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  • The Government Inspector for Two Actors
    Roger Pulvers
    Author, playwright, translator, theater and film director Roger Pulvers has translated and adapted one of world theater’s greatest comic classics, Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector. This version for two actors, here in print for the first time, has been produced in Japan and Australia to great acclaim. Roger Pulvers writes in his Foreword ... 'The Government Inspector fo...
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    17,32 €

  • The Boy of the Winds
    Miyazawa Kenji / Roger Pulvers
    MIYAZAWA KENJI remains not only Japan’s most popular and beloved writer of stories for children and adults but a prescient voice for this century on how we can survive and prevail over the most challenging conditions that we face on this planet. Roger Pulvers writes in his Introduction ...'Kenji’s message is: It is easy to exclude others who are ’different’ from your circle, bu...
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    21,15 €

  • Poems 2020
    Roger Pulvers
    THE YEAR 2020 was the year the world turned inward. We may have stayed at home, but this was a time to look deeply inside ourselves to find connections that we carry in us with all people all around the world.ACCLAIMED AUTHOR and translator Roger Pulvers recorded a hundred readings for his YouTube channel 'Roger Pulvers Reads.' This became a popular site for people from many co...
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    21,42 €

  • The Charter
    Roger Pulvers
    Roger Pulvers has been writing fiction set in Japan for over fifty years. Now, for the first time, a collection of his very best short stories has been brought together in a single volume. Some of these stories, like the one that gives the collection its title, The Charter tells the story of a man who has chartered a boat on Tokyo’s Sumida River. He is celebrating his eightieth...
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    20,24 €

  • Wholly Esenin
    Sergei Esenin / Roger Pulvers
    'If you want to know how Russians feel about their country, read the poetry of Sergei Esenin. 'The ’old plank bridge’ spans not only eras but centuries; not only one Russia with another, but Russia with the rest of the world.'So writes acclaimed author and translator Roger Pulvers about this collection of translations of the best and most moving poems by Sergei Esenin, still, n...
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    21,46 €

  • Night on the Milky Way Train
    Miyazawa Kenji / Roger Pulvers
    ROGER PULVERS’S ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION of Night on the Milky Way Train, previously available only in a bilingual edition in Japan, is here now for readers of all ages around the world to enjoy.Night on the Milky Way Train occupies the place in the literature of Japan that Alice in Wonderland does in the English-speaking world. This amazing story of two boys – Kenji named them Gi...
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    23,47 €

  • My Japan
    Roger Pulvers
    Originally published in Japanese under the title If There Were No Japan: A Cultural Memoir, this book was acclaimed for its insights into Japanese life, bringing together aspects of history, culture and everyday life to paint an original and revealing portrait of the Japanese people and the pressing issues facing them today. During his decades of passionate engagement with Japa...
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    22,59 €

  • The Honey and the Fires
    Roger Pulvers
    Published originally in Australia by ABC Books and HarperCollins, and in Japanese translation by the major publishing house Shueisha, THE HONEY AND THE FIRES is a retelling of some of the most powerful stories from the Bible for our day and age. This new paperback edition contains a story that did not appear in the original publication: “The Story of Adam and Eve – Narrated by ...
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    20,23 €

  • Peaceful Circumstances
    Roger Pulvers
    Eric is a black American soldier stationed in Japan at the height of the Vietnam War. Karen is a white American student who falls in love with him.Eric is about to be sent to the front line in Vietnam. But he refuses to kill … and the two go into hiding in Tokyo, pursued by both the Japanese police and the American military police.Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Japanese studen...
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    17,50 €

  • Half of Each Other
    Roger Pulvers
    Half of Each Other takes place in Tokyo.  It tells the story of Nick and Setsuko York, a once very fond married couple devoted to their adorable five-year-old daughter, Emi.Half of Each Other is the story of a woman and a man challenged by the shock of an overwhelming grief.  Both are overcome by an immense sorrow … both are tempted by the passions of an extra-marital affair.We...
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    17,70 €

  • The Unmaking of an American
    Roger Pulvers
    “Roger has fearlessly thrown himself into the whirlpool of cross-culturalism.  His life reads like an adventure story.”—Ryuichi SakamotoThe Unmaking of an American is an engaging and entertaining cross-cultural memoir spanning decades of dramatic history on four continents. Author, playwright, translator, journalist, theater and film director Roger Pulvers explores the nature o...
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    22,47 €

  • The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn
    Roger Pulvers
    This fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: "What was the nature of this man, born wanderer, informant of the fiendish details of Japanese lore... a man who chose to live his life 'in defiance of the season'?" Though now largely forgotten in the West, he is, in the 21st century, still considered by the Japanese to be t...
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    22,65 €

  • Tokyo Performance
    Roger Pulvers
    Tokyo Performance is set in the pre-internet age, brilliantly captures the zeitgeist of Japan at the time. In this riveting, entertaining and wholly poignant tale, a Japanese celebrity receives a phone call while live on air that will change his life forever.Nori, a high profile Tokyo-based celebrity chef with his own weekly television show, is famous and beloved and he knows i...
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    10,03 €

  • LIV
    Roger Pulvers
    Liv Grimstad is riding on a suburban train in Sydney, Australia in 1975 when she takes notice of the old man sitting opposite her. Though his features are different, she recognizes that man by the piercing look in his cornflower-blue eyes.She is convinced it is Donald Meissner, the man who has haunted her memory since they both worked at the German Embassy in Tokyo during the w...
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    16,42 €

  • Red Demon
    Hideki Noda / Roger Pulvers Translator
    In a land far away a stranger is washed up near an isolated fishing village. Unable to understand his language or why he looks so different, the villagers decide he is a demon and must be destroyed. Only one woman, also an outcast, befriends him. Shot through with wit, ingenuity and sly humour, it reveals the conflict between compassion and suspicion in a closed community. ...
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    18,57 €