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Strawberry Road

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:44:10 PST

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The Girl With the White Flag

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:19:39 PST

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Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, Tomiko Higa tells her own story of survival on the battlefields of Okinawa, Japan. Fleeing from encroaching enemy forces, searching desperately for her lost sisters, opening the knapsacks of dead soldiers for scraps of food, risking death at every turn, seven-year-old Tomiko somehow finds the courage and strength to survive on ...

Once and Forever

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:03:56 PST

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It is time that Kenji Miyazawa, long recognized as a writer of genius in his own country, enjoyed the same reputation abroad. Are his fables, in which acorns quarrel and flowers fret about losing their looks, written for children or adults? They are for both: for adventurous young minds, but also for older readers in whom the spark of curiosity, combined with a taste for fantasy and a love of lan ...

Passionate Friendships

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:45:07 PST

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Raising My Voice

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:43:06 PST

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Malalai Joya is the youngest and most famous female MP in Afghanistan, whose bravery and vision have won her an international following. She made world headlines with her very first speech, in which she courageously denounced the presence of warlords in the new Afghan government. She has spoken out for justice ever since, and for the rights of women in the country she loves. "Raising My Voice" sh ...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:42:08 PST

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Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a ...

Sputnik Sweetheart

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:38:17 PST

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Twenty-two-year-old Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: wh ...

Days of God

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 9:25:39 PST

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The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a turning-point in modern history. The destruction of the Iranian monarchy not only upset the political order in the Middle East and brought on a quarter-century of warfare, but introduced a new way to look at history. In Days of God James Buchan lives each moment of the revolution through the eyes of ordinary people as he tries to answer his own troubling quest ...

The Makioka Sisters

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 9:25:04 PST

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Yukiko is 30. Her parents are still trying to marry her off, and her younger sister is worried because she cannot be married until Yukiko, as the eldest, is. Set in Osaka, before and after World War II, this story looks at a style of life that was destroyed forever with Hiroshima.

1Q84

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 9:10:34 PST

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Lighthousekeeping

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 9:09:37 PST

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Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a pri ...

The Passion

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:00:57 PST

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In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges are not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has ...

Kabuki dancer

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:47:16 PST

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An almost mythical representation of the miraculous moment when an immortal artform was born, this novel recreates the ethos and mores of early 17th-century Japan.

Kusamakura

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:46:39 PST

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Literally meaning 'Pillow of Grass', "Kusamakura" is Soseki's portrayal of an artist who opposes convention and logic, and shuns emotional involvement. Soseki's artist attempts to live as a hermit using other people as his stimuli for his sensations and reflections. The artist fluently and prolifically composes poetry, but finds himself unable to paint - despite befriending a beautiful young divo ...

The Lake

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:43:24 PST

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The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that drives him to shadow nameless women in the street and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, ...

Five Women Who Loved Love

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:42:50 PST

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The Woman in the Dunes

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 8:58:14 PST

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Monkey brain sushi

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 8:57:57 PST

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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 8:57:41 PST

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In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what Montmartre had been to 1890s Paris and Times Square was to be to 1940s New York. Available in English for the first time, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, captures the decadent allure of this entertainment district, where beggars and teenage prostitutes mixed with revue dancers and famous authors. Originally serialized i ...

Harp of Burma

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 8:57:20 PST

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Harp of Burma portrays a company of Japanese troops who are losing a desperate campaign against British forces in the tropical jungles of Burma. The young soldiers discover that the trials of war involve more than just opposing the enemy. The foreign climate and terrain, the strange behavior of foreigners, the constant struggle to overcome homesickness of war--all of these forces, new and bafflin ...

Milky Way railroad

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 8:56:57 PST

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"ITS PRETTY BIG FOR A WALNUT— ABOUT TWICE AS BIG AS USUAL. AND IT HASNT GONE BAD YET, NOT EVEN A BIT. ...

After the Quake

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 8:56:33 PST

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The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estranged parents live in ...

World on the Edge

Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:42:55 PST

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We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. B ...

