HARUKI MURAKAMI; TRANSLATED BY PHILIP GABRIEL JAMES PHILIP GABRIEL (2 résultats)

Hardback. Etat : As new. No jacket. Limited first edition in English. Limited first edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 505, [1]. Cream cloth, lettered in black to spine; decorated endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, winner of the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for this effort. Originally published as Umibe no Kafuka in 2002, in a two-volume set by Shinchosha Publishing Co. Ltd, Tokyo. #631/1000 copies signed in Japanese by the author on a tipped-in bookplate. Author's tenth novel. Winner of the 2006 Franz Kafka Prize as well as a 2006 World Fantasy Award. Named as one of the Best Five Fiction Books of the Year in 2005 by the New York Times. Incorporating musical motifs, metaphysics, and the subconscious, an exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos in which a teenage boy's flight from his Oedipal curse crosses paths with an ageing simpleton bearing a wartime affliction. According to Murakami, the secret to understanding this complex novel lies in reading it several times: "Kafka on the Shore contains several riddles, but there aren't any solutions provided. Instead, several of these riddles combine, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes shape." "[A] real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender." -John Updike, The New Yorker. 1018. signed.

Hardback. Etat : As new. No jacket. Limited first edition in English. Limited first edition in English. 8vo., pp. x, 334, [8, blank]. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth over illustrated, cream paper-covered boards, lettered in silver to spine; brown endpapers. #695 / 1000 numbered copies, with the publisher's bookplate signed in English by the author, tipped-in to the half-title page. As issued, without dustjacket, in a matching black cloth slipcase stamped to front with willow motif in silver. Preceding the Japanese issue, Mekurayanagi to nemuru onna (2009), by three years, and the American edition by a month. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin. An eclectic collection of twenty-four short stories, written between 1980 and 2005, and selected by the author himself with some specifically revised for this compilation. Of them, "The Seventh Man" originally appeared in Granta; "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", "Birthday Girl" and "Chance Traveller" in Harper's; "Dabchick" in McSweeny's; "Aeroplane: Or, How He Talked to Himself as if Reciting Poetry" (originally published as "Airplane"), "The Folklore for My Generation: A Pre-history of Late-Stage Capitalism" (originally published as "The Folklore of Our Times" and translated by Alfred Birnbaum), "Hunting Knife", "The Ice Man" (in a translation by Richard Peterson), "The Kidney-Shaped Stone That Moves Every Day", "Man-eating Cats", "New York Mining Disaster", "A 'Poor Aunt' Story", "Tony Takitani", "A Shinagawa Monkey", "Where I'm Likely to Find It", and "The Year of Spaghetti" in The New Yorker; "Crabs" in Storie Magazine; and "The Mirror" in The Yale Review. "Firefly" originally appeared in the author's novel Norwegian Wood (2000). In his four-page introduction, Murakami states, "I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden." Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award - the world's richest short story prize - with the jury calling it a "truly wonderful collection" from a "master of prose fiction." "Tony Takitani" was made into a 2004 Japanese film directed by Jun Ichikawa, starring Issey Ogata and Rie Miyazawa, with the soundtrack composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. "An intimate pleasure." -Ruth Scurr, The Times. 837. signed.