Michael Emmerich Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Accompanying CD-ROM contains audio narrations of the stories.

Zwei junge Menschen, die in der Großstadt Tokio zueinander- und dabei zu sich selbst finden. Eine Reise führt sie zunächst an einen geheimnisvollen See, wo all die Verletzungen wieder zu schmerzen beginnen, die ihnen das Leben schon zugefügt hat. Eine zarte Reifungs- und Liebesgeschichte.

A dual-language edition of Japanese stories—many appearing in English for the first time This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers like Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto, as well as emerging voices like Abe Kazushige, Ishii Shinji, and Kawakami Hiromi. From the orthodox to the cutting-edge, they represent a range of styles and themes, showcasing the diversity of Japanese fiction over the past few decades in a collection that is equally rewarding for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of English or Japanese. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.

Eine traumschöne Liebesgeschichte voller Magie Ein Fischerdorf, zwei Bahnstunden von Tokio entfernt: Manazuru. Jenes Wort schrieb Keis Ehemann in sein Tagebuch, bevor er spurlos verschwand. Warum hat er sie verlassen, und wohin ist er gegangen? Keis Liebe zu ihrem Mann ist immer noch grenzenlos, und so versucht sie, dem Rätsel seines Verschwindens auf die Spur zu kommen. Eine geheimnisvolle Unbekannte scheint mehr als sie selbst zu wissen. Von der Autorin des Bestsellers ›Der Himmel ist blau, die Erde ist weiß‹

Long-awaited by teachers and students, Read Real Japanese Fiction presents short works by six of todays most daring and provocative Japanese writers. The spellbinding world of Hiromi Kawakami; the hair-raising horror of Otsuichi; the haunting, poignant prose of Banana Yoshimoto; even the poetic word-play of Yoko Tawada whatever a readers taste, he or she is sure to find something of interest and value in this book, suitable for students at the intermediate level and above. As in real Japanese novels, the text on each page runs from top to bottom and from right to left. Each double-page spread features translations of all the difficult passages. In the back of the book, moreover, is a built-in Japanese-English learners dictionary and a notes section covering issues of nuance, usage, grammar and culture that come up in each story. Best of all, the books comes with a free audio CD containing narrations of the stories, performed by a professional voice actress.

'Vibrator' is the disturbing story of the road trip of two highly unlikely companions - a troubled young female journalist and a long-haul truck driver - who meet up in a 24-hour convenience store.

'Hardboiled' opens as the narrator, a woman in her 30s, treks high above her secluded mountain hotel. There she confronts the fears and the sense of loss that haunt her. In 'Hard Luck', we find another female narrator, this one keeping vigil by the side of her sister who lies in a coma.