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.

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)

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children. “I have been acquainted with the smell of death.” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband ...(展开全部)

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exi...(展开全部)

Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short stories, most preceded by a free verse poem. Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative, is told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way. Typical of Palahniuk's work, the dominant motifs in Haunted are sexual deviance, sexual iden...(展开全部)