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ヨーロッパ随一の美女と謳われたエリザベート皇妃を母に持つ皇太子ルドルフ。ハプスブルク家の世継ぎとして周囲に期待されたが、父帝フランツ・ヨーゼフ1世との反目や政治的対立などから孤立し、男爵令嬢マリー・ヴェッツェラと「マイヤーリンク事件」にて謎の死を遂げた。皇太子の死の真相は、今もなお、謎に包まれている。この「うたかたの恋」はその事件を基に書かれた物語である。なお、実際のルドルフとマリーの関係や事件の真相については諸説ある。

「国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。夜の底が白くなった。」の冒頭部分が有名な川端康成の代表作。雪国の温泉宿を舞台に、東京に妻子のある島村と、土地の芸者である一途な駒子の揺れ動く心の襞を軸に、彼女とも知り合いの美しい葉子への関心と平行しながら描かれる。雪国の雪の白さ、冷たく澄みきった空気の透明感や緊張感、温泉の温かさや湯煙、突き抜けるような青空、若葉の瑞々しい緑、列車の汽笛、そして駒子の肌の感触、女性2人の美しい声や手鞠歌の歌声、火事の紅い炎と熱気・・・五感に訴える哀しくも美しい川端美学の結晶的な作品。 ...

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A young girl teams up with a hatchet-wielding teddy bear to solve the mystery of her mother's murder and get her revenge in this campy slasher from Cho Yeeun, a rising star in Korean horror. Hwa-young never believed that her mother was murdered in a mass-cyanide attack at the luxury apartment complex where she worked. Now living in a flophouse for runaway teens, she is determined to save 20 million won to put a hit out on the suspect and engages in any odd jobs she can find.

As a kid, Fiona McConnell helped her dad with his catering company on the streets of Los Angeles and dreamed of becoming a famous pastry chef. Fiona gets her opportunity when Julia Stone, her much admired boss at Lucien, one of the best restaurants in Los Angeles, fires both her head chef and pastry chef, allowing Fiona the chance to prove herself.

A Curse of Blood and Bone is the heart-pounding second installment in the Ozero Curse series that will leave listeners breathless. Nicolette Elzie weaves together themes of female empowerment, love, lust, and grief with masterful precision, creating a story that will grip listeners from the very start.

The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the alienating viewpoints of historical witnesses. The sole voice of reason among the advisers to Tsar Nikolai II, Stolypin died at the hands of the anarchist Mordko Bogrov, and with him perished Russia's last hope for reform. Translated by H.T. Willetts.

From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives.

When you emigrate, you leave yourself behind. Literally. One instance of a person crosses the border; the other instance stays trapped behind it. Some instances keep in touch, call each other daily, keep their lives and minds in sync in the hopes of reintegrating and resuming a life as one person. Rose, in America, never imagined going back to Korea. Then her grandfather dies, and her Korean instance calls her home for the funeral, and she discovers that Soyoung plans to steal her body and live her life whether she wants to reintegrate or not.

Every morning before sunrise, Lim Ah Hock opens the shutters of his small kitchen on Carpenter Street, lights an incense stick and prepares the best laksa soup in all of Kuching. But Ah Hock is aging, and the broth's quality is fading. His only son, Wei Ming, has no interest in the family business, having spent eight years in Hong Kong trying to prove himself as a chef. Now, he's struggling with gambling debts, embroiled in a love triangle, and the restaurant he's been left to run has lost its Global Restaurants Guild star.

In the Appalachian highlands of Tennessee, Ezekiel Gouge builds a whiskey empire from grit, grain, and sheer determination. A self-taught distiller and fiercely devoted father, he rises from humble beginnings to command one of the South's most successful operations, just as the tide of Prohibition and the weight of family challenges threaten to destroy it all. As legal battles mount and federal agents close in, Ezekiel must navigate the shifting lines between honor and survival. When his beloved son dies under mysterious circumstances in Panama, the legacy he fought for hangs in the balance.

In una Seoul rovente e febbrile, una donna cerca di recuperare la parola che ha perso in seguito a una serie di traumi. Nell'aula semideserta di un'accademia privata incontra lo sguardo dell'insegnante di greco, che sta perdendo la vista. Tra di loro nasce un'intimità intessuta di penombra e di perdita, grazie alla quale la donna riuscirà forse a ritornare in contatto con il mondo.

In questo breve romanzo del 1920 l'ininterrotto processo di autoanalisi porterà i personaggi all'accettazione del proprio posto nell'armonia dell'universo, luogo unico dove tutto ciò che esiste è bene. In Klein e Wagner la descrizione della provincia sveva e del mondo artigianale diventa lo sfondo sul quale ai cliché della vita borghese si contrappone la figura del «viandante», capace - secondo Claudio Magris - di ridestare nei borghesi la «nostalgia delle lontananze».

Nil, nell'estate del 1919, è un bambino timido che pensa alla felicità, quando d'un tratto la Guerra civile travolge il suo piccolo mondo. Rimane solo, diventa uno dei tanti "ragazzini randagi" che nel sud della Russia campano di elemosine, furti e prostituzione. È il suo apprendistato al coraggio - il coraggio di "non essere mai stanco di vivere", nonostante tutto. Nei bassifondi, Nil impara a non voltarsi indietro, a sgattaiolare tra gli orrori e a gioire profondamente delle poche cose importanti: la libertà, l'amicizia, l'amore, nella sua banda di mendicanti armati di coltelli finlandesi.

Tsumugi – cantautrice per niente popolare, per sua stessa ammissione – ha perso le speranze: dopo anni di tentativi per emergere, anche il lavoro poco appagante in una televisione locale si interrompe, lasciandola priva di prospettive. Mentre gira senza meta tra le stradine silenziose della cittadina di Kisarazu, in un vicolo dietro un santuario shintoista scopre una locanda con un'insolita insegna: "Da Shippo: pasti caldi a menu fisso, locale con gatto". Incuriosita, varca la soglia e si ritrova in un piccolo ristorante a conduzione famigliare, con pochissimi coperti.

今から100年以上前に書かれた作品とは思えないほど、現在の、特に日本の社会状況を見事に描き出している作品です。巨大な毒虫に「変身」したグレゴリー・ザムザは、なぜ「変身」したのか。

Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makino’s concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by powerful moments of connection. She’s drawn by Makino’s tender music and his sensitivity, and he is intrigued by Yoko’s refinement and intellect. But neither knows enough about love to see it blooming nor has the confidence to make the first move.

日本近現代の名作小説や詩を、朗読用に書き下ろされたオリジナルあらすじ台本で味わうシリーズ。

森鴎外（本名林太郎）は、官人に対する医療や医薬全般、医師の養成などを司る典医の家に生まれました。幼い頃から「論語」や「孟子」などの漢学書、オランダ語を学び、実年齢で習得するよりも早い段階です

ゆきすぎた御定法の改新で、町奉行は幾度も苦境に立たされている。それでも一度触れ出された法令をたやすく変えることはできない。藩士の中所直衛は、ある商人からの訴えの裁きをもって御定法に威厳と基準