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WINNER!! THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it . . .
After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.
Blending unforgettable characters with jazz, climate change and our attachment to material possessions, this is classic Ruth Ozeki - bold, humane and heartbreaking.
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'One of the most intriguing new novels of the summer.' Independent
For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions...
A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel from a new star of Japanese fiction, perfect for readers of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs
'Always expect the unexpected when you're not expecting.' Sloane Crosley
'Darkly funny and surprisingly tender.' Kirsty Logan
As the only woman in her office, Ms Shibata 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 Shibata doesn't have to serve coffee to anyone. Pregnant Ms Shibata isn't forced to work overtime. Pregnant Ms Shibata can rest, watch TV, take long baths, and even join an aerobics class for expectant mothers. But she 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.
Diary of a Void will keep you turning the pages to see just how far Ms Shibata will go.
Translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North
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From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read before.
An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objects made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eating them and then procreating. Published in English for the first time, this exclusive edition also includes the story that first brought Sayaka Murata international acclaim: 'A Clean Marriage', which tells the story of a happily asexual couple who must submit to some radical medical procedures if they are to conceive a longed-for child.
Mixing taboo-breaking body horror with feminist revenge fables, old ladies who love each other and young women finding empathy and transformation in unlikely places, Life Ceremony is a wild ride to the outer edges of one of the most original minds in contemporary fiction.
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This is a supremely hopeful book, one that feels important because it shows that happiness, while not always easy, is still a subject worthy of art. --Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book Review
Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life
First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery.
Among the women we meet in Dead-End Memories is one betrayed by her fiancé who finds a perfect refuge in an apartment above her uncle's bar while seeking the real meaning of happiness. In "House of Ghosts," the daughter of a yoshoku restaurant owner encounters the ghosts of a sweet elderly couple who haven't yet realized that they've been dead for years. In "Tomo-chan's Happiness," an office worker who is a victim of sexual assault finally catches sight of the hope of romance.
Yoshimoto's gentle, effortless prose reminds us that one true miracle can be as simple as having someone to share a meal with, and that happiness is always within us if only we take a moment to pause and reflect. Discover this collection of what Yoshimoto herself calls the "most precious work of my writing career."
Nora Fjelli siterer Life in the city of dirty water av Clayton Thomas-Muller (side 74)
09:07, 7. april 2022 Ingen har det som favoritt.
That was what stayed with me. Being right wasn’t enough. The rules turned the right thing into a crime. The rules legitimized the desecration of the forest and took away two years of my uncles life. I learned that justice isn’t something you can count on. If you don’t do anything to change the world, it is going to keep running along the same old tracks. If you want a different outcome, you need justice to roll along different tracks. I took inspiration from a half victory.
I also took inspiration from half a loss. The bravest, strongest man I knew wasn’t quite strong enough. Alec was a warrior. He saved half a forest. I wanted to save the whole thing.
Gode romaner med tema miljø og klima. Gi gjerne tips om lignende bøker!
Nora Fjelli siterer Bewilderment av Richard Powers (side 113)
22:15, 26. oktober 2021* Ingen har det som favoritt.
Is there intelligence? my son asked. Is anything aware?
I told him no. Nothing on Stasis needed to remember much or predict much further out than now. In such steadiness, there was no great call to adjust or improvise or second-guess or model much of anything.
He thought about that. Trouble is what creates intelligence?
I said yes. Crisis and change and upheaval.
His voice turned sad and wondrous. Then we’ll never find anyone smarter than us.
Nora Fjelli siterer Bewilderment av Richard Powers (side 162)
22:10, 26. oktober 2021 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths. But in our hearts’ daily practice, whatever schools we went to, we all lived as if tomorrow would be a clone of now.
Bøker om psykologien rundt miljø og klimaendringer. Noen veldig direkte miljø-psykologi, andre mindre direkte, men fortsatte relevante for hvordan vi tenker rundt klima.
Brukerperspektiv - ønsker liknende anbefalinger :)
Nora Fjelli siterer The Myth of Sisyphus av Albert Camus
10:49, 24. juni 2017 Ingen har det som favoritt.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
Nora Fjelli siterer The Stranger av Albert Camus (side 118)
16:28, 18. september 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out that it was the former that had condemned me. His response was that it hadn't washed away my sin for all that. I told him that I didn't know what a sin was. All they had told me was that I was guilty. I was guilty, I was paying for it, and nothing more could be asked of me.
Nora Fjelli siterer Englehierarkiet av Esben B-J Jaer (side 16)
20:38, 15. juni 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
En dag kan godt tenkes å komme
hvor du ser i ditt eget speil.
Og innen den dagen er omme
har du sett at noe er feil.
Så ser du på dine mennesker:
Marionetter, tenker du skremt.
Du løper tilbake til speilet,
men bildet av deg, det er glemt...
Nora Fjelli siterer The Corrections av Jonathan Franzen (side 184)
16:39, 17. mars 2016 Ingen har det som favoritt.
He'd had the sense, moments earlier, that Caroline was on the verge of accusing him of being "depressed", and he was afraid that if the idea that he was depressed gained currency, he would forfeit his right to his opinions. He would forfeit his moral certainties; every word he spoke would become a symptom of disease; he would never again win an argument.
It was therefore all the more important now to resist depression - to fight it with the truth.
Nora Fjelli siterer Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) av John Williams (side 195)
20:38, 27. mars 2015 Ingen har det som favoritt.
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.
Nora Fjelli siterer Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) av John Williams (side 194)
20:32, 27. mars 2015 Ingen har det som favoritt.
In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one love first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.
Nora Fjelli siterer The Waste Land and Other Poems av T.S. Eliot (side 5)
21:37, 3. juli 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
Do I dare
Disturbe the universe?
Nora Fjelli siterer A farewell to arms av Ernest Hemingway (side 165)
00:55, 16. juni 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by bill posters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Nora Fjelli siterer Tender is the Night av F. Scott Fitzgerald (side 90)
13:08, 28. mai 2013 2 har det som favoritt.
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do- they think other people's opinions of them swing through great ares of approval or disapproval.
Nora Fjelli siterer Fiesta av Ernest Hemingway (side 30)
11:02, 4. april 2013 Ingen har det som favoritt.
It’s awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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