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Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Awards 1997 By either folly or design, Gabrielle Bauer finds herself on a plane bound for Tokyo, leaving her career, home, and husband behind.

Pole lihtne armastada linna, mis sind esialgu eirab ja hiljem ahvardab sulle kaela kukkuda. Aga kas selleks, et uhest linnast kirjutada, pean ma teda tingimata armastama? Motlesin selle ule pikalt ja joudsin jareldusele: ei pea.Hetkest, kui loobusin kohustusest Tokyot armastada, hakkasin ma selle linna kaekaigu vastu huvi tundma. Tagasihoidlik huvi kasvas aja jooksul sumpaatiaks ja edasi juba leebeks kiindumuseks. Pidasin end ikka suureks unistajaks, aga ka oma koige lennukamates fantaasiates ei kujutlenud ma, et ulja naljana ette voetud projekt „Jaapani poiss aastaks“ lopeb abiellumisega samurai suguvosasse.Nahtamatu on see piir unistuste ja toeluse vahel. Millal saab fantaasiast tegelikkus, voorast inimesest oma, kaugest kultuurist kodu? Millisel hetkel saab lapsest taiskasvanu? Raske on margata, millal ma nendest piiridest ule astusin voi kas ikka astusin.Maarja Yano

Kui ma jarjekordselt seljakotti pakin, kusib ode: „Kuidas sa ei ole siiani aru saanud, kui raske ja kurnav see on? Miks sa jalle lahed?“Kilimanjarol algab teekond, rannak endasse. Me laheme jarjest korgemale liikudes lukku, kuid hetked, mil end avame, on ausamast ausamad. Motted tulevad ja lahevad, kuni pea on tuhi ja voimust votab eriline enesega olemise tunne. Energialaeng on imeline.Aafrika katusel kaib igal aastal kuni 80 000 inimest. Ega seda mage ilmaasjata igauhe Everestiks kutsuta! Koigil matkajatel on oma lugu, kuid eesmark on uks – 5895 meetri korgune Uhuru Peak, tolkes Vabaduse tipp.Tous Kilimanjaro kliimavoondites meenutab mulle Eesti aastaaegade vaheldumist. Peale selle saab enne voi parast matka nautida Tansaania eluolu – kulastada polisrahvaid, seigelda savannisugavustes voi jalgida vurtsidehongulisi paikeseloojanguid Sansibari randadel. Ma olen ennast sinna vahel liiga kauaks unustanud…

Вернувшись из Японии, Рустам рассказал о полноприводном электрическом кроссовере – Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, самом роскошном автомобиле токийского автосалона – Toyota Century 2018 и о концепте автомобиля Toyota TJ Cruiser с гибридной силовой установкой…

A major international debut novel from a storyteller who couples a timelessly beguiling style to an energetically modern worldscape.Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell each other stories.Robert De Niro’s child, conceived in a Laundromat, masters the transubstantiation of matter and turns it against his enemies; a Ukrainian merchant is led by a wingless bird back to a lost lover; a man who edits other people’s memories has to confront his own past; a Chinese youth with amazing luck cuts men’s hair and cleans their ears; an entrepreneur risks losing everything in his obsession with a doll; a mute Turkish girl is left all alone in the house of German cartographer.Told by people on a journey, these are stories about lives in transit. Stories from the great cities – New York, Istanbul, Delhi, Lagos, Paris, Buenos Aires – that grow in to a novel about the hopes and dreams and disappointments that connect people everywhere.Dasgupta’s writing is utterly distinctive and fresh, so striking that it seems to come from the future and the past all at once, but in marrying a timeless mystery to an alert modernity, his cautionary tales manage to be reminiscent of both Ballard and Borges, depicting ordinary extraordinary individuals (some lost, some confused, some happy) in a world that remains ineffable, inexplicable, wonderful.