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バーニス ルーベンス, 鈴木 和子
Set in an East End Jewish family, the novel follows Norman Zweck, once the bright hope of the household, as drug addiction and hallucinations pull him and the people around him into a tangle of guilt, love, and fear. Serious in subject but darkly comic in tone, it is a sharp portrait of family pressure and emotional damage.
Gina Berriault
Women in Their Beds is a short-story collection that writes women’s solitude, secrets, and old wounds in a quiet, restrained style. Through small events and accumulating memory, it reveals both human fragility and strength.
Chang-rae Lee
Henry Park, a Korean American man in New York, is forced to confront his sense of belonging and the meaning of betrayal as he grieves his young son, struggles in his marriage, and works undercover against a Korean American politician.
João Cabral de Melo Neto, Djelal Kadir
Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat from Pernambuco, one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism. His work is marked by stark simplicity and rigorous poetic structure, addressing poverty and social inequality in northeastern Brazil. His landmark work Morte e Vida Severina (1956) is considered a masterpiece of social poetry. He received the 1990 Camoes Prize and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Alan Shapiro
A poetry collection built from family, marriage, and childhood memory. It explores intimacy and social distance in a voice that is delicate, controlled, and precise.
Peter Maass
A journalist reporting from the Bosnian War traces the point where ordinary life gives way to violence. Personal testimony and wartime cruelty are tightly intertwined throughout.
Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa
An introspective novel in which the narrator traces his marriage and his father's past, showing how silence and secrecy shape family ties. Past and present, speech and silence, echo one another until the shape of the truth slowly emerges.
Dorothy Barresi
A poetry collection that finds wonder and unease in everyday urban life while tracing loneliness and fragile hope.
Gregory Howard Williams
A memoir about a boy raised as white who discovers that he is Black.
Reginald Gibbons
Set in early twentieth-century Texas, this novel follows a young man of mixed Cherokee heritage as he searches for a place in the world amid forbidden love and racial tension. Using the form of historical romance, it addresses land, belonging, and identity.
John S. Haller
A research book that follows how nineteenth-century scientific discourse around evolution was converted into arguments for racial hierarchy. It examines the link between scientific certainty and public policy, and shows how discriminatory ideas were reinforced from within scholarship itself.
Kimiko Hahn
A poetry collection that layers lyrical meditations on love, loss, and identity.