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The moving love story that has enamored millions of readers throughout the world is the most read Japanese novel of all times. It has inspired a big screen version, has been made into a TV serial and has been illustrated as a comic. Sakutaro and Aki meet at school in a small provincial city of Japan. Soon they become inseparable friends until the day when Sakutaro sees in Aki something different. Their friendship turns into a burning passion where both live a story capable of erasing the boundaries between life and death. Description in Spanish: La conmovedora historia de amor que ha enamorado a millones de lectores de todo el mundo. Sakutaro y Aki se conocen en la escuela de una ciudad provincial de Japon. El es un adolescente ingenioso y algo sarcastico. Ella es inteligente, hermosa y popular. Pronto se convierten en amigos inseparables, hasta que un dia, por primera vez, Sakutaro ve a Aki con otros ojos, y la amistad complice se transforma ineludiblemente en una pasion arrebatadora. Ambos viven una historia capaz de trastocar los sentidos y borrar las fronteras entre la vida y la muerte. Un grito de amor desde el centro del mundo es la novela japonesa mas leida de todos los tiempos. Ha inspirado una version cinematografica, una exitosa serie televisiva y ha sido ilustrada como comic manga....
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Kyoichi Katayama's Socrates in Love depicts a sweet high school romance between an average guy and a beautiful girl. Sakutaro is a dry-witted teenage boy--precocious and slightly sarcastic, he's the perfect counter-part to Aki, a popular girl-next-door type. The two meet in junior high, and puppy love slowly blooms into a more serious relationship. But tragedy ensures when Aki falls ill with leukemia, and Sakutaro proves his love to be true enough to test the bounds between life and death. Socrates in Love is a bittersweet journey of young love, enduring devotion, and heartbreaking loss. Affectionately known in Japan as Sekachu (short for Sekai no Chushin de Ai wo Sakebu), the incredible popularity of Katayama's novel developed into a social phenomenon in Japan and drove it to become one of the classic love stories of all time. Socrates in Love took the Japanese publishing industry by storm, becoming the all-time best-selling novel in Japan! Finally, U.S. readers will be able to experience the phenomenon that became the inspiration for a blockbuster movie, a hit TV show, and a popular manga. A national sensation that touched over three million readers, Kyoichi Katayama brought innocent love and romance to the forefront of Japan's ultra-hip mass market. ...
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Kyoichi Katayama's Socrates in Love depicts a sweet high school romance between an average guy and a beautiful girl. Sakutaro is a dry-witted teenage boy--precocious and slightly sarcastic, he's the perfect counter-part to Aki, a popular girl-next-door type. The two meet in junior high, and puppy love slowly blooms into a more serious relationship. But tragedy ensures when Aki falls ill with leukemia, and Sakutaro proves his love to be true enough to test the bounds between life and death. Socrates in Love is a bittersweet journey of young love, enduring devotion, and heartbreaking loss. Affectionately known in Japan as Sekachu (short for Sekai no Chushin de Ai wo Sakebu), the incredible popularity of Katayama's novel developed into a social phenomenon in Japan and drove it to become one of the classic love stories of all time. Socrates in Love took the Japanese publishing industry by storm, becoming the all-time best-selling novel in Japan! Finally, U.S. readers will be able to experience the phenomenon that became the inspiration for a blockbuster movie, a hit TV show, and a popular manga. A national sensation that touched over three million readers, Kyoichi Katayama brought innocent love and romance to the forefront of Japan's ultra-hip mass market. ...
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