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Terry Pratchett
After a tidal wave destroys his island home, Mau meets Daphne, the lone survivor of another disaster, and the two begin to rebuild a community. The novel is a forceful YA story about hope after catastrophe and the rethinking of tradition and belief.
イスマイル カダレ, Ismail Kadare, 井浦 伊知郎
After the Second World War, a foreign general and a priest travel through Albania to recover the bones of fallen soldiers. Their mission becomes an allegory of war memory, guilt, humiliation, and the persistence of violence after battle has ended.
Stuart Neville
A crime novel about a former paramilitary killer haunted by the dead and driven toward revenge in post-Troubles Belfast.
Sherwin Bitsui
A poetic sequence where Navajo tradition and urban life scrape against one another.
Angela Jackson
A novel by Angela Jackson that follows a young woman coming of age amid the promise and exclusion of the civil-rights era.
James Agee, Steve Earle
The classic American novel—winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize —now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee ’ s birth One of Time ’s All-Time 100 Best Novels A Penguin Classic Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident—a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.
Peter Temple
メルボルンを舞台に、政治的腐敗とメディアが絡む事件を追う犯罪小説。元刑事やジャーナリストらの捜査を通じて、真実と倫理、権力の腐敗を浮き彫りにする。冷静で硬質な文体と緻密な構成が特徴。
Libba Bray
Cameron is pulled into a strange road trip and, along the way, reconsiders illness, death, friendship, and hope. Black humor and fantasy blend into a story that pushes through the pain of growing up.
Louise Penny
When an unknown body is found in Three Pines, Chief Inspector Gamache follows a trail of buried secrets and old wounds in a small-village mystery.
Terry Pratchett
New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award * Michael L. Printz Medal honor winner From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series, comes an epic adventure of survival that mixes hope, humor, and humanity. When a giant wave destroys his village, Mau is the only one left. Daphne—a traveler from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by language and customs, the two are united by catastrophe. Slowly, they are joined by other refugees. And as they struggle to protect the small band, Mau and Daphne defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down. Sir Terry also received a prestigious Printz Honor from the American Library Association for his novel Dodger .
Andrea Levy
Set in post-war London and Jamaica, the novel follows Queenie, Gilbert, Hortense, and Bernard as their lives intersect around migration, race, and the uneasy promises of Britain after the war.
Alice Taylor
A sequence of village vignettes in which Alice Taylor celebrates community life in rural Ireland while reflecting on shared values and the environment.