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“jeffrey angles”

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  • Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again

    by Shigeru Kayama ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Angles ...
    The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū GodzillaGodzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, produced by Tōhō Studios and directed by Ishirō Honda, creating a global sensation and launching one of the world’s most successful movie and media franchises. Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing, Godzilla serves as a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Luminous Fairies and Mothra

    by Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta, Shin'ichiro Nakamura ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Angles ...
    The original story that hatched Mothra, one of the most beloved monsters in the “kaijuverse”—available in English for the first timeMystical and benevolent, the colossal lepidopteran Mothra has been one of the most beloved kaiju since 1961, when The Luminous Fairies and Mothra was originally published in Japanese. Commissioned by Tōhō Studios from three of Japan’s most prominent postwar literary ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Thorn Puller

    by Hiromi Ito ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Angles ...
    Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu PrizeCaught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive.The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Angel at the Earth's Extreme

    Collected Poems

    by Nakahara Chuya, Jeffrey Angles ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Angles ...
    **The intensely confessional work of Japan’s most famous modernist poet, considered the Japanese Rimbaud, whose poems have inspired cultlike devotion—especially among fans of the hit anime show Bungo Stray Dogs—in a brilliant new translation, the most comprehensive in EnglishA Penguin Classic**Nakahara Chūya lived only to age thirty yet ranks among the finest of Japanese poets, evoking in his work ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Tokyo

    Memory, Imagination, and the City

    by Barbara E. Thornbury, Evelyn Schulz, Jeffrey Angles, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Mark Pendleton, Bruce Suttmeier, Angela Yiu, Eve Zimmerman ...
    Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination—novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United States, the book focuses on texts produced in Japan since the 1980s. The closing years of the ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • poetica 4. Festival für Weltliteratur Beyond Identities

    by Jeffrey Angles, Heinrich Deter, Yoko Tawada, Bei Dao, Günter Blamberger, Anneke Brassinga, Teju Cole ...
    Die Texte (größtenteils Erstveröffentlichungen) widmen sich poetischen Identitätsspielen. Welcher Zauber liegt im Spiel der Identitäten, im Wandel der Formen? Wie wirken Literatur, Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit aufeinander? Was können die Figuren des Dritten versprechen, die sich zwischen Kulturen, Ethnien, Geschlechtern und Sprachen bewegen? Yoko Tawada stellte das Thema, schrieb selbst einen ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Twelve Views from the Distance

    by Mutsuo Takahashi ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Angles ...
    From one of the foremost poets in contemporary Japan comes this entrancing memoir that traces a boy’s childhood and its intersection with the rise of the Japanese empire and World War II. Originally published in 1970, this translation is the first available in English.In twelve chapters that visit and revisit critical points in his boyhood, Twelve Views from the Distance presents a vanished time ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again

    by Shigeru Kayama ...
    Narrated by Kaipo Schwab ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 22 min

    Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, creating a global sensation and launching one of the world's most successful movie and media franchises. Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing, Godzilla serves as a terrifying metaphor for humanity's shortsighted destructiveness: this was the intent of Shigeru Kayama, the science fiction writer who drafted ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Angel at the Earth's Extreme

    Collected Poems

    by Nakahara Chuya, Jeffrey Angles ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    **The intensely confessional work of Japan’s most famous modernist poet, considered the Japanese Rimbaud, whose poems have inspired cultlike devotion—especially among fans of the hit anime show Bungo Stray Dogs—in a brilliant new translation, the most comprehensive in EnglishA Penguin Classic**Nakahara Chūya lived only to age thirty yet ranks among the finest of Japanese poets, evoking in his work ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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  • Married to Bhutan

    How One Woman Got Lost, Said 'I Do,' and Found Bliss

    by Linda Leaming ...
    Tucked away in the eastern end of the Himalayas lies Bhutan: a tiny, landlocked country bordering China, India, and Nepal. One of the most remote places in the world, Bhutan is rich in natural beauty, exotic landscapes, and ancient wisdom, where people are genuinely happy with very few material possessions and the government embraces "Gross National Happiness" instead of Gross National Product.As ... Read more

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  • The Tatami Galaxy

    A Novel

    by Tomihiko Morimi ...
    Translated by Emily Balistrieri ...
    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE*An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library–esque time loop novel from one of Japan’s most popular authors.Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After ... Read more

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  • The Emissary

    by Yoko Tawada ...
    Translated by Margaret Mitsutani ...
    Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated LiteratureLibrary Journal Best Books of 2018Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her “brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness”Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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