Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock?n?roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and halluci...(展开全部)

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory," In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory," In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happie st people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hat...(展开全部)

An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels...(展开全部)

瓦连京·格里戈里耶维奇·拉斯普京（1937~），俄罗斯作家。生于西伯利亚。大学毕业后担任报社编辑。1961年开始发表作品，1967年他的成名作《为玛丽娅借钱》问世，1974年发表长篇小说《活下去，并且要记住》，获1997年苏联国家奖金。此外，《最后的期限》（1970）、《别了，马焦拉》（1976）等作品吼曾引起评论界的普遍关注。1985年出版的小说《火灾》于次年再次荣获苏联国家奖金，从而确立了他在俄罗斯文学中的重要地位，享誉世界文坛。

An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting. --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysteri...(展开全部)

瓦连京·格里戈里耶维奇·拉斯普京（1937~），俄罗斯作家。生于西伯利亚。大学毕业后担任报社编辑。1961年开始发表作品，1967年他的成名作《为玛丽娅借钱》问世，1974年发表长篇小说《活下去，并且要记住》，获1997年苏联国家奖金。此外，《最后的期限》（1970）、《别了，马焦拉》（1976）等作品吼曾引起评论界的普遍关注。1985年出版的小说《火灾》于次年再次荣获苏联国家奖金，从而确立了他在俄罗斯文学中的重要地位，享誉世界文坛。

在线阅读本书 'Trollope did not write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul...(展开全部)