Yayoi, a nineteen-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

十月半ばのある日、マーロウはスターンウッド将軍の邸宅に呼び出された。

生産様式から交換様式への移行を告げた『世界史の構造』から一〇年余，交換様式から生まれる「力」を軸に柄谷行人の全思想体系の核心を示す

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

久しぶりにリュックを肩にかけた。「うん、これだよ、この感じなんだ」めざすはモンゴル草原、北米横断、砂埃舞うメキシコの町……。

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don't intend to produce. As the resumes pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama's attention - Yamasaki Asami - a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. But she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.

野間文芸新人賞受賞作。1通の手紙から羊をめぐる冒険が始まった 消印は1978年5月――北海道発。あなたのことは今でも好きよ、という言葉を残して妻が出て行った。その後広告コピーの仕事を通して、耳専門のモデルをしている21歳の女性が新しいガール・フレンドとなった。

ジェームズ・ボンドと英国秘密情報部にとってこれ以上の賭けはない。 007の使命はロシアのスパイであるル・シッフルをバカラで打ち負かし、彼を「引退」に追い込むことだった。

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

いま、村上春樹が語り始める――小説家は寛容な人種なのか……。村上さんは小説家になった頃を振り返り、文学賞について、オリジナリティーについて深く考えます。さて、何を書けばいいのか?

上空で燃料が底をつき、エンジンが一基ずつ停止を始めた航空機のコクピット。ただ独り残ったハイジャック犯である僕は、ブラックボックスに自身の半生を物語る。

Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a series of daring adventures. Priceless jewels disappear from a hotel suite, a monstrous hound is spotted on the moors and a woman is murdered in a locked room. Can our brilliant hero solve these mysteries and more before disaster strikes? This thrilling collection brings 16 adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous detective to life, adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf.

ある朝目が覚めて、ふと耳を澄ませると、何処か遠くから太鼓の音が聞こえてきた。その音を聞いているうちに、僕はどうしても長い旅に出たくなったのだ――。４０歳になろうとしていた著者は、ある思いに駆られて日本を後にし、ギリシャ・イタリアへ長い旅に出る。