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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.

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.

Luke Whitney is stabbed to death. His wife Anna confesses after she is found next to his lifeless body. But if she did it, why can't she confirm any of the details of the crime? As police dig into the circumstances, they learn that the victim was a liar, a cheat and a narcissist. More than one person had a reason to want him dead; his scorned ex, his neglected mistress and Anna – who knows what happens to Mrs Whitneys when Luke gets bored of them.

Jill MacSweeney wishes everything could go back to normal. But since her dad died, she's been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends - everyone who wants to support her. And when her mom decides to adopt a baby, it feels like she's trying to replace a lost family member with a new one. Mandy Kalinowski understands what it's like to grow up unwanted - to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy becomes pregnant, she wants a better life for her baby.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.

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.

When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it sent shockwaves through the tight-knit community. How could one of their own do such a thing? Especially when his own little girl was the same age – and the victim's best friend. Kathryn and her family left under the cloak of darkness one night, unable to bear the shame, and the anger of their neighbours. She hardly remembers that time. Now, she suffers the consequences of living under an assumed name, always looking over her shoulder.

Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.

Lucas Pereyra, un escritor recién entrado en la cuarentena, viaja de Buenos Aires a Montevideo para recoger un dinero que le han mandado desde el extranjero y que no puede recibir en su país debido a las restricciones cambiar i as. Casado y con un hijo, no atraviesa su mejor momento, pero la perspectiva de pasar un día en otro país en compañía de una joven amiga es suficiente para a ni mar le un poco.

This is a mini-sequel to The Other Son, a little gift for all those listeners who have been begging to know what happens next. Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family far outweigh her own. But her outwardly successful marriage hides dark secrets, and for much of her life, the children were the only reason she stuck around.

Hava hat ihre Heimat als junge Frau verlassen, aber in Deutschland, am Bodensee, ist sie nicht glücklich geworden, genauso wenig wie in ihrer Ehe. Den Mann, den sie nicht heiraten durfte, hat sie nie vergessen - und ihrem Vater nie verziehen. Und so machen sich Ayla und ihr Bruder Yasin mit ihrer Mutter in einem alten Mercedes auf den Weg nach Anatolien, damit Hava ihre große Liebe wiedersehen kann. Eine Reise beginnt, die in die Vergangenheit führt, zu dem kleinen Dorf in den Bergen, in dem Bauer Mesut von der großen, weiten Welt träumte - und seine Tochter von der Freiheit.

Mantova, corte dei Gonzaga, giugno 1501. Quando Isabella d'Este scopre che suo padre, il duca di Ferrara Ercole I, ha scelto come moglie per l'erede al trono la donna più discussa della penisola, Lucrezia Borgia, figlia bastarda del papa, già sposa di due mariti, il primo ripudiato, il secondo ucciso in circostanze ambigue, il suo animo ne resta completamente sconvolto. La figlia di una tenutaria di bordello, come amava definirla, non può mischiare il suo sangue con quello purissimo e regale degli Este.

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.

Un racconto che dura quattro decenni e ha come centro geografico, politico e sentimentale l'isola del Giglio. Un luogo apparentemente paradisiaco e lontano dal resto del mondo, ma che diventa punto di partenza e di arrivo di eventi che segnano una storia familiare e al tempo stesso la storia del Paese.

Maria ha quindici anni, vive in un paesino dell'Appennino centro meridionale d'Italia e mantiene se stessa e l'anziano padre malato facendo la bracciante nei campi dei signori, un lavoro incerto e molto gravoso, fino a quando non viene assunta come acquaiola nella casa di don Francesco, il signorotto del paese, con il compito di recarsi più volte al giorno e con qualunque tempo alla fonte, che dista tre chilometri dal paese, per rifornire la famiglia di acqua.

Kimiko, giovane scrittrice di romanzi rosa, esce con Goro, che convive con Yukiko, una lontana parente molto più grande di lui. Una sera, dopo una visita all'acquario di Tokyo a vedere i delfini, Kimiko fa l'amore con Goro, ma capisce subito che la loro storia non ha futuro. Temendo di legarsi troppo a lui, decide allora di abbandonare Tokyo. Nel tempio vicino al mare in cui trova rifugio, conosce Mami, una ragazza con doti soprannaturali, e da lei viene a sapere di essere incinta.

The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism....

Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a devastating twist of fate resulting in the loss of her son, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort.

Campania, fine Ottocento. 'A Piccerella, ingenua e credulona per natura, lavora a servizio per un'aristocratica famiglia napoletana, in cui il padrone, detto Mascariello, e anche suo figlio, soprannominato Zufolo, approfittano ripetutamente della sua innocenza e delle sue grazie con il benestare della moglie del primo, la Libbardèra, da sempre al corrente dei tradimenti del marito. Tutto cambia quando la ragazza scopre di essere incinta, senza che si conosca l'identità del padre.