萨巴·塔希尔 Sabaa Tahir 家人在加州的沙漠中开设了一间有18个客房的小旅馆，成长于此的塔希尔似乎具有一般人所没有的才情和开阔想象力。处女作《灰烬余火》一问世，即受到国外权威媒体和一众读者的热切追捧。她本人更是被媒体评价为极具J.K.罗琳潜质的亮眼新秀，得到奇幻鬼才布兰登·山德森的激赏力荐。 萨巴·塔希尔有望跻身全球最畅销作者行列，且让我们拭目以待！

埃利亚斯·卡内蒂（Elias Canetti，19O5～）的国籍问题，至今众说纷坛，这与他一生游踪不定有关。他生于保加利亚北部鲁斯丘克（今鲁塞），祖父是居住在西班牙的犹太人，父母以经商为业。8岁丧父，随母迁至维也纳，先后在苏黎世、法兰克福等地求学，大学毕业获哲学博士学位。由于从小就酷爱艺术，对犹太教、商业活动深感厌恶，卡内蒂潜心研究文学、历史，并开始写作。 1938年，德国法西斯侵占奥地利，卡内蒂流亡法国，辗转至英国，定居伦敦并加入英国国籍，但他一直用德语写作。我国翻译界倾向于把他归属于奥地利或英国德语作家。 卡内蒂自幼受母亲影响颇深。德国文学，尤其是歌德对他一生的创作影响很大，乃至被称为“一个生活在2O世纪里的18世纪的作家”。此外，卡夫卡也给他很大影响，他们是至交。卡内蒂早年攻读过自然科学，这又使他喜好以冷峻的态度表现精神与现实的冲突，特别喜好剖...(展开全部)

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking office as ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultur...(展开全部)

About this book “Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly examines the meaning and cultura...(展开全部)

Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the...(展开全部)

Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultur...(展开全部)

About this book “Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly examines the meaning and cultura...(展开全部)

Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the...(展开全部)