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17歳の少女が自ら警察に保護を求めてきた。その背景を探る刑事に鑑識から報告が入る。少女が生活していたマンションの浴室から、大量の血痕が見つかったのだった。やがて、同じ部屋で暮らしていた女も警察に保護される。

連作警察小説。子供の姿を見たいがために現れるであろう犯人を張込む俺。思惑通り、姿を見せた犯人を逮捕。取調べに向かう途中、庁舎の廊下で刑事から声をかけられた。

夜から次の日の朝まで開いているビストロ「キッチン常夜灯」。同期の南雲みもざに連れられて、34歳のつぐみは初めて店に足を踏み入れて以来、「今日は常夜灯に行く」ことを、仕事のモチベーションにしている。

養父と友人たちの尽力により、労働改造所から釈放された陸一心は、恩人である江月梅と結婚。そのかたわらで、中国と日本共同のプロジェクト「宝華製鉄」建設チームに抜擢された。

その女は愛する男を殺し、陰部を切り取り逃亡した──脚本家の吉弥は、少年時代に昭和の猟奇殺人として知られる「阿部定事件」に遭遇。以来、ゆえあって定の関係者を探し出し、証言を集め続けてきた。

Un été inoubliable sur une île grecque. Le soleil, la mer, la légèreté de l'adolescence. Rachel n'a jamais pu oublier cette saison dorée — ni l'homme qu'elle aimait alors, de vingt ans son aîné. Des années plus tard, devenue adulte, mariée, rangée, une rencontre fortuite ravive ce passé. Une fille, une phrase, un détail. Et tout vacille. Peu à peu, Rachel sent monter le doute : que s'est-il vraiment passé cet été-là ? Que lui a-t-on fait croire ? Et pourquoi le corps retrouvé sur la plage lui semble-t-il si familier ?

武田信玄に戦術を具申し、川中島に忽然と消えたと言う軍師・山本勘助。その遺児とされる僧が、父の生きた痕跡を探る表題作ほか、歴史短編八篇をセレクト。さらに、単行本未収録のショートショート「トンボ突き」を付した傑作集。著者の多面的作風を、歴史小説を通して浮き彫りにする。

En esta novela imprescindible de la narrativa estadounidense del siglo xx, Sinclair Lewis nos presenta a George F. Babbit, un agente inmobiliario bullicioso, arrogante y siempre preocupado por su reputación. Babbit es el epítome del conformista, un personaje que piensa y siente lo mismo que la multitud. Mayormente con esa actitud lo vemos participar en reuniones, actos sociales y viajes de negocios que capturan toda la agitación de la cultura comercial de su país.

Estudiante de doctorado en neurociencia, Gifty explora la conducta en ratones para investigar el funcionamiento de los circuitos neuronales de la depresión y la adicción, dos enfermedades que han causado estragos entre sus seres más queridos: su hermano, Nana, era una promesa del atletismo que murió hace años a causa de una sobredosis de heroína tras una lesión de tobillo y la dependencia al OxyContin, mientras que su madre ha vuelto a caer en una depresión severa.

La novel·la que va consagrar Han Kang com una de les grans autores del segle: una lectura pertorbadora i transformadora. La vegetariana narra la història d'una dona, la Yeonghye, que per la simple decisió de no tornar a menjar carn converteix una vida normal en un malson pertorbador. Narrada a tres veus, explica el despreniment progressiu de la condició humana d'una dona que ha decidit deixar de ser allò que l'obliguen a ser.

In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Göttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tōhoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned without any explanation. The reunited friends share a past that's a world away from the tranquillity of Göttingen. Yet Nomiya's spectral presence destabilises something in the city...

When Alexandra's fiancé runs off with her so-called best friend, her life veers sharply away from the romance films she's obsessed with. She's worked so hard to get her fairytale ending after the horrors of her past, and despite this setback, she's determined she'll still find her happy ever after. To distract herself, Alexandra tries to focus on her job where she has a secret specialty: matchmaking psychopaths. But in losing the two people closest to her, she's unignorably lonely.

When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague–the poet–it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants. While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows.

In the nineties, Lydia was one half of a teen pop group. Their image was sexy, edgy, girly yet 'in control.' The reality was very different. Now, thirty years later, with #MeToo revelations a daily reality, a famous ex-lover resurfaces with a slick, self-serving apology, demanding forgiveness. Suddenly, Lydia is overwhelmed with memories of a harmful time in her life that refuses to leave her in peace.

Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp; spending the rest of the day selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream.

November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister's name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. But when the date arrives, Marsi is prevented from going, and during the night her sister Stína goes missing – her bloodstained anorak later found at the place where Marsibil and her penpal had agreed to meet. November, 1977. Stína's disappearance remains unsolved.

Amir has grown up in Alum Rock, Birmingham, under the care of his sensible older brother, Bilal, and his cousin Saqib, born just a few days before Amir. Alum Rock can be a troubled place, but Amir has managed to keep his head down, worked hard and stayed out of trouble … until now. When Saqib is killed in a gang fight and Bilal announces his engagement, Amir suddenly loses the two men who keep him grounded. Amir’s university grades are collapsing, he’s running out of money, and pressure mounts from every direction.

Susan “Zuzu” Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she’s always dreamed of – a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and her wife has been off for a long time, and she can’t help but wonder if she’s chosen wrong at every turn. Choosing to live with her white mother over her Black father in the divorce, choosing to become a lawyer rather than an artist, and most importantly, choosing to marry Agnes despite her unrequited feelings for her male best friend Cash.

Maya is living her dream in Vienna. First violinist with the prestigious Habsburg Philharmonic, her days are filled with music, her nights with wild parties and passionate, no-strings-attached sex with her colleague, star cellist Lucia Rizzo. But when Josh - the ex-love of Maya's life - unexpectedly shows up at her door, the perfect world she's built begins to unravel.

For Damir, time is money. He bikes around the city collecting food orders, rushing through the cycle lanes next to Uber drivers and grocery vans – and all the other people delivering your every desire. He arrives with your sushi rolls and fries and disappears into the night – Ping! Onto the next drop. He is invisible; one player in the boardgame of the city. But one summer’s evening, a chance encounter changes all the rules. Damir arrives on Decca’s doorstep with a bag of spilled edamame beans, in a postcode that could be another universe, and there’s an immediate connection.