Все, что является предметом внимания Кнуда…

From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, here is a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction
Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep it safe, you never know when you might need it.

In Kawakami's super short 'palm of the hand' stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's house for thirty years; an apartment block leaves its visitors with strange afflictions, from fast-growing beards to an ability to channel the voices of the dead; an old man has two shadows, one docile, the other rebellious; two girls named Yoko are locked in a bitter rivalry to the death.

Small but great, you'll find great delight spending time with the people in this neighbourhood.

A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People from My Neighborhood.

In their lives, details of the local and everyday—the lunch menu at a tiny drinking place called the Love, the color and shape of the roof of the tax office—slip into accounts of duels, prophetic dreams, revolutions, and visitations from ghosts and gods. In twenty-six "palm of the hand" stories—fictions small enough to fit in the palm of one's hand and brief enough to allow for dipping in and out—Hiromi Kawakami creates a universe ruled by mystery and transformation.

Dans le café où elle a ses habitudes, une trentenaire, Tsukiko, fait la connaissance d’un homme solitaire et élégant, de plus de trente ans son aîné. Elle réalise qu’elle le connaît : il fut autrefois son professeur de japonais. Elle est célibataire, il est veuf. Complices, ils prennent l’habitude de se revoir dans le même café, au hasard de leur emploi du temCastermanps, puis, bientôt, d’improviser des sorties ensemble. Insensiblement, à petites touches légères, une connivence s’établit, puis une véritable affection, et peut être même… Ce sont ces rencontres que retracent une à une les chapitres des Années douces, chacune comme une histoire à part entière : la cueillette des champignons, les poussins achetés au marché, la fête des fleurs ou les vingt-deux étoiles d’une nuit d’automne.

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep it safe, you never know when you might need it. In Kawakami's super short 'palm of the hand' stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's house for thirty years; an apartment block leaves its visitors with strange afflictions, from fast-growing beards to an ability to channel the voices of the dead; an old man has two shadows, one docile, the other rebellious; two girls named Yoko are locked in a bitter rivalry to the death. Small but great, you'll find great delight spending time with the people in this neighbourhood.

A brief, disquieting companion to the bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, set during a summer afternoon and featuring a mischievous pair of creatures called tengu.

On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together.

“Tell me a story from long ago,” Sensei says.

“I wasn’t alive long ago,” Tsukiko says, “but should I tell you a story from when I was little?”

“Please do,” Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room, arguing with each other. They had human bodies, long noses, and wings. They were tengu, creatures that appear in Japanese folktales.

The tengu attach themselves to Tsukiko and begin to follow her everywhere. Where did they come from and why are they here? And what other invisible and unacknowledged forces are acting upon Tsukiko’s seemingly peaceful world?

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a classmate, another the best friend of Nishino's latest conquest. Some are entranced by Nishino, others care more for their freedom, their children (or their cats).
As we come to learn of the torments, desires and delights of each woman, a portrait emerges of a complicated ma

The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers

'The nightingale sang again. The plates on the table gleamed, and the food, in all its ceaseless variety, breathed, glossy and bright. The night had only just begun.'

In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance.

In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing.

Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales.

Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any less curious or weatherworn than the items they sell. There's the store's owner, Mr Nakano, an enigmatic ladies' man with several ex-wives; Sakiko, his sensuous, unreadable lover; his sister, Masayo, an artist whose free-spirited creations mask hidden sorrows. And finally there's Hitomi's fellow employee, Takeo, whose abrupt and taciturn manner Hitomi finds, to her consternation, increasingly disarming. A beguiling story of love found amid odds and ends, The Nakano Thrift Shop is a heart-warming and utterly charming novel from one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary novelists.

Featuring a delightfully offbeat cast of characters, The Nakano Thrift Shop is
a generous-hearted portrayal of human relationships by one of Japan's most beloved authors.
Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagancies, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.
Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register at Mr. Nakano's thrift shop, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo.
Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer's sister, Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but also of the delicate waltz between open and hidden secrets.
Animating each delicately rendered chapter in Kawakami's playful novel is Mr. Nakano himself, an original, entertaining, and enigmatic creation whose compulsive mannerisms, secretive love life, and impulsive behavior defy all expectations.

When Hitomi takes a job on the cash register of a neighbourhood thrift store, she finds herself drawn into a very idiosyncratic community. There is Mr Nakano, an enigmatic ladies' man with several ex-wives; Masayo, Mr Nakano's sister, an artist who has never married; and her fellow employee Takeo, a shy but charming young man. And every day, customers from the neighbourhood pass in and out as curios are bought and sold, each one containing its own surprising story. When Hitomi and Takeo begin to fall for one another, they find themselves in the centre of their own drama - and on the edges of many others.

A tender and affecting exploration of the mystery that lurks in the ordinary, this novel traces the seemingly imperceptible threads that weave together a community, and the knots that bind us to one another.

グリクレルの台所でさくらんぼのクラフティーを食べながら、
忘れられない夜を過ごしたさよと仄田くん。
やがて最後の夜を迎えたふたりは、夜の世界の住人たちを
「ばらばら」に壊そうとする力と対決する。
そして、七つの夜があけると――。

夜の世界で若き日の両親に出会ったさよと、
自分そっくりの「情けない子」に向き合った仄田くん。
この冒険がどこかで現実とつながっていることに気がついたふたりは、
元の世界を守るため、あらゆるモノを夜の世界へ連れ込もうとする
「ウバ」とたたかうことになり……。

小学校4年生のさよが図書館でみつけた『七夜物語』は、
読んだはしから内容をすっかり忘れてしまうふしぎな本。
さよは、物語にみちびかれるように、
同級生の仄田くんと「夜の世界」へ迷いこみ、
グリクレルという料理上手の大ねずみから皿洗いを命じられることになる。