萨曼塔•施维伯林（Samanta Schweblin），1978年出生于阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯。2001年，她的第一本短篇小说集《骚动的心》获得了阿根廷国家艺术基金会奖和哈罗德•孔蒂全国文学大赛一等奖。2008年，第二部短篇小说集《吃鸟的女孩》获得美洲之家奖，并被翻译成十三种语言。曾在多地短期生活、写作，如墨西哥、意大利、中国和德国。2011年，萨曼塔•施维伯林入选《格兰塔》杂志“最佳西班牙语青年作家”榜单。

opia del expediente de la policía metropolitana de Tokio: El viernes 1 de abril aparece el cuerpo sin vida de un varón de alrededor de 25 años de edad en los servicios de la estación de Ueno (Tokio). Causa de la muerte: Homicidio con arma blanca. Hora aproximada del fallecimiento: entre las nueve y las 10 p.m. Los sospechosos son cuatro hombres y dos mujeres que viajan en el fe...(展开全部)

opia del expediente de la policía metropolitana de Tokio: El viernes 1 de abril aparece el cuerpo sin vida de un varón de alrededor de 25 años de edad en los servicios de la estación de Ueno (Tokio). Causa de la muerte: Homicidio con arma blanca. Hora aproximada del fallecimiento: entre las nueve y las 10 p.m. Los sospechosos son cuatro hombres y dos mujeres que viajan en el fe...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)