Lessico famigliare

Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:42:31 PST

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Catherine the Great

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:52:24 PST

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Peter the Great presents a reconstruction of the 18th-century empress's life that includes coverage of such topics as ...

We All Wore Stars

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:20:07 PST

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In 1941, Theo Coster was a student at the Amsterdam Jewish Lyceum, one in a class of 28 Jewish children that the Nazis had segregated from the rest of the Dutch population. Among Theo's fellow students was a young Anne Frank, whose diary would later become one of the most important documents of the Holocaust. In this remarkable group portrait, Coster and five of his fellow classmates gather their ...

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:19:29 PST

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The first personal documentation of life in the North Korean labor camps from a survivor and escapee of the communist regime's prisons. North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education ...

The Calcutta Chromosome

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:17:56 PST

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From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, in ...

The Modigliani Scandal

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 8:36:51 PST

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Modigliani. Unarguably one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Modigliani's women. Those elongated, haunting figures, as eternally provocative as the Mona Lisa. Adn Modigliani's missing masterpiece. A priceless lost treasure - or a chillingly dangerous game? Up and coming artist Peter Usher has still to exhibit anywhere, still to make even the most modest mark on the London art scene. But as ...

Voci

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:25:19 PST

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Una porta spalancata, un paio di scarpe da tennis azzurre appaiate, un acuto odore di disinfettante accolgono, al suo ritorno nella casa romana dopo una breve assenza, la giornalista di una radio privata, Michela Canova. Apparentemente questi segni non sembrano indicare nulla di particolare, in realtà sono le tracce, le uniche, di un delitto - l'assassinio di Angela Bari, una vicina di casa di Mi ...

The City of Yes

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:18:09 PST

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Alive with history, myth, and wonder, The City of Yes is a luminous novel of parallel journeys through old and present-day Japan. In Saitama to teach English, the narrator is confronted by unlikely visions of home as he gradually enters the world of contemporary Japan, with its floating stories, enigmas, and contradictions. His own story is deftly interwoven with that of a real-life nineteenth-ce ...

Dreams of Joy

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:13:28 PST

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Nineteen-year-old Joy Louie has run away from her home in 1950s America to start a new life in China. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that Chairman Mao is on the side of the people, despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life, that her mother Pearl is really her aunt and that her real fathe ...

Le città invisibili

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:07:39 PST

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Città reali scomposte e trasformate in chiave onirica, e città simboliche e surreali che diventano archetipi moderni in un testo narrativo che raggiunge i vertici della poeticità.

Palomar

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:05:51 PST

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Calvino descrive il signor Palomar, protagonista del suo libro omonimo edito dalla Einaudi nel 1983, come un uomo dal carattere difficile, riflessivo e taciturno, un uomo a tratti nervoso che abita un suo mondo, congestionato, un uomo che guarda. Ma al tempo stesso Palomar è un miope, colpito da un difetto di rifrazione dell'occhio che non gli permette di mettere perfettamente a fuoco gli oggetti ...

Il tempo che vorrei

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:00:53 PST

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Ci sono padre e figlio su un treno, non si sa per dove né perché. Il figlio ha l'età dell'autore, e non è questa l'unica somiglianza. In treno, si sa, è facile perdersi nei pensieri. E allora il figlio pensa, e ricorda. Un'infanzia fatta di fantasie assurde, le stesse che passano per la testa a quasi tutti i bambini. Un amore finito male. L'amicizia, la malattia, il lavoro, il riscatto sociale. M ...

Ali

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 16:13:26 PST

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Fukushima Meltdown

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:04:12 PST

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Takashi Hirose wrote this book in a heat of passion mixed with terrible sadness in the weeks following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The Never-Ending Story

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:03:39 PST

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Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian and so begins a dazzling, magical adventure.

Das Traumfresserchen

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:59:36 PST

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Billedbog om en konge, der leder efter en, som kan befri hans datter for hendes uhyggelige drømme, og som en dag møder en lille drømmespiser - som ovenikøbet er meget sulten.

Never Let Me Go

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:00:09 PST

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Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the ...

Shanghai Girls

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:14:53 PST

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Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different - Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid - they are inseparable best friends. Both are beautiful, modern and living a carefree life until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth, and that in o ...

