Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycli...(展开全部)

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycli...(展开全部)

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed...(展开全部)

The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed...(展开全部)

阿卡迪·斯特鲁伽茨基（Аркадий Стругацкий，1925-1991） 鲍里斯·斯特鲁伽茨基（Борис Стругацкий，1933-2012） 俄罗斯科幻泰斗，世界科幻文坛绝无仅有的双子星。为纪念二人在科幻文学上的贡献，第3054号小行星以其姓氏命名。 哥哥阿卡迪以翻译日本名著成名，弟弟鲍里斯为天文学家，1957年起开始联袂创作科幻小说。二人早期受波兰科幻大师莱姆影响颇深，此后，逐渐将俄罗斯文学传统融入科幻类型，擅用荒诞、讽刺手法，作品中充满深刻的道德思辨和社会思考。 1972年，其代表作《路边野餐》问世，轰动世界科幻文坛。1979年，被电影大师塔科夫斯基改编为经典电影《潜行者》，剧本由兄弟俩亲自操刀。令人震惊的是，书中以“外星人造访区”隐喻核污染，而电影拍摄外景地塔林也恰恰曾遭核污染，包括导演塔科夫斯基在内的三名主创都受此影响，数年...(展开全部)

阿卡迪·斯特鲁伽茨基（Аркадий Стругацкий，1925-1991） 鲍里斯·斯特鲁伽茨基（Борис Стругацкий，1933-2012） 俄罗斯科幻泰斗，世界科幻文坛绝无仅有的双子星。为纪念二人在科幻文学上的贡献，第3054号小行星以其姓氏命名。 哥哥阿卡迪以翻译日本名著成名，弟弟鲍里斯为天文学家，1957年起开始联袂创作科幻小说。二人早期受波兰科幻大师莱姆影响颇深，此后，逐渐将俄罗斯文学传统融入科幻类型，擅用荒诞、讽刺手法，作品中充满深刻的道德思辨和社会思考。 1972年，其代表作《路边野餐》问世，轰动世界科幻文坛。1979年，被电影大师塔科夫斯基改编为经典电影《潜行者》，剧本由兄弟俩亲自操刀。令人震惊的是，书中以“外星人造访区”隐喻核污染，而电影拍摄外景地塔林也恰恰曾遭核污染，包括导演塔科夫斯基在内的三名主创都受此影响，数年...(展开全部)

阿卡迪·斯特鲁伽茨基（Аркадий Стругацкий，1925-1991） 鲍里斯·斯特鲁伽茨基（Борис Стругацкий，1933-2012） 俄罗斯科幻泰斗，世界科幻文坛绝无仅有的双子星。为纪念二人在科幻文学上的贡献，第3054号小行星以其姓氏命名。 哥哥阿卡迪以翻译日本名著成名，弟弟鲍里斯为天文学家，1957年起开始联袂创作科幻小说。二人早期受波兰科幻大师莱姆影响颇深，此后，逐渐将俄罗斯文学传统融入科幻类型，擅用荒诞、讽刺手法，作品中充满深刻的道德思辨和社会思考。 1972年，其代表作《路边野餐》问世，轰动世界科幻文坛。1979年，被电影大师塔科夫斯基改编为经典电影《潜行者》，剧本由兄弟俩亲自操刀。令人震惊的是，书中以“外星人造访区”隐喻核污染，而电影拍摄外景地塔林也恰恰曾遭核污染，包括导演塔科夫斯基在内的三名主创都受此影响，数年...(展开全部)

Red Schuhart is a stalker, a young rebel who is compelled, despite extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect mysterious alien artifacts. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together, something goes terribly wrong. The news Red receives from his girlfriend upon ...(展开全部)

Introducing a brave, new Arab-American voice, an unflinching debut novel that takes us inside a world where few of us have been before: the lives of conservative Arab women living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mothe...(展开全部)

Introducing a brave, new Arab-American voice, an unflinching debut novel that takes us inside a world where few of us have been before: the lives of conservative Arab women living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mothe...(展开全部)