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Genzaburō Yoshino - How Do You Live?

Auf das Hörbuch und auf die Verfilmung von Hayo Miyazaki.

The first English translation of the classic Japanese novel that has sold over 2 million copies -- a childhood favorite of anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.

First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino’s How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young readers. Academy Award–winning animator Hayao Miyazaki has called it his favorite childhood book and announced plans to emerge from retirement to make it the basis of his final film.

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ASIN/ISBN: 166504764X

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Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond that has the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which our lives are changed by the most unlikely of people. When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, his fellow workers become the family he didn’t expect to find. United by desperation and circumstance, and existing on the fringes of society, together they bear witness to each other’s survival.

This is an unforgettable story of unexpected friendship and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.

ASIN/ISBN: B0DGQTF3HL

Der queere Hai, Sohn einer vietnamesischen Mutter, lebt in East Gladness, einer heruntergekommenen Industriestadt in New England. Überall hängen die Schilder der Obama-Kampagne "Yes, we can", doch Hai schluckt Pillen und denkt an Selbstmord. Bis er Grazina aus Litauen kennenlernt, eine Überlebende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, in deren Kopf noch die Stimmen der Opfer schwirren. Beide verbindet eine innere Verwundung. Unter falschem Namen fängt Hai an, in einem Diner zu arbeiten, erlebt dort eine Gemeinschaft von "schönen kleinen Losern", wie er es ist. Ocean Vuong erzählt von zeitloser Freundschaft, jenseits aller Grenzen von Identität und Familie.

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