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One Love Chigusa

Author : Soji Shimada

Publisher : Red Circle

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 19,25 MB

Release : 2020-08-06

Category :

ISBN : 9781912864102

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A love story that explores the mechanics of the heart and humankind's inevitable evolution. One Love Chigusa by Soji Shimada, one of Japan's most famous authors, is a tale of obsessive love in a world where technology has crept into the very heart of humanity. The year is 2091 AD. A horrendous motorcycle accident leaves Xie Hoyu coming to terms with his new cybernetic body. Reconstructed from the latest biomechanical prosthetics, he is discharged from hospital and tries to return to his life as an illustrator after many weeks in recovery. While surgery saves his life, existence for Xie has lost all meaning. His saviour comes in the form of a girl with whom Xie falls hopelessly in love. But not all is as it seems. Translated by Sir David Warren, a retired diplomat and former British ambassador to Japan, One Love Chigusa offers a glimpse into a possible future and questions the purpose of humanity in a manner that only Japan's master of the postmodern whodunnit can do. Red Circle Minis: Original, Short and Compelling Reads One Love Chigusa is part of Red Circle Minis, a series of short captivating books by Japan's finest contemporary writers that brings the narratives and voices of Japan together as never before. Each book is a first edition written specifically for the series and is being published in English first.



Slum Wolf

Author : Tadao Tsuge

Publisher : New York Review of Books

Page : 337 pages

File Size : 42,2 MB

Release : 2018-08-28

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 168137174X

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A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants. Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his stories from the late Sixties and Seventies, never before available in English: a vision of Japan as a world of bleary bars and rundown flophouses, vicious street fights and strange late-night visions. In assured, elegantly gritty art, Tsuge depicts a legendary, aging brawler, a slowly unraveling businessman, a group of damaged veterans uniting to form a shantytown, and an array of punks, pimps, and drunks, all struggling for freedom, meaning, or just survival. With an extensive introduction by translator and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, this collection brings together some of Tsuge’s most powerful work—raucous, lyrical, and unforgettable.



The Plague Stones

Author : James Brogden

Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 21,85 MB

Release : 2019-06-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1785659960

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A family’s fresh start in a quaint British village turns into a waking, ghost-ridden nightmare in this chilling folk horror story about tradition, evil, and the Great Plague. Fleeing from a traumatic break-in, Londoners Paul and Tricia Feenan sell up to escape to the isolated Holiwell village where Tricia has inherited a property. Scattered throughout the settlement are centuries-old stones used during the Great Plague as boundary markers. No plague-sufferer was permitted to pass them and enter the village. The plague diminished, and the village survived unscathed . . . Since then, the village trustees have insisted on an annual ancient ceremony to renew the village boundaries. But then a misguided act by the Feenans’ son sends the village into a frenzy, reminding everyone that there’s a reason traditions have been stuck to so rigidly—and that all acts of betrayal, even those committed centuries ago, have dire consequences.



The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro

Author : Kanji Hanawa

Publisher : Red Circle Minis

Page : 72 pages

File Size : 29,72 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781912864065

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A Japanese tale - not about daring ninja or battling samurai - but a hero with a very different penchant. The reader is taken on a journey of self-discovery, as Lord Asunaro inherits his own Japanese fiefdom. An unusual and entertaining perspective on the psychology of change within Japan when it was still ruled by its men of steel and shoguns.



My Heart Sutra

Author : Frederik L. Schodt

Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 27,1 MB

Release : 2020-12-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1611729440

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The Heart Sutra is the most widely read, chanted, and copied text in East Asian Buddhism. Here Frederik L. Schodt explores his lifelong fascination with the sutra: its mesmerizing mantra, its ancient history, the “emptiness theory, and the way it is used around the world as a metaphysical tool to overcome chaos and confusion and reach a new understanding of reality--a perfection of wisdom. Schodt's journey takes him to caves in China, American beats declaiming poetry, speculations into the sutra's true origins, and even a robot Avalokiteśvara at a Kyoto temple.



Stand-In Companion

Author : Kazufumi Shiraishi

Publisher :

Page : 58 pages

File Size : 30,96 MB

Release : 2018-11-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781912864003

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Stand-In Companion explores the struggle to find love, companionship and meaning in life. In any society, relationship dynamics are complex. And as Hayato, a Japanese industrial designer will discover in this clever and absorbing tale, this is even the case in a future world enriched by technology, AI and androids.



My Annihilation

Author : Fuminori Nakamura

Publisher : Soho Press

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 26,52 MB

Release : 2022-01-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1641292733

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What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.



Monkey Man

Author : Takuji Ichikawa

Publisher : Red Circle Minis

Page : 92 pages

File Size : 32,12 MB

Release : 2021-09-22

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 9781912864126

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A world on the brink of disaster where children with new attitudes are awakening - some with strange new abilities. Monkey Man challenges readers to consider how the human race can be saved from itself.



Chigusa and the Art of Tea

Author : Louise Allison Cort

Publisher : University of Washington Press

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 29,14 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Art

ISBN :

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This innovative book narrates the history of a single object--a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries--and describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner there. In Japan, where the jar was in constant use for more than seven hundred years, it was transformed from a humble vessel into a celebrated object used in chanoyu (often translated in English as tea ceremony), renowned for its aesthetic and functional qualities, and awarded the name Chigusa. Few extant tea utensils possess the quantity and quality of the accessories associated with Chigusa, material that enables modern scholars and tea aficionados to trace the jar's evolving history of ownership and appreciation. Tea diaries indicate that the lavish accessories--the silk net bag, cover, and cords--that still accompany the jar were prepared in the early sixteenth century by its first recorded owner.



The Refugees' Daughter

Author : Takuji Ichikawa

Publisher : Red Circle Minis

Page : 80 pages

File Size : 23,45 MB

Release : 2019-11-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781912864089

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In a society rife with conflict and a world on the edge of extinction, who should we turn to for answers: society's strongest or weakest? This is the question Takuji Ichikawa, one of Japan's most imaginative and unusual authors, poses in The Refugees' Daughter, a magical modern parable for our troubled times. Through this terrifying and dreamlike dystopia, a young girl is amongst those fleeing their homes and seeking safety. From Ichikawa, a Japanese author whose books sell in the millions, comes a thought provoking piece which addresses themes of humanity, responsibility and the need to have a place to call home. Exploring power, patriarchy, strength and freedom, this vision of a frighteningly familiar world asks vital questions. Translated by Emily Balistrieri, The Refugees' Daughter is a powerful, poignant and utterly relevant tale that will resound in the minds of everyone who has ever searched for hope. Red Circle Minis: Original, Short and Compelling Reads The Refugees' Daughter is part of Red Circle Minis, a series of short captivating books by Japan's finest contemporary writers that brings the narratives and voices of Japan together as never before. Each book is a first edition written specifically for the series and is being published in English first.