A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor—a married woman close to his mother’s age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errands—as his only companion. But as these periodical encounters shift into a clandestine re...(展开全部)

From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman clo...(展开全部)

From Booker-shortlisted author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman clo...(展开全部)

Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbor—a married woman close to his mother’s age, whom he begrudgingly helps with errands—as his only companion. But as these periodical encounters shift into a clandestine re...(展开全部)

カナリア諸島を航海中、敵国スペインの商船を捕獲!!　掠奪成功に沸く、イングランド海賊の船長ジェフリー率いる一行。けれど海斗(かいと)は、捕虜の敵船長と話すうち、重大な史実の食い違いに気づく。もしやこの世界は、自分が習った歴史と微妙に違っている!?　予言が外れる可能性がある!?　ジェフリーの期待と信頼を裏切ったら、見捨てられてしまうかも――。海斗は密かに不安に怯え…。

After ten years in prison for shooting -- and permanently crippling -- a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill the days, but at least there's one blessing -- he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed. Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot all those years ago, and David'...(展开全部)

Pinera's (1912-1979) dark and defiant novel unforgettably amplifies the absurdist themes so startlingly introduced in his short-story collection, Cold Tales . Rene is 20, ripe for education in the cult of flesh, "not of intact, athletic flesh, but of slain meat, truly alive and throbbing like a wound." Rene's father exhorts him to elect the path of suffering, sending the reluct...(展开全部)