"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small...(展开全部)

The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same ...(展开全部)

The End of Days, a brilliant novel of contingency and fate, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Ha...(展开全部)

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children's Book of the Week, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award and shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2022 and the Indie Book Awards 2022. A gorgeously written standalone from the acclaimed author of The...(展开全部)

Inside the Whale is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature i

Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. One night, a great storm washes a small whale onto the beach. The boy discovers the whale is a good listener. The father discovers the boy is lonely. Together, they return the whale to the sea. And from that day on, the boy learns that the father can be a good listener too, in Benji D...(展开全部)

英国知名插画家、动画导演，超级畅销书作家，图书已在30多个国家出版，揽获多项大奖。 代表作：《小熊很忙》《爷爷的天堂岛》《小鲸鱼回来了》等。

千明官，1964年生于京畿道龙仁市。2003年，他的短篇小说《弗兰克和我》发表于《文学村》季刊，获得新人作家奖。2004年，长篇小说《鲸》获得第10届文学村小说奖，该奖是韩国本土文学的风向标，以“兼具话题性与文学性” 的作品著称。2007年出版小说集《愉快的女仆玛丽莎》，亦深受好评，被韩国文化艺术委员会评选为优秀文学图书。他横跨小说、戏剧和电影等领域，曾创作电影剧本《枪手》、《北京故事》等。 《鲸》出版之后，不但赢得作家和评论家的赞誉和好评，同时引发广大读者的热爱和追捧，长据韩国畅销书榜，并被翻译成多种文字，千明官随之成为韩国备受瞩目的文坛明星。