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At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible community of Parsi corpse bearers, whose job it is to carry bodies of the deceased to the Towers of Silence. They are segregated and shunned from society, often wretchedly poor, and theirs is a lot that nobody would willingly espouse. Yet that's exactly what Phiroze Elchidana, son of a revered Parsi priest, does when he falls in love with Sepideh, the daughter of an aging corpse bearer....

Affectionately known as the Chekhov of Coldsands-on-Sea, Felix Morsom enjoys writing about the thwarted hopes of genteel lives. His own existence, he reflects, is comfortable if uneventful, except for the flirtatious moments he shares with his publicist, the delicious Brenda Bodkin. Until he meets Gavin and Miriam. Suddenly he is on the run from PROD, the Parental Rights and Obligations Department, as Miriam announces he is the father of her son Ian

Poet, forger, and genius, Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged 18. His death was thought to be suicide: But what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scrope become obsessed with decoding the clues in an 18th-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions....

A century before, as 19th-century artist Henry Wallis paints his celebrated portrait of Chatterton lying dead in an attic room, he, too, becomes fascinated by the mystery. Then Chatterton himself steps forward, with his own story....

4枚の絵が、新たな謎を語り出す。ユーモアとアフォリズムに満ちた物語の行方を、まだ誰も知らない。森の小径を抜けて、絵画教室の少女と美しい叔母が山荘を訪れる。

「今はまちがった時間です。あなたは今ここにいてはいけないのです」しかし綿谷ノボルによってもたらされた深い切り傷のような痛みが僕を追いたてた。

あたしたちで真相をつかもうよ――。二人の同級生の死。マスコミによる偏向報道。当事者の生徒たちを差し置いて、ただ事態の収束だけを目指す大人。

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第44回江戸川乱歩賞受賞の池井戸潤デビュー作！

エリートバンカーの恋窪商太郎は、いわれなき罪を着せられ大手銀行を辞職、地方銀行の庶務行員となって静かな日々を過ごしていた――元ライバル・桜井の「話したいことがある」という電話に出るまでは。

東京の下町にある信用金庫に勤める小倉太郎。

Un homme au service des femmes. Dans ce dernier tome de la série, Skyler et Parker soignent leurs plaies. Ils sont ensemble et heureux de l'être. Une dernière affaire appelle l'agence à Los Angeles, en Californie : Royce et Parker doivent apporter leur expertise et leur expérience professionnelle pour une nouvelle émission de rencontres télévisées. Ce devait être un voyage rapide. Un coup d'avion, quelques jours à L.A. pour faire le boulot, et Parker rentre pour s'occuper de sa femme qui, pendant son absence, doit gérer seule les séquelles de son traumatisme.

問題を抱える支店を回って業務改善を指導する東京第一銀行・調査役の相馬健に、念願の部下がつくことになった。

Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife, Mamta, spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters. Anjini, married but an incorrigible flirt; Binodini, very worried about her children's hissa in the family property; Chandrakanta, who eloped with a foreigner on the eve of her wedding; Eshwari, who is just a little too popular at Modern School, Barakhamba Road; and the judge's favourite (though fathers shouldn t have favourites): the quietly fiery Debjani.

Leroy Kervin è un giovane soldato della Guardia Nazionale americana gravemente ferito in un agguato durante una missione in Iraq. Rientrato negli Stati Uniti e accolto in una casa famiglia per disabili, guarisce dalle ferite ma piomba in uno stato di inquietudine e incapacità di mettere a fuoco i ricordi. Afflitto dallo smarrimento e dagli incubi, in un raro momento di lucidità tenta il suicidio, fallendo.

Aavarana: The Veil by S. L. Bhyrappa is a story of a free-spirited and rebellious young woman, Lakshmi, who marries the man she is deeply in love with. Amir, her husband, requests she convert to Islam, and she reluctantly agrees. Despite her father being completely against the marriage, she breaks ties with him and changes her name to Razia. However, things change for the worse, and she discovers a different side to Amir. He is not the progressive and liberal person she thought he was.

Alfred Larribee is sent by his father to live with his cousin’s family in the West. Larribee proves to be lazy and shiftless…spending most of his time in town…drinking and gambling…even cheating at cards. What changes all this is the appearance of Sky Blue…a magnificent stallion that has never been ridden. Dan Gurry is the owner and hopes to find a cowboy who can ride Sky Blue…but the first one to try is seriously injured. After that no one is willing to volunteer to try again except Larribee.

僕の考えていることが本当に正しいかどうか、わからない。でもこの場所にいる僕はそれに勝たなくてはならない。

The year is 1967. Thirteen-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her sisters. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: telling the story of herself, her sisters and their lovers, and of her friend, Daniel Nunn. Twenty-three years later, Lucas's now-famous portrait features in a retrospective of his work. Daniel, obsessed by the sisters and determined to understand what happened that summer at the abbey, pursues answers.

When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when not eating with her results in defeat, they decide she's a lucky charm. The nation goes a step further. Amazed at the ragtag team's sudden spurt of victories, it declares her a goddess.

Pietro Rinaldi ha ottant'anni e vuole essere lasciato in pace. Ormai è convinto che la sua vita sia arrivata al capolinea e, mentre mangia penne all'arrabbiata, riflette su quanto i libri siano meglio delle persone. Se già fatica a sopportare se stesso, figuriamoci gli altri! Non ha proprio intenzione di avere a che fare con l'umanità... fino a quando, un giorno, nel suo mondo irrompe Diego, il nipotino quindicenne.