Say You're One of Them

Wed, 30 May 2012 21:02:31 PST

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Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing ...

Leggende veneziane e storie di fantasmi

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:38:26 PST

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ガラスの仮面 48

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:35:35 PST

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長年の想いが通じ合った北島マヤと速水真澄…! その陰で桜小路優と鷹宮紫織は苦悩する…。一方、姫川亜弓は低下する視力を周囲に悟られないよう稽古を続行! 「見えている演技」をしつつ紅天女を目指すことになった亜弓に勝算は…!?

Asakusa kid

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:31:40 PST

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Impassibile e solo apparentemente distaccato, Takeshi Kitano racconta inquesto libro i suoi esordi come comico in un locale di strip nel quartiereAsakusa di Tokio. Episodi ridicoli, che costituiscono anche l'omaggio commossoalla figura del suo maestro, il severo e burbero Fukami. Il regista di"Hana-bi", "L'estate di Kikujiro" e "Brother" offre sul Giappone contempora ...

Libro d'ombra

Tue, 8 May 2012 8:05:35 PST

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"Fra i sensi l'Occidente ha privilegiato la vista, da cui è partito per la sua geometrizzazione dell'esperienza, e ha così svalutato altre sensazioni(auditive, olfattive, tattili, eccetera). E' contro tale guasto, o squilibrio, nell'ecologia della sensibilità, che Tanizaki reagisce in "Libro d'ombra"...Leggendo questo saggio ci si rende conto di come tutta la nostra civiltà, tutta la nostra vita ...

Il postino di Neruda

Tue, 8 May 2012 7:57:19 PST

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Gli insetti preferiscono le ortiche

Tue, 8 May 2012 7:56:34 PST

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Kanamè, il protagonista de "Gli insetti preferiscono le ortiche (1928), è angosciato da desiderio di separarsi dalla moglie, che non ama e non ha mai amato, ed è costantemente dibattuto da lotte interiori, dubbi, decisioni prese e ritrattate. Una profonda infelicità pervade entrambi i coniugi, che non riescono a trovare un equilibrio tra la fedeltà alle antiche, rassicuranti tradizioni e le lusin ...

La casa delle belle addormentate

Tue, 8 May 2012 7:56:19 PST

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Le notti bianche

Tue, 8 May 2012 7:55:24 PST

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Amicizia

Tue, 8 May 2012 7:53:04 PST

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Maschere di donna

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:24:34 PST

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La storia si svolge negli anni Cinquanta del nostro secolo ma tratta un tema caro alla letteratura classica, quello della forza distruttiva della gelosia e del risentimento femminile. Una storia di amore e di morte nella quale si intrecciano inganni, tradimenti, inspiegabili possessioni, tutta giocata attorno alla protagonista femminile, Mieko, che sotto una maschera di serena compostezza nascond ...

Il palazzo di Circe

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:21:58 PST

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Domani

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:18:38 PST

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Sete d'amore

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:12:05 PST

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Rimasta vedova, e ridottasi ad accettare il ruolo di amante dell'anzianosuocero per pigra condiscendenza, la giovane Etsuko si accende d'amore perl'innocente sensualità di Saburo. Ne nasce una passione erotica cieca eirragionevole, un'umiliante caricatura della felicità, che porterà solo alpiacere sottile del dolore, alla punizione atroce, al totale annientamento.

あかちゃんのドレイ。 6

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:04:07 PST

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Kanon 6

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:58:50 PST

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La voce delle onde

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:46:55 PST

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Senza mai chetarsi, ora infuriata ora implacabile, la voce delle onde ci accompagna durante tutta la lettura di questo romanzo. Si tratta di una storia d'amore che sulla sponda del mare nasce e si sviluppa, raggiungendo apici di toccante e poetica spontaneità e semplicità. La vita, fatta di coraggio e di sacrificio, di un povero villaggio di pescatori giapponesi è lo sfondo per le uscite sul mare ...

