Japonya hakkinda tüm bildiklerinizi unutun… Haruki Murakami’nin yarattigi, insanlarin tek bir kimono gÖrmeden, meslekleri için ter dÖktükleri, asiri içtikleri ve dagilmis evliliklerin girdabinda sürüklendikleri dünyaya girin.Bu degisik, unutulmaz Öykünün yirmili yaslardaki kahramani, çok ünlü bir detektifin küçük erkek kardesi ya da en azindan Japon kuzeni olabilir pekâlâ. Kadinlarla iliskileri ve kadin kulagina duydugu asiri ilgi yüzünden basinin derde girmesi yetmiyor, bir de sirtinda krem rengi bir yildizi olan esrarengiz koyunun pesine düsmek zorunda kaliyor. Tokyo’nun kent kargasasindan bir sag kanat politikacisinin genis malikânesine, oradan da uzak Hokkaido Adasi’nin buz gibi issizligina sürükleyen bu kitap, Japonya’nin Önde gelen romancisindan unutulmaz, büyüleyici, heyecan dolu ve gizemli bir Öykü. "Rüyalarin, sanrilarin ve inanilmaz bir hayal gücünün, eldeki somut ipuçlarindan çok daha Önce geldigi, postmodern bir detektif Öyküsü.” -Publisher Weekly- (Tanitim Bülteninden)
L'assassino del commendatore (libro secondo) (Italian Edition)
Haruki Murakami
Nella casa in mezzo al bosco che fu l'abitazione e l'atelier di Amada Tomohiko, il grande artista autore del misterioso quadro «L'assassinio del Commendatore», vive ormai da qualche mese il giovane pittore protagonista di questa storia. La dimora è sperduta, ma non del tutto isolata: nel primo volume, "Idee che affiorano", avevamo conosciuto Menshiki, un vicino ricchissimo e sfuggente mosso da motivazioni solo a lui note. O la piccola Akikawa Marie, studentessa del corso di disegno tenuto dal protagonista, che per una volta sembra abbassare le difese e stringere un legame profondo col suo professore. Per non parlare del Commendatore stesso... Con "Metafore che si trasformano" si conclude l'"Assassinio del Commendatore". Come un mago al culmine del suo potere incantatorio, Murakami Haruki dà vita a un intero universo (a più di uno, a dire il vero...) popolato di personaggi, storie e enigmi che hanno la potenza indimenticabile dei sogni più vividi. Ma non è solo il gusto per il racconto a muoverlo: una volta giunto al termine di questo viaggio visionario, il lettore si scopre trasformato come i personaggi di cui ha letto le avventure, esposto, quasi senza averne avuto consapevolezza, al cuore pulsante della grande letteratura. "L'assassinio del Commendatore", a quel punto, inizia a svelare i suoi mille volti: una riflessione, molto realistica (e attuale), sulle ferite della storia, sulla colpa e la responsabilità. Una terapia per sopravvivere ai traumi. Una guida pratica per orientarsi nel mondo delle metafore. Ma anche un racconto fantastico sui mostri che ci divorano dall'interno, sulle paure che ci sbranano nella notte dell'anima; e su come, quei mostri, possiamo vincerli: prendendoci cura di chi arriverà dopo di noi.
¿Qué nos ancla a este mundo? Un nuevo relato ilustrado de Haruki Murakami. Tony Takitani es un joven que ha crecido aislado, entre las burlas de los compañeros y muy solo, pues su padre, trompetista de jazz, se ausenta a menudo para tocar en giras. Buen profesional, se dedica a ilustrar portadas para revistas de automóviles o anuncios. Hasta que de pronto conoce a una chica, empleada a tiempo parcial de una editorial, a la que le gustan especialmente los vestidos. Maravillosamente ilustrado por Ignasi Font, este relato del célebre escritor japonés nos habla de la soledad y la falta de afecto en la sociedad actual.
