1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00076506

Autore

LYDALL, Jean

Titolo

The Hamar of Southern Ethiopia. I: Work Journal / Jean Lydall, Ivo Strecker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hohenschaftlarn, : Klaus Renner Verlag, c1979

ISBN

38-7673-063-5

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 289 p. ; 21 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

STRECKER, Ivo

Disciplina

305.8928

Soggetti

HAMAR (popolo africano)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155625603321

Autore

Hiraide Takashi

Titolo

The guest cat / / Takashi Hiraide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Old Saybrook, : Tantor Media, 2016

ISBN

9781515996170

1515996174

Edizione

[Unabridged.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 audio files) : digital

Classificazione

FIC000000FIC019000

Disciplina

895.63/5

Soggetti

Fiction

Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Audiolibro

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Unabridged.

Sommario/riassunto

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 for the cat and enjoying talks about the animal and all its little ways. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife—the days have more light and color. The novel brims with new small joys and many moments of staggering poetic beauty, but then something happens . . . As Kenzaburo Oe has remarked, Takashi Hiraide's work "really shines." His poetry, which is remarkably cross-hatched with beauty, has been acclaimed here for "its seemingly endless string of shape-shifting objects and experiences,whose splintering effect is enacted via a unique combination of speed and minutiae."