Michael Joseph Ltd
This Charming Man
Marian Keyes
A multi-voiced novel about a charismatic politician and the women whose lives he harms, using shifting perspectives to expose charm, power, and abuse.
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Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Jr. Baker, Houston A.
An essayistic critique of black intellectuals who drifted away from civil-rights ideals, rethinking public life and racial politics.
Square Fish
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, William Low
Set in turbulent China, the novel follows Young Fu as he trains to become a coppersmith and learns to stand on his own.
Square Fish
The Cow-Tail Switch: And Other West African Stories
Harold Courlander, George Herzog, Madye Lee Chastain
A collection of West African folktales compiled by Harold Courlander and George Herzog, featuring animals, kings, hunters, and tricksters in stories that capture the wit and vitality of oral tradition.
Square Fish
I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth De Trevino
A historical children’s novel set in 17th-century Spain, tracing the relationship between the painter Velázquez and Juan de Pareja, his enslaved assistant and eventual artist.
Free Press
The White Tiger: A Novel
Aravind Adiga
Through the monologue of Balram, a driver who rises out of poverty in northern India, the novel sharply depicts class society and corruption. Its dark humor and unruly voice leave a strong impression of modern India's distortions.
Greenwillow Books
The New Policeman (New Policeman Trilogy, 1)
Kate Thompson
A children’s fantasy that weaves together music, time, and folklore. It tells the story of a boy’s growth, family, and the legends rooted in his town with warmth and poetic grace.
Walker & Co
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale
A history nonfiction book that uses a real Victorian murder case to show both the search for the culprit and the social atmosphere around it. More than the crime itself, the book is compelling for the way it watches and imagines the world around the case.
Mariner Books
Generation Loss
Elizabeth Hand
Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption. Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith in this mesmerizing literary thriller.
Chronicle Books
Wave: (Books about Ocean Waves, Beach Story Children's Books)
Suzy Lee
Wave is a nearly wordless picture book about a child's day at the beach. Minimal composition and two-color watercolor art vividly convey small shifts in movement and feeling.
Bollati Boringhieri
Morte e pianto rituale nel mondo antico. Dal lamento funebre antico al pianto di Maria
Ernesto De Martino
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黄金のノート
ドリス・レッシング, 石村崇史, 市川博彬
『黄金のノート』初版は1962年。 著者40代の作品である。 ドリス・レッシングは1980年代にノーベル賞候補になったが、以後、候補からはずれていたかのように見えていた時期が長い。欧米では2007年の受賞は遅すぎるとのコメントも出ている。本人も「亡くなった人にはあげられないから、生きている私になったんでしょう。」と笑っている。最高齢での受賞というおまけもついている。 だが、代表作『黄金のノート』は今日読んでも遅すぎはしない。作品には、執筆当時の社会背景が描かれ、その多くはすでに大きな変貌をとげてしまっている。そこから逆に、レッシングの視点は、その時代だけに通用する一時的なものに動かされてはいないということがわかる。執筆から50年後の今だからこそ彼女の眼力がいっそう鮮明になる。