From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of...(展开全部)

In a rural village deep in the mountains, mechanic Roy leads a quiet, simple life, but when his little brother, Carl, an entrepreneur, returns with a proposal for a grand hotel to revive the struggling town, dark secrets from their childhood threaten to resurface. As children, Roy defended his little brother against schoolyard bullies and vicious rumors, but his loyalty to fami...(展开全部)

作者介绍 尤·奈斯博，风靡世界的挪威作家，北欧犯罪小说大师，挪威图书畅销排行榜常客。屡获北欧犯罪小说大奖，包括玻璃钥匙奖、书店业者大奖等，还获得英国国际匕首奖和美国爱伦·坡奖提名，作品被翻译成50种语言，在50多个国家出版，销量突破5000万册。 奈斯博曾是挪威知名的摇滚明星，白天任职于金融业，利用晚上和周末时间演出。不久，他考得金融分析师执照，被挪威知名证券公司高薪挖走。然而工作和乐团越来越难以兼顾，濒临崩溃的奈斯博决定休半年长假。他带着笔记本电脑，跳上飞机，前往澳大利亚，在那里写下了日后让自己声名大噪的“哈利·霍勒警探”系列的第一部——《蝙蝠》。 奈斯博受到英美犯罪小说名家的一致拥戴，迈克尔·康奈利称赞他是“我至爱的惊悚作家”。评论家称他是“挪威犯罪书写的毕加索”。他的读者族群广泛，涵盖纯文学、冷硬推理、黑色小说，以及通俗惊悚小说爱好者。

In the mountains of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems. Set in a small town filled with secrets, this compellingly dark new thriller from the Sunday Times numb...(展开全部)

作者：亚当.扎加耶夫斯基 波兰著名诗人、随笔散文家和小说家。一九四五年出生在利沃夫（今属乌克兰），毕业于雅盖隆大学哲学系。波兰“新浪潮”诗歌代表诗人、主要理论阐述者。在一九七〇年代是波兰持不同政见的异议诗人。一九八二年移居巴黎。后往来于巴黎和美国之间，先后执教于休斯敦和芝加哥大学。二〇〇二年返回波兰，定居克拉科夫。主要著作有诗集《公报》《肉铺》《信》《多重性颂》《画布》《炽烈的土地》《震惊》《神秘学入门》《无止境——扎加耶夫斯基诗选》《永恒的敌人》和《无形之手》，随笔散文集《团结，孤独》《两座城市》《另一种美》《捍卫热情》等。扎加耶夫斯基的作品已被翻译为多种语言出版，获得过诺斯达特国际文学奖、特朗斯特罗姆奖、米沃什奖、欧洲诗人奖等多项权威大奖，以及中国的“诗歌与人国际诗歌奖”和“中坤国际诗歌奖”，并多次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。 译者：李以亮 诗人、译者。...(展开全部)

In this highly original novel Slauerhoff (1898-1936) reprises major themes from his poetry (erotic obsession, nomadism, persecution and confused identity) within a more ambitious formal framework. The book interweaves three narratives, separated in time but linked by a common association with the 'forbidden kingdom' of China. The first of these is the brutal and bloody founding...(展开全部)

The Exile’s Return: Orson Scott Card’s Ender in Exile By Beth Meacham, Executive Editor I have had a very long relationship with Ender Wiggin. I met him first in 1977, in an amazing novelette in Analog. I was working in a bookstore in those days, the Science Fiction Shop in New York City. A few years later, I started working for the Ace sf list—and was delighted to discover tha...(展开全部)

The Exile’s Return: Orson Scott Card’s Ender in Exile By Beth Meacham, Executive Editor I have had a very long relationship with Ender Wiggin. I met him first in 1977, in an amazing novelette in Analog. I was working in a bookstore in those days, the Science Fiction Shop in New York City. A few years later, I started working for the Ace sf list—and was delighted to discover tha...(展开全部)