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Das Geschenk eines Regentages
An einem verregneten Frühlingstag findet Miyu einen kleinen Kater am Straßenrand. Ohne zu zögern nimmt sie das ausgesetzte Tier bei sich auf und tauft es Chobi. Die introvertierte, junge Frau lebt allein, der Umgang mit anderen Menschen fällt ihr schwer. Doch plötzlich ist da diese Katze, die ihre Einsamkeit lindert. Auch für Chobi ist die Begegnung die Chance auf ein neues Leben. Schon bald streunt er durch die neue Nachbarschaft und das Leben seiner zwei- und vierbeinigen Bewohnerinnen. Während sich die Menschen mit den Herausforderungen des modernen Lebens konfrontiert sehen – mit sozialer Isolation, den Grenzen der Kommunikation und der Fragilität von Liebe und Freundschaft –, wissen ihre tierischen Weggefährten, dass sich das Glück nicht festhalten lässt. In zärtlicher Prosa erkunden Makoto Shinkai und Naruki Nagakawa in ihrem japanischen Bestseller »Das Geschenk eines Regentages« die tröstliche Verbindung zwischen Mensch und Tier und erzählen uns von vier Heldinnen, die mithilfe ihrer vierbeinigen Weggefährten Gemeinschaft und neuen Lebensmut finden.
She and Her Cat
A collection of four interrelated, stream-of-consciousness short stories follows women and their cat companions as they explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication.
Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop
Struggling with History compares anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the conflicted nature of cosmopolitanism. Essays contribute to current debates on the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim societies, and the examination of colonial and postcolonial contexts. Few books combine a comparable level of interdisciplinary scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise.
5 Centimeters Per Second + Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Experience in a new way the worlds of acclaimed animation director Makoto Shinkai's award-winning romantic drama 5 Centimeters per Second, along with the adventure of Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below, in this two-in-one novelization!
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
A book that “speak[s] volumes about our need for connection—human, feline or otherwise” (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice that shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy—the perfect gift for cat lovers and travellers! We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts... An instant international bestseller and indie bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers around the world. With simple yet descriptiv...
The Guest Cat
A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple’s life in Tokyo A bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. Soon they are buying treats...
The Garden of Words
Can a poem save your life? Words are powerful. Insults and rumors can derail a career; a bit of encouragement can give someone the strength to pursue their dreams. When a high school boy skipping class to sketch shoe designs and a taciturn woman drinking a morning beer meet in a Tokyo park, they say little, but the woman bids farewell with an ancient tanka poem. Will the boy figure out the poem’s meaning—and its corresponding response—before it’s too late?
Last Voyage of the Valentina
Set in London during the swinging sixties and Italy’s Amalfi coast after Word War II, The Last Voyage of the Valentina is an epic romance with a dark uncercurrent of suspense from an author the Daily Mail (UK) has declared “is the new Rosamunde Pilcher.” Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. But then she discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina—a woman she'd hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy. There she uncovers a mysterious tale of decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants, and counts. Alba's journey leads her not only to the truth of her mother’s hidden past but to the possibility of happiness in her own future.
