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.

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.

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.

In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don't intend to produce. As the resumes pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama's attention - Yamasaki Asami - a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. But she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.

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阪神・淡路大震災の１年後、 芦屋市民センターの一室で行われた。 講演日時：1996年1月13日 主催：森集会 場所：芦屋市民センター 収載書誌：春秋社『本当の考え・うその考え』（1997年）

(毎月第4水曜配信予定、全183巻)

久しぶりにリュックを肩にかけた。「うん、これだよ、この感じなんだ」めざすはモンゴル草原、北米横断、砂埃舞うメキシコの町……。

十月半ばのある日、マーロウはスターンウッド将軍の邸宅に呼び出された。

Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.

大事な場面で、実力を発揮できる人とできない人の違い――。それは、心を静めることができるか、できないか。心身統一合氣道会会長・藤平信一先生がわかりやすく説く心を静める方法――何度も聴けば、瞬時に心を静める極意が身に付きます。 ○セミナーの流れ ・一度発した言葉は、二度と取り消すことはできない。・人間関係で一番大事なことは、感情的にならないこと。・心が乱れたときの決断は、たいてい間違っている。・心を静めるうえで大事なのは、姿勢と呼吸。・心の状態は、体に現れる。・深くて静かな呼吸が、心を鍛える。・一日の心の汚れを、静かな呼吸で洗い流そう。・自然な姿勢が、自然な安定を呼ぶ。(C)しごとの自習室

いま、村上春樹が語り始める――小説家は寛容な人種なのか……。村上さんは小説家になった頃を振り返り、文学賞について、オリジナリティーについて深く考えます。さて、何を書けばいいのか?