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Jorge Semprun, Richard Seaver
An autobiographical novel about a young Spaniard's deportation toward Buchenwald in a cattle truck. It is Jorge Semprún's first and most famous book.
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
A clear, accessible guide to scientific skepticism as a practical tool for everyday judgment. It presents an approach to pseudoscience and superstition in an inviting, conversational voice.
Robin Robertson
A Painted Field is a poetry collection that moves through landscape, memory, and politics. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
マヤ・ヴォイチェホフスカ, Maia Wojciechowska, 渡辺 茂男
In a small Spanish town, Manolo grows up under the shadow of his late father, a celebrated bullfighter, while struggling between the expectations around him and his own fear. Through that conflict, the novel asks what courage means and what it takes to choose a life of one’s own instead of living out someone else’s wishes.
Halldor Laxness
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." — Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him . What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
Graham Swift
Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Braiding these men's voices, and that of Jack's widow, into a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Swift creates a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality. "Swift has involved us in real, lived lives...Quietly, but with conviction, he seeks to affirm the values of decency, loyalty, love."--New York Review of Books "A beautiful book...a novel that speaks profoundly of human need and tenderness. Even the most cynical will be warmed by it."--San Francisco Chronicle
Vittorio Foa
Based on a series of lectures, the book revisits twentieth-century Italian history through politics, society, and memory. It is both memoir and a dialogue with the century itself.
Alda Merini
Memory and feeling rooted in Milan’s Navigli district rise in poetic form. Love, pain, faith, and alienation intersect in an intimate and urgent collection.
Montalban
One of the masterpieces featuring the famous detective Pepe Carballo as the main character.
Bona
港町を舞台に、失われた原稿や過去の秘密をめぐる物語。登場人物の記憶や証言を通じて個人史と共同体史が交差し、歴史と現在が織りなす謎が徐々に明らかになる。
P. Ranbaud
A historical novel that meticulously recounts Napoleon's first major defeat at the Battle of Aspern-Essling.
Wiazemsky
A novel that follows an aristocratic Russian family through memory, origins, and the upheavals of history.