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Zen: Cele mai frumoase scrieri adunate de Paul Reps și Nyogen Senzaki a devenit încă din 1957, anul în care a apărut prima dată, călăuza unei generații întregi.

Roman finalist al Man Asian Literary Prize 2012.

Cele zece iubiri ale lui Nishino capteaza deopotriva unde secrete ale obiectelor, ale naturii si, in stilul bine-cunoscut al lui Hiromi Kawakami, dincolo de simplitatea naratiunii, te face sa simti un parfum si un freamat care dureaza.

Un roman de o forta extraordinara, care ilustreaza, fara indoiala, mostenirea marilor prozatori moderni ai Japoniei.” (La Vanguardia)

Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any less curious or weatherworn than the items they sell. There's the store's owner, Mr Nakano, an enigmatic ladies' man with several ex-wives; Sakiko, his sensuous, unreadable lover; his sister, Masayo, an artist whose free-spirited creations mask hidden sorrows. And finally there's Hitomi's fellow employee, Takeo, whose abrupt and taciturn manner Hitomi finds, to her consternation, increasingly disarming. A beguiling story of love found amid odds and ends, The Nakano Thrift Shop is a heart-warming and utterly charming novel from one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary novelists.