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Natsuki n'est pas une petite fille comme les autres. Son meilleur ami est un hérisson en peluche qui la somme de sauver les Terriens, et elle passe tous ses étés à la montagne avec son cousin Yû, espérant qu'un vaisseau spatial la ramène d'où elle vient vraiment. Quand un événement menace de séparer les cousins pour toujours, ils se font une promesse : survivre, quoi qu'il arrive. Des années plus tard, Natsuki est mariée et semble mener une vie normale. Mais les ombres de son enfance refont surface et la jeune femme se réfugie chez Yû.

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival. Many have...

Le livre qui a révélé Murakami. Sur la page promotionnelle d'une assurance-vie, un jeune publicitaire fraîchement divorcé insère la photo, en apparence banale, d'un troupeau de moutons. Mais l'un des animaux, qui porte sur sa laine une tache en forme d'étoile, suscite l'intérêt d'un homme en noir, proche collaborateur du "Maître", un homme politique très puissant.

A wonderful collection of spine-tingling ghost stories and thought-provoking essays on insects. This new version has an introduction "Hearn and Japan", which details the continuing influence of Hearn on contemporary Japan.

In this rather extensive collection of 3-line Japanese haiku poems, the mystical blends with the simplicity of the world to create sacred, transparent, and yet profound and inspiring insights, to guide you further, on your spiritual path. Listening to these poems will sustain your mindfulness and will inspire you to practice/meditate more, in your daily routine. Each chapter begins with a general spiritual explanation of the subject of the haikus, continuing with the haikus of that particular chapter.

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.

Here are some of Shakespeare's finest speeches performed by one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of this century. It ranges from the youth of Jaques' introduction to life, 'All the world's a stage!' in ""As You Like It"" to the aged Prospero's goodbye to Ariel and Shakespeare's own farewell...

From the unique standpoint of an American woman who married into a Japanese family and has lived in Japan for more than 30 years, Rebecca Otowa weaves enchanting tales of her adopted home that portray the perspective of both the Japanese and the foreigner on the universal issues that face us all - love, work, marriage, death, and family conflict.

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」

1945. Rice fields seem endless in a quaint farming village of South Korea, yet Iseul and the villagers have been on the verge of starvation for as long as they can remember. Men are conscripted, and rice is taken to feed the growing army as the Korean Peninsula is thrust into an international war. With nothing but the news of death and hunger awaiting the village of women, children, and the aged, Iseul musters up whatever hope she has left to bring the village together to make paper.

In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao’s Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin’s difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment - or at least hard-won acceptance.

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。

ピンポイントで誰の何の作品を聴いたら良いかわからない、でも日本文学に興味がある、そういう声にお応えし、著名な作家・有名な作品を選びました。

東京帝国大学在学中の作品『羅生門』から晩年の代表作『河童』まで、珠玉の29作品を発表順に収録しています。今なお日本人を魅了し続ける芥川の名作を、プロの朗読でお楽しみください。

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小川未明の童話 全705話を朗読で収録しています。

小川未明の作品は明治～昭和にかけての当時の日本の生活、子ども達の暮らしなどが物語を通して感じることができ、日本の歩みを子どもたちに教えることができます。
そして、小川未明の作品の中には戦時中の背景が描かれているものあります。 今、語り継がれることの少ない戦時中の経験を物語でわかりやすく子どもたちに...

What really lies in the forest’s depths? Aokigahara is a mystery. Born out of an explosion, its roots twist and turn, the dense trees seeming to swallow anything that enters it whole. In recent years it has gained renown as a “suicide forest,” but it wasn’t always this way. Aokigahara: The Truth Behind Japan’s Suicide Forest is fully researched from Japanese sources and looks at the history of the Sea of Trees, how it came to be, and why it became known worldwide as a popular suicide spot.

Bloomsbury presents I cannot be good until you say it written and read by Sanah Ahsan. The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize: a tender meditation on queerness and Islam 'Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan...

Märchen bildet in China kein streng gesondertes Gebiet. Von den Ammengeschichten und Fabeln bis zu Göttermythen, Sagen und Novellen sind die Grenzen durchaus schwankend. Das Wunderbare gehört für China noch zum natürlichen Weltlauf, so dass hier sich keine scharfe Grenze ziehen lässt. Ho Huans Vater war frühe gestorben. Er hatte ihn in zarter Jugend zurückgelassen. Der Knabe war überaus klug und begabt. Mit elf Jahren wurde er als Wunderkind in die Kreisschule aufgenommen. Seine Mutter liebte ihn über alle Maßen und ließ ihn nie zur Tür hinaus.

フォーク社との虚々実々の交渉の裏で、壹岐は資源に乏しい日本の将来を見据えていた。腹心の部下・兵頭はイランやリビアに飛び、文化や商習慣の違いに悩まされながらも、国益のため、油田開発の可能性を探る。

Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries, devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement. Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami. Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’, which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai.