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The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The listener decides.

In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips, and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate. As they go about their daily lives - harvesting crops, making baklava - the villagers sustain one another through good times and bad. But sometimes, all it takes is a spark of romance to turn life on its head, and a plot to bring two of Maran's most stubbornly single residents together soon gives the village something new to gossip about....

Dramatisations of Calvino’s most famous works, starring Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook, plus bonus programmes Italo Calvino was one of the 20th Century's great experimenters, who consistently pushed the boundaries of literature. His works ranged from fantasy and science fiction to folktales...

Swann’s Way is the first of seven volumes in Remembrance of Things Past. It sets the scene with the narrator’s memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake, the madeleine, accompanied by a cup of lime-flowered tea. It is an unmatched portrait of fin-de-siècle France.

ചരിത്രപരവും സാമൂഹ്യവുമായ കാരണങ്ങൾകൊണ്ട് ദലിത് സമൂഹത്തിലെ ജനവിഭാഗങ്ങൾ അടിമമനോഭാവം പുലർത്തുന്നതായി ഡോ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Another undisclosed facet of her million secrets glittered before us... Emerence is a domestic servant – strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on to help around the house...

In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments - caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition, and fresh experience. A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter".

Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, 12 jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father. A seemingly open and shut case turns complicated, igniting passions and hidden prejudices.

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Colin Salmon known for his starring roles in Resident Evil and Alien Vs Predator. He is also known for his role as Charles Robinson alongside Pierce Brosnan's James Bond. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Maurice...

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MAGNOLIA PARKS **** London-based Georgia Carter has long been estranged from her wealthy, conservative South Carolina family. Until she gets the text: dad's dead. As Georgia returns for the funeral, she is reunited with her favourite...

Available in English at last, the international bestseller from one of Japan's most acclaimed authors, a touching tale of a broken family contending with the pain of the past to live in the present, helped by the unforgettable dog who becomes their lifeline. Sakura is the story of a family who...

Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later, she is gone. A dismembered corpse is discovered in the locked bathroom of her home, but her much-coveted body art is nowhere to be found. Kinue's horrified lover joins forces with the boy detective, Kyosuke Kamizu, to try to get to the bottom of the macabre crime, but similar deaths soon follow. Is someone being driven to murder by their lust for tattooed skin, and can they be stopped?

Au traditionnel rassemblement du Nouvel An, Camélia, convie tous les villageois de Ruby-des-Ruisseaux à son salon de thé pour une réunion remplie de mystère. Il va sans dire que tous seront présents y compris Thomas Mackensie, marchand général et fier de ses origines écossaises, Romain Bluteau, le maire de la ville imbu de son pouvoir et plusieurs autres concitoyens, afin d’entendre l’annonce surprenante de la propriétaire de l’établissement.

Des retrouvailles et des amours naissantes laissent espérer une fin d’année sereine pour les habitants de ce charmant village. La relève semble sur le point d’éclore grâce à une jeunesse dynamique et profondément attachée aux valeurs et aux traditions. Un espoir se dessine pour la transmission du flambeau, visant à protéger l’âme de Ruby-des-Ruisseaux. Or, chaque famille n’évolue pas au même diapason.

Ruby-des-Ruisseaux, hameau traversé par une rivière aux méandres enchanteurs et doté de trois magnifiques îles, est caractérisé par une culture écossaise encore très présente, due aux premiers arrivants écossais. On raconte que ceux des alentours les qualifiaient de « cheveux rouges du ruisseau », étant donné les cheveux roux d’une grande majorité de ces premiers colons écossais, d’où le nom de Ruby-des-Ruisseaux, le rubis étant une pierre précieuse de couleur rouge.

Ce charmant village, fondé par des Écossais et situé près de la rivière, s’enorgueillit de trois magnifiques îles. Sur l’une d’elles se trouve l’auberge pittoresque, nommée « Les Lupins ». Un événement dramatique s’y produira et la survie de ce lieu s’en trouvera grandement menacé… Que dire du spectre de la compagnie Macleod-Beaudoin qui se dressera à nouveau à l’horizon, causant un bouleversement parmi la population ? Des intrigues se trameront et les personnages de Ruby-des-Ruisseaux vivront de grandes prises de conscience.

Una peculiar gramática que se hace eco de las dificultades que el autor ha detectado en sus alumnos, los medios de comunicación y la sociedad en general. Una amena síntesis sobre el buen uso de nuestro idioma y una denuncia de los abusos que cometen los hablantes.

The Monkey and The Tiger includes two detective stories, "The Morning of the Monkey" and "The Night of the Tiger," based on a real-life judge in T'ang Dynasty China who became legendary for his crime-solving skills. In the first story, a gibbon drops an emerald in the open gallery of Judge Dee's official residence, leading the magistrate to discover a strangely mutilated body in the woods—and investigate how it got there. In the second, Dee is traveling to the imperial capital to assume a new position when he is separated from his escort by a flood.

In this first Volume of Merlin's Isle, join the prophesied youth, Sir Galahad, and the other knights of the quest as they set out from Camelot to achieve the Holy Grail. The accomplishment of their goal will heal not only the wounded Fisher King, but will bring about the long-hoped for healing of the land itself.