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Lucht
Japan, lente 1964, de eerste bloesems laten hun takken los. De vijfenveertigjarige Kudo Yamamoto leeft teruggetrokken in het ouderlijk huis aan de voet van de Berg, waar hij zijn allesomvattend gedicht wil schrijven. Een brief uit het Westen stuurt zijn plannen in de war.
Dertig jaar geleden vertrok hij samen met zijn moeder naar Amerika, waar zijn vader de gedragingen van orkanen bestudeerde in opdracht van een bouwonderneming.
Na de dood van zijn vader studeert Kudo Yamamoto af als vertaler aan de universiteit van Washington en wordt hij kort na de aanval op Pearl Harbour hoofd Japanse aangelegenheden voor de FBI. Een vertaalfout in de zomer van 1945 blijkt fatale gevolgen te hebben en hij vlucht naar zijn vaderland.
Dertig jaar geleden vertrok hij samen met zijn moeder naar Amerika, waar zijn vader de gedragingen van orkanen bestudeerde in opdracht van een bouwonderneming.
Na de dood van zijn vader studeert Kudo Yamamoto af als vertaler aan de universiteit van Washington en wordt hij kort na de aanval op Pearl Harbour hoofd Japanse aangelegenheden voor de FBI. Een vertaalfout in de zomer van 1945 blijkt fatale gevolgen te hebben en hij vlucht naar zijn vaderland.
92 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Bart Koubaa
20 books8 followersBart Koubaa, schrijversnaam van Bart Van den Bossche is een Vlaams zanger, dichter en schrijver.
Bart Koubaa in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
Bart Koubaa in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
Bart Koubaa bij "Schrijversgewijs"
Bart Koubaa is the literary pseudonym for Bart van den Bossche. Born in Eeklo in 1968, he studied philosophy at the University of Ghent for a year before a move to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts to study film and photography. After living in Spain for a time, he returned to Ghent to study Arabic.
Koubaa's first novel Vuur ('Fire') explored the relationship between a boy and his tyrannical grandfather living in a gypsy camp. The book won the 2000 Flemish Debut Prize. When selected by the Flemish Minister of Culture for a project to encourage reading, 40,000 copies were distributed to the pubic free-of-charge.His second novel Lucht ('Air') spans the period in Japanese history from World War II to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The story revolves around a Japanese translator working for the FBI who makes a vital mistake that results in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Upon returning to Japan the man resolves to represent the entire cosmos in the seventeen syllables of a haiku. In just 124 pages, Koubaa brings the life of an ordinary man into direct contact with historical events contrasting Eastern and Western philosophies of life.
His book Het gebied van Nevski takes the reader inside the mind of a professor suffering from aphasia after an accident. A neurologist advises him to write every day to aid his recovery. "Our brain is the battlefield of a constant Darwinian war," says Koubaa, "where everything is fighting, every word, every memory." In 2009 he published his fourth novel: De leraar ('The teacher')
Bart Koubaa in de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia
Bart Koubaa in de Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
Bart Koubaa bij "Schrijversgewijs"
Bart Koubaa is the literary pseudonym for Bart van den Bossche. Born in Eeklo in 1968, he studied philosophy at the University of Ghent for a year before a move to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts to study film and photography. After living in Spain for a time, he returned to Ghent to study Arabic.
Koubaa's first novel Vuur ('Fire') explored the relationship between a boy and his tyrannical grandfather living in a gypsy camp. The book won the 2000 Flemish Debut Prize. When selected by the Flemish Minister of Culture for a project to encourage reading, 40,000 copies were distributed to the pubic free-of-charge.His second novel Lucht ('Air') spans the period in Japanese history from World War II to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The story revolves around a Japanese translator working for the FBI who makes a vital mistake that results in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Upon returning to Japan the man resolves to represent the entire cosmos in the seventeen syllables of a haiku. In just 124 pages, Koubaa brings the life of an ordinary man into direct contact with historical events contrasting Eastern and Western philosophies of life.
His book Het gebied van Nevski takes the reader inside the mind of a professor suffering from aphasia after an accident. A neurologist advises him to write every day to aid his recovery. "Our brain is the battlefield of a constant Darwinian war," says Koubaa, "where everything is fighting, every word, every memory." In 2009 he published his fourth novel: De leraar ('The teacher')
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October 27, 2012
I really liked the book, mostly because the atmosphere was brought to life so well. The book takes place in Japan, and the whole book really feels Japanese. Loved the surreal twists as well, I like the fact that they sometimes left me puzzled, wondering, ...
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