Tornando a casa dopo la scuola, uno studente si ferma in una strana biblioteca. Certo, anche la sua richiesta è un po’ strana. Chiede alla bibliotecaria qualche libro che possa soddisfare la sua ultima curiosità (è un bambino curioso, il nostro protagonista): la riscossione delle tasse nell’Impero ottomano. La bibliotecaria lo manda alla stanza 107. Qui l’aspetta un altro bibliotecario, ancora piú bizzarro della prima: «Aveva la faccia coperta di piccole macchie nere, come tanti moscerini. Era calvo e portava occhiali dalle lenti spesse. La sua calvizie non era uniforme. Tutt’intorno al cranio gli restavano ciuffi di capelli bianchi ritorti, come in un bosco dopo un incendio». È davvero una ben strana biblioteca, questa! Il bibliotecario accompagna il bambino attraverso un labirinto di corridoi e stanze, finché non arrivano in una stanza dove riposa un piccolo uomo vestito con una pelle di pecora. E qui le cose si fanno brutte: il bibliotecario e l’uomo-pecora spingono il piccolo in una cella. Il bambino rischia di fare una fine terribile se non arrivasse in suo soccorso una ragazza sconosciuta… Una fiaba fantastica e immaginifica sul potere della lettura nel darci le chiavi per fuggire dalla prigione dell’infelicità.
The Best of Murakami Collection 3 Books Set by Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood & The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
Haruki Murakami
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:
The Best of Murakami Collection 3 Books Set by Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood & The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle):
Kafka on the Shore: Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II.
Norwegian Wood: When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: 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 jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell. 9780099458326/9780099448822/9780099448792
Sulk Volume 3: Kind Of Strength Comes From Madness
Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown explores the world of fantasy and science fiction, and turns it on its head. Or rather, just kind of tilts it slightly to the side. Two brothers deal with a giant monster rampaging through their city, and an 11-year-old genius and his robot best friend attempt to adjust to college life. There are also stories of pirates, time-travelling babies, martial arts masterminds, and an all-new short story from Elfworld.
This pocket-sized, graphic novel series howcases a variety of Jeffrey Brown's all-new experimental comics. In Sulk Volume 2: Deadly Awesome, Jeffrey Brown explores the world of mixed martial arts and the nature of violence in this tribute to no-holds-barred fighting. In an 80-page fight scene, aging veteran fighter Haruki Rabasaku faces off against young powerhouse Eldark Garprub. With furious striking and technical submission wrestling, this story will entertain readers unfamiliar with the world of cage fighting as well as long-time fans of ultimate fighting.
This pocket-sized, graphic novel series showcases a variety of Jeffrey Brown's all-new experimental comics. In Sulk Volume 1: Bighead & Friends, Bighead returns! And then he dies. And then he returns! It also features all-new villains like Beefy Hipster, and introduces Little Bighead — who must stop the villainous Sleeper before naptime.
Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer Vol. 2: The Great Puppet Theater
Van Jensen
Slaying The Vampires Who Killed His Father Was Only The Beginning... The Undead Hordes Are Back, And More Dangerous Than Ever. Fortunately, Pinocchio's Not Alone: In This Thrilling Sequel You'll Meet His Brothers And Sisters From The Famous Great Puppet Theater! Jensen And Higgins Present A Captivating Blend Of Comedy, Horror, Romance, And High-seas Adventure, Rooted In The Original Italian Novel But Brought - As If By Magic - To New Life.
This puppet may not be a real boy… but he just might be a real hero! When bloodthirsty monsters invade Pinocchio's hometown and kill his father, Geppetto, Pinocchio discovers a new benefit to his magical nose: telling lies produces a never-ending supply of wooden stakes to combat the vampire hordes! Will Pinocchio be able to defeat these horrors, avenge his father, and save his friends? Now, for the first time, the complete trilogy is collected together in a single deluxe softcover edition. Jensen (Green Lantern Corps) and Higgins (Knights of the Living Dead) present a captivating blend of comedy, horror, romance, and adventure, rooted in the original Italian novel, but brought — as if by magic — to new life.
By James Kochalka Pinky and Stinky are fat little piglets, but just because they're cuties doesn't mean they're not brave astronauts! They embark on a daring mission to be the first pigs on Pluto, but things go horribly wrong as soon as the journey begins. Crash landing on the moon, they find themselves playing a pivotal role in the American space program. This is an unabashedly fun book, like Star Wars mixed with Pokémon - if you can believe that!
From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill rampage through twentieth-century culture in this all-new adventure haunted by totalitarian shadows and mechanical nightmares.
Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life. Now it is 1941, and with her daughter strategically married into the family of aerial warlord Jean Robur, Janni's raiders have only limited contact with the military might of the clownish German-Tomanian dictator Adenoid Hynkel. But when the pirate queen learns that her loved ones are held hostage in the nightmarish Berlin, she has no choice save to intervene directly, travelling with her ageing lover Broad Arrow Jack into the belly of the beastly metropolis. Within that alienated city await monsters, criminals, and legends, including the remaining vestiges of Germany’s notorious ‘Twilight Heroes’, a dark Teutonic counterpart to Mina Murray’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And waiting at the far end of this gauntlet of alarming adversaries there is something much, much worse.
