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Diary of a Void
For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions... 'Incredibly thought-provoking... you'll love Yagi's writing' STYLIST Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell. The only thing is . . . Ms Shibata is not pregnant. Being a mother-to-be isn't easy. Ms Shibata has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with the help of towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app that tracks every stage of her 'pregnancy', the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve. Discover this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive new novel that's perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs. 'A subversive, surreal read that will strike a cord' RED 'One of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, for women's creative pulse and rich inner life' NEW YORKER Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North
Diary of a Void
A woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she’s pregnant in this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about the mother of all deceptions, for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace—a manufacturer of cardboard tubes—she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can’t clear away her coworkers’ dirty cups—because she’s pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Pregnant Ms....
Journal d'un vide
Un récit plein d'audace et de surprises sur la maternité et la place des femmes dans le monde du travail. Puisqu'elle est la seule femme de son équipe, c'est Mme Shibata, une jeune trentenaire diplômée, qui hérite des tâches quotidiennes les plus ingrates. Faire le café, ranger la salle de réunion, laver les tasses sales de tous ses homologues masculins... Mais un jour, dans un accès de rébellion non prémédité, elle refuse. L'odeur d'un mégot se consumant au fond d'une énième tasse de café lui donne la nausée. Du fait de sa grossesse, annonce-t-elle. Seule ombre au tableau : Mme Shibata n'est pas enceinte... Une mécanique folle se met alors en marche tandis qu'une nouvell...
Frau Shibatas geniale Idee
Frau Shibatas geniale Idee ist eine kluge, moderne und feministische Antwort auf tief verankerte patriarchalische Strukturen in der japanischen Gesellschaft – und zugleich ein fulminantes Lesevergnügen! Frau Shibata ist vierunddreißig und arbeitet als Angestellte in einer Firma in Tokyo, in der Männer das Sagen haben. Ständig wird sie herumgeschubst, schlecht behandelt und soll Kaffee kochen. Doch dann hat sie eine geniale Idee: Sie behauptet, schwanger zu sein – und plötzlich wird sie rücksichtsvoll behandelt. Doch wie weit lässt sich dieses Spiel treiben? Frau Shibata geht aufs Ganze, stopft sich die Kleidung aus und 'erlebt' die gesamte Schwangerschaft. Bis schließlich unausweichlich der Moment der Wahrheit naht – und die sieht anders aus, als gedacht .
Diario de un vacío
¿Mentimos para sentirnos menos solos? Shibata es la única mujer de su oficina. No se puede quejar: es un trabajo estable y aquí nadie la molesta ni le hace proposiciones fuera de tono. Pero está harta de no salir nunca a su hora y de que sus compañeros den por sentado que debe encargarse de servir el café, limpiar, ordenar... Hasta que, una mañana anuncia que no seguirá ocupándose de nada de esto. Está embarazada. O eso dice. Diario de un vacío sigue el día a día de Shibata desde que anuncia su falso embarazo y recupera, por fin, tiempo para sí misma. Liberada de los ritmos frenéticos de su trabajo, mira a su alrededor y encuentra una sociedad desconectada, poblada por individ...
De geniale ingeving van Shibata
Verlies je in dit surrealistische en humoristische spel met de werkelijkheid In De geniale ingeving van Shibata van Emi Yagi moet Shibata als enige vrouw op haar kantoor alle onderschikte klusjes klaren. Om aan deze verwachting te ontsnappen kondigt ze op een dag aan dat ze de vieze kopjes van haar mannelijke collegas niet meer kan opruimen en afwassen, omdat ze zwanger is en de geur haar misselijk maakt. Alleen, ze is helemaal niet zwanger... Shibata hoeft geen vervelende taakjes op te pakken, draait geen overuren meer, ligt uren in bad, kijkt tv en doet zelfs mee aan aerobicslessen voor aanstaande moeders. Geholpen door met handdoeken gevulde shirts en een dagboek-app waarin ze elke fase van haar zwangerschap bij kan houden, voelt ze zich voorbereid om haar list helemaal uit te spelen. Maar al snel wordt haar verzinsel allesoverheersend en begint te grens tussen haar leugen en haar leven op te lossen.
Mina's Matchbox
On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars. After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; its sprawling gardens are even home to a pygmy hippo the family keeps as a pet. Tomoko finds her relatives equally exotic and beguiling and her growing friendship with her cousin Mina draws her into an intoxicating world full of secret crushes and elaborate storytelling. Rich with the magic and ...
A Dictator Calls
**Longlisted for the International Booker Prize** 'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fellow Soviet poet Osip Mandelstam. In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare reconstructs the three minutes they spoke and the aftershocks of this tense, mysterious moment in modern history. Weaving together the accounts of witnesses, reporters and writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, Kadare tells a gripping story of power and political structures, of the relationship between writers and tyranny. The telling brings to light uncanny parallels with Kadare's experience writing under dictatorship, when he received an unexpected phone call of his own. Translated from the Albanian by John Hodgson 'Kadare is one of Europe's most consistently interesting and powerful contemporary novelists, a writer whose stark, memorable prose imprints itself on the reader's consciousness.' Los Angeles Times
Novelist as a Vocation
Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles. 'You end this collection...vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again' Guardian Readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the craft of writing. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks of creativity that inspire other writers, artists, and musicians. 'Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers' New York Times Book Review 'A fascinating glimpse of the peculiar writerly life' Sunday Times ** A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**
Briljantna domislica gospodične Šibata
Gospodična Šibata, ki ji je nekaj čez 30 let, je zaposlena v podjetju, kjer izdelujejo kartonsko embalažo. Razen nje na oddelku ni druge ženske. Zato jo, poleg njenega uradnega dela, doletijo tudi t.im. ženska opravila- kuhanje kave in strežba poslovnim partnerjem, pomivanje skodelic, čiščenje kuhinje, praznjenje košev in odnašanje smeti. Poleg tega so tudi nadure v podjetju nekaj povsem samoumevnega. Zaradi utrujenosti ji nekega dne postane slabo in sodelavcem se zlaže, da je noseča. Takoj odpadejo nadurno delo, kuhanje kave, strežba. Domov gre lahko ob normalnem času in njen dan postane povsem drugačen. Začudena je, kaj vse imajo popoldan še v supermarketu, da je zunaj ...
