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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022 From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a fourteen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying. In Heaven, a fourteen-year-old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experiences similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other with immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most, the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror? Unflinching yet tender, sharply observed, intimate and multi-layered, this simple yet profound novel stands as yet another dazzling testament to Mieko Kawakami's uncontainable talent. TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year 'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times 'An expertly told, deeply unsettling tale of adolescent violence' - Vogue Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.

This autobiographical novel, is the haunting story of a Japanese boy's development towards a homosexual identity during and after the Second World War. Charting his progress from an isolated childhood through adolescence to manhood, it details his inner life and preoccupation with death

A dreamlike story of filial love and glimmering hope, set in a future where the old live almost-forever and children's lives are all too brief.

Hajime vive una existencia relativamente feliz –se ha casado, es padre de dos niñas y dueño de un club de jazz– cuando se reencuentra con Shimamoto, su mejor amiga de la infancia y la adolescencia. Y la atracción renace Hajime parece dispuesto a dejarlo todo por ella... Una historia sobre amores perdidos y recobrados, sobre la consumación de una promesa de plenitud, que destila la indefinible sensación de desajuste con el mundo que acucia al hombre contemporáneo.

La presente obra, publicada en 1956, está fundada en un acontecimiento real: el incendio de un famoso templo budista por un joven novicio. El autor reconstruye a su manera los hechos e intenta hallarles una explicación psicológica: el protagonista de su novela, Mizoguchi, es un muchacho torpe, tartamudo a consecuencia de un traumatismo psicológico sufrido en su niñez, y afligido por un complejo de inferioridad que todas las circunstancias de su vida contribuyen a agravar. Admitido en el monasterio del Rokuonji (al que pertenece el Pabellón de Oro) gracias a la benevolencia del prior, acaba por concebir por el famoso monumento una admiración enfermiza, que lo lleva a identificarlo con el arquetipo de la belleza y a hacer imposible para él toda otra admiración y todo otro afecto. El descubrimiento de esta influencia paralizadora lo llevará a odiar a su ídolo y a destruirlo para recobrar finalmente la libertad.

'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything' A shy, unworldly young student has his eyes opened to Tokyo's bustling metropolis, in this delicate, bitter-sweet work of innocence and experience from Japan's foremost modern novelist. Ten new titles in the colourful, small-format, portable new Pocket Penguins series