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Un nuovo reality show dal nome chiaro e inequivocabile: "Concentramento", basato proprio su regole che ricordano il momento più terribile della storia dell'umanità. Per le strade di Parigi si aggira una troupe televisiva con il compito di reclutare i concorrenti che, volenti o nolenti, vengono caricati su vagoni piombati e internati in un campo all'interno del quale altri interpretano il ruolo di kapò.

"Dame in den besten Jahren sucht Kavalier, der sie zum Nacktbadestrand fährt. Entgeltung garantiert." - Eine Annonce in der örtlichen Tageszeitung bringt alles ins Rollen: Hedy von Pyritz, 88 Jahre, diszipliniert, scharfzüngig, eitel. Hellwacher Verstand, trockener Humor, zuweilen übergriffig. Eine alte Dame, die meist im Rollstuhl sitzt, sorgt für einen handfesten Skandal in dem kleinen Städtchen im Münsterland, wo sie herrschaftlich residiert. Aber Fräulein Hedy bleibt unbeirrt: Sie wird ihren Willen durchsetzen! Und findet in ihrem schüchternen, sanften Physiotherapeuten Jan einen Mitstreiter.

After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to a shocking revelation: the man she’s known and loved for years - the man she recently married - is not actually her husband. In fact, they haven’t even spoken since their breakup four years earlier. The happily-ever-after she remembers in vivid detail - right down to the dress she wore to their wedding - is only one example of what her doctors call a false memory: recollections Lucy’s mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma.

青豆は「さきがけ」のリーダーが最後に口にした言葉を覚えている。「君は重い試練をくぐり抜けなくてはならない。それをくぐり抜けたとき、ものごとのあるべき姿を目にするはずだ」。彼は何かを知っていた。

For Meridian Wallace - and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother's sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn't expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he's recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.

Se il nome di una persona ne influenza il destino, allora quello della piccola Plectrude non potrà che essere straordinario. Nata in prigione da un'uxoricida, allevata dopo il suicidio della madre da una zia che la preferisce alle sue stesse figlie, sembra destinata a un futuro prodigioso. Misteriosa ed enigmatica come una dea, bella come una principessa delle fiabe, sicura come una creatura di intelligenza superiore, inizia la sua vita a passo di danza, inconsapevolmente avvolta dall'ombra del suo passato tragico e violento.

National Book Award-winner Paul Monette presents a transcendent, powerful novel of three AIDS widowers who have seen each other through the worst of times -- and have found the courage to hope for the best.

小学校の卒業記念に埋…

愛する人の本当の心を、あなたは知っていますか？『マチネの終わりに』『ある男』に続く、平野啓一郎 感動の最新長篇！

Swami is a talkative, mischievous boy whose life is all about having fun with his friends and avoiding school and homework. He lives with his parents, younger brother and grandmother. He has a set of friends in two schools that he gets removed from. But some innocent mischief gets him in trouble and leads him to leave his house and go on the run. Written in his unique style, R.K Narayan's book Swami Aur Uske Dost is simple yet truly entertaining.

When Jodie Fook goes missing from a sleepy Dorset village, the repercussions that reverberate through the small community are as far-reaching as they are devastating. Will she turn up safe and sound - or will she be one of the unlucky ones?

After facing a truth she never imagined, Beulah has to find a new path. Build a life without help and take care of her sister alone. Or does she...?

第104回（1990年）芥川龍之介賞受賞作 姉が出産する病院は、神秘的な器具に満ちた不思議の国……妊娠をきっかけにゆらぐ現実を描く芥川賞受賞作。「妊娠カレンダー」「ドミトリイ」「夕暮れの給食室と雨のプール」

The late Binodini Thakur had been very clear that she would never agree to sell her hissa in her Bauji's big old house on Hailey Road. And her daughter, Bonu, is determined to honor her mothers wishes. But what to do about her four pushy aunts who are insisting she sell?

バブル期に大手銀行に入行し、大阪西支店で融資課長となった半沢直樹。支店長命令で無理に融資の承認を取り付けたものの、会社は倒産、支店長の浅野はすべての責任を半沢に押しつけてきた。四面楚歌の半沢に残された道は債権回収しかない。半沢が取った一発逆転の方法は――!?
基本は性善説。やられたら、倍返し。大ヒットドラマ「半沢直樹」原作!!

第170回芥川賞受賞作！　日本人の欺瞞をユーモラスに描いた現代版・バベルの塔。ザハの国立競技場が完成し、寛容論が浸透したもう一つの日本で、新しい刑務所「シンパシータワートーキョー」が建てられることに。

The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both businessmen of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book. Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten. And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...and pathos...and blood...and rare moments of an almost exalted happiness.

Fille d'immigrants coréens, Casey Han a été élevée dans le Queens dans le respect des traditions et des valeurs de ses parents. Propriétaires d’un pressing, ils ont travaillé dur pour payer les meilleures études à leur fille et lui permettre une belle carrière professionnelle. Mais à 22 ans, Casey, diplômée de Princeton, a pris les goûts de luxe et les manières de ses camarades et ne rêve que d’une vie glamour à Manhattan.

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