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Book Displacement

Download or read book Displacement written by Kiku Hughes and published by First Second. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Displacement, a historical graphic novel from Kiku Hughes. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself "stuck" back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their civil liberties and suffered greatly, but managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in order to survive. Kiku Hughes weaves a riveting, bittersweet tale that highlights the intergenerational impact and power of memory.

Book Kiku s Prayer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shūsaku Endō
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2012-12-18
  • ISBN : 0231530838
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book Kiku s Prayer written by Shūsaku Endō and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to reconcile her feelings for Seikichi's religion with the sacrifices she makes to free him mirror the painful, conflicting choices Japan faced as a result of exposure to modernity and the West. Seikichi's persecution exemplifies Japan's insecurities, and Kiku's tortured yet determined spirit represents the nation's resilient soul. Set in the turbulent years of the transition from the shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Kiku's Prayer embodies themes central to Endo Shusaku's work, including religion, modernization, and the endurance of the human spirit. Yet this novel is much more than a historical allegory. It acutely renders one woman's troubled encounter with passion and spirituality at a transitional time in her life and in the history of her people. A renowned twentieth-century Japanese author, Endo wrote from the perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared with that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century's finest writers.

Book Kiku s Prayer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shusaku Endo
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2012-12-25
  • ISBN : 0231162820
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Kiku s Prayer written by Shusaku Endo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This translation is dedicated to the memory of Hondo Shun (1936-1997) a kind and gentle man who was nothing like his namesake in this novel."

Book Princess Kiku

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. F. Hutchinson
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book Princess Kiku written by M. F. Hutchinson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Princess Kiku" (A Japanese Romance. A Play for Girls) by M. F. Hutchinson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Kiku and the Rainbow Girl

Download or read book Kiku and the Rainbow Girl written by Tonia Culici and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kiku Gecko, is a real life lizard, that Shamira The Rainbow Girl meets while out walking in nature. They both connected to another realm; filled with love, light, fun and adventure. Their mission is to build a better understanding where two worlds become one; the animal world and the human world. Its about having the right to live here on earth. Its about finding that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is truly the rainbow within us. By seeing the best in ourselves, others and every situation and trusting the universe that something good will come of it. This is not the end, but just the beginning of a whole new world everyone has been waiting for, where we all live as One. Its about everyone living together in balance, peace and harmony, where everyone counts, everyone is important; and everyone is magnificent!

Book Picture Perfect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kiku Adatto
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2008-04-21
  • ISBN : 1400824559
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Picture Perfect written by Kiku Adatto and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We say the camera doesn't lie, but we also know that pictures distort and deceive. In Picture Perfect, Kiku Adatto brilliantly examines the use and abuse of images today. Ranging from family albums to Facebook, political campaigns to popular movies, images of war to pictures of protest. Adatto reveals how the line between the person and the pose, the real and the fake, news and entertainment is increasingly blurred. New technologies make it easier than ever to capture, manipulate, and spread images. But even in the age of the Internet, we still seek authentic pictures and believe in the camera's promise to document, witness, and interpret our lives.

Book Minimalism

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  • Author : Kiku Katana
  • Publisher : Minimalist Organizing and Decl
  • Release : 2018-10-23
  • ISBN : 9781729178300
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Minimalism written by Kiku Katana and published by Minimalist Organizing and Decl. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★ Kindle Version is FREE with Purchase of Paperback ★★★ Are you feeling overwhelmed? Tired of constantly chasing happiness? Does your life feel cluttered out of control? ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, it's about time to reclaim that life that you should be living now! We work to the point of extreme exhaustion. Everyone is just too rushed, hurried, and stressed. We alleviate our stress by shopping for more stuff, binge eating, and engaging in time-wasting activities. We fill our lives with needless activities, relationships, and clutter. This makes us lose sense of who we really are and what's important to us. This is the reason why the Japanese people have developed a lifestyle that strips away the inessential things in their lives. It's called minimalism. In this book, you'll find proven strategies on how to practice minimalism. Here are just some of the benefits... You will CLEAR YOUR MIND, and get rid of physical clutter, increase your happiness, and improve your life Your personal space will be TRANSFORMED and organized into a clean and neat place You will SAVE MONEY and also make money from the minimalist lifestyle Much, much more! Scroll up and buy the book now! Take action and experience the power of minimalism!

