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Unsung, Arunoday Singh’s first volume of poetry, presents a collection of his most popular work alongside new material, where he delves inwards and probes questions of love, loss, longing-everything that ails the human heart.He has amassed a large, involved following on Instagram, where he...

Kitaab ‘svaad zaindagee kaa’ shruti sukumaar dvaaraa rachit kavitaa_on kaa snkalan hai. Ye kavitaa_en yathaarth jeevan par aadhaarit sakaaraatmak soch vaalee kavitaa_en hain. Nakaaraatmak vichaaron ko sakaaraatmak soch men badalanaa aasaan naheen hai lekin kavayitree apane shabdon ke chayan men sahaj hain v vah ise prastut karane men safal huii hain.

In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of narrative art--not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.

Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.

From the unique standpoint of an American woman who married into a Japanese family and has lived in Japan for more than 30 years, Rebecca Otowa weaves enchanting tales of her adopted home that portray the perspective of both the Japanese and the foreigner on the universal issues that face us all - love, work, marriage, death, and family conflict.

中島敦の短編小説。唐の時代に書かれた「人虎」として知られる中国の変身譚を元にしている。教材としても人気があり、高等学校の現代文の教科書に多く掲載されている。李徴は博学才穎で、若くして名を馳せ役人となったが、自尊心が強く官職に満足できなかった。官職を辞し詩作に耽るも、上手くいかずに挫折する。その後、生活のために地方官となるも、屈辱的な日々に自尊心はひどく傷つき、ついに発狂して姿を消してしまった。翌年、李徴の友人である袁参が、人喰虎が出るという道を危険を顧みずに進んでいると、一匹の猛虎が躍り出た。虎は、かつての友人李徴であった。李徴は袁参に語る。なぜ自分は虎になったのか。人との交わりを避け、詩家を目指すも切磋琢磨を怠った。それは臆病な自尊心と、尊大な羞恥心の所為であった。この羞恥心が心のうちに潜む虎であり、家族や友人を傷つけた。そうしてついに、本当の虎になってしまったのだ。誰しもが心中には猛獣を飼っている。それが自分や人を傷つける。李徴の場合はそれが虎であった。

At thirteen, investigative prodigy Huang Zixia had already proved herself by aiding her father in solving confounding crimes. At seventeen, she's on the run, accused of murdering her family to escape an arranged marriage. Driven by a single-minded pursuit, she must use her skills to unmask the real killer...and clear her name.

"A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world...

A beautiful re-issued edition of poetry from the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of How To Pronounce Knife FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR “In 1978, my parents lived in building #48. Nong Khai, Thailand, a Lao refugee camp. My father kept a scrapbook filled with doodles...

A beautiful re-issued edition of poetry from the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of How To Pronounce Knife FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry Light examines the word that gives the collection its name. There are poems about a sparkle...

A beautiful re-issued edition of poetry from the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author of How To Pronounce Knife FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The language of Small Arguments is simple, yet there is nothing simple in its ideas. Reminiscent of Pablo Neruda’s Elemental Odes...

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In his ‘urban pastoral’ lines, we encounter street colloquialisms alongside high diction, a combination that at the time was unprecedented.

The sheer volume of commentaries on the Mahabharata is awe-inspiring. So, what is it in the Mahabharata that gives it its timeless magic? Is it the mythical characters with which it is replete that makes the epic so enchanting? Or is it the great wealth of philosophical and metaphysical ideas in it that dazzles its audiences? Or could it be a combination of all these that makes it ever-fascinating to scholars and audiences around the world? And, most of all, what accounts for its incredible effect on the subconscious of millions of Indians through several generations?

'Numair Choudhury is the Bangladeshi Bolano' AMITAVA KUMAR Numair Atif Choudhury's first and only novel, Babu Bangladesh!, published posthumously, was heralded as a sui generis masterpiece. In Taxi Wallah and Other Stories, we encounter more of Choudhury's limitless imagination and deep empathy...

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. The boys are treated as delinquent outcasts - feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, their hosts abandon them and flee, blockading them inside the empty village.

La India es el país de las narraciones, donde mejor se ha empleado la magia de la ficción para transmitir conocimiento e ideas. Estas expresiones alegóricas y artísticas han sido en la India desde antiguo la forma didáctica más extendida, en forma de cuento apologético. El presente libro recoge una cuidada selección de las mejores narraciones de base filosófica, las que enseñan tanto el sistema cosmogónico de los hindúes como la forma de llevar una buena existencia basada en la sabiduría y la conducta adecuada.

酒場の人気女給だった妻を亡くした中学教師が、その執着と嫉妬から競馬の狂気へと堕ちていく姿を描きます。 妻の名にちなんだ「1番」の単勝をただ買い続ける主人公の異様な心理描写と破滅へと滑り落ちる小心者の哀愁を、無頼派・織田作之助特有のテンポの良い語り口をオーディオブックで再現します。

山本周五郎の作品としては異色の作品。まるで落語のようなストーリーが展開されます。 じわじわとこみ上げるおかしさの中にちょっぴり大人の会話も振りかけられていて思わずクスリと笑ってしまいます。

自然主義文学を代表する一人、国木田独歩の短編です。 明治初期の東京に住む下層社会の人々の生活をリアルに描いています。 自然主義らしい淡々とした描写で当時の社会の闇を描き出しています。

『阿部一族』は、森鴎外が江戸初期の熊本藩で起きた実際の事件を題材に描いた歴史小説です。 主君の死後、家臣・阿部弥一右衛門の行動をめぐる出来事は、やがて阿部家を藩との対立へと導き、一族の滅亡という悲劇へ発展していきます。