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南海電鉄岸和田駅で無差別殺人事件が発生。7名を殺害した笹清政市（32）は、自らを“無敵の人”と称する。数日後、大阪地検で郵送物が爆発、6名が重軽傷を負った。被疑者〈ロスト・ルサンチマン〉は笹清の釈放を求める。

将軍の鷹狩りの下準備を担うお鳥見役の矢島家。あるじの伴之助と妻・珠世の周りにはうれしい知らせが続いていた。次女の初産、嫁の懐妊、幼いころから親しくしてきた石塚家長女の結婚＿＿。幾多の苦難とつらい別れを乗り越え、やっと訪れた穏やかな日々。だが「来るものは拒まず」が信条の珠世のもとには、又も次々と難題が降りかかり・・・・・。

A companion to Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning Hainish novels—including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed—Five Ways to Forgiveness tells the story of the planet Werel and its colony planet Yeowe, and how their societies are shaped by the legacies of slavery and revolution.

京都の路地にある怪しげなクリニック「中京こころのびょういん」。今日も飄々としてノリが軽いニケ先生とクールな看護師・千歳さんが、スマホ依存症の小学生、ルッキズムに囚われた女子大生、亡くなった飼い猫を想う母……

３メートル離れてください！愛しさあふれる“タッチレス”ラブストーリー　存在そのものが超危険!?人を寄せ付けない物理学者の、ただならぬ受難とは。

A ottant'anni dalla sua pubblicazione e a cinquanta dalla morte del suo autore, Viaggio al termine della notte si impone come il romanzo che ha saputo meglio capire e rappresentare il Novecento, illuminandone con provocatoria originalità espressiva gli aspetti fondamentali. «Céline è stato creato da Dio per dare scandalo», scrisse Bernanos quando nel 1932 il romanzo diventò un successo mondiale, suscitando entusiasmi e contrasti feroci.

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states—locked in a cold war—lies a neutral buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies . . .

映画化「もしも徳川家康が総理大臣になったら」著者による最新作　読むと、なぜか心が熱くなる。祖父のコンサル会社を継いだ武田倫太郎は幼少期から感性が鋭く、中学の歴史の授業中に、なぜか源義経の霊を見てしまう。

裕福な暮らしをする野々山あすかと、窃盗をくりかえしながら裏社会で生きる久米明日香。あすかが友人と話している場に偶然居合わせた久米は、とある高級老人ホームの存在を知る。

Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay.

A lonely young Brit working on a novel is charmed by his landlady and her bohemian lodgers. He rooms with an English runaway and want-to-be star, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles, and holidays on the Baltic coast with a repressed Englishman and his swaggering German lover.

George is heartbroken after the death of his lover, Jim. A professor of English in sunny, suburban California, George grieves in solitude, surrounded by easy-going, uncomprehending youth. Beneath his British restraint, waves of sorrow and anger surge. He doggedly persists with the routines of his past life, heading out to work, to the gym, on again to dinner. From his solitude springs defiance; he will triumph over loneliness and alienation, he will find love again, he will feel joy.

Marianna e Chiara crescono a pochi passi, nella Bari popolare degli anni Novanta, in due famiglie che sembrano agli antipodi - una ruvida e irrequieta, l'altra ordinata e colta, apparentemente perfetta - ma che si rivelano uguali nel modo in cui tradiscono, soffocano, feriscono. Tra le due ragazze nasce subito un legame assoluto, fatto di intesa e di coraggio, di un bisogno vitale di raccogliersi a vicenda.

David und Katha kennen sich schon immer, sind gemeinsam erwachsen geworden und haben jung geheiratet. Doch dann kommt Katha bei einem Autounfall ums Leben, und Davids Welt steht still. Kinga, Kathas beste Freundin, die den Unfall mit- und überlebt hat, versucht zu helfen, sich zu kümmern – während sie eigentlich mit ihrem eigenen Trauma klarkommen muss.

Liefde in tijden van cholera is een prachtige, tijdloze literaire klassieker en naast Honderd jaar eenzaamheid het bekendste werk van Nobelprijswinnaar Gabriel García Márquez Liefde in tijden van cholera is het onvergetelijke liefdesverhaal van Florentino Ariza en Fermina Daza. Op ongeëvenaarde wijze worden grote thema's als liefde, dood, ouderdom, noodlot en begeerte samengebracht in een mild en menselijk universum. In de pers 'Márquez op z'n sensueelst.

After a long night celebrating her success, Baylee is confronted with an unexpected blast from her past, setting off a domino string of events that sends her spiraling into a part of her life and heart that she’d spent the last decade trying to forget. She doesn’t want to go back. Normally, she wouldn’t—but there’s a bucket list, a debt to pay, and the promise of what might be her grandest adventure yet.

WITH THE ECONOMY TURNED upside down, lack of work forced Billy McCoy to consider employment options he normally wouldn't. With his wife Dana, they uprooted the family and made a move north for a new business extensive opportunity requiring product marketing and direct contact with customers. The decision proved far more difficult than expected. As the months passed, with an income based solely on sales performance, Billy and Dana watched their savings account dwindle to nothing. Anxiety and fear capitalized their thoughts. Billy's success in this new career seemed dismal.

1990s New York: Tony Pellar - a man of former style and fading beauty - now lives in the subway tunnels. Following the lost thread of his life story back to 1960s North Carolina, Ross unravels a tangle of hurt and lies with two interconnected tales: that of Mikey, his wealthy childhood best friend, and of Agatha - a complex woman with a heart full of painful secrets. Orange Laughter is a story of old prejudice and shattered innocence, and a vivid reminder of the importance of storytelling as a way to heal individual and collective memory.

«في داخلي شَخْصٌ لا أعرفه» بهذه العبارة البسيطة والمُربكة، لا تبدأ حكاية بطل فحسب، بل تبدأ رحلة استكشاف جريئة نحو أغوار النفس البشرية. هذه ليست رواية عن السفر...

In eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on the margins of society.