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FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA BEST BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Washington Post・Publishers Weekly・Lit HubBestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko...

"A short, subtle, and funny book that quietly upends notions of the demure Japanese woman searching for a salaryman husband." Quartzy"Wonderfully entertaining stories with an electricity enlivening...

"Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize. From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, a sharp and illuminating novel about the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. "I...

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.Tsukiko, thirty–eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she...

A time-bending story of love, desire, and destiny that sways between Japan’s past and its present—from a courtesan of Yoshiwara in Edo to a serving lady of the Heian period to a wife and mother in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEFrom one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing...

A leading historian of evangelicalism offers a concise history of evangelicals and how they became who they are today“How 81 percent of evangelicals could have voted for Donald Trump, given his...

For most people, the terms “evangelical” and “feminism” are contradictory. “Evangelical” invokes images of conservative Christians known for their strict interpretation of the Bible, as well as their...

At the start of the twenty-first century, America was awash in a sea of evangelical talk. The Purpose Driven Life. Joel Osteen. The Left Behind novels. George W. Bush. Evangelicalism had become so...

A comparative look at evangelical churches across the U.S.-Canada border that reveals deep political differences It is now a common refrain among liberals that Christian Right pastors and television...

This anthology brings together essays by American, Canadian and British scholars to provide an overview of English-speaking evangelical religion. Each essay contains comparative evaluations of...

Evangelicalism has played a prominent role in western religion since the dawn of modernity. Coinciding with the emergence of the Enlightenment in America and Europe, evangelicalism flourished during...

This groundbreaking collection considers empire from a global perspective, exploring the role of evangelicals in political, social, and economic engagement at a time when empire is alternately...

This book seeks to fill one of the great gaps in American historical writing by examining the relationship between evangelical Protestant piety and political life in the critical twenty years before...

For most of the last century, popular and scholarly common sense has equated American evangelicalism with across-the-board social, economic, and political conservatism. However, if a growing chorus...

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting...

Lucid, authoritative overview of a major movement in American historyThe history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining its turning points—those moments when it took on a...

The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of...

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