Arcobaleni

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:42:31 PST

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In un incastro di ricordi, deviazioni sul tema, ritorni, immagini, si svolgela vicenda di Momoko, inquieta adolescente, dalla vita sentimentale intensae disordinata. Qual è l'origine di tanta inquietudine? Una latente omossualità, oppure la desolante sensazione di una condizione femminile votata almartirio? La figura di Momoko, a tratti dura, rigida, ma sempre vera edolente, non dom ...

I maestri dell'eros

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:37:23 PST

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"Ecco un romanzo che spaventerà il mondo e che non ha niente a che vedere conquei romanzi 'ben riusciti' che i letterati benpensanti accolgono con unsorriso condiscendente sulle labbra. E' un romanzo tremendamente,spietatamente insolente, che è vivace come un cielo di mezzogiorno al di sopradi un immondezzaio e che i primi della classe eviteranno sempre come la pesteotturandosi ...

Il cuore delle cose

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:19:52 PST

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Il romanzo narra del rapporto tra un giovane studente e un maestro che vive in una condizione di totale isolamento all'interno della nuova società giapponese, immersa nella frenetica corsa verso l'occidentalizzazione. Di fronte all'emergere dell'egoismo e della vanità come nuovi valori imperanti, non resta, per il maestro, che rifugiarsi nella virtù del riserbo, del distacco e della serena indiff ...

星の王子さま

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 9:56:10 PST

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永遠の名作『星の王子さま』が「ポップアップ(しかけ)絵本」として生まれました。ページをめくると作者の絵が繊細 ...

ダーリンは外国人 with BABY

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 8:48:48 PST

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Il nome della rosa

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 8:47:58 PST

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Prayer of the Dragon

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 8:29:16 PST

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" Surprises and mysteries abound here. This novel taught me more about Tibet-modern and ancient-than I had managed to learn elsewhere over the years."- The ...

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:16:30 PST

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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: The girl with the dragon tattoo is back. Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her own past (more specifically, an event coldly known as "All the Evil") if she is to stay one step ...

The Forgotten Garden

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:23:08 PST

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1913 On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace. 1975 Now an old lady, Nell travels to England to discover the truth about her parentage. Her quest le ...

The Book Thief

Tue, 8 Nov 2011 21:46:10 PST

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Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during the funeral for her brother, she manages to steal a macabre book: it is, in fact, a gravediggers’ instruction manual. This is the first of many books which will pass through her hands as the carnage of the Secon ...

Antigua, vita mia

Fri, 4 Nov 2011 22:02:54 PST

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La vita di due donne, Josefa e Violeta, amiche fin dall'infanzia si dipanaattraverso le righe di un vecchio diario che ci narra di sogni, di grandipassioni e di profonde delusioni, di uomini dall'apparente fascino e dallanatura brutale, di figli, di unioni sbagliate. Sullo sfondo la società cilenae, in ultimo, la città di Antigua, dove le parole conservano ancora la loroverità ...

The Mermaid Chair

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:07:47 PST

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Sue Monk Kidds stunning debut, The Secret Life of Bees, has transformed her into a genuine literary star. Now, in her much-anticipated new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans and cement her reputation as one of the most remarkable writers at work today. Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Caro ...

The Arrival

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 7:51:26 PST

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"A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow, Tan gives us a story filled with cityscapes worthy of Winsor McCay." -- Jeff Smith, author of Bone "A magical river of strangers and their stories!" -- Craig Thompson, author of Blankets "Magnific ...

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:41:17 PST

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Momo

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 8:22:29 PST

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At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a little homelss girl called Momo. Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her friends who come to visit her. Then one day the sinister men in grey arrive and silently take over the city. Only Momo has the power to resist them, and with the help of Professor Hora and his strange tortoise, Cassiopeia, she trave ...

Piccolo mondo antico

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 8:18:44 PST

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Terra!

Sun, 2 Oct 2011 7:32:35 PST

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Un romanzo, un viaggio, un divertimento scatenato. E ormai, un caso letterario: arriva in edizione economica, mantre sono in preparazione le traduzioni americana, tedesca, francese, spagnola, olandese, svedese e perfino giapponese. E' l'anno 2156: da una Parigi sotterranea e da un mondo ghiacciato dalle guerre nucleari, parte un'incredibile corsa spaziale, verso una nuova Terra più vivibile. Con ...

