I Called him Necktie [Audiobook] download free by Milena Michiko Flasar
- Listen audiobook: I Called him Necktie
- Author: Milena Michiko Flasar
- Release date: 2014/9/5
- Publisher: NEW VESSEL PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781939931146
- Rating: 7.69 of 10
- Votes: 430
- Review by: Raquel Bergeron
- Review rating: 7.99 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/22
- Duration: 1H35M37S in 256 kbps (26.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, Musepack, MPEG4, WMA, Shorten, FLAC, WAV (compression TAR.BZ, LZ, ARJ, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 133
- Includes a PDF summary of 10 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 7M20S (2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'The best of the best from this year's bountiful harvest of uncommonly strong offerings ... Deeply original.' -O, The Oprah Magazine'Milena Michiko Flasar's beautiful novel ... is a story about freedom and responsibility, and it results in an almost Sartrean meditation.'-Times Literary Supplement'Exceptional ... In today's less-than-brave new world in which sincere human interaction is disappearing even as the numbers of so-called 'friends' are multiplying, Necktie is a piercing reminder to acknowledge, nurture, and share our humanity.'-Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog BookDragon'The quiet reflection of this jewel of a novel is revelatory, redemptive and hypnotic until the last word.'-Kirkus Reviews'A spare, stunning, elegiac gem of a book. Milena Michiko Flasar writes with a poet's clarity of language and vision, probing deeply below the surfaces of familiar Japanese stereotypes ... to tell a compassionate and insightful story of dysfunction, despair and friendship.'-Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time Being'Flasar's exquisite, finely wrought novel is both a prose poem and a parable about how we deflect, defer and disconnect from life, and what is needed before we can bravely embrace it again.'- Monique Truong, author of The Book of Salt and Bitter in the Mouth'A tender, melancholy book of great linguistic beauty and clarity. A flawless novel.'-Süddeutsche Zeitung'With high artistry . . . this seductive beauty is also strangely religious: the book treats life with an almost Buddhist serenity.'-Der SpiegelTwenty-year-old Taguchi Hiro has spent the last two years of his life living as a hikikomori-a shut-in who never leaves his room and has no human interaction-in his parents' home in Tokyo. As Hiro tentatively decides to reenter the world, he spends his days observing life around him from a park bench. Gradually he makes friends with Ohara Tetsu, a middle-aged salaryman who has lost his job but can't bring himself to tell his wife, and shows up every day in a suit and tie to pass the time on a nearby bench. As Hiro and Tetsu cautiously open up to each other, they discover in their sadness a common bond. Regrets and disappointments, as well as hopes and dreams, come to the surface until both find the strength to somehow give a new start to their lives. This beautiful novel is moving, unforgettable, and full of surprises. The reader turns the last page feeling that a small triumph has occurred.Milena Michiko Flasar was born in 1980, the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. She lives in Vienna. I Called Him Necktie won the 2012 Austrian Alpha Literature Prize.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction, Guidebooks, Family & Relationships
- Download servers: 4Shared, FreakShare, Dropbox, EliteTorrent, BitShare, Filedropper, Uploaded. Compressed in TAR.BZ, LZ, ARJ, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.75 USD
- Dimensions: 133x203x10.16mm
- Weight: 142g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Place of publication not identified
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