Katie Kitamura is speeding across Japan on a train to Osaka to visit her parents. The landscape and the journey evoke everything from her distant childhood memories to the tumultuous years in the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. As she tries to reconcile the vibrancy of Japan's contemporary pop culture with the unrecounted trauma of its past, she also struggles to determine how she belongs in a country where, as a Japanese-American, she is at once an insider and an outsider. Spanning three generations of life in post-war Japan, and questioning collective memory and personal and national identity, Japanese for Travellers is a brave, thoughtful, and often very funny exploration of aspiration, belonging, decay and change.

Japanese for Travellers: A Journey

Katie Kitamura

Biographies & Memoirs

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Intimacies

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A Separation

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

SEUIL

The Longshot: A Novel (Library Edition)

United States

Blackstone Audiobooks

Four years after Rivera knocked Cal from dominance in the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Cal s coach, Riley, has set up a rematch. It will be good for Cal, and he s ready for it. He s been training harder than ever, trying to shake the lethargy that s plagued him ever since he lost. Knowing he s going to face Rivera again, he gets his focus and energy back. But Rivera has never lost a fight, and in the final days before the match, both Cal and Riley secretly begin have doubts, though neither wants to let the other down. In taut, rhythmic language, Katie Kitamura renders the urgency, discipline, and mutual affection of athlete and coach with depth and subtlety. As the excruciating tension builds around the big fight, the listener will be captivated through the final electrifying scene.

The Longshot

Simon Schuster Ltd

Simon&Schuster

A Separation (Chinese Edition)

Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing, LTD

Rozstanie

Wydawnictwo Literackie

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