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イーハトーヴの大きな森。木こりの息子として生まれたグスコーブドリは、冷害による飢饉で両親を失い、妹は人さらいに連れていかれてしまいます。一人後に残されたブドリは、森でてぐす工場をたてた男を手伝いますが、火山の噴火で工場は閉鎖。その後沼ばたけで農業に携わりますが、そこでも寒さと旱魃の影響で職を失います。イーハトーヴの市へ出たブドリはクーボー大博士のところで勉強し、イーハトーヴ火山局でペンネンナーム技師のところで働くことになります―。

人々を自然の災害から救おうと、命がけで立ち向かうグスコーブドリの壮大な物語をお届けします。 前編は「森」、「てぐす工場」、「沼ばたけ」です。 木こりの家に生まれ、幼年時代を森で幸せに暮らすブドリ。しかし十才の年に村は突然飢饉に襲われ、両親は家を出て行方不明になってしまいます。そしてその後にやってきたのは、蚕で一儲けしようという男。それも火山の噴火で失敗し、ブドリは森を出て沼ばたけで一生懸命働きますが…。 三上博史が、荒々しい大人と少年のやりとりを素朴に情感を込めて語ります。

1966. Jimmy James is a struggling guitarist, hungry and desperate enough to sign any contract for a meal—or a tab of acid. A year later, he's rock legend Jimi Hendrix, electrifying stages from Swinging London to Monterey Pop. But when a shady old contract surfaces, Hendrix finds himself pursued by ruthless Tin Pan Alley goombahs determined to cash in on his rising fame.

When young Katharine Hepburn loses her beloved brother, she makes two decisions: she will become famous, and she will never let anyone hurt her again. Leaving home at twenty-one to pursue a career on Broadway, Kate is talent-spotted, screen-tested, and lured to Los Angeles, accompanied by her lover, Laura. Hollywood in the early 1930s is a town full of secrets. Everyone comes with a story.

An epic take on the white slave trade by Barbary pirates, centreing on the most famous buccaneer of the Salle Rovers—Jan Janszoon Van Haarlem. This novel-length narrative poem is set over six books, all interconnected but each telling its own separate and unique story.

The essence of an addict is as unique and personal as one’s fingerprints. After years of hopping on and off the train of destruction, Luke’s life comes to a screeching halt. Thrust into sobriety by a ten-year jail sentence for running guns across a state line, reality and illusionary realms become blurred. Luke, once known as the boy who shot his brother, delves into his past through a series of dreams. Travel the twisted road of addiction as Luke navigates his way through fixation, love, self-awareness, forgiveness, and faith.

On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array of stars turns out in London for a Royal Film Premiere, where they will be presented to Queen Elizabeth II—an elegant young mother and wife, gracious and self-sacrificing, who has embraced her patriotic duty despite never expecting to take the throne so soon. Cameras flash, and a crowd surges forward as a limousine pulls up. Out steps a vision in dazzling gold: the greatest star of the era, Marilyn Monroe. She's a global sensation and money-making machine for Hollywood, with curves that drive men wild.

When Leila Johnston discovers the bleak reality of her family's life from a young age, everything comes crashing down for her. She watches her family fall apart, she loses those she treasures the most, and through it all, she's forced to be alone and fend for herself because society is no help. Leila is determined to come out stronger. She's seeking refuge and figuring out who she is and her purpose. She tries to pick up the pieces of what's left of her and turn them into something new. At the end of it all, she comes out stronger, winning the battle and emerging as a fierce survivor.

Plötzlich und kalt steht die Endlichkeit im Raum, die jegliche Kommunikation zwischen dir und mir verhindert. All das, was uns viele Jahre ausgemacht hat, ist vollständig abgebrochen. Stillstand. Danach war ich auf der Suche nach einem Weg durch mein Leben und das unserer vier kleinen Kinder. Aufgeschrieben von mir, einem Mann nach dem Tod seiner Frau.

Per il suo sessantesimo compleanno decide di farsi un regalo: seguire un desiderio nascosto, lasciare ciò che ha per andare altrove. Un pezzo alla volta, la donna apre a chi legge il suo cuore, come l'armadio in cui custodisce la sua collezione di porcellane. Sino al giorno in cui capisce che accettare di essere come sei, anche quando non corrisponde all'idea che gli altri hanno di te, alle aspettative che nutrono, è l'unico modo per iniziare a vivere davvero.

Bujar inventa continuamente se stesso e la propria storia, come un impostore che si appropria dei frammenti che carpisce agli altri, del passato delle persone che ha amato, dei loro nomi, perché può scegliere chi vuole essere, il paese da cui proviene, i dettagli della propria esistenza. Perché, come dice lui stesso, «nessuno è tenuto a rimanere la persona che è nata, possiamo ricomporci come un nuovo puzzle».

An account of the first major military campaign embarked upon by the future Emperor of the Roman Empire, Marcus Ulpius Traianus, commonly known as Trajan. Follow Trajan and his detachment of the Seventh Legion from Hispania to Germania, meeting friend and foe as they clash and collaborate to save the Empire from rebellion.

New York, 1900. At the dawn of a new century, the city’s streets teem with change: electricity, automobiles, a brash young President Teddy Roosevelt—and the It Girls. As artist’s muses and working models, these independent young women soar to stardom not because of their pedigrees or inherited wealth, but because of their talent, charisma, and irresistible beauty. Pop culture is born, and in a world alight with Mr. Edison’s new bulbs, no one shines brighter than America’s sweetheart, Evelyn Talbot.

As the novel opens, “Violaine” returns to Paris from her adopted home of New York City to visit her dying father for the last time. And as his conversation once again obsessively circles the story of his father’s rise and fall during the war, Violaine, who always felt herself and her mother to be exiles within their own clan, becomes herself obsessed with this myth of her grandfather Georges – and especially with the nearly erased story of the most significant of his many mistresses, a beautiful and aristocratic woman named Choute.

כאבי היום הם סיפורי המחר פצעי אתמול הם שירי המחר ואני מוצא עצמי מספר ואני מוצא עצמי שר וחושב להיום וזוכר העבר ואין מוקדם ואין מאוחר. י. א. שלושת מחזורי הסיפורים...

Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

"الوسية" هي عمل روائي رائع، تعددت الآراء حول العمل حيث قيل إن الوسية رواية مكتملة العناصر الروائية، وإنها سيرة ذاتية، إنها مزج بين السيرة والرواية وأطلق عليها...

"الوارثون" هي الجزء الثاني من ثلاثية خليل حسن خليل (الوسية)، وفي هذا الجزء نجد امتدادًا للسيرة ذاتها حيث يتشعب السرد ليعطي لمحة من التغير في المجتمع المصري (شكلياً)...

Bogotano por accidente es el retrato de un joven norteamericano apabullado por lo que le toca vivir en un mundo ajeno. Se encuentra inmerso, de buenas a primeras, en las calles del Bogotá de inicios de la década de los noventa, época de imprevisibles atentados criminales de la mafia. Lejos de...

Im Hungerwinter 1946/47 begegnet Hedi, hochschwanger und junge Flüchtlingsfrau aus Pommern, Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth, einer der schillerndsten Gestalten im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit. Als alleinerziehende Mutter kämpft Hedi gegen Vorurteile und Misstrauen. Aber ihre beharrliche Suche nach Freundschaft und Liebe wird belohnt – bis vollkommen unerwartet der Vater ihres Kindes vor der Tür steht.