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単行本刊行時「もっと早く読んでいたら私も離婚にならなかった」「バスの中で涙で読めなくなり、恥ずかしくなるくらいでした」「もう人生の終わりに近づきこの本を読んだのは残念」

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

Am Abend ihres 41. Geburtstages sitzt Jolene allein am Esstisch – ihr Mann hat ihre Verabredung vergessen. Überhaupt zieht sich Michael immer mehr aus dem Leben mit seiner Frau und den beiden Töchtern Lulu und Betsy zurück. Als Jolene nach Antworten sucht, kommt es zum Eklat, und Michael stellt nicht nur ihre Ehe, sondern auch seine Liebe zu ihr infrage. Für Jolene bricht eine Welt zusammen. Dann wird sie als Helikopterpilotin einberufen.

What begins as a routine journey on the luxurious Orient Express soon unfurls into Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery. This all-star production features lead performances from Tom Conti ( The Dark Knight Rises, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence) as Hercule Poirot, Sophie Okonedo ( After Earth, Hotel Rwanda and Ace Ventura) and Eddie Marsan ( Sherlock Holmes, V for Vendetta and Hancock) plus a full supporting cast.

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of 30 years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children.

Ivan Ilitch é um funcionário público do sistema judiciário russo. Casado com uma mulher exigente, buca ser um magistrado. O trabalho é o refúgio para evitar sua família. Depois de um acidente, ele acredita ter contraído uma doença, mas não há um diagnóstico satisfatório. O tempo passa e o ferimento agrava-se, ele então se vê restrito ao ambiente familiar. Ivan Ilitch quer morrer para dar fim à sua dor e à sua vida de mentiras. Inicia-se assim um processo de busca pelo sentido da vida, durante o qual Ivan percebe terem sido poucos os momentos da sua existência que tiveram significado.

Teo ha otto anni e, più ancora dello Skifiltor, desidera una famiglia felice. Ma i suoi genitori litigano sempre, ogni battaglia quotidiana sembra persa. Così Teo decide di combatterla lui, questa battaglia, al posto loro. Per sapere come vincerla però deve chiedere a uno che di battaglie se ne intende. Uno come Napoleone, la cui storia sta leggendo su un audiolibro. Ma Napoleone è morto: come si fa a incontrarlo? E sarà in paradiso o all'inferno? L'inferno, tra l'altro, pare sia molto caldo, quasi come Porto Ercole d'estate.

Unser Leben, unsere Welt werden durch unsere Erinnerungen zusammengehalten. Was geschieht mit uns, wenn wir sie verlieren, und welche Möglichkeiten tun sich auf, wenn andere unsere Erinnerungen wiederbeleben können? Der 74-jährigen Alma Konachek, die in einem Vorort von Kapstadt lebt, widerfährt genau dies. Sie verliert ihr Gedächtnis... Wie alle Werke Doerrs zeugt auch dieses von der Größe des Lebens - von der geheimnisvollen Schönheit der Fossilien, Wolken, Blätter - von dem atemberaubenden Glück, in diesem Universum zu leben.

Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece", Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity, Lori's life has taken on fairy-tale proportions: She's financially set for life and happily married...or so she thinks. When Lori's plans for a second honeymoon to England with her workaholic husband fall through, she begrudgingly takes along her father-in-law who promptly disappears, leaving behind a mysterious note.

Es gibt keine Zufälle, es gibt nur Zeichen. Davon ist die Hamburger Autorin Katrin überzeugt. Doch während sie Bücher schreibt, die anderen Orientierung geben sollen, steckt sie selbst in einer Lebenskrise. Bis das Schicksal auch ihr ein Zeichen gibt: Als sie einen Liebesbrief findet, adressiert an einen Filipe in Portugal, beschließt sie, dem Empfänger die Botschaft persönlich zu überbringen. Mit ihrer Freundin Julia reist sie auf eine idyllische Halbinsel an der Atlantikküste, die Heimat des geheimnisvollen Filipe. Bei der Suche nach ihm gerät Katrin unversehens in ein Familiendrama.

