とある数学者の初恋を“9つの数字の2つ組”で描く表題作ほか、忽然と消息を絶った防衛戦の英雄と、言語生成アルゴリズムについての思索「Goldberg Invariant」、読者のなかに書き出し、読者から読み出す恋愛小説機関「Your Heads Only」、異なる時間軸の交点に存在する仮想世界で展開される超遠距離恋愛を活写する「Gernsback Intersection」の4篇を収めた数理的恋愛小説集。著者自身の書き下ろし“解説”を新規収録。

博士を愛せなかった数式。日本文学界の話題を独占したデビュー長篇『Ｓｅｌｆ‐Ｒｅｆｅｒｅｎｃｅ　ＥＮＧＩＮＥ』から半年―芥川賞候補の注目作家がおくる数理的恋愛小説集。

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...(展开全部)

If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.

2015 Schneider Family Book Award Winner * "A candid and deeply resonant account of a hard-fought battle against societal stigma, and an embrace of one's true talent and calling." —Publisher's Weekly, starred review Speaking for the animals he loves gives one boy’s life hope, purpose, and truth in this gorgeous picture book autobiography. Alan loves animals, but the great cat ho...(展开全部)

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A prizewinning playwright shares the stunning and heartbreaking story of two adolescent boys who fall in love, painfully acknowledging their homosexuality and, at the same time, trying to sustain each other as their families fall apart around them. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. PW.

A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, about the misadventures of a poor Beijing rickshaw driver First published in China in 1937, Rickshaw Boy is the story of Xiangzi, an honest and serious country boy who works as a rickshaw puller in Beijing. A man of simple needs whose greatest ambition is to one day own his own r...(展开全部)