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関西有数の都市銀行・阪神銀行の頭取・万俵大介は、金融再編成に際し「小が大を喰う合併」と称し、生き残りを成し遂げる方法を画策する。

Après le succès de Tant que le café est encore chaud et Le Café du temps retrouvé, cette suite nous entraîne dans un nouveau lieu, le café Dona Dona, au nord du Japon, pour d’émouvants voyages dans le temps.

Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('flèche'), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one's need for safety alongside the desire to shed one's protective armour in order to fully embrace the world.

With an arcing and emphatic beauty, Ghalib, the Indian Beloved by Khalid Hameed Shaida is a starry-eyed collection of 124 translated odes by Ghalib. Capturing the essence and pure song of one of the most loved romantic poets of India, Shaida's translation and interpretations also illustrate the deeply philosophical undertones of Ghalib's voice.

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un MacDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso.

Beautiful, haunting, and grotesque, The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales offers stories reminiscent of traditional Japanese folktales alongside contemporary horror fiction. Matsuura’s unique voice, in its poignancy and lightheartedness, is unforgettable.

One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide. By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel.

Savourer le présent jusqu’à la dernière goutte : c’est ce que propose le café des au revoir. " Je voulais que tu saches que mon bonheur, c’est à toi que je le dois. " Ce sont les paroles de Monji, décidé à tout dire à sa femme plongée dans le coma.

「魚河岸」は、夜の市場の情景と人間関係の微妙な空気の変化を描いた小品で、芥川の中では異色の「事件のない小説」とされています。文学的には「雰囲気小説」「心理小説」として位置づけられ、彼の思想的関心（人間の虚栄や心理の揺らぎ）を反映した作品です。

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.

葉祥明のハートフルな絵とスピリチュアルな新訳(浅岡夢二:訳)で生まれ変わった「星の王子さま」。不朽の名作に新たな魂が吹き込まれました。

Kahlil Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Sand and Foam is a book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of The Prophet - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In modern Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.

I believe that there may be a strong positive correlation between levels and competence of creativity and mental health diagnoses. Upon delving further into psychology I learnt that some entertainers use their success as a supplement for lack of close relationships or catharsis for past trauma. The title emphasizes how the complex lives and experiences of creatives serve to influence their art, thus, Chaos can Create.

Mirza Ghalib was an Urdu poet who is known for his unique and smooth style of writing. This book is a compilation of the events which happened throughout his life, along with few of the poems written by him. The poems in this book are an ideal listen for people who are fascinated by Urdu poetry but do not understand the nastaliq, the script in which Urdu is written.

探偵小説家夢野久作の代表作とされる小説。構想・執筆に10年以上の歳月をかけて、1935年（昭和10年）1月に松柏館書店より刊行された。

Is it possible to tell if it is love or lust? How important is sex in a relationship? Why do break-ups hurt so much? How often should you message a person you fancy? How do you tell if someone is too young or too old for you? When it comes to relationships, these are the questions that most of us ponder. No matter how young or old we are, we are all looking for ways to make our relationships better. The best way to do that is to understand what makes us behave the way we do.

死罪を申し付けられた船乗業桂屋太郎兵衛の娘、16歳のいちは、願い書を書いて弟妹たちとともに奉行所に父の助命を乞いに行く。「お上の事には間違はございますまいから」――官僚でもあった文豪の心の綾を垣間見るような佳編。かつては高校の教科書に採録されていました。(C)アイ文庫 【朗読者について】 声優、ナレーターとして活躍中の中村恵子。ふだんの仕事とはまったく異なる格調高い硬質な文章ながら、本好きの面目をほどこす真面目な取組で、新鮮な鴎外作品が生まれました。 「ことのは出版オーディオブックの情報はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

Bhaskar Chakrabarti’s poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and ’70s—perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry.

編集者の林田咲は、作家・河合理智子の告別式に参列していた。河合はかつて女性が書いた小説が「女流文学」と称された時代から活躍し、文学史に名を遺した、偉大なる女性作家。しかし、その葬儀はごく質素なものだった――。

Nevada-Tan is a genre-bending new play that introduces us to Nick, a young man who struggles to escape loneliness and isolation in the years following the tragic Columbine shooting of 1999. Nick’s quest leads to a decade-long fixation with Nevada-Tan, a Japanese schoolgirl who committed a horrific crime in Sasebo in 2004. Mixing horror and dark humor, Nevada-Tan is a shocking exploration of secrets, tragedy and obsession, thrilling listeners with its surprising twists and turns.