When A Visitation of Spirits was published, Randall Kenan (1963-2020) was instantly recognized as a writer of significance, and one who brought into literary fiction the southern Black, gay experience, one of the first such writers to achieve mainstream success. His groundbreaking first novel, A Visitation of Spirits, is the powerful story of Horace Cross, a popular and high-ac...(展开全部)

Randall Kenan's daring and innovative first novel weaves a vivid and horrific tale through the generations of a black Southern family. Sixteen-year old Horace Cross is plagued by issues that hover in his impressionable spirit and take shape in his mind as loathsome demons, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. In the face of Horace's fate, his cousin R...(展开全部)

Horace Cross, the 16-year-old descendent of slaves and deacons of the church, spends a horror-filled spring night wrestling with the demons and angels of his brief life. Brilliant, popular, and the bright promise of his elders, Horace struggles with the guilt of discovering who he is, a young man attracted to other men and yearning to escape the narrow confines of Tim's Creek. ...(展开全部)

Praise for the Sergeant Cribb series: “Delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. . . . [A] fine picture of period vice, good mystery plotting, and fun.”— San Francisco Chronicle “These are humorous novels and the humor is character-based. . . . Cribb was the first of the new-wave Victorian crime-fighters and is still arguab...(展开全部)

燕妮·埃彭贝克（Jenny Erpenbeck），1967年出生于东柏林，德国作家、戏剧导演，代表作有长篇小说《客乡》《白日尽头》《时世逝》，中篇小说集《文字之书》，另著有多部剧作、散文，曾获得汉斯·法拉达奖（2014）、《独立报》外国小说奖（2015）、托马斯·曼奖（2016）、斯特雷加文学奖（2017）、德意志联邦共和国功绩勋章（2017）等，作品已被译为二十多种语言。 . 译者简介：李斯本，伦敦大学金史密斯学院文学学士，伦敦政治经济学院传播学硕士，译有《游隼》《去往猴面包树的旅程》。

A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Visitation offers us the stories of twelve individuals who make their home here. The narrative weaves in and out of history and time, shimmering through the public and secret spaces of a magical little house and showing us the passions and fates of its inhabitants. ...(展开全部)

A forested property on a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin lies at the heart of this darkly sensual, elegiac novel. Visitation offers us the stories of twelve individuals who make their home here. The narrative weaves in and out of history and time, shimmering through the public and secret spaces of a magical little house and showing us the passions and fates of its inhabitants. ...(展开全部)

燕妮·埃彭贝克（Jenny Erpenbeck），1967年出生于东柏林，德国作家、戏剧导演，代表作有长篇小说《客乡》《白日尽头》《时世逝》，中篇小说集《文字之书》，另著有多部剧作、散文，曾获得汉斯·法拉达奖（2014）、《独立报》外国小说奖（2015）、托马斯·曼奖（2016）、斯特雷加文学奖（2017）、德意志联邦共和国功绩勋章（2017）等，作品已被译为二十多种语言。 . 译者简介：李斯本，伦敦大学金史密斯学院文学学士，伦敦政治经济学院传播学硕士，译有《游隼》《去往猴面包树的旅程》。

Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haun...(展开全部)

Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haun...(展开全部)