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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
Graywolf Pr

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

Danez Smith

Don't Call Us Dead begins by imagining a place where Black boys are freed from violence, then turns police brutality, anti-Blackness, queerness, HIV, the body, and death into poetry. Anger and mourning are joined by humor, prayer, and a fierce desire for life.

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
Scribner

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

Jesmyn Ward

Set in the fictional Mississippi town of Bois Sauvage, the novel follows Jojo, his little sister Kayla, their drug-addicted mother Leonie, and the grandparents who hold the household together. On the road to collect Jojo's father from prison, voices of the living and the dead, prison memory, and the history of racism gather into a story about the depth of family love and injury.

Die Hauptstadt
Suhrkamp Verlag

Die Hauptstadt

Robert Menasse

欧州連合の“首都”ブリュッセルを舞台に、官僚制や権力のあり方、市民と制度の距離を描く群像劇。風刺的かつ批評的な視点でEUの運営や言説を描き、政治的アイデンティティを問う。

Red Dirt
Head of Zeus

Red Dirt

E. M. Reapy

Red Dirt follows young Irish migrants in Australia as collapse and violence overtake them. In harsh surroundings, responsibility and self-destruction gradually come to the surface.

Atlas of the Irish Revolution
New York Univ Pr

Atlas of the Irish Revolution

John Crowley, Donal O Drisceoil, Mike Murphy

『Atlas of the Irish Revolution』は、地図やデータ、エッセイを組み合わせて1912–1923年のアイルランド革命の経緯を視覚的に再構築する書。歴史的事象を地理的に示し、従来の理解を拡張する意欲的な成果物である。

A Long Way to Shiloh
Faber & Faber

A Long Way to Shiloh

Lionel Davidson

Casper Laing, the young, fiery and brilliant Professor of Semitic Languages, is asked to decipher an ancient parchment found in Israel. Piecing together its mysterious fragments, his translation soon reveals directions to a shrouded location. Believed to be the secret hiding place of the True Menorah, an ancient and priceless Jewish candelabrum, the Jordanians and Israelis begin a frantic race to claim the prize. Surrounded by violent and treacherous rivals, Casper is enjoined on a deadly adventure deep into the burning Negev desert. A Long Way to Shiloh was originally published in 1966 in the USA as The Menorah Men , it was a no. 1 bestseller and further cemented Davidson's reputation as one of the pre-eminent genre writers of his generation. Long out of print, Faber is bringing this fantastic novel back into print.

La serpe: Roman
interforum editis

La serpe: Roman

Philippe Jaenada

A novel built from painstaking research into a real murder case and its trial, with personal reflection woven in. It examines justice, prejudice, and the instability of truth with wit and precision.

The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3)
Orbit

The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3)

N. K. Jemisin

The concluding volume of the Broken Earth trilogy. Essun seeks to bring back the Moon and save the world, while her daughter Nassun is drawn toward ending a world she sees as beyond repair. The choices of mother and daughter determine both the history of oppression and the future of civilization.

献灯使 (講談社文庫 た 74-4)
講談社

献灯使 (講談社文庫 た 74-4)

多和田 葉子

Set in a future Japan isolated after a great disaster, this collection centers on a title story in which vigorous elders and frail children inhabit an inverted world. Through the daily life of Yoshiro and his great-grandson Mumei, it asks fable-like questions about environmental collapse, linguistic change, and what passes between generations.