Actress Willow Carruthers is living the dream in London, with an Oscar on her shelf, a rock-star husband and two gorgeous children. But Willow isn't coping with her seemingly perfect life. Country girl Kitty Middlemist arrives in London desperate for a job. She has a perfect pedigree on paper but no particular skills in real life. Work is hard to find until Kitty, quite by chance, takes on a job with Willow. As their lives and secrets become intertwined, Willow and Kitty discover there is no such thing as chance - only destiny.

Michael Kind is raised in the Jewish cauldron of 1920s New York, familiar with the stresses and materialism of metropolitan life. Turning to the ancient set of ethics of his Orthodox grandfather, with a modern twist, he becomes a Reform rabbi. As insecure and sexually needy as any other young male, he serves as a circuit-rider rabbi in the Ozarks, and then as a temple rabbi in the racially ugly South, in a San Francisco suburb, in a Pennsylvania college town, and, finally, in a New England community west of Boston.

Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.

A Signature Performance: Leelee Sobieski’s Emma is sultry but vulnerable, offering a sympathetic rendering of the heroine and her plight, allowing the listener to draw his own conclusions about Madame Bovary in this cautionary tale of love, passion, and desperation.

"Il me reste quelques rêves à réaliser et le moment est venu de m'y atteler. Je vous aime très fort. À très bientôt ! Maman." Léna n'en revient pas. Comment sa mère, qui l'a convoquée pour passer Noël dans la maison de son enfance, a-t-elle pu disparaître en ne lui laissant que ce message sibyllin ? La voilà donc coincée dans le petit village de Vallenot au cœur des Alpes de Haute-Provence et condamnée à passer la fête qu'elle hait plus que tout, entourée de sa famille pour le moins... haute en couleur ! Mais les fêtes de famille ont le don de faire rejaillir les secrets enfouis.

Ein tröstlicher Roman, der an kalten Tagen wärmt wie eine gute Nudelsuppe. Jeden Morgen, noch bevor die Sonne aufgeht, öffnet Ah Hock die Fensterlädchen, entzündet ein Räucherstäbchen und bereitet gemeinsam mit seiner Frau die beste Nudelsuppe der Stadt zu. Anis, Kreuzkümmel, Galgantwurzel und das rauchige Aroma des Holzofens sind nur einige der geheimen Zutaten des Rezepts, das von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben wird. Nur Ah Hocks Sohn hat kein Interesse an der Familientradition.

I thought moving to this quiet cul-de-sac was the fresh start my husband and I needed, escaping the noise of our cramped flat in Hounslow. I left India and all that was familiar for a new life with him in England. But my husband works all hours, leaving me alone in a house that doesn’t feel like a home. Our neighbours notice the bruises on my arms. They draw the obvious conclusions. They seem kind, but they’re hiding something. I just can’t shake the feeling that someone is always watching me . . . waiting. My husband’s working late. Again. That’s when I see it.

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

My son Cam is going to be a baseball star. He’s only thirteen but this trip is a huge opportunity for him. There are scouts from all the major baseball teams at this tournament. He is the one to watch. The night before the tournament starts, Cam’s bed is found empty. Everyone is a suspect. People are always jealous of him — other kids, other parents. Even his own father. Anyone could have taken him. The police start digging into every corner of our lives. They want to know everything about us. Everything about our relationship. Every secret we’ve kept from each other.

Época actual. Logroño Manuela, una abogada racional, recibe una llamada que lo cambiará todo: Palmira, su abuela, supuestamente muerta hace más de treinta años, quiere reencontrarse con ella. Incrédula pero cautivada, acepta la cita, sin imaginar que esta decisión la arrastrará al corazón de una conspiración europea enterrada en la historia familiar. Décadas atrás, entre Europa y Puerto Rico Palmira, una mujer adelantada a su tiempo, huye con su familia hacia América tras cometer un acto desesperado en la posguerra española.