Gramich Eluned (63 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the EnvironmentShortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative Non-Fiction Award'Eluned Gramich has written the perfect essay - a minutely detailed yet nuanced evocation of place and personalities that is full of ecologically precise imagery and is as attentive to the Japanese language as it is to Hokkaidan landscape.' - Mark CockerAs precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, this memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region's iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of 'reading' a wild landscape) as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced work evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. With its themes of seasonal transformation, the peripheral, folklore, loneliness and learning to belong, this work takes a personal philosophical stance in relation to the centre and the periphery.'"Eluned Gramich" is a name to hear time and again in the future. [This writing] is as good as we the jurors have ever read. short but perfectly formed. absolutely perfect.' - Justin Albert'Quite beautiful. [The author encounters a culture that is completely alien] and she does it with a poet's eye. precisely and vitally. She reads this unfamiliarity with all her imaginative nerve-endings open: the effect is quite remarkable.' - Tony Brown'Most rewarding is the philosophical approach. [Gramich's] embracing of. cultural multiplicity, fluidity and adaptability. suits perfectly the changing boundaries of our modern world.' - Wales Arts Review.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the EnvironmentShortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative Non-Fiction Award'Eluned Gramich has written the perfect essay - a minutely detailed yet nuanced evocation of place and personalities that is full of ecologically precise imagery and is as attentive to the Japanese language as it is to Hokkaidan landscape.' - Mark CockerAs precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, this memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region's iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of 'reading' a wild landscape) as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced work evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. With its themes of seasonal transformation, the peripheral, folklore, loneliness and learning to belong, this work takes a personal philosophical stance in relation to the centre and the periphery.'"Eluned Gramich" is a name to hear time and again in the future. [This writing] is as good as we the jurors have ever read. short but perfectly formed. absolutely perfect.' - Justin Albert'Quite beautiful. [The author encounters a culture that is completely alien] and she does it with a poet's eye. precisely and vitally. She reads this unfamiliarity with all her imaginative nerve-endings open: the effect is quite remarkable.' - Tony Brown'Most rewarding is the philosophical approach. [Gramich's] embracing of. cultural multiplicity, fluidity and adaptability. suits perfectly the changing boundaries of our modern world.' - Wales Arts Review.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Windstill is set in Hamburg in the winter of 2015. Lora, a 22-year-old university drop-out, is staying with her widowed German grandmother after the sudden death of her grandfather. The novel takes place in the week following the funeral, where all kinds of uninvited guests and unexpected histories emerge. Elfriede's buried postwar memories resurface after her husband's death, and Lora must somehow protect her grandmother from a puzzling history while negotiating her own heartbreak.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards: WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the EnvironmentShortlisted for the 2016 Wales Book of the Year: The Open University in Wales Creative Non-Fiction Award'Eluned Gramich has written the perfect essay - a minutely detailed yet nuanced evocation of place and personalities that is full of ecologically precise imagery and is as attentive to the Japanese language as it is to Hokkaidan landscape.' - Mark CockerAs precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, this memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region's iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of 'reading' a wild landscape) as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced work evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. With its themes of seasonal transformation, the peripheral, folklore, loneliness and learning to belong, this work takes a personal philosophical stance in relation to the centre and the periphery.'"Eluned Gramich" is a name to hear time and again in the future. [This writing] is as good as we the jurors have ever read. short but perfectly formed. absolutely perfect.' - Justin Albert'Quite beautiful. [The author encounters a culture that is completely alien] and she does it with a poet's eye. precisely and vitally. She reads this unfamiliarity with all her imaginative nerve-endings open: the effect is quite remarkable.' - Tony Brown'Most rewarding is the philosophical approach. [Gramich's] embracing of. cultural multiplicity, fluidity and adaptability. suits perfectly the changing boundaries of our modern world.' - Wales Arts Review As much about learning a language as it is about nature, this dignified and nuanced memoir of the author's stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan evokes what is cultured and cultivated, and yet also honours the wild; the untranslatable. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Windstill is set in Hamburg in the winter of 2015. Lora, a 22-year-old university drop-out, is staying with her widowed German grandmother after the sudden death of her grandfather. The novel takes place in the week following the funeral, where all kinds of uninvited guests and unexpected histories emerge. Elfriede's buried postwar memories resurface after her husband's death, and Lora must somehow protect her grandmother from a puzzling history while negotiating her own heartbreak. An intergenerational family drama with secrets, split identities, historical expulsions and questionable relationships. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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