一个名叫EijiMiyake的日本年轻人在母亲和姐妹相继亡故后，从乡下来到繁华都市东京，寻找当年抛弃家庭的父亲。在此过程中，他遇到了种种困难，甚至被卷入了东京黑手党的阴谋中。这座庞大的城市令他迷惑恐惧，而黑势力似乎无处不在，厄运总是追随著他。抽著烟，他游荡在东京的大街小巷，试图发现他父亲的生活的真相，解开心中的疑惑。他的思绪在现实和梦想间穿行，读者渐渐也迷失了真实世界和梦想世界的界限，但同时更加深了对心理世界的了解。这部作品进入2002年布克奖的决选名单，再次展现了大卫·米歇尔自如调动不同文体和戏剧化运用文学手段的能力。

number9dream is the second novel by English author David Mitchell. Set in Japan, it narrates the search of 19-year-old Eiji Miyake for his father, whom he has never met. Told in the first person by Eiji, it is a coming of age/perception story that breaks convention by juxtaposing Eiji Miyake’s actual journey toward identity and understanding with his imaginative journey. From W...(展开全部)

Tom Rob Smith-the bestselling, award-winning author of Child 44 and one of the most critically-acclaimed new writers of our time-returns with a thrilling and provocative new novel. AGENT 6 How far would you go to solve a crime against your family? It is 1965. Leo Demidov, a former secret police agent, is forbidden to travel with his wife and daughters from Moscow to New York. T...(展开全部)

Former Soviet Secret Service agent Leo Demidov has built himself a new life as a civilian with his wife Raisa, and their two teenage daughters, Elena and Zoya. The Soviet Union is a country trying to reassert itself after the murderous excesses of Stalin and the chaos of the following years, and as the Cold War continues powers inside Russia seek to topple their great enemy, th...(展开全部)

Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service. He was a highly prized Nazi agent. He was also a secret spy for Britain, alias Agent Zigzag. Agent Zigzag is the untold story of Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent. Genuinely courag...(展开全部)

Numbers permeate every aspect of our lives; very little happens without a basic ability to manipulate the simple whole numbers we all take for granted. Beautifully illustrated with old engravings as well as contemporary imagery, Sacred Number introduces basic counting systems; significant numbers from major religious texts; the importance of astronomy, geometry, and music to nu...(展开全部)

From the reviews: "...a fine book [...] When it appeared in 1949 it was a pioneer. Now there are plenty of competing accounts. But Hasse has something extra to offer.[...] Hasse proved that miracles do happen in his five beautiful papers on quadratic forms of 1923-1924. [...]It is trite but true: Every number-theorist should have this book on his or her shelf." --Irving Kaplans...(展开全部)