From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi—a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café—collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports...(展开全部)

From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi—a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café—collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports...(展开全部)

艾哈迈德·萨达维，伊拉克小说家、诗人、编剧，1973年出生在巴格达，曾做过纪录片导演，著有诗集及3本小说。 萨达维的作品多次获奖，2010年，他作为40岁以下最优秀的阿拉伯作家之一，入选“贝鲁特39”（Beirut39）。 凭借《弗兰肯斯坦在巴格达》一书，萨达维成为第一个赢得I.P.A.F.（阿拉伯国际小说奖，阿拉伯国家最负盛名的文学奖项）的伊拉克作家，他的同胞和其他阿拉伯作家将这次获奖看作巴格达的“复苏”。

艾哈迈德·萨达维，伊拉克小说家、诗人、编剧，1973年出生在巴格达，曾做过纪录片导演，著有诗集及3本小说。 萨达维的作品多次获奖，2010年，他作为40岁以下最优秀的阿拉伯作家之一，入选“贝鲁特39”（Beirut39）。 凭借《弗兰肯斯坦在巴格达》一书，萨达维成为第一个赢得I.P.A.F.（阿拉伯国际小说奖，阿拉伯国家最负盛名的文学奖项）的伊拉克作家，他的同胞和其他阿拉伯作家将这次获奖看作巴格达的“复苏”。

A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's journey from performing his life to truly connecting with people . Nick, a young illustrator, can’t shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. He haunts lookalike fussy, silly, coffee shops, listens to old Joni Mitchell albums too loudly,...(展开全部)

A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's journey from performing his life to truly connecting with people . Nick, a young illustrator, can’t shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. He haunts lookalike fussy, silly, coffee shops, listens to old Joni Mitchell albums too loudly,...(展开全部)

"In America" is a kaleidoscopic portrait of America on the cusp of modernity. As she did in her enormously popular novel "The Volcano Lover," Susan Sontag casts a story located in the past in a fresh, provocative light to create a fictional world full of contemporary resonance. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, emigrate to the United ...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade." She stared at the picture, squinti...(展开全部)

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip...(展开全部)

Kate Atkinson’s dazzling Life After Life, one of the top selling adult books of 2014, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula’s beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father – as he navigates the...(展开全部)