La vie est breve et le desir sans fin (Prix Femina 2010)
Patrick Lapeyre
A love novel about the contradiction between brief life and endless desire, following two men in Paris and London who are both in love with the same enigmatic woman.
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Patrick Lapeyre
A love novel about the contradiction between brief life and endless desire, following two men in Paris and London who are both in love with the same enigmatic woman.
T.S.エリオット, 岩崎 宗治
A landmark modernist poem that layers myth, religion, and literary allusion to portray a fractured postwar world. Its broken voices and dense references explore loss, renewal, and spiritual desolation.
Andrea Gillies
A nonfiction book that uses reporting and analysis to trace Sweden's welfare-state model, weighing its strengths, weaknesses, and transformation.
Bi Feiyu
Bi Feiyu's Three Sisters is a novel that follows three sisters as they seek dignity and their own paths amid the social changes from rural China to city life. Through their lives, it portrays the pressures that constrain women's choices and the resilience that survives within them.
Howard Jacobson
A London novel in which wit and grief coexist as it explores friendship, loss, and Jewish identity.
Neela Vaswani
A memoiristic exploration of family history, cultural borders, and the making of a bicultural self.
Per Petterson
A quietly introspective novel about father-son relationships and the weight of the past. It lyrically shows how earlier events cast shadows into the present, exploring loss, reconciliation, and the burden of time.
Avery Aames
A cozy mystery in which the opening of a cheese shop turns into a murder investigation and a tangle of town secrets.
Colum McCann
It's New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York. In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.
Margo Lanagan
A dark, vivid story set between two worlds. Liga raises her daughters in a private heaven, but violence and wildness eventually breach that refuge, forcing the three women to survive in a world where beauty and brutality stand side by side.
Laird Barron
A collection of cosmic-horror stories in which ordinary people meet a chaotic and carnivorous universe.
Penguin Adult HC/TR
A clear explanation of the rule of law that approaches the principle from historical and philosophical angles, outlining the judiciary, civil liberty, and the relation between law and power.