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Les betes
Gallimard

Les betes

Pierre Gascar

A collection that uses animals and the natural world to illuminate the contradictions and fragility of human civilization. Careful observation and philosophical reflection give the book a distinctly uneasy postwar edge.

The Bridge on the Drina (A Phoenix Book ; P746)
Univ of Chicago Pr

The Bridge on the Drina (A Phoenix Book ; P746)

Ivo Andric

Centered on the bridge over the Drina at Višegrad, this sweeping novel follows the town's history from the sixteenth century to the First World War. The bridge serves as a witness to imperial change, religious and ethnic coexistence, and the rhythms of everyday life.

Honourable Schoolboy
Knopf

Honourable Schoolboy

John Le Carre

The Honourable Schoolboy is a 1977 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.

Ramona and Her Father: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
HarperCollins

Ramona and Her Father: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Rogers

Ramona and Her Father is the fourth book in Beverly Cleary's popular Ramona Quimby series. In this humorous children's novel, Mr. Quimby loses his job and Ramona thinks up ways to earn money and help her family out. Published in 1977, Ramona and Her Father was a Newbery Honor Book.

闇の左手 (ハヤカワ文庫 SF 252)
早川書房

闇の左手 (ハヤカワ文庫 SF 252)

アーシュラ・K・ル・グィン, Ursula K. Le Guin, 小尾 芙佐

Set on an ice-bound planet, the novel uses contact with a species whose sex is fluid to probe gender, cross-cultural understanding, and politics. Through the eyes of a diplomat, it philosophically examines loneliness, trust, and social structure.