Continuing in the bold tradition of Heart of Ice, Moore and O'Neill deliver their sharpest thriller yet. Berlin is a grey city, but as cultures clash and lives are lost in the explosive collision of four unforgettable women, the shadows will grow blacker and the ground redder, in the alleyways where thrive The Roses of Berlin.
Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill steer their fifty-year-long Nemo trilogy to its pulse-pounding and heart-wrenching conclusion. In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce into a rich mosaic, it’s 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is eighty years old and beginning to display a tenuous grasp on reality. Pursuing shadows from her past — or her imagination — she embarks on what may be a final voyage down the vastness of the Amazon, a last attempt to put to rest the blood-drenched spectres of old. With allies and adversaries old and new, we accompany an aging predator on her obsessive trek into the cultural landscape of a strange new continent, from the ruined city of Yu-Atlanchi to the fabulous plateau of Maple White Land. As the dark threads in her narrative are drawn into an inescapable web, Captain Nemo leads her hearse-black Nautilus in a desperate raid on horrors believed dead for decades. Through the exotic spectacle of an imagined South America, Moore and O'Neil guide their readers through this epic final act, borne upon a River of Ghosts.
The bestselling League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series continues in this standalone graphic novel! It's 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her dying science-pirate father, only to accept her destiny, at last, as the new Nemo, captain of the legendary Nautilus. Now, tired of her unending spree of plunder and destruction, Janni launches a grand expedition to surpass her father's greatest failure: the exploration of Antarctica. Hot on her frozen trail are a trio of genius inventors, hired by an influential publishing tycoon to retrieve the plundered valuables of an African queen. It's a deadly race to the bottom of the world -- an uncharted land of wonder and horror where time is broken and the mountains bring madness. Jules Verne meets H.P. Lovecraft in the unforgettable final showdown, lost in the living, beating, and appallingly inhuman HEART OF ICE.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo Trilogy (Slipcase Edition)
Alan Moore
Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill explore new horizons in their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe with the bestselling Nemo trilogy! Pounding with the spirit of adventure, these spinoff graphic novels follow the terrifying pirate queen Janni Nemo in a trio of adventures that span the globe and the 20th century.
First, it's a race to the bottom of the world, where time is broken, the mountains bring madness, and unearthly Antarctic horrors await, in Heart of Ice. Then, in 1941, Nemo will do anything to save her family from a host of mechanical metropolitan monstrosities and the clownish—and all the more terrifying because of it—despot that leads them, in The Roses of Berlin. Finally, depraved tropical tyrants may prove the lesser threat when our aging hero faces the spirits of her past on a fateful trip down the Amazon in River of Ghosts.
Now, all three handsome hardcovers are joined in a magnificent slipcase gloriously illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.
You tasted his Box Office Poison then got Tricked, so brace yourself for ALEX ROBINSON'S LOWER REGIONS! The award winning creator follows up his acclaimed graphic novels with a bold new direction: a pretty barbarian lady with an axe chopping her way through a dungeon filled with monsters! And if that doesn't make you curious, how about this: this bloody, funny 56-page story contains only one word: THOOOOM!. A unique blend of mayhem, cheesecake and humor, ALEX ROBINSON'S LOWER REGIONS will leave you breathless.
Nick Archer isn't much of a detective, but he's managed to get himself one pretty sweet surveillance gig: once a week he sends a jealous millionaire the photos that prove his wife is faithful, leaving Nick plenty of free nights to spend making a liar of both himself and the client's wife. But when the client turns up dead, his cheating wife is the prime suspect and it's up to Nick to clear her — except Nick has an agenda of his own, and connections to this case that go deeper than anyone realizes.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 3: Century
Alan MOORE
From 1910 to 2009, Volume Three spans an entire century, but that may not be enough time for the League to defeat their newest threat. Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's pulp adventure literary mash-up returns.
The nineteenth century, expiring with a flourish of Moriarty and Martians, has left the Division of Military Intelligence commanded by Mina Murray in a state of disrepair. While she and her lover, Allan Quatermain, have achieved a measure of eternal youth and recruited new talents such as the trans-gendered immortal Orlando, the ghost-finder Thomas Carnacki, and the gentleman thief A.J. Raffles to replace their deceased or missing colleagues, former associate Captain Nemo has retired to his Pacific pirate island to decline in surly isolation. Now it is the early years of a new and unfamiliar century, and forces are emerging that appear to promise ruin for the Murray group, the nation, and, indeed, the world, even if it will take a hundred years for this apocalyptic threat to come to its disastrous fruition. From the occult parlours and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal, mystical, and psychedelic underworlds of 1969, to the financially and culturally desolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remnants of Miss Murray and her League must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary, but also the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era. And a lot of things can happen in a CENTURY!
