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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。

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

清河八郎「夫れ非常の変に処する者は、必らず非常の士を用ふ――」　肥後守容保「純一むくにこれに終始せんとした珍しく生一本な政治家だった――」　　芹沢鴨「芹沢派はいよいよただの乱暴者に還ってしまった――」　近藤勇「近代的資格をほとんどまるで具えていないところの農村富農――」

五味司郎太は、都電の中で紙入れをスラれかかった男を救った。赤穂浪士の一人不破数右衛門の末孫不破数馬と名のるその男はその晩お礼に五味を自分の邸宅に泊めた。それが縁となって、彼はこの邸の一間を権利四万で借りることになった。ヴァイオリン弾きの彼は、この大金を高校事務員の恋人浪子から、ヴァイオリンをカタにトイチの約束で借りた。赤穂で県会に立候補すると称して、不破が姿をくらました後、この家を買う約束をして不破に手付けを打ったという野呂なる人物が引越して来た。彼は浪子の学校の教師で、彼女に想いをよせている男である。野呂と五味が借家権、居住権でいざこざを起している折、今度は陳根頑と称する中国人がやって来た。善後策の相談ということで、野呂、五味、浪子は陳の経営する文福飯店に招かれた。へべれけに酔った浪子にせかれて、二人は陳の持ち出した書類に捺印してしまった。この書類、貸金のカタに陳が邸を差し押えるというものだった。そこへまたサカエという女が引越して来た。彼女は野呂の学校の校長の二号だったが、お払い箱になり、先住者立退きを条件に不破からこの家を買ったという。そんな時、不破の消息が分った。サカエのお色気戦術に乗せられた五味と、それを怒って反動的に親しくなった野呂に頼まれた浪子の二人は、赤穂へ駈けつけた。そこには陳の手下である孫伍風も来ていた。三人三様の手管で権利証を不破から受けようとしていた時、不破が

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sachs' tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

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.

まったくウルサイおやじである。 素晴らしいマグロがないとお話にならないとか（私はマグロはあったら食うけどなくてもいい）、飯に昆布や砂糖をいれたのはだめだとか（入れてました）。 店の経営方法やら、大正の人格やら、客の格やら、下世話で遠慮がない。 そこがおもしろいのが悔しい。 偉そうに！･･･と思いながら耳をそらせない。 寿司の人気の理由は「肴と飯が安直にいっしょに食べられるところが時代の人気に投じたものだろう。」などと日本料理の横綱かたなしだ。

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and seperated years before. Their reunion, after the passage or irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.

名プロデューサー・菊池寛時代が求めた男・菊池寛！話題の書籍、待望の文庫化決定！！大ベストセラー作家にして、稀代のプロデューサーだった男はいかにして時代を読み、大衆に愛されたのか？

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House. The longest of the memoirs, The Imaginary Girlfriend,” is the core of this collection.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

同情するなら出張に行かせてくれ！一年中海外を飛び回っている商社勤務の有田ユカリ。ある日、本社に呼び出されると、出張禁止を告げられた。理由は、体脂肪率が高いために、万が一があると困るから。

日雇い派遣、早期退職、天涯孤独、シングルマザー…幸せかどうか分からないけど、生まれてきたから生きている

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

In this world of bribes, vendettas, and swindling, in which heiresses are gambled and won, Trollope's characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury is 'false from head to foot'; her son Felix has 'the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog'; and Melmotte - the colossal figure who dominates the book - is a 'horrid, big, rich scoundrel...a bloated swindler...a vile city ruffian'. But as vile as he is, he is considered one of Trollope's greatest creations.

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning for a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by a woman against whom she was once pitted in a love triangle.