awal El Saadawi’s highly acclaimed feminist novel, Woman at Point Zero, follows the life of Firdaus, an Egyptian peasant girl, from her childhood of incomprehensible cruelty and neglect to her end in a grimy Cairo prison cell. From her earliest memories, Firdaus suffered at the hands of men—first her abusive father, then her violent, much older husband, to finally her deceitful...(展开全部)

Aldous Huxley's lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both thematically and formally in his masterpiece Point Counter Point. By presenting a vision of life in which diverse aspects of experience are observed simultaneously, Huxley characterizes the symptoms of "the disease of modern man" in the manner of a composer themes an...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy; Maurice deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment, while the withdrawn writer, Philip, finds him...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·巴拉德（1930－2009），英国作家，从小在上海的租借地长大，“二战”期间曾被关进日军的战俘集中营，对战争的恐怖回忆，大大影响了他日后的创作，使他被奉为“赛博朋克”（Cyberpunk）文学导师。他的名著《太阳帝国》（Empire of the Sun）曾入围1984年布克奖的决选。而《撞车》则是他的颠峰之作。此书初成之际，曾受多家出版社的拒绝，甚者竟建议他去寻求心理医生的治疗。然而，三十年后，这部融汇性、科技、精神分析、恋物的作品最终变成了一部经典。美国文坛的灵魂人物苏珊•桑塔格曾盛赞巴拉德是“当代小说中最具智慧的声音”。

The definitive cult, post-modern novel -- a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism. When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled imp...(展开全部)

One of Time magazine's 100 all-time best English-language novels. Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibi...(展开全部)

［美］尼尔•斯蒂芬森 美国著名幻想文学作家，其作品包括科幻小说、历史小说和高科技惊险小说，题材涉及数学、哲学、宗教、金融、密码破译和科技史等多个学科领域。 出版于1992年的《雪崩》是斯蒂芬森重要的科幻作品之一，标志着他创作风格的成熟，面世后引发汹涌的赛博朋克阅读风潮。此后，他的作家生涯进入黄金期，几乎每四年便推出一部脍炙人口的大作。其中，1995年的《钻石时代》获得雨果奖；1999年的《编码宝典》及此后的“巴洛克”三部曲以破译数据密码为中心线索，结合历史小说和科技惊险小说的元素，戏剧性地重述了科技发展史，大受读者好评。其后，斯蒂芬森推出的《飞越修道院》和《七族》都成功入围雨果奖决选。