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西洋哲学史【新装合本】
みすず書房

西洋哲学史【新装合本】

バートランド・ラッセル, 市井 三郎

A sweeping history of Western philosophy that moves from ancient Greece to the twentieth century, placing ideas within their historical and social settings. It combines clarity with criticism and has long remained a standard introduction.

Le Reste est silence
Prodinnova

Le Reste est silence

Edmond Jaloux

Le reste est silence slowly reveals the tensions hidden within family and community through a restrained prose style. Beneath the calm narration, memory, desire, and loss gradually spread outward.

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早川書房

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マーガレット・アトウッド, 鴻巣友季子

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale that follows three women in Gilead as the regime begins to crack and resistance takes shape.

第三帝国を旅した人々:外国人旅行者が見たファシズムの勃興
白水社

第三帝国を旅した人々:外国人旅行者が見たファシズムの勃興

ジュリア・ボイド, 園部 哲

This work of narrative history follows Germany from the aftermath of the First World War to the end of the Second through the records of foreign travelers, diplomats, reporters, students, artists, and athletes. By foregrounding uncertainty, fascination, blindness, and resistance as they appeared at the time, it shows fascism becoming part of everyday scenery.

High as the Waters Rise: A Novel
Catapult

High as the Waters Rise: A Novel

Anja Kampmann, Anne Posten

Waclaw, an oil-rig worker in the Atlantic, loses his colleague and closest friend Matyas on a stormy night. Driven by grief, he moves through Morocco, Hungary, Malta, Italy, and finally his German hometown, confronting labor, memory, male intimacy, and the difficulty of returning to his own life.

テレーズ・デスケルー
ぎょうせい

テレーズ・デスケルー

モーリヤック, 福田 耕介

Thérèse Desqueyroux is François Mauriac's best-known novel, portraying a woman who seeks freedom inside an oppressive marriage. Guilt, faith, and moral pressure accumulate quietly, and the novel explores the heroine's shifting consciousness and loneliness more deeply than the outward event itself.

Banji's Story: Originally published as The Missing Clock
Visa Books

Banji's Story: Originally published as The Missing Clock

Adeleke Adeyemi

It is an African success story that the whole world can share!Banji's Story "...dramatizes the importance of growing food and returning to the earth, the sustainer of human life. A gifted storyteller, Adeleke Adeyemi explores the consciousness, emotions and actions of a child in a fascinating narrative distinguished by the simplicity of its themes, ideas, language and style. Indeed, this is a loveable and credible novel that endorses family cohesion and responsible parenting that would guide children to become imaginative, well-motivated and balanced individuals.” (Excerpt from Report of the Panel of Judges, The Nigeria Prize for Literature)