My Name Is Red

Sat, 1 Oct 2011 8:40:39 PST

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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebratin ...

The Piano Tuner

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:22:35 PST

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In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches its protagonist into a world of seduc ...

Il deserto dei Tartari

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 8:37:00 PST

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Giovanni Drogo, un sottotenente, viene mandato in una lontana fortezza. A nord della fortezza c'è il deserto da cui si attende un'invasione dei tartari. Ma l'invasione, sempre annunciata, non avviene e l'addestramento, i turni di guardia, l'organizzazione militare, appaiono cerimoniali senza senso. Quando Drogo torna in città per una promozione, si accorge di aver perso ogni contatto con il mondo ...

ヨコハマ物語全4巻セット講談社漫画文庫

Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:38:37 PST

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天長地久

Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:34:44 PST

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講談社授權中文版 - 全1冊 - 原著名：天の果て地の限り 1995 by Waki Yamato / First published in Japan in 1979 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo. 一個秋日午後，大海人皇子和中大兄皇子在森林深處遇見了年僅十二歲的額田。兩位皇子都對這精靈般的清麗少女一見鍾情。於是…… 大和和紀的浪漫新作、宮廷戀史——天長地久。

Unaccustomed Earth

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:35:47 PST

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An outstanding new collection of stories that explore the heart of family life and the immigrant experience, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth follows new lives forged in the wake of loss. These are stories in which deeply sympathetic characters rea ...

Her Fearful Symmetry

Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:00:22 PST

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The Lady and the Poet

Sat, 6 Aug 2011 8:49:11 PST

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Ann More and her four sisters have been brought up in the beautiful country house of Loseley, near Guildford in Surrey, by their grandparents, Sir William and the Lady Margaret More. Their only brother, Robert, lives with his pompous father and shrewish step-mother nearby. But though the sisters are close, it is Ann who is the most unusual in character. Wilful, argumentative, challenging and fier ...

The Castle in the Pyrenees

Sat, 6 Aug 2011 8:48:41 PST

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Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together, then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely coincidental that they meet a ...

The Little Stranger

Tue, 2 Aug 2011 20:37:01 PST

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In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than ...

ガラスの仮面 47

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 8:12:59 PST

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Interpreter of Maladies

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 8:55:22 PST

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Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal, he f ...

Skellig

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 7:35:05 PST

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Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his ...

Gli ultimi pagani

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 8:03:43 PST

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gli incontri con tre piccole popolazioni dell'Asia:gli Ainu, una tribù misteriosa dalle origini antichissime che vive....

The Girl in the Red Coat

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:28:19 PST

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Roma Ligocka has lived muliple lives over the past 50 years - artist, theatrical designer, bohemian nomad, political activist, wife and mother - but she was first a girl from the Krakow ghetto. It was only when she saw the little girl in the red coat in the film of "Schindler's List" that she recognized her own childhood and realised the extent of her failure to come to terms with the anguish of ...

The Jaguar Smile

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:28:00 PST

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This edition includes a new Preface by the author to the 1997 paperback edition. In this portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, "harboring no preconceptions of what he might find." What he discovered was for him overwhelming: ...

あかちゃんのドレイ。 5

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:27:42 PST

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モーレツ！イタリア家族

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Una giornata nell’antica Roma

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:32:37 PST

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Che atmosfera si respirava per le strade di Roma? Cosa provava un gladiatore nell'arena del Colosseo? Quali erano i segreti delle matrone per farsi belle? Che cosa si mangiava durante i banchetti? È vero che spesso finivano con delle orge? Molti libri parlano della storia dell'antica Roma, ma nessuno come questo è in grado di catapultare il lettore nell'atmosfera quotidiana della capitale dell'im ...

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Days of God

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1Q84

Lighthousekeeping

The Passion

Kabuki dancer

Kusamakura

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Five Women Who Loved Love

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Asakusa kid

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あかちゃんのドレイ。 6

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The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Forgotten Garden

The Book Thief

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