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(0)Yōko Ogawa
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180 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem -- ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is...
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects -- ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than...
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280 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens...
4) Botoncito
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Español
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El mejor amigo de Botoncito era, sin duda, Ojalito. Eran inseparables. Pero un día, el hilo que mantenía a Botoncito sujeto a la blusa de Ana, de repente, se rompió... Es así como Botoncito va a parar a los rincones más inhóspitos de la habitación de Ana, donde conocerá a Sonajero, a Babero y a Osito, que yacen olvidados bajo los muebles del cuarto porque Ana ya no los necesita... Entonces Botoncito les explicará que Ana ya puede dejar de...
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Portuguese
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Um velho docente de matemática, uma empregada doméstica e o pequeno filho de dez anos desta formam a trinca protagonista de A fórmula preferida do Professor, romance que fez decolar a carreira internacional da japonesa Yoko Ogawa, de quem a Estação Liberdade também publicou O Museu do Silêncio [2016]. Best-seller instantâneo no Japão quando de seu lançamento em 2003, A fórmula preferida do Professor acumula mais de quatro milhões de exemplares...
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Portuguese
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A polícia da memória, publicado originalmente em 1994, chega ao Brasil pela Estação Liberdade. O livro, finalista do International Booke Prize 2020, e do National Book Awards 2019, foi traduzido em diversos idiomas e, mais uma vez, marca o talento da escritora contemporânea Yoko Ogawa.
Em narrativa melancólica, o leitor é conduzido ao submundo das memórias perdidas. Em tom de ficção cientifica, uma ilha governada por policiais que buscam...
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English
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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor-who...