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鎌倉で小さな文具店を営むかたわら、手紙の代書を請け負う鳩子。今日も風変わりな依頼が舞い込みます。友人への絶縁状、借金のお断り、天国からの手紙……。身近だからこそ伝えられない依頼者の心に寄り添ううち、仲違いしたまま逝ってしまった祖母への想いに気づいていく。

ある町にたたずむ“OGATA”という看板を掲げたお店――通称、「もしも料理店」。その日やってきたのは、仕事のプレッシャーに悩む男性だった。彼の話をじっくりと聞いたシェフはこう言う。

パキスタン駐在を終えた恩地を待ち受けていたのは、さらなる報復人事だった。イラン、そして路線の就航もないケニアへの赴任。会社は帰国をちらつかせ、降伏を迫る一方で、露骨な差別人事により組合の分断を図っていた。

新たに原文から忠実に訳された、1000年という時を経て蘇る王朝文学の傑作。平安時代の流麗な文体を現代の簡潔な文体に置き換え、かつ、これまでの現代語訳では重要視されてこなかった有職故実など、『源氏物語』の文化的な側面に光をあてた現代語訳。

In a small town in 1950s Ireland Eilis Lacey is one among many women of her generation who cannot find work at home. So, when a job is offered in America, she knows she must leave. Arriving, alone, at a noisy boarding house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has left behind. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she begins to find a new way of living, and the possibility of companionship, Eilis receives tragic news which sends her back to Ireland.

光る感性と絶妙な言葉で青春をえがく短編集。キングオブコント2020優勝のジャルジャルの福徳秀介は、知る人ぞ知る文芸の名手。本作『しっぽの殻破り』は、ふとした瞬間をユニークな視点で切り取り、小さな感情の波を小気味よく言語化し、物語のゴールは爽快に駆け抜ける、粒選りの青春短編24話を収録。

A full-cast production of the science fiction classic featuring original recordings of Orson Scott Card

A bestseller in Japan—a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together.

Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power: With a single prayer, she can part the clouds and bring back the sun. But her power comes at a price, and as the weather spirals further and further out of control, they must choose what future they truly want for themselves.

毎日こつこつと働き、余暇には本を読み、紅茶を淹れて音楽を聴く。つつましく生きてきた律子に人生の終盤、ある奇跡が訪れる。

＜彼女は善い魔法使いとなり、出会ったひとびとを救い、幸福にするための力を手に入れるのですが、それは世界の片隅で起きるひそかな物語、ほんとうに小さな魔法です。

After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland. She obsessively researches her former captors, desperate to find any way to prolong the safety of humankind. When Mina encounters a stranger near her home, she fears the worst – for she knows the figure is not what it seems. Soon, people she has encountered start to disappear.

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.

Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love.

「三千円の使いかた」「ランチ酒」の原田ひ香が描く、本×ご飯×仕事を味わう、心に染みる長編小説。東北の書店に勤めるもののうまく行かず、書店の仕事を辞めようかと思っていた樋口乙葉は、SNSで知った、東京の郊外にある「夜の図書館」で働くことになる。

おじいちゃんに恋人が！？　80歳という年齢からもそんなことが現実に起こっているなんて半信半疑の若菜は、祖父・茂がカラオケでデュエットしていたという目撃談を耳にした母・晴子から真相追究の勅命を受ける。

Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted—Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English—offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction.

19世紀後半、栄華を極めるパリの美術界。画商・林忠正は助手の重吉と共に流暢な仏語で浮世絵を売り込んでいた。野心溢れる彼らの前に現れたのは日本に憧れる無名画家ゴッホと、兄を献身的に支える画商のテオ。

Enter the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven," brought to life by the evocative narration of Anthony Pica. This timeless piece of gothic literature tells the story of a grief-stricken man visited by a mysterious raven in the dead of night. As the raven utters its ominous refrain, "Nevermore," the man descends deeper into despair, haunted by memories of his lost love, Lenore.

War has broken out between Annwyn and Orea, though that’s not the only battle being waged. There’s a fight inside me, and it’s one I’m determined to win, no matter how much they try to strip me down and hollow me out. Yet they’ve forgotten one thing. The ancient magic of the pair bond. One can never truly be lost when two souls are already bound. Because Slade and I? We are connected by more than just fated magic, and we will always find each other. In any life.

大手航空会社「国民航空」社員の恩地元は、まじめで実直な強い信念を持った男である。恩地は半ば強引に就任させられた労働組合委員長として、職場環境の改善を訴えたが、その手法を嫌忌した経営陣からアフリカへと左遷されてしまう。