It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe, Canada, Australia, India) only grud...(展开全部)

"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama". Irving Howe. -- The New York Review of Books

What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong? Frances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. Nothing will stand in her way; not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside. But when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. He unlocks the door to Real Frances and ...(展开全部)

As a successor to his Booker-nominated novel, Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah's fifth book, Admiring Silence, presents the despair of being torn from one's roots. Gurnah's unnamed narrator flees to England as a teenager to escape the violent political rule of his native island in Zanzibar. There he lives for nearly twenty years in suburban comfort with an Englishwoman and holds a r...(展开全部)

From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of Covid-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer...(展开全部)

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickof...(展开全部)

《Crystal world》一款大型dmmorpg，以各类超高细节在这个游戏的时代脱颖而出。 垃圾测试账号？废物种族？用技能扣血？都不是事。庆贺吧《Crystal world》最强之神即将来临！！

白先勇，小说家、散文家、评论家、剧作家。1937年生，广西桂林人。台湾大学外文系毕业，美国爱荷华大学“作家工作室”（Writer's Workshop）文学创作硕士。他的小说被译成英、法、德、意、日、韩等多种语言文字，在海内外拥有读者无数。著有短篇小说集《寂寞的十七岁》、《台北人》、《纽约客》，长篇小说《孽子》，散文集《蓦然回首》、《明星咖啡馆》、《第六只手指》、《树犹如此》，电影剧本《金大班的最后一夜》、《玉卿嫂》、《孤恋花》、《最后的贵族》等，重新整理明代大剧作家汤显祖的戏曲《牡丹亭》、高濂《玉簪记》，并撰有父亲白崇禧及家族传记。

白先勇，小说家、散文家、评论家、剧作家。1937年生，广西桂林人。台湾大学外文系毕业，美国爱荷华大学“作家工作室”（Writer's Workshop）文学创作硕士。他的小说被译成英、法、德、意、日、韩等多种语言文字，在海内外拥有读者无数。著有短篇小说集《寂寞的十七岁》、《台北人》、《纽约客》，长篇小说《孽子》，散文集《蓦然回首》、《明星咖啡馆》、《第六只手指》、《树犹如此》，电影剧本《金大班的最后一夜》、《玉卿嫂》、《孤恋花》、《最后的贵族》等，重新整理明代大剧作家汤显祖的戏曲《牡丹亭》、高濂《玉簪记》，并撰有父亲白崇禧及家族传记。