Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff. The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to cloth...(展开全部)

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this is, however, at all comprehensible to anyone below the level of Advanced God, and since it is now well-established that all known gods came into existence a good three millionths of a second after the Universe began rather...(展开全部)

Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings. From the Hardcover edition.

Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There's nothing worse than a frus...(展开全部)

Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings. From the Hardcover edition.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this is, however, at all comprehensible to anyone below the level of Advanced God, and since it is now well-established that all known gods came into existence a good three millionths of a second after the Universe began rather...(展开全部)

Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There's nothing worse than a frus...(展开全部)

Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifie...(展开全部)

Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifie...(展开全部)

诺曼·埃里克森·帕萨里布 1990年出生于印尼雅加达的天才小说作家。 帕萨里布拥有印度尼西亚国立会计学院的会计学士学位，曾在印度尼西亚税务局工作了近六年。 2015年，处女作诗集《塞尔吉乌斯寻找巴克斯》获得雅加达艺术委员会诗歌比赛冠军，并入围2016年赤道诗歌文学奖。 2022年，中短篇小说集《近乎快乐的故事》与诺贝尔文学奖得主托卡尔丘克的代表作《雅各布之书》和福瑟的《新名字》共同入围了布克国际文学奖，同年荣膺英国良心共和国文学奖。 2023年，《近乎快乐的故事》入围了美国国家诗歌和散文翻译奖以及美国卡尔塞多翻译文学奖文学奖。2024年，帕萨里布获得了首届帕特里夏·凯利斯国际写作奖学金和东南亚文学委员会的斯特拉扬·穆达奖并被哈佛大学亚洲中心选为驻地艺术家。