The Book of Secrets
M.G. Vassanji
When an old diary surfaces in Dar es Salaam, a retired schoolteacher begins tracing the memories and family history that lead back into colonial East Africa.
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M.G. Vassanji
When an old diary surfaces in Dar es Salaam, a retired schoolteacher begins tracing the memories and family history that lead back into colonial East Africa.
Robert C. Wilson
An alternate-history science fiction novel that begins with a town vanishing into thin air, moving through religion, science, and parallel realities.
Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt
20世紀前半の山東農村を舞台に、家族と村社会の物語を通じて暴力、性愛、抵抗、生活のたくましさを描く長編。民間伝承と魔術的な要素を融合させた叙述で、歴史の暴力と民衆の生命力を力強く表現する代表作。
Eve Bunting, David Diaz
A picture book set during the Los Angeles riots, where a boy, his mother, and their neighbors slowly change how they see one another.
Alan Jenkins
Harm is a poetry collection that moves through violence, survival, and tension. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Peter Quinn
In post-Civil War New York, the lives of immigrants, wanderers, and people on the city’s margins intertwine. The result is a layered historical novel where revenge story and civic history overlap.
トルーマン カポーティ, Truman Capote, 川本 三郎
Shut a Final Door is a psychological short story about a young man whose self-absorption and careless talk leave him exposed to an invisible pressure. Beneath the easy urban banter, guilt and loneliness slowly take shape, and the story grows increasingly unsettling toward the end.
Gordon Henry
Set in an Ojibwe community, this polyphonic novel blends myth, history, legal testimony, poetry, and letters. Through lost family ties, cultural inheritance, and the repatriation of remains held in a museum, it traces Indigenous identity in a layered form.
Wu Ch'Eng-En, Arthur Waley
Arthur Waley’s English retelling of Journey to the West turns the adventures of Monkey and his companions into supple, readable English. It brings the classic’s sense of adventure and humor vividly to twentieth-century readers.
Carolyn Forche
"Carolyn Forche is known as one of our most important contemporary poets.
Ivy Compton-Burn
The exacting Miranda's search for a suitable companion brings her family into contact with a very different kind of household, raising a plenitude of questions about the ability to manage alone, the difficulties of living with strangers and some strange discoveries about intimates.
Walter A. Jackson
A biographical and intellectual study of Gunnar Myrdal and his influence on civil rights and racial liberalism. It connects the history of social policy with the history of race relations.