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From the halls of ancient Vietnamese emperors to the palaces of Khmer god-kings, Southeast Asia was a tapestry of ancient, rival kingdoms. This book tells the story of how a new global power, France, arrived seeking profit, souls, and strategic advantage. Follow the century-long saga of military campaigns, gunboat diplomacy, and political maneuvering that consolidated the lands of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos into a single entity: French Indochina. Once conquered, the territory was transformed by a powerful and centralized colonial government. This book details the creation of the Union ...

From the ancient, landlocked throne of Burma to the swampy, strategic tip of the Malay Peninsula, Great Britain forged a new empire in Southeast Asia. This is the story of two vastly different colonial ventures: the brutal, bloody conquest of an ancient kingdom, and the shrewd creation of the world's richest trade route. It reveals how the destinies of these unrelated lands, one ruled by a king and the other by the sea, became irrevocably bound by imperial ambition. Driven by the fabulous wealth of the China trade and the rivalry with French Indochina, the British plunged into a Great Game ...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ’s Nerdette · The New York Public Library · Literary Hub A New York Times Editors’ Choice “One of the most passionate cases I’ve ever read for female interiority, for women’s creative pulse and rich inner life.” ―Katy Waldman...

A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a...

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Dionne Brand, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Ossuaries, returns with a startlingly original work about the act of writing itself. On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages—the unwritten...

Imaginez apprendre le japonais en toute simplicité pendant vos trajets, en cuisinant ou en vous détendant chez vous. Ce livre audio, spécialement conçu pour les francophones, met l’accent sur la compréhension orale et l’expression pratique grâce à un vocabulaire utilisé au quotidien. En explorant des situations courantes—comme saluer, commander au restaurant, demander son chemin ou faire des achats—vous gagnerez en confiance pour comprendre et répondre naturellement en japonais.

The complete method. 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening.

300 essential words and phrases, the 100 most common verbs. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list.

In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria—an area some called China's "Wild East"—and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon Kaspe, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father's wealth.

Le retour de l'auteur japonais le plus lu en France. Parution le 2 janvier 2025 Evènement!!! Le grand retour du maître Murakami pour un roman éblouissant, dans la lignée de ses grandes œuvres – Kafka sur le rivage ou 1Q84 – et sept ans après son dernier roman – Le Meurtre du commandeur. Tu dis: La Cité est entourée de hauts murs et il est très difficile d'y pénétrer. Mais encore plus difficile d'en sortir. Comment pourrais-je y entrer, alors? Il suffit que tu le désires.

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

「おとなは、だれも、はじめは子どもだった。しかし、そのことを忘れずにいるおとなは、いくらもいない」。サハラ砂漠に不時着した孤独な飛行士と、「ほんとうのこと」しか知りたがらない純粋な星の王子さま

Après sa Divine Comédie, voyage sonore dans la Mythologie européenne, la romancière Amélie Nothomb nous accompagne, dans une deuxième saison très personnelle, à la rencontre du Japon de son enfance, avec ses mythes, ses rites et ses cultures. Dans ce documentaire audio de 10 épisodes, enrichi en son binaural, nous explorons les mythes et spiritualités japonais aux côtés d’Amélie Nothomb. Nous découvrons, dans ses yeux, un pays vecteur de réalisations personnelles.

Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life. The...

So here I am, delving into the past like Monsieur Poirot, not to solve a mystery, but to try to understand some of the events that have helped define the sort of person I have become. Some of it, naturally, is in the genes; but much of it is in the environment, in the circumstances in which we...

Une curieuse digression sur les kangourous. Un éléphant qui se volatilise. Un nain diabolique qui danse. Ou encore une jeune fille « cent pour cent parfaite »... Merveilleuses trouvailles, ces dix-sept contes renouvellent le quotidien d'un éclat enchanteur et déploient, entre poésie et humour, tout l'art magistral de Murakami.

The 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list. 20% of the words are used 80% of the time.

Caché dans les ruelles de Kyoto se trouve le petit restaurant des Kamogawa, d'où s'échappent d'exquises odeurs de cuisine traditionnelle japonaise. En plus de délicats repas faits maison, Nagare et sa fille Koishi proposent une expérience qui sort de l'ordinaire : cuisiner un plat que leurs clients ont en mémoire, mais dont la recette est depuis longtemps oubliée. Pour chaque nouveau plat, la famille Kamogawa enquête et propose à ses convives de déguster une nouvelle fois les mets savoureux qui ont marqué leur vie.

From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India...