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December 1994Die Geschichte vom Prinzen Genji
Wie sie geschrieben wurde um das Jahr 1000 unserer Zeitrechnung von Murasaki, genannt Shikibu, Hofdame der Kaiserin von Japan
by Murasaki, Arthur Waley, Herberth E. Herlitschka
Das Genji-Monogatari ist das älteste und bedeutendste Werk der japanischen Frauenromane. Zugleich gilt es als ältester Roman der Weltliteratur überhaupt. Es entstand zwischen 1004 und 1011, als seine Verfasserin als Hofdame in den Diensten der Kaiserin Akiko stand. Als Meisterin einer leicht hinfließenden Prosa versteht sie es, die Bildhaftigkeit der Sprache zu nutzen, um die Liebeserlebnisse des Prinzen Genji zu beschreiben. Wie in einem Nô-Schauspiel treten die Personen der Handlung klar akzentuiert in ihren Wesenszügen vor dem Hintergrund einer sich immer wieder wandelnden Natur auf.
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April 2017AKIKO
by MICHELA CAVALIERE
The cursed pact between a naive queen and a millennial demon will give birth to a child. The little one, helped by the Kami (spirit) of the Wind, will be adopted by a simple family, and will show a gift bearer of death and destruction whenever she is in danger. Assassins sent to kill her, won over by her diabolical charm, will make her the heir of Ryūjinja, a monastery of spies and thieves. Here the girl will be called Akiko and develop the ability to see the Ōra, souls of living beings, and learn to use the spiked chain Sashimasu. Akiko will be sent to a distant island to kill a prince, but nothing will go as planned. From that moment, the young woman will move through ancient myths, looking for an artifact to restore balance, in an epic fight that will decide the fate of the world.
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PENANCE
by KANAE Minato
When they were girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into leaving their friend Emily with a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurred: Emily was found murdered hours later.The four friends were never able to describe the stranger to the police; the killer's trail went cold. Asako, the bereaved mother, curses the surviving girls, vowing that they will be the ones to pay for her daughter's murder... Like Confessions, Kanae Minato's award-winning, internationally bestselling debut, PENANCE is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless.
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FictionJune 2020Drawings of Hiroshima
by Marcelo Simonetti
“The sky was covered with grey clouds. The drizzle was lighter than normal, almost pious. The Japanese were advancing through the streets with short, fast steps. Satoru was ahead of them. He pedaled at a good pace. From his bicycle seat, the city revealed itself to his eyes as a sequence of frames. It was strange to be there, in his grandfather's city, and to ride through it as he had probably never done before: on two wheels. Even so, the possibility that the route he was taking would intersect with the routes that his grandfather had taken when he was a child, provoked an intimate emotion in him. Those landscapes were over eighty years old, including an atomic bomb, but it was the land where Ryu Nakata had learned to walk, to speak, to read”. The death of his grandfather, awakens in the young Yasuhiro Nakata the desire to know the family history, especially after finding a letter in which he discovers another side of the old man whose last words were: 'Hiroshima, Hiroshima', warning of the existence of a secret. As a result, Yasuhiro embarks on a journey that will take him from Valparaiso to Hiroshima, where his grandfather emigrated ten years before the atomic disaster. This is the beginning of Drawings of Hiroshima— a charming story that allows readers to follow the protagonist on a journey in which he not only reconnects with his Japanese origins, but also questions his present, his interpersonal relationships and his interest in writing, deepening the unconscious desire to understand the role that he plays in a story that is not his own but yet challenges him directly. With this new release, Marcelo Simonetti addresses issues such as migration and identity, connecting the historic Chilean port of Valparaiso with the memory of the tragedy occured in the Japanese city.
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October 2022How Ideas are Born
Graphic Designers on Creative Processes
by Miguel Ángel Pérez Arteaga (ed.)
26 designers from 15 countries unveil their creative, processes, works and their workspaces. Ideas are not born alone. They come from a process to a large, extent organized and rational but sometimes unconscious, and magical. In this book we can enjoy and learn from the, creative processes of great graphic designers and creative voices, around the world. Here we can find impulsive design versus, more cerebral design; radical and avant-garde design alongside, poetic, childish, commercial, intellectual, subversive and, socially oriented design. 26 designers from 15 countries show, us their workspaces, their personal notebooks and their creative, processes. They teach us the keys to understand what is behind, those magnificent works that inspire, thrill, impact or invite us, to action. In this book the creative process itself is inspiration, a, unique guide to creativity with storytelling and lessons on how, to live your best creative life. The book features the work and, creative processes of Ralph Bauer (Netherlands/Peru), Susana, Blasco (Spain), Tomasz Boguslawski (Poland), Sarah Boris, (London), Chelsea Cardinal (USA), Ryan Carl (USA), André Da, Loba (Portugal), Isidro Ferrer (Spain), Veronica Fuerte (Spain),, Rick Griffith (USA), Sebastian Kubica (Poland), Anette Lenz, (France), Jiani Lu (Canada), Alejandro Magallanes (Mexico),, Veronica Majluf (Peru), Fanette Mellier (France), Cláudia Mestre, (Portugal), Milimbo (Spain), Akinori Oishi (Japan), Alvaro Pecci, (Spain), Stefan Sagmeister (USA), Teresa Sdralevich (Belgium),, Akiko Sekimoto (Japan), Leonardo Sonnoli (Italy), Cihan Tamti, (Germany), Jessica Walsh (USA).
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ELT resource books for teachersMay 1996Making Polite Noises
Social and Functional English for Communication!
by Fletcher / Hargreaves
Designed for teaching at Council of Europe language level CEF - A2/B1. Where CEF is Common European Framework. This popular book has been updated so that it is particularly suitable for English as a second language learners (ESOL), as well as for EFL. It gives practice in the essentials of Social English. All the main functions of language (asking for information, suggestions, offers, complaints and apologies, starting and finishing conversations, telephoning, persuasion... ) Each of the 21 units gives essential phrases in lively dialogues, then controlled and free practice. Revision exercises and telephone situations recycle this through mini role plays. Includes Teaching Notes - Cassette available “Now, I feel much more ‘at home’ speaking to people in English, because I know so many everyday expressions”