Book The Craft Cocktail Party

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie Reiner
  • Publisher : Grand Central Life & Style
  • Release : 2015-05-05
  • ISBN : 1455581607
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book The Craft Cocktail Party written by Julie Reiner and published by Grand Central Life & Style. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Craft Cocktail book for the rest of us by the top female mixologist in the country. Julie Reiner, the co-owner of The Clover Club in Brooklyn and The Flatiron Lounge in Manhattan, has written a book that provides inspiration for the rest of us, not only the cocktail geeks. She wants to balance the needs of the everyday drinker with those of the passionate mixologist. Recipes are organized around seasonality and occasion, with different events and themes appropriate to the specific time of the year. Each section will include a mixture of holiday-inspired drinks, classic cocktails, and innovative new drinks, all along with fun cocktail lore. Tricks, tips, and techniques -- such as batching and infusions, tools of the trade, notes on spirit types, and easy substitutions to utilize what you already have on hand -- will round out the amazing amount of information in Reiner's book.

Book City of Shattered Light

Download or read book City of Shattered Light written by Claire Winn and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this YA sci-fi, an heiress flees her controlling father to prevent her test-subject sister’s mind from being reprogrammed—but must ally with a smuggler to outwit a monstrous AI, gravity-shifting gladiatorial pits, and bloodthirsty criminal matriarchs to save her sister and their city.

Book Constructing Gender genre in Two Works by Amino Kiku

Download or read book Constructing Gender genre in Two Works by Amino Kiku written by Kimberly Tae Kono and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Unabridged Japanese English Dictionary  with Copious Illustrations

Download or read book An Unabridged Japanese English Dictionary with Copious Illustrations written by Frank Brinkley and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coin Locker Babies

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  • Author : Ryu Murakami
  • Publisher : Pushkin Press
  • Release : 2023-08-03
  • ISBN : 1782270345
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book Coin Locker Babies written by Ryu Murakami and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' Japan Times 'Encapsulates the fin de siècle cultural detonation of Japanese youth' Kirkus Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. Raised amidst the outcasts and misfits of Toxitown, they carve out vastly different paths: one as a bisexual rock star on a desperate search for his mother, the other as an athlete consumed by revenge against the woman who left him behind. When their twisted journeys start to intertwine, this savage and stunning story plunges headlong into a surrealistic whirl of violence. Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe. Translated by Stephen Snyder Born in 1952 in Nagasaki prefecture, Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature. Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. Murakami is also a screenwriter and director; among his films are Tokyo Decadence, Auditionand Because of You. His novels Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era and From the Fatherland, with Love are also available from Pushkin Press.

Book The Index

Download or read book The Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Block Seventeen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kimiko Guthrie
  • Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
  • Release : 2020-06-23
  • ISBN : 1982678399
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Block Seventeen written by Kimiko Guthrie and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akiko “Jane” Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her midthirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fiancé, Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro, obsessed with government surveillance, risks their security in a plot to expose the misdeeds of his employer, the TSA. Jane’s mother has seemingly disappeared, her existence only apparent online. Jane wants to ignore these worrisome disturbances until a cry from the past robs her of all peace, forcing her to uncover a long-buried family trauma. As Jane searches for her mother, she confronts her family’s fraught history in America. She learns how the incarceration of Japanese Americans fractured her family, and how persecution and fear can drive a person to commit desperate acts. In melodic and suspenseful prose, Guthrie leads the reader to and from the past, through an unreliable present, and, inescapably, toward a shocking revelation. Block Seventeen, at times playful and light, at others disturbing and disorienting, explores how fear of the “other” continues to shape our minds and distort our world.

Book Transforming Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow
  • Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 2011-03-15
  • ISBN : 1558617000
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book Transforming Japan written by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of essays by Japan’s leading female scholars and activists exploring their country’s recent progressive cultural shift. When the feminist movement finally arrived in Japan in the 1990s, no one could have foreseen the wide-ranging changes it would bring to the country. Nearly every aspect of contemporary life has been impacted, from marital status to workplace equality, education, politics, and sexuality. Now more than ever, the Japanese myth of a homogenous population living within traditional gender roles is being challenged. The LGBTQ population is coming out of the closet, ever-present minorities are mobilizing for change, single mothers are a growing population, and women are becoming political leaders. In Transforming Japan, Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow has gathered the most comprehensive collection of essays written by Japanese educators and researchers on the ways in which present-day Japan confronts issues of gender, sexuality, race, discrimination, power, and human rights.

Book Normal Instructor and Primary Plans

Download or read book Normal Instructor and Primary Plans written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Normal Instructor and Teachers World

Download or read book Normal Instructor and Teachers World written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: