検索キーワード： 文芸小説

The year is 1907 and Maurice Ravel is one of the most admired but also most controversial composers in France. An aloof, dandyish figure, he is at the centre of a group of rebellious artists who call themselves the Apaches. It is considered a scandal that he has never won the Prix de Rome...

From the brilliantly witty author of Aphrodite and Herc comes a story set in the court of King Arthur, featuring knights, valour, sacrifice, magic and a feminist retelling of the love story of Tristan and Isolde. * * * * * * * * * Isolde, Queen of Cornwall, is on the run. She didn’t mean to...

The internationally bestselling author of the beloved Morisaki Bookshop series welcomes us back to the Torunka Café, down a narrow side street in the Tokyo neighborhood of Yakata, run by its stern-seeming owner, Tachibana, and his teenage daughter Shizuku. Stopping in for a cup of coffee or a...

In this multi-layered debut novel, Keletso Mopai dives into the world of post-apartheid South Africa in a small town, where a devastating act of racial violence shocks the community. On a farm in Tzaneen, an Afrikaner town in Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, Maluka, a young...

“Each page is sharp, piercing, and totally defiant of the expected.” —Douglas Stuart “Doshi is among the finest prose stylists at work today.” —Katie Kitamura, author of Audition From the Booker Prize finalist author of Burnt Sugar comes a riveting novel of rupture and rebirth, of...

A desperate writer’s pursuit of a powerful literary agent takes a dark turn in this new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Hitchcock Hotel and Darling Rose Gold. All Arnie Tenderton wants this Christmas—all he’s ever wanted—is to be a published author. For decades...

With a new introduction by Colm Toibin From one of the greatest story writers of our time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, and the celebrated author of Brokeback Mountain, comes a collection that includes three new stories and the most iconic stories of Annie Proulx’s...

Harry Crews’s savagely funny and gritty portrait of discipline, obsession, control, and power Shereel Dupont, formerly the secretary Dorothy Turnipseed, trains rigorously at the behest of her boss turned personal trainer Russell (“Muscle”) Morgan, sculpting her body into taut muscles and...

Winner of English PEN Translates award An elderly bookseller improbably keeps his shop open in Palestine, telling a foreign correspondent the ways in which literature has provided him with refuge and inspiration A young French photographer travels to Palestine to report on the bombings in the...

A high school quarterback and his family are embroiled in an abhorrent crime and its cover-up—a bold new novel that confronts American hero-worship and its irreversible consequences. HUMPTY-DUMPTY SAT ON A WALL . . . Darius Rodgers is the king of Steubenville, Ohio. Invincible, untouchable: a...

From the much-praised author Fiona McPhillips (“Excruciating suspense” — Stephen King; “Shocking” —NYTBR), a novel of murder and betrayal, pulse-pounding music, and all the lives we leave behind Annie Fagan, one of Ireland's first female electronic DJs and producers, spent her early...

'The future of literature is in exceptional, inspired hands' Michael Cunningham, author of Day 'A debut reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping' Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides 'I don't know how Clark wrote The Hill, but I'm glad she did. I'll be rereading it for the...

Iron & Embers ist der Auftakt der epischen Romantasy-Reihe Die Aschen von Thezmarr. Helen Scheuerer entführt uns mit dem Spin-off erneut in die actionreiche und düstere Welt der Mittelreiche voller dunkler Magie, Attentäter und Krieg. Der Krieg mag vorüber sein, doch Wren findet nur in einer Sache Trost: Rache für den Tod ihrer Freunde. Als der Alchemistin ein Platz an der berühmten Akademie von Drevenor angeboten wird, muss Wren Prüfungen bestehen, die sie ihren Verstand oder sogar ihr Leben kosten können.

On September 11, 2001, two-month-old Molly Fitzgerald’s mother goes to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never comes home. She is raised by her father and new stepmother, but grows up with a healthy dread of disasters. She now runs the local Center for Emergency Preparedness and...

One morning, during a ceasefire in Gaza, a young photographer wanders far from his hotel and into the narrow alleys of the city. Roaming aimlessly, he stumbles across an old man, surrounded by stacks of books. As the photographer raises his camera, the bookseller asks him to listen to his story...

Brought to you by Penguin. Sent to a remote village to live with their grandmother, twins Claus and Lucas devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to the ongoing horrors of war and living under a totalitarian regime. When their bond is tested, their collective...

Georg Dengler und Olga treffen auf ihren mächtigsten Gegner. Wolfgang Schorlaus neues Hörbuch handelt von der Frage, was für uns alle auf dem Spiel steht, von den Schatten der Vergangenheit und von den brutalen Arbeitsbedingungen der Zukunft – oder ist es längst die Gegenwart? Ein Dengler-Krimi auf der Höhe der Zeit. Georg Dengler vermisst Olga, sie ist wieder einmal verschwunden. In Rumänien entdeckt sie ein schreckliches Familiengeheimnis.

A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. ‘Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other’s hand, and smile, and breathe...

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the...

A group of squatters rebel against Mrs Thatcher and erupt into violence in this politicised novel from the author of ‘The Golden Notebook’. In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted...