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40万人が愛した小説『ほどなく、お別れです』の映画化で大注目の著者最新作!! 読むほどに心が癒える、希望の一冊 じんわりと涙が込み上げてきました。

प्यार-मोहब्बत का शहर ‘लखनऊ’, जहाँ छोटी-मोटी ‘हसरतें’, ‘चाहतें’ और ‘ललक-लगाव’ जैसी नर्सरी (ज़) तो ग्यारह की उम्र से ही आम ‘मिडिल-क्लास’ गमलों में बड़ी आसानी से चल निकलती हैं, बस थोड़ा ‘धूप-पानी’ लगता रहे। जब शुरुआत ही नादान उम्र की मासूम ‘पुच्ची’ से होती है तो आगे के अल्हड़ कथानक का अंदाज़ा आप ख़ुद ही लगा लीजिए।

"Pentru un traducator e un privilegiu sa transpuna în alt vesmânt lingvistic povestirile lui Katherine Mansfield, asa cum pentru un cititor e un privilegiu sa le citeasca. Dupa valurile, mai vechi sau mai noi, de realism - socialist, magic, erotic etc. -, existentialism, structuralism, textualism, postmodernism, dupa avalansa de literatura cu iz de kitsch hollywoodian, debordând de violenta si sexualitate, cât de reconfortanta apare adierea de aer proaspat pe care o degaja povestirile lui Katherine Mansfield!

The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer Veronica Anderson travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out 50 years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy. Of the group, led by the eccentric Maxim Topov, few are still alive and they are reluctant to talk about the intriguing events.

A parte il fatto di essere fratelli, Peter e Ivan Koubek sembrano avere poco in comune. Peter è un avvocato di Dublino sui trent'anni - affermato, abile e apparentemente irreprensibile. Ma, ora che gli è morto il padre, prende farmaci per dormire e si barcamena con fatica fra due relazioni con donne molto diverse: il primo, imperituro amore, Sylvia, e Naomi, una studentessa universitaria per cui la vita è un'unica lunga barzelletta. Ivan è un campione di scacchi ventiduenne. Si è sempre considerato uno sfigato, un paria, l'antitesi del suo disinvolto fratello maggiore.

Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune and plots to have him seized and sold into slavery. But honor, loyalty, and courage are rewarded.

愛したはずの夫は、まったくの別人であった。──「マチネの終わりに」の平野啓一郎による、傑作長編。

From award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley comes an intriguing, heartfelt tale about long held family secrets, truths that won’t stay hidden, and how facing the ultimate loss can force us to find our own ways to make amends and heal … Raising four very different daughters on her own in rural Arkansas wasn’t easy for Miss Pearly Bell.

海芝浦に向かう「私」を待ち受けるのは浦島太郎、レプリカント、マグロの目玉…。

"Farven lilla" er Alice Walkers mesterværk, som hun vandt en Pulitzer Prize og National Book Award for i 1982. Romanen foregår i 1930‘ernes Georgia, USA, hvor afroamerikanske kvinders rettigheder var nærmest ikkeeksisterende, og de forventedes at finde sig i hvad som helst. Alice Walker fortæller om dem, der lod sig kue, og dem, der tog kampen op for at få et bedre liv. I samarbejde med eReolen præsenterer Saga Egmont "Stærke stemmer" - en lydbogsserie af klassiske titler indlæst af de bedste stemmer.

第155回（2016年）芥川龍之介賞受賞作

36歳未婚女性、古倉恵子。
大学卒業後も就職せず、コンビニのバイトは18年目。
これまで彼氏なし。
オープン当初からスマイルマート日色駅前店で働き続け、
変わりゆくメンバーを見送りながら、店長は8人目だ。
日々食べるのはコンビニ食、夢の中でもコンビニのレジを打ち、
清潔なコンビニの風景と「いらっしゃいませ！」の掛け声が、
毎日の安らかな眠りをもたらしてくれる。
仕事も家庭もある同窓生たちからどんなに不思議がられても、
完璧なマニュアルの存在するコンビニこそが、
私を世界の正常な「部品」にしてくれる――。

ある日、婚活目的の新入り男性、白羽がやってきて、
そんなコンビニ的生き方は
「恥ずかしくないのか」とつきつけられるが……。

現代の実存を問い、
正常と異常の境目がゆらぐ衝撃のリアリズム小説。

Hallgatni akartam. De aztán megszólított az idő, és megtudtam, hogy nem lehet hallgatni. Szeretném elmondani, mi történt a polgári műveltséggel a tíz évben, amelynek kezdetét az osztrák függetlenség megszűntének, az Anschluss-nak napja jelenti. Azon a napon omlott össze sok minden, ami a régi Európából megmaradt.

Andreas Doppler, 40 Jahre alt, Familienvater und erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, zieht plötzlich ganz allein in den Wald...

During the long hot summer of 1976, a brilliant young Cambridge mathematician arrives in a remote village in the Lake District and takes on a job as a farm labourer. Painfully awkward and shy, Spencer Little is viewed with suspicion by the community and his only real friendship is with scruffy, clever 10-year-old Alice. When he saves Alice from a wild-fire, the locals at last begin to accept him, but as he is drawn deeper into their lives, he also becomes aware of their secrets - and of the difficulty of keeping his own.

The Tai Chi Master is about a man who gets to know the expert one day after seeing him at a park. He is never content with what he discovers and certainly doesn’t hesitate to put his views across. He goes out with him and learns some amazing things. However he is not in awe of him and tries his best to hold his own. The Tai Chi Master teaches him many things, some of which irritate the man immensely. Their friendship is tested at times, but the expert is always a class act and never falters.

From a master of family dynamics comes this vivid tale of two misfits who find each other while stumbling toward their own true identities. In 1958, eight-year-old Danny Lim has been sent to buy cigarettes for his father, when he realizes that he has lost the money. Frantic, he rushes through Vancouver's Chinatown and behind a nightclub, where he sees Miss Val, a long-time burlesque dancer. Danny is enraptured with her sequined garters and silk robe, and Val, touched by his fascination, gives him a pack of cigarettes and her silk belt.

Günter Eich siedelt seine Themen immer wieder zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit an, so auch in dieser Hörspielkomödie nach einem Motiv von Prosper Mérimée: Carlo wird beim Tennisspiel von einer Rokoko-Statue ins 18. Jahrhundert entführt. Hier, in seinem früheren Leben, steht noch eine Entscheidung aus: Beatrice oder Juana?

Inspired by an old photograph album to investigate the life of a lost relative, a man finds himself on a journey that traverses the 20th century, leading him from an American asylum to the shores of the Dead Sea. Adapted by Edward Kemp from W G Sebald's acclaimed novel about the experiences of...

79-year-old Martha Anderson, with the aid of her Zimmer frame, is robbing a bank. She’s not past it yet and intends to fund her way to a much more exciting life-style. Except all the cashier can see is a little old lady. So Martha is bundled into a cab and sent back to her atrocious care home...

Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with...