Vintage Classics Autofiction.Rin is flying back from her honeymoon, madly in love and with a bright future before her. Then, Rin's new husband disappears to the bathroom and her thoughts begin to spiral, darkly, to a sinister place far beyond her control. Hitomi Kanehara's sensational novel follows Rin's life backwards through time: we see her at age eighteen, sixteen, and finally fifteen, as a picture of the shadowy core and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually

Weakened by recent military failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and potential setbacks in Ukraine and the Middle East

he will come up the other side

and a man passes his time smoking alone a café

most people would finally take in the outrageousness

suggesting that not-yet-invented technologies will have far greater impact on us in the 2030s than the tools we have today

The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of near-apoplectic triumphalism in the West: a genuine belief that a rational

Across four centuries and multiple continents

to its refusal to recognize the past

“Embracing what Schumacher stood for--above all the idea of sensible scale--is the task for our time

the author presents blueprints for better architecture in a fast-changing milieu

land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege

the book highlights how they continue to exist nevertheless