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ノーマル・ピープル
早川書房

ノーマル・ピープル

サリー ルーニー, 山崎まどか

A novel following Connell and Marianne from school in the west of Ireland into university life. Through restrained dialogue and subtle psychological detail, it traces intimacy, miscommunication, class difference, and fragile self-worth.

罪の壁 (新潮文庫 ク 43-1)
新潮社

罪の壁 (新潮文庫 ク 43-1)

ウィンストン・グレアム, 三角 和代

第二次大戦の残影色濃い1954年。フィリップは、考古学者の兄がアムステルダムの運河で身を投げたとの報を受ける。死因に不審を抱き、兄の謎めいた友人と恋人らしき女性の行方を追ってカプリ島へと向かったが――。善悪のモラル、恋愛、サスペンスと、さまざまな要素を孕み展開する馥郁たる人間ドラマ。第1回CWA最優秀長篇賞に輝き、戦後欧米ミステリーの可能性を切り拓いた記念碑的作品。

The Puppet Show (Washington Poe)
Constable

The Puppet Show (Washington Poe)

M. W. Craven

A dark crime novel about a gruesome serial-killer case. The bizarre method of staging victims like puppets and the investigators’ psychological strain gradually reveal the crime’s depths.

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
Da Capo

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

Aidan Levy

The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins, chronicling the gripping story of a freedom fighter and spiritual seeker whose life has been as much of a thematic improvisation as his music Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely acknowledged as the greatest living jazz improviser, having won Grammys, the Austrian Cross of Honor, Sweden''s Polar Music Prize and a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.

Pomegranates
PS Publishing

Pomegranates

Priya Sharma

A novella that reworks the Persephone myth while layering climate collapse over family rupture.

Sunset Swing (City Blues Quartet, 4)
Pan Macmillan

Sunset Swing (City Blues Quartet, 4)

Ray Celestin

Set in 1967 Los Angeles, the novel braids together a nurse searching for her missing brother, a retired private investigator on a murder case, and a mob fixer trying to finish one last job. As jazz, gangsters, police, and politics collide, it delivers an expansive final movement for the quartet.