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century #3 2009
Alan Moore
In Chapter Three, the narrative draws to its cataclysmic close in London 2008. The magical child whose ominous coming has been foretold for the past hundred years has now been born and has grown up to claim his dreadful heritage. His promised aeon of unending terror can commence, the world can now be ended starting with North London, and there is no League, extraordinary or otherwise, that now stands in his way. The bitter, intractable war of attrition in Q'umar crawls bloodily to its fifth year, away in Kashmir a Sikh terrorist with a now-nuclear-armed submarine wages a holy war against Islam that might push the whole world into atomic holocaust, and in a London mental institution there's a patient who insists that she has all the answers.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century #2 1969
Alan Moore
Chapter Two takes place in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1969, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London's East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and a developing taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London's hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist!
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 3: Century #1 1910
Alan Moore
The new volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is a 240-page epic spanning almost a hundred years. Divided into three 80-page chapters — each a self-contained narrative to avoid frustrating cliff-hanger delays between episodes — this monumental tale takes place in three distinct eras, building to an apocalyptic conclusion occurring in our own, current, twenty-first century. Chapter one is set against the backdrop of London, 1910, twelve years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man upon the moon. In the bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade. Working for Mycroft Holmes' British Intelligence alongside a rejuvenated Allan Quartermain, the reformed thief Anthony Raffles and the eternal warrior Orlando, Miss Murray is drawn into a brutal opera acted out upon the waterfront by players that include the furiously angry Pirate Jenny and the charismatic butcher known as Mac the Knife.
The Jekyll Island Chronicles (Book Two): A Devil's Reach
Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, Jack Lowe
The thrills continue in this critically acclaimed diesel-punk graphic novel series set in a sci-fi version of the early 20th century!
At the beginning of the twentieth century, one sixth of the world's wealth vacationed in and around the tiny Georgia island of Jekyll. Captains of industry like Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan, and Carnegie all called the Jekyll area home. Blending elements of historical fact, clockwork technology, and diesel-punk style, The Jekyll Island Chronicles span an age of furious mechanical advancement while exploring the span of man's soul - whether good or evil.
In Book Two of this alt-history adventure, Peter, Helen, and the rest of Carnegie's "Specials" would like nothing more than to return to normalcy along with the rest of the country--especially after defeating their enemies in Book One. But the anarchists have other plans. Luigi Galleani and the Zeno cabal reach out from Europe, across the Atlantic, to wreak havoc, divide the enemy, build an army, and capture plans for the world's deadliest weapon. If they are to be stopped, the tiny group of heroes from Jekyll will need to find new resolve, new resources, and new allies--and do it all before Nikola Tesla's most terrible creation is unleashed.
The Jekyll Island Chronicles (Book One): A Machine Age War
Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, Jack Lowe
At the beginning of the 1900s, 1/6th of the world’s wealth vacationed in and around the tiny Georgia island of Jekyll. Captains of Industry like Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan, and Carnegie all called the Jekyll area home. Using this place of grandeur and elegance as a backdrop, an alternate history is explored between the World Wars. A time of great social, political, and technological upheaval. A time of ingenuity and anarchy. A time for some of the most brilliant, and horrible, minds of the 20th century to confront each other. And a time of great new heroes and fantastic new machines.
The Jekyll Island Chronicles: A Machine Age War is the first in a new series of graphic novels. Part historical fact, part clockwork, and part diesel punk, they span an age of furious advancement in machine technology while exploring the span of man’s soul – whether evil or good.
Infinite Kung Fu walks you through familiar corridors in the house of martial mayhem, but still smashes your face through walls of wonder and into rooms where kung fu is afraid to go! The Martial World is ruled by a mysterious emperor whose five armies are each headed by a cruel and highly skilled kung fu master. Lei Kung, a soldier in one of these armies, grows tired of his master’s evil ways and seeks enlightenment elsewhere. However, he soon finds that he’s been chosen as the one who will put an end to the emperor’s tyrannical rule — personally! Allegiances are blurred as techniques are perfected, and Lei Kung becomes less certain who’s friend and who’s foe in each chapter! Fists fly, limbs are lost, and blood vessels burst in this tale of furious rivals, supernatural masters, walking corpses, and above all, raging kung fu!
