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Gabrielle Roy, Philip Stratford
Set in Montreal's Saint-Henri district during the war, Gabrielle Roy's classic novel follows a working-class family through poverty, longing, and the struggle to hold on to hope.
Stephen D. Gutierrez
A story collection rooted in Chicano culture around Fresno and Los Angeles. Humor and pain meet in stories that feel local and immediate.
Charles Morgan, Valentine Cunningham
One of Charles Morgan’s representative novels, it moves between the French countryside and Paris while quietly exploring love, freedom, and the weight of choice. The story is centered less on outward travel than on the changes taking place deep within the characters.
Elena Santangelo
A companion volume that guides readers through Agatha Christie’s short fiction and explains why the stories still matter.
Jack French, Barbara J. Watkins
This nonfiction study traces the women detectives of radio drama and shows how popular entertainment framed female intelligence, independence, and mystery work.
村上春樹
1949年にジョージ・オーウェルは、近未来小説としての『1984』を刊行した。 そして2009年、『1Q84』は逆の方向から1984年を描いた近過去小説である。 そこに描かれているのは「こうであったかもしれない」世界なのだ。 私たちが生きている現在が、「そうではなかったかもしれない」世界であるのと、ちょうど同じように。 Book 1 心から一歩も外に出ないものごとは、この世界にはない。心から外に出ないものごとは、そこに別の世界を作り上げていく。 Book 2 「こうであったかもしれない」過去が、その暗い鏡に浮かび上がらせるのは、「そうではなかったかもしれない」現在の姿だ。
Richard B Wright
Moving between 1930s Ontario and New York, the novel uses letters and diary entries to trace two sisters as they navigate independence and social pressure.
Imamu Amiri Baraka
An essay collection on African American music and culture that moves across history, criticism, and personal reflection.
China Mieville
New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other–real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined. Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities. Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
イーヴ・ガーネット, Eve Garnett, 石井 桃子
A children's novel that follows the working-class Ruggles family with warmth and humor. Beneath the bustle of a large family, it quietly reflects class and everyday life.
China Miéville
A strange, political crime novel about two cities that exist side by side while refusing to acknowledge one another. Borders themselves become the story.
A S Byatt
A sprawling historical novel about the Wellwood family, childhood, art, politics, and the hidden wounds that surface before and during the First World War.