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From the New York Times bestselling author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai's Garden comes a gorgeous and evocative historical novel about a Japanese-American family set against the backdrop of Hawai’i's sugar plantations. Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to...

Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history - and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom delivers exhilarating clarity and invites us to look at this character as a flawed human who might be living in our world. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are in high school and college and another when we are adults, Bloom explains his shifting understanding of Cleopatra over the course of his own lifetime.

A provocative and timely new novel by the author of Inheriting Edith, one that will haunt you long after the story is heard… Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems...

When 19-year-old Iselin Hanssen disappears during a run in a popular hiking area in Bodø, Northern Norway, suspicion quickly falls on her boyfriend. For investigator Jakob Weber, the case seems clear-cut, almost unexceptional, even though there is some suggestion that Iselin lived parts of her life beneath the radar of both family and friends. But events take a dramatic turn when another woman disappears in similar circumstances - this time on the island of Røst, hundreds of miles off the coast, in the wild ocean.

Barcelona, primavera de 1941. Martín Marín és un jove falangista extremeny que arriba a la ciutat per incorporar-se al cos de policia. Va ple d’ideals i de projectes, i està decidit a participar activament en la construcció de la Nova Espanya. Però allò que troba Marín és una ciutat en runes, miserable i amb les ferides de la guerra encara obertes. Esgarrifat, es topa amb l’estraperlo i la prostitució, que omplen els carrers, i alhora intueix que els vencedors no posen prou energia en el redreçament de la moral.

本オーディオブックは、大正六年に刊行された短篇集「羅生門」全十四話と後書を読んだものです。この集に入っている短篇は、「羅生門」「狢」「忠義」を除いて、芥川龍之介が数え年二十五歳の一年間に書かれたものです。そして多くは自分たちが経営した雑誌「新思潮」に一度掲載されたものです。恐らく初めてお聞きになる作品もあるとおもいますが、二十五歳という青年が人の心の奥に潜むものをここまで描ききった作品に出会えることに感動を覚えることと思います。当時の出版では、版を重ねるたびに作者自身が変更を加えることもよくありましたので、みなさんのご存知の内容と微妙に違うところもあるかもしれません。本オーディオブックでオリジナルに近いものをお聞きください。また「羅生門の後に」と題した後書にも思わぬ発見をすることとおもいます。(C)株式会社AIR

Es el momento de soltar su globo! Un esforzado aeronauta se encuentra atacado por un loco que ha abordado en ese peligroso momento. Durante la lucha y negociación que sigue, el loco hace un resumen de los inicios de la aerostática para acabarproclamando su intención de morir en las mismas circinstancias que sus más apreciados héroes.