A Perfect Vacuum is a spectacular literary experiment and a byword among serious readers. It is a metafictional collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature -- works which, in some cases, could not even be written. As the modernist "art for art's sake" has given way to postmodern "games for games' sake, " Stanislaw Lem joins the game with hilarious and grotesqu...(展开全部)

Today is a perfect day for Cat, Dog, Chickadee, and Squirrel. Cat is lounging among the daffodils. Dog is sitting in the wading pool, deep in the cool water. Chickadee is eating fresh seed from the birdfeeder. Squirrel is munching on his very own corncob. Today is a perfect day in Bert's backyard. Until Bear comes along, that is. Bear crushes the daffodils, drinks the pool wate...(展开全部)

Book Description A groundbreaking book that sheds new light on ideas of order - and shows how disorder and mess make our world a better place! Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder - or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No long...(展开全部)

阿乙，本名艾国柱，江西省瑞昌市人，生于1976年。 毕业于警校学校，曾做过警察、编辑等工作，担任过《天南》文学双月刊的执行主编，现为一家图书出版公司的文学主编。 其小说从乡村游历到县城、省会、沿海城市、直辖市、首都，未来还想去纽约。先后做过警察、体育编辑和文学编辑。在《今天》、《人民文学》等杂志发表有小说，出版有小说集《灰故事》、《鸟看见我了》，获得过人民文学年度中篇小说奖。

蕾秋•乔伊斯（Rachel Joyce），英国BBC资深剧作家，《星期日泰晤士报》专栏作者。作为剧作家，于2007年获 Tinniswood 最佳广播剧奖。她还在皇家莎士比亚剧团、皇家国家剧院担任主要角色。 乔伊斯于20年的舞台剧和电视职业生涯之后转向写作，2012年出版小说《一个人的朝圣》，该书入围 2012年布克文学奖及英联邦书奖，目前已畅销三四十个国家。2013年出版小说《时间停止的那一天》，2014年出版《一个人的朝圣》相伴之作《一个人的朝圣2：奎妮的情歌》，继续掀起阅读热潮。以上图书均已由大鱼读品引进并出版。

A tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses. Men in My Situation, Per Petterson’s evocative and moving new novel, finds Arvid Jansen in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident. In the aftermath, Arvid’s wife, Turid, divorced him and took their ...(展开全部)

The last of the four novels Jean Rhys wrote in interwar Paris, Good Morning, Midnight is the culmination of a searing literary arc, which established Rhys as an astute observer of human tragedy. Her everywoman heroine, Sasha, must confront the loves― and losses― of her past in this mesmerizing and formally daring psychological portrait.

Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, news of a catastrophic event arrives. The scientists are forced to evacuate, but Augustine stubbornly refuses to abandon his work. Shortly after the othe...(展开全部)

*One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review* *National Bestseller* “A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing . . . You read the entire novel knowing something terrible is coming. In that, Slimani has us in her thrall.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger

*One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review* *National Bestseller* “A great novel . . . Incredibly engaging and disturbing . . . You read the entire novel knowing something terrible is coming. In that, Slimani has us in her thrall.” —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger