He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

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.

海外旅行をよりアクティブに楽しみたい人、現地の人と積極的に会話をしたい人のための、一歩進んだトラベル表現集。

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar.

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.

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.

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.

アルクの書籍「新装版 まるごと使える旅行英会話ミニフレーズ」の例文音声です! 海外旅行をぜいたくに、かつスマートに楽しみたい!そんなあなたにお勧めしたいのが、この『旅行英会話ミニフレーズ』。 旅先で遭遇すると思われる場面を次の9つに分け、それぞれの場面で必要な基本表現を紹介しています。 「機内」「空港」「ホテル」「交通」「食事」「買い物」「娯楽」「生活体験」「SOS」 順を追って聞いているうちに、旅行中に必要な表現や会話の仕方が自然に身に付けられます。 本コンテンツは、書籍に収録されている基本表現の英文音声に加え、書籍にはない日本語訳の音声を新たに収録し、聞くだけでも学習できるよう再編集したものです。また、リピーティングの練習ができるよう、「英文→日本語訳→英文→ポーズ」のように構成しています。ポーズの間に英文をリピーティングすると効果的です。さらに、書籍に収録されている会話文(SKIT)も収録しています(英文音声のみ)。基本表現で紹介した文を盛り込んでいますので、基本表現が実際の場面でどのように使われるか、聞いて練習してみましょう。 ※本商品にテキスト情報は含まれておりません。書籍と合わせて学習すると学習効果が高まります。...