The shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we se...(展开全部)

《清洁》以一个不可避免的事实开篇：一个女孩死了。埃斯特拉是富裕中产阶级家庭的女佣，她在一间上锁的房间里向我们讲述了她的困境以及导致这一刻的情况。当我们了解她对日常生活的描述时，我们看到她看似简单的生活开始变糟，但这会让她走向不可想象的境地吗？ 《清洁》令人不安且深刻，在智利不断变化的政治格局背景下探讨了家务劳动、阶级和暴力。这是国际文学中大胆、引人入胜的惊悚小说之一。 Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances ...(展开全部)

作者&绘者：陈振盼，美籍华裔作家，2018年凯迪克奖得主，曾在雪城大学学习插画。他的图画书屡获大奖，其中《一座岛的600万年》获得了2013年的狮鹫奖，并被美国《学校图书馆杂志》《科克斯书评》共同评委2012年度最佳图书。他还创作了矢车菊奖入围作品《穿越寒武纪珊瑚礁》和亚马逊十大编辑精选童书《穿越侏罗纪原始森林》，以及同样出色的美国童书合作中心推荐图书《万有引力》。

简介：The course of true love never did run smooth. - ShakespeareFor my loving family, thanks for their forgiveness and selfless devotion;In everlasting memory of my precious love Celia, she was the morning star in the depth of my soul.

阿道司·赫胥黎 Aldous Huxley (1894-1962)，赫胥黎出生于赫赫有名的赫胥黎家族。从小受到良好的教育，先后毕业于伊顿公学和牛津大学。他对人类生活中的矛盾具有超人的预见力。家学渊源和个人禀赋使得他在20世纪的欧美学术圈被认为是现代思想的领导者，位列当时杰 出的知识分子行列，曾多次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 赫胥黎一生创作了大量小说、诗歌、哲学著作和游记等，内容包罗万象，涉及现代文明各个重要方面。代表作有《美丽新世界》《岛》等。他晚年时对艺术、心理学、哲学，尤其是神秘主义颇感兴趣。

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a new...(展开全部)

For over a hundred years, the inhabitants of the Pacific island of Pala have been part of a social experiment whereby western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise on earth. In Island, Huxley gives us his vision of Utopia.

From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking point. A young girl has died and the family’s maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl’s death. Estela came from the countryside, leaving her mother behind, to work for the señor a...(展开全部)

The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the questi...(展开全部)

"Quiet, subtle, deeply felt. Gorgeously designed. Quintessentially British. A rare joy. Simply put--Jon McNaught is sublime."--Seth, author of "George Sprott, 1894-1975" Jon McNaught undertakes a thirty-eight-page graphic novel where he revisits his youth in the bleak windswept Falkland Islands situated in the South Atlantic. In his trademark silent storytelling style he covers...(展开全部)