“A heroine every bit as provocative as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander.” – The Dallas Morning News Haunted by a life of violence and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done—dangerous and often not-quite-legal things. Born to missionary parents in lawless Afri...(展开全部)

“A heroine every bit as provocative as Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander.” – The Dallas Morning News Haunted by a life of violence and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done—dangerous and often not-quite-legal things. Born to missionary parents in lawless Afri...(展开全部)

The Doll is a classic of Polish literature, a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. Yet it is less a novel of ideas than a novel of people who have ideas, characters as vivid and memorable as any in Dickens. As the novel opens in Warsaw in 1878, our hero, Wokulski, having risen ...(展开全部)

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrat...(展开全部)

泰勒·史蒂文斯是纽约时报畅销书作家，她还著有以迈克尔·芒罗为主角的一系列惊悚悬疑小说，该系列小说获得媒体和出版人以及作家们的一致好评，已被翻译成二十种语言在全球出版。她大部分时间都在世界各地旅行，现在和她的两个女儿生活在一起，定居德克萨斯州达拉斯市。

泰勒·史蒂文斯是纽约时报畅销书作家，她还著有以迈克尔·芒罗为主角的一系列惊悚悬疑小说，该系列小说获得媒体和出版人以及作家们的一致好评，已被翻译成二十种语言在全球出版。她大部分时间都在世界各地旅行，现在和她的两个女儿生活在一起，定居德克萨斯州达拉斯市。

The classic tale of fantasy, this delightful masterpiece depicts all sorts of characters: greedy, selfish, obnoxious, compassionate, loveable, and generous. Recounting the adventures of four children bent on having their own way, the story's moralistic factor becomes uproariously apparent early on.

A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnn...(展开全部)

欧大旭。他生于台北，长成于马来西亚，先后受教于吉隆坡的一所天主教学校及英国剑桥大学。

Conrad, Maugham, and Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. Now, with The Harmony Silk Factory, we have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. Through his examination of a mysterious and larger than life character-hero or traitor?-Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.