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Absolutely on Music : Conversations by Jay (TRN) Seiji; Rubin Haruki; Ozawa Murakami
Category: Performing Arts
After Dark by Haruki Murakami (tr from Japanese Jay Rubin)
Category: Fiction
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and co ...Show more
Great Japanese Stories - 10 Parallel Texts by Jay Rubin (Editor)
Category: Biography
This hand-picked selection from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates the best literature to emerge from Japan since the twentieth century.From a surreal fairy tale to a heart-rending evocation of the aftermath of the atomic bomb, this vibrant collection provides unique cultural insight ...Show more
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin
Category: Biography
As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinks at his Tokyo Jazz club, Peter Cat, then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun came up. He loves music of all kinds - jazz, classical, folk, rock - and has more than six thousand records at home. And when he writes, his words have a music ...Show more
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami (Foreword by, Introduction by); Jay Rubin (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
One of Penguin Classics' most popular translations--now also in our elegant black spine dress Ry nosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists--a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. "Rash mon"and "In a Bamboo Grove" ins ...Show more
The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin
Category: Film & Tv
The most comprehensively researched Bond book, packed with behind-the-scenes information based on interviews with the cast and filmmakers, fascinating facts, trivia, bloopers, classic quotes, character bios, cast and filmmaker bios, and hundreds of rare and unusual photographs of those in front of and b ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: PENGUIN CLASSICS
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Mura ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (H/B) by Jay Rubin (Editor); Haruki Murakami (Introduction by)
Category: Biography | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable examples being written today. Curated by Jay Rubin (who has ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin (Translator)
Category: Fiction
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more
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