When his attempts to get to know his dying father fail, William Bloom makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions.

When his attempts to get to know his dying father fail, William Bloom makes up stories that recreate his father's life in heroic proportions.

Published in hardcover to outstanding acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould's Book of Fish is a marvelously imagined epic of nineteenth-century Australia -- a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish. Widely hailed as a masterpiece ...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta ...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta ...(展开全部)

莫言，山东高密人，1955年生，2012年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。著有《红高粱家族》、《酒国》、《丰乳肥臀》、《檀香刑》、《生死疲劳》、《蛙》等长篇小说十一部，《透明的红萝卜》、《白狗秋千架》、《师傅越来越幽默》等中短篇小说一百余部，并著有剧作、散文多部；其中多部作品已被译为英、法、德、意、日、西、俄、韩、荷兰、瑞典、挪威、波兰、阿拉伯、越南等多种语言，在国内外文坛上具有广泛影响。 莫言及其作品曾获：“华语文学传媒大奖•年度杰出成就奖”、“茅盾文学奖”，香港浸会大学“世界华文长篇小说奖•红楼梦奖”，台湾“联合文学奖”，法国“Laure Bataillon（儒尔•巴泰庸）外国文学奖”、“法兰西文化艺术骑士勋章”，意大利“Nonino（诺尼诺）国际文学奖”，日本“福冈亚洲文化大奖”，美国“纽曼华语文学奖”，等。

莫言，山东高密人，1955年生，2012年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。著有《红高粱家族》、《酒国》、《丰乳肥臀》、《檀香刑》、《生死疲劳》、《蛙》等长篇小说十一部，《透明的红萝卜》、《白狗秋千架》、《师傅越来越幽默》等中短篇小说一百余部，并著有剧作、散文多部；其中多部作品已被译为英、法、德、意、日、西、俄、韩、荷兰、瑞典、挪威、波兰、阿拉伯、越南等多种语言，在国内外文坛上具有广泛影响。 莫言及其作品曾获：“华语文学传媒大奖•年度杰出成就奖”、“茅盾文学奖”，香港浸会大学“世界华文长篇小说奖•红楼梦奖”，台湾“联合文学奖”，法国“Laure Bataillon（儒尔•巴泰庸）外国文学奖”、“法兰西文化艺术骑士勋章”，意大利“Nonino（诺尼诺）国际文学奖”，日本“福冈亚洲文化大奖”，美国“纽曼华语文学奖”，等。

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)

Horace Cross, the 16-year-old descendent of slaves and deacons of the church, spends a horror-filled spring night wrestling with the demons and angels of his brief life. Brilliant, popular, and the bright promise of his elders, Horace struggles with the guilt of discovering who he is, a young man attracted to other men and yearning to escape the narrow confines of Tim's Creek. ...(展开全部)