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The 24 stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things for which we might wish. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.

Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. As Naoko retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.

A riveting thriller of corporate intrigue and cutthroat competition between American and Japanese business interests. On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto tower in downtown Los Angeles - the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate - a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the corpse of a beautiful young woman is discovered.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

A bestseller in Japan—a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together.

Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.

Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime - beginning in Japanese - has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about his success threatens Hajime's happiness. And a boyhood memory of a wise, lonely girl named Shimamoto clouds his heart.

En ung mand har mistet livet i boligblokken. Der står et blafrende rødt stearinlys ved ulykkesstedet, som minder beboerne om, at det er en gal verden. Alil, en ung kioskmedarbejder, er en af dem, der sørger. Han begiver sig ud på et nattelangt trip i et forsøg på at undslippe blokkenes labyrint. Et andet sted forsøger to nybagte forældre, Hannah og Ihsan, bevæbnet med pjecer at bekæmpe de systemer, som truer med at nedrive deres hjem. Alt imens vokser en mystisk kraft bag betonvæggene; en kraft, som vækker blokken til live. Blokkene er en roman om syv liv, som udsættes for hver sin prøvelse.

There She is, devastated. Her long-term boyfriend Mike has just walked out on her unceremoniously. A fresh start calling out to her. She decides to take a leap into the unknown. With the throw of a dart determining her fate, she lets go of control. She doesn't really care where the dart lands. As long as it is anywhere other than Denver, Colorado. What's been revealed as her destined new chapter? New York City. The exact opposite of Denver. Doubt and resistance arises and yet she moves forward.

A Hope That Never Dies is a poetic reckoning with memory, ego, and the quiet revolution of becoming. In a world caught between generational cycles and spiritual awakening, one man presented as Father Labby steps into the chrysalis—ready to dissolve the boundaries of self and transcend the illusions of time and space.

In a world undone, a mother’s grief becomes humanity’s last hope. The skies split. A Being descended. And in the silence that followed, everything changed. Cities collapsed. Oceans receded. Millions vanished. In the aftermath, one woman remains—Mara, a trauma nurse and mother, shattered by loss. But she is chosen, not to escape… but to witness. Across memories of fallen civilizations, she learns Earth is not the first to face judgment. Others came before. Most failed. Now, a small band of survivors must journey across a scarred world. Each bears a wound—grief, doubt, guilt, silence.

When Emma Ward is invited to view a home she never asked for, she drives deep into the woods of a forgotten town—and steps into a place that knows her darkest secrets. The doors won't open. The mirrors lie. The voices behind the walls sound familiar. “The Last House You’ll Ever Enter” is a chilling psychological thriller with heart-pounding suspense and a twist you’ll never see coming. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and The Haunting of Hill House.

Scherben einer Zerbrochenen Seele ist die schonungslose Geschichte von Richard Bryght, einem angehenden Autor aus Seattle, dessen Träume zu groß für ein einziges Leben erscheinen — er navigiert durch Liebe, Verlust und dem Streben nach künstlerischer Erfüllung. Gequält von einer vergangenen Beziehung und dem geistigen Verfall seiner Mutter durch Alzheimer. Dann bietet sich ihm eine einmalige Chance - sein selbstveröffentlichtes Buch in einen Film zu verwandeln.

Stevie Darling's mundane life is flipped upside down by a betrayal and he soon finds himself on the run. His saving grace is that he’s agile, and manages to evade capture. Whilst trying to escape his past, Stevie encounters a forgotten friend, Ker Lo, whose own past carries great mysteries that will inevitably intertwine with Stevie’s journey. Stevie realises that his most recent actions may not be the crime he is most obligated to fix, and doing so proves to be a mission beyond anything Stevie had imagined.

Year 2084. The Mediterranean island-nation of Thalassia has survived a devastating war. Not won — simply not vanished. 29% of the country lies in ruins. 87% of its citizens live on Basic Income — enough to afford rent and food. The rest? Work. Design. Manage. Or pretend to. Mister Drey is one of the last people still trusted to think. As a third-level analyst, he predicts the future and simulates societal behavior. Everything appears under control — until he meets Emma. She doesn’t exist in any protocol. She doesn’t appear in the system. But once she arrives, the model starts acting… alive.

On the fifth anniversary of her marriage, Jean Mallard walks into a bridal boutique—not to try on dresses, but to hand her husband divorce papers. Betrayed by a man who once promised her forever, Jean begins to unravel the lies that bound her to a life built on illusion. As secrets surface and loyalty fractures, she must confront not just her unfaithful husband, but the family who treated her as second-best. Amidst the Vancouver rain and the cold glint of a forgotten wedding dress, Jean finds something unexpected: her voice.

Zayne Wryder was erased without warning. Once a covert operative for Redcell—the rogue government division that turned memory into a weapon—he vanished during a mission that no one speaks about. Years later, he resurfaces… with a kill switch in his brain, a stolen data drive in his hand, and a countdown that’s already ticking. Now he’s hunted by the very ghosts he used to call teammates.

Vito will raus, raus aus seiner arschkalten Wohnung in Kreuzberg. Was mit einem Kater beginnt, entpuppt sich zwischen Ladendiebstahl und Mut anküssen als schonungslose Suche nach den Wurzeln seiner Einsamkeit. Anton Weil erzählt von den großen Themen seiner Generation: von Vereinzelung, Sexualität und Liebe, von Trauer und Aufbruch.

A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .