The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer
€21.50
The instant bestseller by professional roamer Pico Iyer explores the idea of Paradise: that elusive place where the anxieties, struggles, and burdens of life fall away. Most of us dream of it, but each of us has very different ideas about where it is to be found. For some it can be enjoyed only after death; for others, it’s in our midst—or just across the ocean—if only we can find eyes to see it.
Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lama’s Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld – or can it be found in the here and now?
240 pages
Hardcover
Language: English
This book is part of Hallesches Haus' collection
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New York Living Rooms
€45.00
New York Living Rooms, Dominique Nabokov
New York Living Rooms is the first instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing more than two decades after it was first published in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995, it offers a frank and intimate study of the interior living spaces of some of the city’s most fabled cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion.
With nothing added and nothing altered, Nabokov calls these images her interior ‘portraits’. Some spaces are indulgent and ostentatious, others shelter the bare necessities, but Nabokov simply records them all for her fellow voyeurs and leaves us to decipher the rest. Long out of print, this updated edition brings back to life an era of New York City history, seen through Nabokov’s original Polaroid photos and the original introduction by English poet James Fenton. It also sets the stage for the following editions in Paris and Berlin, which Apartamento will be re-issuing later in 2021.
Published by Apartamento Publishing S.L.
First edition, June 2021
Dimensions: 240 x 285mm
Binding: Hard cover
Pages: 116
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Japanese Home Cooking
€32.00
Learn to cook authentic Japanese food from scratch at home, with step by step recipes for the traditional classics like ramen noodles, broth, sushi rice or homemade tofu as well as recipes for more contemporary fusion dishes. Maori Murota takes you to the heart of today's Japanese family home cooking, sharing the recipes she learned while she watched her own mother and grandmother cook. Here are 100 recipes - eggplant spaghetti, pepper and miso sauce, donburi, baked sweet potato, soba salad, roast chicken with lemongrass, onigiri, hot dog, Japanese curry, steamed nut cake - many of which are vegan friendly and plant-based, to take you to the heart of Japanese home cooking.View full product details
Late-Night Meals
€30.00
The annual Apartamento cookbook is back in its seventh edition, and this time we’re staying up with you into the small hours of the night. Whether you’re coming home late after a long shift, stumbling through the door off the back of an indulgent evening out, or simply feeling peckish post-dinner, we’re here to lead the way as you rummage bleary-eyed through the kitchen cupboard, with 16 recipes by chefs and food-lovers around the world.
From sleep-inducing mackerel salad to hangover-preventing onion soup, the meditative preparation of Nigerian alkaki or a quick fix of refried Georgian khinkali, simple aioli to feed your munchies and syrupy waffles for your sweet tooth, as well as your choice of two salty sandwiches from Italy and the Basque Country, whatever’s keeping you up, we’ve got the recipe for it. So, for all you night owls out there, we proudly present Apartamento Cookbook #7: Late-Night Meals, our trusty guide for nocturnal nourishment. Bon appétit and sweet dreams.
Apartamento Cookbook #7: Late-Night Meals
Drawings by Benoît François
Featuring: Andoni Luis Aduriz, Chiara Strobl, Ellie Bouhadana, Fadi Kattan, Ignasi Monreal, John Javier, John Wurdeman, Jon Gray, Masahide Ikuta, Niki Nakazawa, Palinurobar, Palisa Anderson, Pía León, Sam Chermayeff, Sarah Ben Romdane, and Yemisi Aribisala
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