Tomáš Jurkovič Ordine dei libri

La libreria Natsuki è un luogo speciale: un negozio polveroso e solitario, dove gli amanti della lettura possono trovare, tra le pagine dei grandi capolavori di tutto il mondo, un’oasi di pace, un rifugio lontano dal frastuono della quotidianità. Quando il proprietario, uomo colto e appassionato, muore improvvisamente, il nipote Rintaro, un ragazzino timido e introverso, eredita la libreria. Il nonno si è preso cura di lui dopo la morte di sua madre e, ora che è scomparso, Rintaro deve imparare a fare a meno della sua saggezza dolce e pacata. La libreria è sull’orlo del fallimento: un’eredità pesante per il ragazzo, anche perché i segnali dal mondo sono piuttosto scoraggianti: poca gente è davvero interessata alla lettura. Un giorno, mentre Rintaro si crogiola malinconico nel ricordo del nonno, entra in libreria un gatto parlante. Nonostante le iniziali perplessità del ragazzino, il gatto lo convince a partire per una missione molto speciale: salvare i libri dalla loro scomparsa. Inizia così la storia di un’amicizia magica: un’avventura che li porterà a percorrere quattro diversi labirinti per risolvere altrettante questioni esistenziali sull’importanza della lettura e sulla forza, infinita e imperscrutabile, dell’amore. Una favola dei nostri tempi, un’ode straordinaria al potere del libro e dell’immaginazione.

Na een mysterieuze nachtmerrie kan een jonge huisvrouw de slaap niet meer vatten.

Někdo, kdo si říká Král, začne přes mobily posílat tajemné SMS-ky žákům jedné třídy. Posílá jim úkoly, které musejí splnit. Kdo je nesplní – zemře. Zpočátku je to čistě legrace, ale jen do chvíle, kdy přijde první smrt. Pak už je to souboj s časem. Odhalí se dřív totožnost Krále, nebo umřou další lidé?

O japonském spisovateli Haruki Murakamim se občas soudí, že se beze zbytku zhlédl v západní literatuře a následně píše „nejaponské“ texty. Pokud ovšem podrobíme rozboru příběhy, které se odehrávají v jeho literárních dílech, musíme podobné soudy odmítnout jako neopodstatněné. Tato publikace provádí čtenáře v chronologickém sledu barvitým světem Murakamiho románových příběhů a krůček po krůčku před ním odkrývá další, zastřešující příběh, sahající od počátků a inspiračních zdrojů autorovy tvorby až po moment, kdy se Murakamimu daří poprvé úspěšně vyrovnat se svým velkým tématem – temnými stíny moderní japonské historie.

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby -- Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing.

Slavné postavy národních dějin bývají obvykle představovány jako výlupky všech ctností a dávány za příklad dalším generacím. Ale co když jsou takové oficiální verze až příliš krásné, než aby byly i pravdivé, ptá se Tanizaki v Tajné historii pána z Musaši a odpovídá překvapujícím způsobem. Kudy vede hranice mezi hrdinstvím a perverzí? Jedním z…

She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant's reclusive owner. Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami's 70th birthday.

His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a rightwing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep. that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist.