Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experi...(展开全部)

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branc...(展开全部)

Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .

Readers love Ali Smith’s novels for their peerless innovation and their joyful celebration of language and life. Her newest, Autumn, has all of these qualities in spades, and—good news for fans!—is the first installment in a quartet. Seasonal, comprised of four stand-alone books, separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as are the seasons), explores what time is, how we experi...(展开全部)

A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branc...(展开全部)

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section ...(展开全部)

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section ...(展开全部)

伊桑·卡宁（Ethan Canin），美国作家、编剧，旧金山作家小组的创办人之一。1960年7月生于密歇根州，童年在俄亥俄、宾夕法尼亚和加利福尼亚度过。从斯坦福大学英文系毕业后，卡宁进入爱荷华大学学习创意写作，并于1984年拿到硕士学位，随后又进入哈佛医学院，19 91年获得医学博士学位。此后他一面从医一面写作，直到1998年离开医学界，返回爱荷华大学教授创意写作课程至今。 卡宁以两部短篇小说集打入文学界，随后又出版了五部长篇小说，并担任多部电影的编剧。1999年，《纽约时报》选出二十位“新千年作家”，卡宁跻身其中。 译者 张鲲，1976年生于安徽，1997年接触文学翻译，曾多次获得戈宝权文学翻译奖和韩素音青年翻译奖。译有《末日巨塔》《伯恩的通牒》《黑色回声》《史迈利的告别》等作品。

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋 章在内的多个奖项。 译者颜元叔（1933-2012），中国台湾大学外文系教授、文艺评论家、英文教育家；湖南省茶陵县人，1933年生于南京，1956年毕业于台湾大学外文系，1958年赴美国留学，曾在威斯康辛大学研究英美文学，获博士学位；1963年回国后在母校执教，任外文系教授、系主任；是美国水牛城纽约州立大学客座教授、美国犹他大学交换教授；创办《中外文学》《淡江评论》等，并任《中外文学》社长兼总编辑；擅用幽默嘲讽的笔法，描述市井百态，剖析社会现实问题。著有《文学的玄想》《人间烟火》等，...(展开全部)

28 August. Now, as I write this, you know nothing about anything, about what awaits you, the kind of world you will be born into. And I know nothing about you... I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the kitchen window, the sun, the water, the trees. You will come to see it in your ...(展开全部)