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Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced. In her final days, she wields a pen one last time as she fills her diary with instructions for her sister, Naureen, and writes six letters to be delivered after her death. There is to be no funeral for Nazia. Instead, only six invitees are asked to attend a party, one of whom is a mystery guest. Over the course of an extraordinary evening, secrets are revealed, pasts reconsidered, and lives are forever changed...

Nafsi is a collection of poetry and prose, calling you to a spiritual revolution. This compelling work examines the conflict between the soul and the body: its desires, its pain, its love, and its hope. Through poetic allure, this collection will speak directly to your soul, in a way that is hauntingly beautiful.

A wonderful collection of spine-tingling ghost stories and thought-provoking essays on insects. This new version has an introduction "Hearn and Japan", which details the continuing influence of Hearn on contemporary Japan.

夏。鎌倉の浜辺で、書生の「私」は「先生」に出会った……「彼岸過迄」「行人」に続く漱石後期三部作の最後を飾る長編。上・中・下の三部構成で、明治後期から大正期にかけての典型的知識階級、もしくは、漱石いうところの高等遊民の精神の葛藤を描いていく。日本近代小説がただストーリーを描くだけでなく、奥深い心理描写へと踏みこんでいくための礎となった作品ともいえる。二部では「私」と家族との葛藤、三部では「先生」からの手紙文という形式を使い、小説という形式での人の生死に対する漱石の深い考察が示される。近代文学の金字塔ともいうべき作品で、この作品を避けて現代の文学を語ることはできない。 【朗読者について】 「夢十夜」で深みのある朗読世界を聴かせてくれた女優の岩崎さとこが、難しい長編作品に取りくみました。とにかく、集中力をとぎらせることなく、最後までじっくりと読みきった力には、驚くべきものがあります。 【アイ文庫について】 プロによる高品質な文芸朗読作品を制作しているアイ文庫。プロデューサーを務める小説家・音楽家の水城雄のもと、朗読を音声による芸術表現として捉え、演劇的な要素が特徴の朗読で魅せるアーティスト集団・NPO法人現代朗読協会とともに、意欲作の創造に取り組んでいます。(C)アイ文庫 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

Saris and a Single Malt is a moving collection of poems written by a daughter for and about her mother. The audiobook spans the time from when the poet receives a phone call in New York City that her mother is in a hospital in New Delhi to the time she carries out her mother's last rites. The poems chronicle the author's physical and emotional journey as she flies to India, tries to fight the inevitable, and succumbs to the grief of living in a motherless world.

When Trisha Low moves West, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better” - someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one’s life comes to the fore - sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and art criticism, Low seeks answers that she knows she won’t find.

A book of twenty-six poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran’s Devdoot is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran’s best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as 'the Bard of Washington Street.'

R.K. Narayan’s reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of “authentic” Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts.

This book, written by Prakash Pandit, describes the events in the life of Firaq Gorakhpuri, who was an Urdu poet, writer and critic. He was one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India, and he has written a number of ghazals, nazmas, rubais and stories. Many of his works are still revered for their contemporary relevance, and he was awarded Padma Bhushan in the later part of his life. The number of ghazals written by him is said to be in the hundreds, and a few selected ones are given in a separate section of the book.

Mirza Ghalib was an Urdu poet who is known for his unique and smooth style of writing. This book is a compilation of the events which happened throughout his life, along with few of the poems written by him. The poems in this book are an ideal listen for people who are fascinated by Urdu poetry but do not understand the nastaliq, the script in which Urdu is written.

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security threat. It traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised.

夏目漱石が身辺のことなどを書き綴った文字通りの小品集です 内容は家庭の事から英国留学時代のことまで多岐にわたっていますが、いずれも漱石の人となりを知るうえで興味の尽きない「小品」が集められています。

Haikus are poems that are formulated in five to seven syllables and are primarily used in the Asian cultures.

Haiku God invites listeners on a journey of further discovering God through the art of haiku poetry. Haiku is a traditional Japanese style of artistic writing. It consists of three lines with a total of seventeen syllables—five in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. This concise format allows for the expression of profound spiritual concepts in a straightforward and accessible manner.

梁山泊は、国としてのかたちを整えていく。西域への交易路開拓のため、韓成は西夏に遣わされる。楊令自ら護衛する最初の商隊が、西域へと出発した。兀朮らが率いる金軍は、南宋の帝となった趙構を討つために旧宋領への侵攻を続ける。

阪神特殊鋼専務・万俵鉄平は、アメリカ企業からの契約を破断され、窮地に陥る。鉄平の旧友である大同銀行頭取・三雲による多額の融資を受け、九死に一生を得る。その矢先、熱風炉の爆発事故が起こり、さらに状況は悪化する。

万俵大介は、大同銀行頭取・三雲を快く思わない専務らと結託する。鉄平の阪神特殊鋼を倒産に導き、それを踏み台に上位銀行である大同の吸収を画策する。そして、三雲頭取にクーデターを起こした専務と父・大介の関係性を知った鉄平は極端な行動に出る。

大本営参謀・壹岐正は、終戦工作に赴いた満州でソ連軍に抑留され、酷寒のシベリアで、想像を絶する飢餓と強制労働に11年にわたって耐え抜いて帰還を果たした。

油田開発を最後の仕事と思い定めた壹岐は、社内の反対を押し切り、イランのサルベスタン鉱区に賭けた。政官界からの逆風をかわし見事採掘権の落札に成功するが、灼熱の大地からは一向に原油の噴き出す兆しはなかった。

अहमद फ़राज़ आज के सबसे लोकप्रिय शायर हैं। उन्हें जीते-जी ऐसी शोहरत मिली है कि आज हिंदुस्तान और पाकिस्तान में फ़राज़ साहब की ग़ज़लों और नज़्मों को बड़े शौक से पढ़ा और सुना जाता है। 'ये मेरी ग़ज़लें, 'ये मेरी नज़्में' की विशेषता यह है कि इसमें खुद फ़राज़ साहब ने अपनी मनपसंद बेहतरीन ग़ज़लों और नज़्मों का चयन किया है। अहमद फ़राज़ की शोहरत ने जब अपने गिर्द एक ऐसा प्रभामंडल पैदा कर लिया जिसमें उनके एक इंक़लांबी रूमानी शायर की छवि चस्पां है। अपने मुल्क में उन्होंने जेलें भी काटी हैं।