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María es profesora universitaria en Castellón y una mujer independiente, libre, que se embarca en un viaje a Colombia tras recibir la llamada de su amiga de la infancia, Carmen, una monja oblata que trabaja en un centro en las afueras de Bogotá donde acogen a niños huérfanos o abandonados que han llegado allí tras vivir infancias muy duras. En su visita al centro María conecta de una manera muy intensa con Ava, una niñita que decide adoptar y con la que regresará a España.

作家を思わせる語り手の女性が、人生の折々に鮮烈に現われたトマトとの関わりを追想する、という趣向の短編。幼い頃、科学者だった父親と二人で出かけた地元近くの海水浴場に浮かんでいたトマト。「おばあちゃん」になった今では、猛暑のなか、孫が止めるのにも耳を貸さず、アーチ状の「トマトの林」を丹精込めて育てている。こうしたトマトはいったいどこからやってきたのか？
語り手にとってトマトは、男たちとの交際の記憶を幼時に齧った折の青ぐささと共に甦らせる不思議な存在だ。学生時代、初めてキスし、交わった男は農業大学の研究生。アステカ族が住む地域でトマトの原種を育成研究するため、「私」のもとを去り、メキシコへ渡った。一個のトマトをベッドに残して……。
南米アンデス山脈原産のトマトは、大航海時代にイタリア半島にもたらされたが、毒性が恐れられ、当初は観賞用だったとされる。「黄金の果実」を巡って、作家の奇想が冴えわたる作品。

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.

Yara Phillips is a wandering muse. She dates men who need her, but always moves on to something new, never staying in one place for very long. David Lisey is in need of a muse. A talented musician lacking lyrical inspiration. When he first sees her, he knows he's found what he's been seeking. Yara believes she can give David exactly what he needs to reach his full potential: a broken heart.

「深紅よりもっと鮮やかな朱赤」と描写される“ポンペイアンレッド”の椅子をモチーフにした幻想譚。
小雨の降る四月、還暦の誕生日を一週間後に控えた語り手の女性のところに、家具店からお探しの商品が漸く見つかったと、電話が入る。360度回転し、リクライニングを倒すと180度水平になる本革製の椅子。最も難しい条件が色の指定で、どうしてもポンペイアンレッドでなければならなかった。強く輝き、その強烈さゆえ座る人間を体内から崩壊させるような赤い椅子に、「私」はこの先の人生を託す意気込みなのだ。生憎、現物はなかったものの、革素材と写真を確かめ、即決で購入を決めた。
椅子が届いて数日後、すっかり満足した「私」のところに、一通のダイレクトメールが届く……。時空を超えて官能の世界へと誘う怪しげな赤がとりわけ印象に残る佳編。　

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

The H.O.T. Cops: Trained to impose the law, but naturally skilled at enforcing pleasure. Rogan Wolfe is a bad boy cop - the lone wolf on the force and in need of something new to excite him. Now he's transferred to sexy South Beach in Miami - working undercover and looking for a fresh start. April Pediston is the epitome of responsible - overworked and under pressure as a high-powered attorney. Then one night, unwinding at an oceanside club she's never frequented before, she locks eyes with a stranger.

円熟の境地にある芥川賞作家が描く、“もの”を巡る幻想譚のシリーズ短篇。祖先の来し方を探るエッセイのように筆を起こし、何時の間にか、するっと時空を超越し、読者を想像の彼方へと誘って、馥郁たる余韻を残して着地する。
本作の“主役”は、作家が生まれた頃から慣れ親しみ、今も所有している一つの火鉢。日露戦争で中国大陸に出兵した祖父が入手したらしい有田焼の火鉢は、姿形を変えぬまま、およそ百年を生き抜いてきた。火鉢には、江戸時代の旅人たちが描かれていた。現在の山口県防府市で地主の惣領として生まれながら祖父は学問を志して東京へ出て、大学を卒業すると、徒歩で郷里に帰ったという。祖父は、火鉢に描かれた旅人に興趣を覚えたのではないか？　不動の火鉢に、作家は有為転変の来歴を与え、「旅する火鉢」に想いを馳せる。

Quella narrata in questo volume è la storia personale dell'autrice, che qui si racconta in quanto mamma di tre figli, Andrea, Tilahun e Zenebech: i genitori biologici di Tila e Zene, entrambi etiopi ma fratelli non di sangue, sono stati costretti ad abbandonarli o hanno perso la vita durante la guerra civile nel Paese africano. Emilia all'epoca ha fatto una scelta importante e profondamente delicata, e non se ne è mai pentita.

