Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature” (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive). Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around ...(展开全部)

"King is a major achievement. With eloquence, compassion, and grace, Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully human―and humane―King . . . A resounding triumph." ―Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield "Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle. Here is the King we know, think we know and ought to know. Here is the leader, the preach...(展开全部)

乔•阿克罗比，英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以“第一律法”三部曲成名，在欧美幻想文坛上打下了深深的烙印，迄今已被翻译为数十国语言，随后出版的最新奇幻三部曲《破碎之海》系列，荣获2015轨迹奖。

乔•阿克罗比，英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以“第一律法”三部曲成名，在欧美幻想文坛上打下了深深的烙印，迄今已被翻译为数十国语言，随后出版的最新奇幻三部曲《破碎之海》系列，荣获2015轨迹奖。

乔•阿克罗比，英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以“第一律法”三部曲成名，在欧美幻想文坛上打下了深深的烙印，迄今已被翻译为数十国语言，随后出版的最新奇幻三部曲《破碎之海》系列，荣获2015轨迹奖。

"King is a major achievement. With eloquence, compassion, and grace, Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully human―and humane―King . . . A resounding triumph." ―Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield "Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle. Here is the King we know, think we know and ought to know. Here is the leader, the preach...(展开全部)

以《死神的精確度》風靡文壇影壇 愛與和平好青年－－伊坂幸太郎 成功背叛讀者預期，寫作至今爭議性最高的異數作品！ 伊坂主題樂園中，唯一無法歸類的任性之作 「我想寫一個天才的一生。」 這是屬於伊坂的馬克白，是屬於王者的悲劇寓言 2010日本「大學讀書人大獎」入圍！ （＊每年由日本全國216所大學的文藝社團選出年度大學生必讀的5本書。2010年，本書與《1Q84》、《春宵苦短，少女們前進吧！》、《植物圖鑑》、《瓶頸》共同入圍。） 背負「King of 棒球」宿命誕生的王者－－山田 王求 從出生至殞落，令人討厭的一生…… 全書多章採取第二人稱觀點的俯瞰式敘述， 加上三名預言女巫與一頭奇獸不時串場的魔幻設定， 埋伏許多莎士比亞四大悲劇之一《馬克白》的經典梗概， 天才打者王求的一生， 形同一齣動人心魄的紙上舞臺劇， 透過一干凡人的雙眼， 看著王之○歲 → 十多歲...(展开全部)

At age 10, Steve Martin got a job selling guidebooks at the newly opened Disneyland. In the decade that followed, he worked in Disney's magic shop, print shop, and theater, and developed his own magic/comedy act. By age 20, studying poetry and philosophy on the side, he was performing a dozen times a week, most often at the Disney rival, Knott's Berry Farm. Obsession is a subst...(展开全部)

Kertesz, a Hungarian Jew, was imprisoned in Auschwitz during his youth. His novel Fateless was translated into English in 1992 and told the story of a Jewish boy's experiences in the concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after World War II. Kaddish was originally published in Hungarian in 1990 and in German in 1992. The narrator of Kaddi...(展开全部)

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In "A Hologram for the King," Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the fac...(展开全部)