In The Wild Geese , prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against the background of the dizzying social change accompanying the fall of the Meiji regim…
“Sayın Savcı Tsuchida, bir katil zanlısı olarak burada tutuluyorum. Fakat belki de aslında katil ben değilim. Evet. Belki. Böyle söylemek zorunda kaldığım için üzgünüm.”
Among the wounded on the day they dropped the bomb on Nagasaki was a young doctor who, though sick himself cared for the sick and dying. Written when he too lay dying of leukemia, The Bells of Nagasak…
Mutsuz olmak için milyonlarca sebep bulabilirsiniz: Ekonomi, ülkenin hali, küresel ısınma, gelecek kaygısı, iyi dönerin artık çok zor bulunması… Ama gülmek için çok sağlam bir sebep var. Hayattayız. V…
Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves") is a manual for the samurai classes consisting of a series of short anecdotes and reflections that give both insight and instruction-in the philosophy and code of …
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri…
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) left his mark as a playwright, novelist, and writer of short stories. Gogol's works remain popular wi…
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love today - without the key ingredient of chance - is in mort…
