Maybe This Time Karaoke
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Popular Hits of the Showa Era
A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society, Ruy Murakami's Popular Hits of the Showa Era is a literary karaoke act combining manga and street culture It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking, voyeurism and karaoke singing, in the other six tough independent older women. From ambush to revenge, both groups are gradually decimated until the ultimate showdown. In Murakami's inimitably brutal and brilliant style, Popular Hits dissects the gender and generational conflicts of contemporary society in a hilarious satire. Murakami is mercilessly funny as he tracks his characters' evolution from twits to scholars of guerrilla warfare'New Yorker 'One of the funniest and strangest gang wars in recent literature'Booklist Ryu Murakami's Popular Hits From the Showa Era is translated from the Japanese by Ralph McCarthy and published by Pushkin Press 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, a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. His novels include Coin Locker Babies, Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition, In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland, with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
Confessions of a Gay Christian
Spirit Deaconson has always lived between two worlds. He is gay and he is Christian. In a congregation where prayer chains spread faster than gossip and every church lady thinks she is a matchmaking prophet, Spirit has learned to survive with equal parts humor and grace. But when Evan, the new worship guitarist with a smile that should be illegal, steps into his life, Spirit's carefully balanced routine spirals into glorious chaos. Coffee shop interrogations, youth group disasters, and a runaway rumor about a fiancée he definitely does not have push him deeper into the kind of trouble only church folk can create. As the whispers grow louder and the accidental courtship gets harder to deny, Spirit is forced to confront what he truly wants and whether faith and love can finally coexist in the same pew. Can Spirit trust that his heart has a place in the life he has built, or will the truth he has been avoiding turn everything upside down? When the whole congregation has decided this is a love story, will Spirit Deaconson find the courage to make it real?
When Yes Means No! (or Yes Or Maybe!)
From the dos and don'ts of meeting a Chinese government official to the application of Sun Tzu's Art of War, this book is a road map for the Westerner navigating the often frustrating, elusive world of Chinese trade negotiations.