The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary invest...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 唐·德里罗 Don DeLillo 出生于1936年，美国当代文学巨擘，诺贝尔文学奖热门候选人，哈罗德·布鲁姆所推崇的“美国当代最重要的四位作家之一”。著有《名字》《白噪音》《天秤星座》《地下世界》《零K》等。 德里罗的作品呈现出一种后现代的极限状态： 超现实、消费文化、媒体权力、集体狂热、恐怖主义直到世界末日……他以先知般的笔触，刻画着我们这个时代的魔力与恐惧，预言人类命运的终极。 唐·德里罗以“代表美国文学最高水准”的创作，赢得了美国国家图书终身成就奖、美国笔会/索尔·贝娄文学终身成就奖、耶路撒冷奖等十多种重量级文学奖项。 【译者简介】 靖振忠，青年译者。毕业于中国科学技术大学地球和空间科学系，获美国哥伦比亚大学物理学硕士。现居加拿大多伦多市。译有《零K》《索拉里斯星》等。

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary invest...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·门德尔松（Daniel Mendelsohn，1960— ） 美国作家、文学评论家、翻译家、文学教授，普林斯顿大学古典学博士。 门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C.P.卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、《等...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·门德尔松（Daniel Mendelsohn，1960— ） 美国作家、文学评论家、翻译家、文学教授，普林斯顿大学古典学博士。 门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C.P.卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、《等...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, George Picquart, witnessed a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying “Death to the Jews!” The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of “the Statistical Section” – t...(展开全部)