Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sachs' tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, that wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and that ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration.

Fumio Sasaki changed his life when he became a minimalist. But before minimalism could really stick, he had to make it a habit. All of us live our lives based on the habits we’ve formed, from when we get up in the morning to what we eat and drink to how likely we are to actually make it to the gym. In Hello, Habits, Sasaki explains how we can acquire the new habits that we want - and get rid of the ones that don’t do us any good.

Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makino’s concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by powerful moments of connection. She’s drawn by Makino’s tender music and his sensitivity, and he is intrigued by Yoko’s refinement and intellect. But neither knows enough about love to see it blooming nor has the confidence to make the first move.

舞台俳優・家福をさいなみ続ける亡き妻の記憶。彼女はなぜあの男と関係したのかを追う「ドライブ・マイ・カー」。

オーディオブックは、語りのプロによって録音された朗読書籍です。 情感たっぷりに読み上げられた名作をお楽しみください。(収録タイトル) 1.盗まれた手紙75分 世界初の探偵小説の主人公であるデュパンが挑む。盗まれた手紙の行方とは。/ 2.モルグ街の殺人事件134分 アパートで親子が惨殺されるという事件が勃発した。警察が解けない難事件に挑む。/ 3.黒猫44分 短編怪奇小説。可愛がっていた黒猫を発作的に殺してしまったことから、主人公の男は…。/ 4.アッシャー家の崩壊76分 旧友であるロデリック・アッシャーから不可思議な手紙を受け取ったことから奇怪な現象を経験する/ 5.ウィリアム・ウィルスン90分 世界初の二重人格を恐ろしく書いた小説。後世に多大なる影響を及ぼした作品。 ※ 本作品は発表時の時代背景により、今日の社会では一般的でなく、不適切と思われる表現が含まれている箇所がございます。しかし作品のオリジナル性を最大限に尊重し、当時のまま忠実に再現することを優先いたしました。

肉親の失踪、理不尽な死別、名前の忘却……。大切なものを突然に奪われた人々が、都会の片隅で迷い込んだのは、偶然と驚きにみちた世界だった。