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苦節10年の末に、小説『食堂かたつむり』でデビューを果たした著者。執筆、サイン会、取材と怒涛の日々を送る彼女に代わって、ペンギンが台所デビュー。まぐろ丼、おでん、かやくご飯…。

In 1982 Murakami began running to keep fit. Here, he reflects on his running experiences. Equal parts travelogue, training log, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, this is a...

今、もう一度振り返ってみると、深き淵には、澄んだ美しい水が湧き出ていたような気がします――。四肢の自由を失い絶望の淵にいた青年教師が、筆をくわえて綴った生命の記録。感動の輪を広げた超ロングセラーが、発刊４０周年を記念して生まれ変わりました。

世界の美しさと，人間の苦しみと――双方に忠実であろうとしつつ，生きる意味を探求し続けた作家，カミュ．『異邦人』『ペスト』をはじめとする作品は，時をこえて私たち自身の生をも映し出している．

それでも、ありうべき未来へ! コロナ時代に顕在化した政治的無責任、社会基盤の崩壊、人心の動揺…。「時代の神経」である作家の感応力が、深く見つめる。リアルでありながら、理想を手放さない稀有な思考。危機の時代の羅針盤。

家への帰りに道草をして見つけた美味しいシュークリーム屋さん。長年の夢だった富士登山で拝んだ朝焼け。忘年会と称して、ペンギンと出かけたお気に入りのレストラン。一歩外に出れば、素敵な出会いが

女子四人組で旅したインドでは、ヨガとカレー三昧。仕事で訪れたパリでは、お目当てのアップルパイを求めて一人お散歩。旅先で出会った忘れられない味と人々。でも、やっぱり我が家が一番! 新しく家族の

古いアパートを借りて、ベルリンに2カ月暮らしてみました。土曜日は青空マーケットで野菜を調達し、日曜日には蚤の市におでかけ。窓の外から聞こえるストリートの演奏をBGMに、読書をしながらお茶を

カナダのカフェで食べたふわふわのワッフル。モンゴルの青空の下、遊牧民と調理した羊のドラム缶蒸し。旅の最終日にバーテンダーが作ってくれたコーヒー味のオリジナルカクテル。

It’s been said that the past is another country. Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday takes readers into several such countries. This book has been called the most famous work about the Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary (which Zweig calls “the world of security”) in the last decades before its collapse in the First World War.

„Granica sokoła" to częściowo uzupełnienie, a częściowo kontynuacja „Nawiało nam burzę". Abramow-Newerly przedstawia ostatnie lata istnienia Kresów II Rzeczypospolitej. Opisuje z humorem i swadą barwny obraz życia w Hadyńkowcach i Czortkowie, poczynając od najstarszych dziejów rodu Wawrów, czyli ucieczki Fiodora Ławrowa przez Zbrucz pod koniec XVIII wieku. Relacjonuje też szczegółowo kluczowe dla tych ziem wydarzenia: obronę granicy na Zbruczu w 1939 r.

Johannes Vermeer has fascinated a growing number of 21st century viewers with his most intimate depictions of the nature of human existence. The formal perfection of his compositions and the precision of his painting technique, expressing his fantastic narrative ability and accurate realism, have become a quintessential characteristic of the Dutch Golden Age of painting. Nearly 400 years later, Vermeer is still celebrated for his incomparable sense of timelessness, human dignity and unprecedented talent for creating luminosity and purity of color in his scenes.

The first biography of Sue Townsend, the brilliant and satirical mind behind the iconic teenage diarist Adrian Mole. Sue Townsend grew up in working-class Leicestershire and left school at 14. In the 70s she was a young, single mother working in youth and community services, writing her creation...

Die Autoren erzählen in ihrer fiktiven Familiensaga Neuerscheinung 2024 die Geschichte der Londoner Journalistin Sally Wheeler, die sich auf die Spuren ihrer Herkunft begibt. Dabei begleiten sie die Ausbeutung Afrikas und die deutsche Kolonialpolitik auf dem Weg zu drei Familien. Die über eine Diamantenmine und international agierende Hoteldynastien seit über hundert Jahren schicksalhaft miteinander verkettet sind. Auf ihrer Suche begegnet Sally Wheeler den Familien von Odenfeldt und van der Meer, die durch eine Diamantenmine und eine internationale Hotelkette ineinander verstrickt sind.

Durante le feste di Natale del 2004, Emmanuel Carrère è in vacanza con la famiglia in Sri Lanka. Sono i giorni in cui lo tsunami devasta le coste del Pacifico: tra le migliaia di morti c'è anche Juliette, la figlia di quattro anni di una coppia di francesi a cui Carrère - accidentale testimone dello strazio di una famiglia - si lega. Qualche mese dopo, al ritorno in Francia, un altro lutto: la sorella della compagna dello scrittore - che casualmente si chiama anche lei Juliette - ha avuto una ricaduta del cancro che già da ragazza l'aveva colpita rendendola zoppa.

Bloomsbury presents The Man Who Invented Fiction by William Egginton, read by Matt Fletcher-Macdonald. In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain’s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain...

Bestselling author John Kenney writes a luminous, powerful memoir about the long tail of grief—the ways it hides, the ways it shapes us, and what it means, finally, to mourn someone fully, even if it takes half a lifetime to find the words. When John Kenney's mother died, the Boston Globe ran her obituary. After writing his bestselling novel about an obituary writer, I See You've Called in Dead, Kenney couldn't stop thinking about the impossibility of summing up a person's life in that small format, in just 74 words.

A revealing portrait of the cultural giant who transformed American letters. In this buoyant book-length study of the man, Joe Mysak, who first met Wolfe in 1977, obliges. Mysak shows us a Wolfe who was an assassin on the page yet prized politeness and manners.

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and engraver who lived during the Romantic era. This was a time of revolution, radical ideas, and sweeping change, and Blake’s output was vast and varied, weaving together words and images in ways that had never been done before. During his lifetime, Blake was recognized as a talented painter and engraver, but he invariably missed out on the fame and fortune he so desperately wanted. No matter how hard he chased it, mainstream success remained just out of reach.

This book is dedicated to us. I cannot believe that I have done 13 of these crazy ass books. It is one thing to do 1 book start to finish, but 13. Whenever you go through a fast-food outlet, always ask for extra napkins, salt and ketchup. You never know when you might run out. My mom would take the accumulated extra ketchup and add them to our ketchup bottle.