Taeko, elegante e avvenente donna di trentanove anni, conduce una vita agiata e godereccia, destreggiandosi tra l'atelier d'alta moda di cui è proprietaria, le amiche con cui condividere racconti piccanti ed eventi mondani cui partecipare. Stereotipo della donna divorziata e indipendente, immersa nell'alta società nipponica del dopoguerra, ove il desiderio di occidentalizzazione si contrappone a vecchie tradizioni e pregiudizi, Taeko non vuole rinunciare al proprio stile di vita né alla libertà.

Just like Abe Lincoln, I got shot. You’ve got to be kidding me. If we’re going to stay safe, we need to grow the MC. And I’ve found a good guy to join up. Except his sister hates me. Too bad, because she’s a beauty. Those curves and long legs. I’ll convince her to be mine and let her brother join the MC. I’m honest, after all.

Katie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking at and Katie is afraid she's a little too normal to make a splash in the big city. Working for an ogre of a boss doesn't help. Then, seemingly out of the blue, Katie gets a job offer from Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., a company that tricks of the trade to the magic community. For MSI, Katie's ordinariness is an asset.

A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband's controlling behaviour in the guise of treatment will leave you breathless.

She's old enough to be his mother. Alice has always looked young for her age, even with her graying hair and her dowdy New Jersey housewife style. Make that ex-housewife: Now that her husband's gone and her daughter is grown, Alice is in desperate need of a whole new life. So she lets her best friend Maggie, a hip New York City artist, transform her on New Year's Eve. Soon, thanks to the wonders of hair dye and tight jeans, Alice looks really young, as one night in a Manhattan bar confirms.

Everything's bigger in Texas - including romance, magic, and danger! Katie Chandler has fled fast-paced Manhattan and returned home to a simpler life, working at her family's feed-and-seed store in Cobb, Texas. In a painfully selfless gesture, Katie had left the sexy wizard Owen Palmer to battle his demons in the magical realm–after all, Katie just seemed to attract evil, which only made Owen's job a lot harder.

Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.

作家本人と思しき女性が、オーロラ見物と白夜体験のため、真冬と初夏の二度、アラスカを訪ねる、という筋立ての短篇。二月はマイナス30℃近く、ブリザード（猛吹雪）が来れば、遭難しかねず、反対に30℃近くに達する夏は一転、植物の色彩で溢れるが、油断をすると凍土に足をとられ、身動きできなくなる。そんな極地で、作家は「ウルフトラッパー」を名乗る日本人男性と出会う。
「ウルフトラッパー」は、先住民の中でも特に狩に秀でたアサバスカ族から送られた尊称で、狼を銃で撃つのではなく、罠、つまり知恵で捕らえる賢者を指す。年齢不詳、一人でテント生活をしているらしい男に、作家は徐々に親しみを覚えてゆく。謎めいた男が明かす極地の真実、また“五感の訓練”とは？　フィクションの愉楽に満ちた逸品。

Aux yeux du monde, Dolorès vit un conte de fées avec Franck, superstar de cinéma, et leurs trois beaux garçons... Mais son destin de mère au foyer dérape quand son compagnon lui annonce qu’il souhaite « réorienter » leur couple. Et, comme un virage n’attend pas l’autre, elle se voit forcée d’accepter l’héritage de son père : une cour à scrap et un garage en faillite, dans son très petit village natal.

Après s’être engagée à fond de train dans sa vie de célibataire monoparentale, Dolorès ralentit et prend la mesure de ses nouvelles responsabilités. Même si son frère Junior est temporairement hors d’état de nuire, elle zigzague entre les ennuis financiers du garage, les magouilles du notaire Sansoucy et les cahots de sa vie amoureuse. Alors que le trop loyal Fernand se dérobe et que les excentricités de Philippe la perturbent au plus haut point, parviendra-t-elle à tourner à son avantage les caprices hollywoodiens de Franck ?

Esther, Isabelle, Myrlande, Brigitte, Philomène, Nathalie et Anne-Marie se connaissent depuis l’enfance et mettent un point d’honneur à se réunir sept fois par an pour fêter leurs anniversaires. L’année de leurs cinquante-cinq ans, Anne-Marie surprend ses amies et sa famille avec une invitation pour le moins originale. Elles sont conviées… à ses noces !