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凄絶な半生を描いた自伝的長編の完結編　母に捨てられ、有名な詩人だった父・洋之助が亡くなってからは祖母に虐待されて育った嫩（ふたば）。結婚後も夜な夜な暴力を振るう夫に悩まされ続け、やっと別れることができてほっとしたところに、父の知人・岸上太郎が訪ねてきた。「軽いエッセイや小説でも。いや、そんなことより洋之助の思い出を書いてみなさい。……君なら書ける」

現在と過去が交錯して浮かびあがる「姦通」文芸誌「群像」に連載された著者の“執念の大作”第2巻。前田永造の妻・京子が前夫・伊丹との間に設けた長男・康彦は、母のいない寂しさから家出を繰り返す。康彦の学校へと出向いた永造は、どこか馴れ馴れしい担任の女教師に名前を「作家・前田永造」と呼び捨てにされ不快ながらも性生活について論じたりもする。

Lauréat du Booker Prize 2025 On sent en refermant ce roman grandiose que quelque chose d'important est arrivé à la littérature. Elle Impressionnant.Le Figaro Grandiose. L'évènement de cet hiver. Elle Dès les premières pages, on est sûr de tenir entre ses mains un grand livre. Les Echos...

漕げよ、漕げ。あなたの船をーー男女の「歪み」と「再生」を超高解像度で描く恋愛文学の極致！東京の広告代理店に勤める43歳の涼子は、３歳年下で美容師の夫・孝之と結婚して13年。夫の夢を実現するための郊外暮らしや、子なし、かつ、セックスレスの生活にうっすら不満を抱えつつも、表面的には穏やかな日々を送っていた。

読後、きっとこの笑顔に涙する　「ゆずのお母さんたちってドラマチックじゃん。この世知辛い東京で、一つの土地に、四人姉妹がそれぞれ家を建てて住んでたんだよ？」。幼馴染みの稲葉亜子に問われ、そんな大げさなと返す信濃ゆず。

東京下町で老舗古書店〈東京バンドワゴン〉を営む堀田家は、四世代の大家族。勘一のひ孫・花陽は受験生になり、研人は中学校に入学、かんなと鈴花もすくすく育っている。ひとつ屋根の下、ふしぎな事件が舞い込んで、今日も一家は大騒ぎ。

ドラッグストアで絆創膏を万引きしようとした少年は、不思議な男と出会ってしまう。ポケットの中にあったはずの絆創膏は、いつの間にか男の手の中にあった。数奇な出会いから二人の運命は交錯してゆく。

Eine der größten literarischen Wiederentdeckungen der letzten Jahre. Sommer 1940: Die deutsche Armee steht vor Paris. Voller Panik packen die Menschen ihre letzten Habseligkeiten zusammen und fliehen. Angesichts der existentiellen Bedrohung zeigen sie ihren wahren Charakter.

This is the story of a toy that everyone yearned for. A toy that was found, caught, and caged. This is the story Mohit, the beloved of God. A love story you ask? Well, it could have been. But some stories are best left incomplete. This is a story of how a small spark led to the biggest fire ever. A story about love, passion, and obsession taken to the greatest heights possible. A story of a man’s love for a girl.

Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing. Breath of LIFE: After wandering around the car boot sale in the rain for half the morning, Tilda was ready to buy almost anything.

Can the secrets of one woman’s past change another woman’s future? Endsleigh House stands, crumbling and gracious, on the south-west coast of England, its rooms shut up and dusty. But what secrets do they hold? Cate, an exile from New York, is sent to help value the contents of the...

'Help,' he said. 'He's not breathing.' A tiny baby is rushed to hospital. Doctors find an injury to his brain and suspect he was shaken by his father, who is later charged and convicted. The baby grows up in the care of his mother. Life goes on. Twelve years later, Ethan is now a singular young boy. Gifted with an innate affinity for physics and astronomy, Ethan sees the world in ways his classmates (and even his mum and teachers) simply can't - through a prism of light, time, stars and space.

You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one won't lie to you. I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but, my god, I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never break, and it means you're stronger than the things they do to you. I know this is true because I have been through fire, and I am the proof that love survives. I am not a perfect mother but I will tell you the perfect truth, because this is you and me talking. This is my story.

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband.... In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident with no memory. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.

When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris' upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint and is able to host enviable birthday parties.

Mark et Cleo se rencontrent par hasard et entament ce qui semble être une histoire d’amour tout droit sortie d'un conte de fées. Mark, alors marié, quitte sa femme pour commencer une nouvelle vie avec Cleo. Mais très vite, Cleo découvre que Mark n'est pas l'homme charmant qu'elle imaginait. Et si elle avait commis une terrible erreur en tombant éperdument amoureuse de lui ? Mais il est déjà trop tard pour faire machine arrière : Cleo et Mark sont pris dans une relation destructrice dont aucun des deux ne semble pouvoir s'échapper.

Al sentir próxima la muerte, el barón Béla Wenckheim, que ha pasado buena parte de su vida exiliado en Argentina, decide regresar a su Hungría natal con la esperanza de reencontrarse con su amor de adolescencia. Pero su retorno siembra la confusión en el pueblo, muchos de cuyos habitantes lo reciben como a un rico benefactor capaz de salvarlos de la fatalidad, cuando en realidad ha dilapidado su fortuna en los casinos de Buenos Aires. En la ola de rumores y malentendidos cada vez más extravagantes participarán hasta los políticos y periodistas de la región.

Für die hypermaskuline Welt der Arbeiterviertel im Glasgow der 90er Jahre ist Mungo zu hübsch und zu sanft. Sein Bruder Hamish, gefürchteter Bandenführer, will ihn zum Mann machen und schleift ihn zu den brutalen Kämpfen zwischen Protestanten und Katholiken – nur wer hart genug ist, kann hier überleben. Dann trifft Mungo auf James und mit ihm kann er sein, wie er ist. Mit ihm lernt er ein Begehren kennen, das geächtet ist, das ihn mit Scham erfüllt, aber auch mit Glück, das er selbst vor seiner Schwester Jodie verleugnen muss, mit der er sonst alles teilt.

Audible prastut karta hai Family Drama Stories by Delhi Press kahaniyon ka sankalan. Paarivarik sambandh gehre hote hain lekin kaafi naazuk bhi hote hain. Kayi baar ek hi ghar mein rehte huye bhi parivaar ke sadasya ek doosre ko nahin samajh paate. Lagaav ke saath ek doosre ke prati dwesh, gussa aur kadvahat aane lagti hai jab samaajik mulya aur apni soch mein antar hota hai. Shaadi ke baad aksar rishton mein badlaav aane lagta hai aur mahilaon ko ek naye parivaar mein jagah banaane mein dikkat aati hai.

In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game - Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen - meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six hole showdown. They are joined by another player, a troubled war hero called Rannulph Junah. But the key to the outcome lies not with these golfing titans but with Junah's caddie and mentor, the mysterious, sage and charismatic Bagger Vance - for he is the custodian of the secret of the Authentic Swing...