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Orlanda
Grasset

Orlanda

Harpman-J

A novel that develops variations on identity and desire through an imaginative, hallucinatory narrative.

Highland River (Canons)
Canongate Books Ltd

Highland River (Canons)

Neil M. Gunn

This novel follows Kenn, who grows up beside a Highland river and moves between childhood memory and the experience of the First World War as he tries to recover inner calm. A vivid sense of landscape links the layers of time, bringing together the wounds of war and the possibility of renewal.

Vertigo & Ghost
Jonathan Cape

Vertigo & Ghost

Fiona Benson

A poetry collection that uses Greek mythology and classical references to examine sexual violence, trauma, and the female body. It weaves personal experience with mythic motifs to illuminate contemporary issues.

なにもない
河出書房新社

なにもない

カルメン・ラフォレット, 木村裕美

Andrea arrives in postwar Barcelona and slowly confronts loneliness, violence, friendship, and the question of what kind of life she wants to lead. With a sharp and delicate gaze, the novel captures family oppression and a young woman's awakening in one of postwar Spain's defining works.

嘘と魔法 上 (須賀敦子の本棚 4)
河出書房新社

嘘と魔法 上 (須賀敦子の本棚 4)

エルサ・モランテ, 北代 美和子

Set in Sicily, this novel follows a lonely narrator as she rethreads the memories of the women who precede her - grandmother, mother, and herself - and recounts a family history of secrets, desire, and betrayal through a blend of fact and invention. Its lush storytelling and layered family saga make it one of the defining debut novels of postwar Italian literature.

The Barefoot Woman
Archipelago

The Barefoot Woman

Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump

The Barefoot Woman is a memoir that mourns the author’s mother, Stefania, lost in the Rwandan genocide, and reconstructs her life, wisdom, and humor from memory. The family story becomes an act of restoring the dead as individual lives rather than anonymous numbers.

82年生まれ、キム・ジヨン (単行本)
筑摩書房

82年生まれ、キム・ジヨン (単行本)

チョ・ナムジュ, 斎藤 真理子

Kim Jiyoung lives with her husband and young daughter on the outskirts of Seoul when she begins speaking in the voices of other women, including her mother and friends. Framed as a psychiatrist's account, the novel follows her from birth through school, work, marriage, and motherhood, revealing the sexism and silences that accumulate inside an ordinary life.