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Mari Akasaka

    Mari Akasaka è un'autrice contemporanea la cui opera approfondisce le complessità delle relazioni umane e delle norme sociali. La sua prosa è nota per la sua cruda onestà emotiva e l'esplorazione senza compromessi di temi intimi. Attraverso le sue narrazioni, Akasaka esamina spesso i desideri inespressi e le vulnerabilità nascoste che plasmano le nostre interazioni, invitando i lettori a confrontarsi con le sfumate realtà della vita moderna. La sua voce distintiva sfida le prospettive convenzionali e offre profonde intuizioni sulla condizione umana.

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    • Vibrator

      • 160pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      Rei Hayakawa, a lonely, bulimic freelance writer with a drinking problem, wanders into a convenience store. She's swaddled in her coat and scarf, while her thoughts – of alienation, of hunger, of the need for gin and white wine – drift in via stream-of-consciousness. A trucker named Okabe walks in, deliberately grazes her behind, and at the same time, Rei's cell phone, set on vibrate, goes off over her heart. Rei impulsively gets into Okabe's truck with him – and stays. Suddenly she finds herself embarking on a road journey across the wintry landscape of Japan with a complete, and possibly dangerous, stranger. Can the physical relationship that develops between them give Rei what she needs, and can she ever free herself from her self-destructive tendencies? Both parties are wounded, guarded and distant — can they learn to trust each other? Author Mari Akasaka brings her trademark wordplay and vivid imagery to this compelling story of an unlikely pairing set against the bleak backdrop of Japan’s highways. Adapted for the screen in 2003, Vibrator has also been made into a film.

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    • Rei ist eine junge Journalistin in Tokio, intelligent, hellwach und ehrgeizig. Doch sie hat ihr Leben nicht mehr im Griff. Innere Stimmen suchen sie heim, die sie mit zwanghaftem Essen bekämpft und im Alkohol ertränkt. Als sie in einem Supermarkt auf einen jungen Fernfahrer trifft, folg sie ihm unmittelbar auf die Reise. Eine neue Droge läst die alten ab, und die heißt Sex, bei laufendem Motor im Führerhaus des Trucks - rauschhaft, mechanisch und obsessiv. Rei analysiert diese neue Körpererfahrung mit journalistischem Scharfsinn und schafft es am Ende, zu sich zurückzufinden.

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