A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes’s father’s thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes’s own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different...(展开全部)

Dear Moon, will our nights be as charming without you? It's when Cloud takes your place in the sky that we need you to brighten our evenings with your smile, and remind us how round, and around, you've always been.

The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh w...(展开全部)

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - un...(展开全部)

阿瑟·黑利(1920-2004)，他出生英伦，参加皇家空军征战二战，写尽美国社会百态之后，终老于巴哈马，但更愿承认自己是加拿大人。 他的小说改编成电影，引领好莱坞的灾难片风潮；他的小说改编成电视剧，创造出历史最高的收视纪录。 他的小说入选MBA教材，成为从业人员的必读之书；他的小说入选英文课本，是学习写作的经典范本。 他是畅销书之父，作品被译作38种语言，总销量17亿册。他无时无刻不在编织故事，一天却只能创作600字。 他是行业小说之王，人们从他的小说里了解空港经营、酒店管理、媒体运作、金融内幕，他却谦虚道：“我就是个讲故事的人，读者的其他收获不过是偶然罢了。”

"Such a pleasure to read...nothing less than a triumph." -New York Times Book Review In this "captivating" (Time Out New York) novel, an aging author-now out of print and barely remembered by the literary world that once fleetingly embraced him-is courted by a brash young graduate student who wants to write her thesis on him. What ensues is a story that is at once comical, s...(展开全部)

Leonard Schiller is a novelist in his seventies, a second-string but respectable talent who produced only a small handful of books. Heather Wolfe is an attractive graduate student in her twenties. She read Schiller’s novels when she was growing up and they changed her life. When the ambitious Heather decides to write her master’s thesis about Schiller’s work and sets out to mee...(展开全部)

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin. In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper's Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Enterta...(展开全部)

《黄昏时出发》主要围绕着一个24岁的女研究生海瑟和70多岁的老作家席勒之间的情感故事展开，关乎生命的梦想与尊严、成长与衰老、爱情和诱惑。本书获得出版人周刊“年度好书”，纽约时报“注目好书”，沙龙杂志“最受喜爱书籍”。 李纳德·席勒住在纽约市上西区，是一位小有名声的作家。已然垂暮之年的他，却因24岁的女研究生海瑟的出现而心海生波。海瑟是个“体型娇小，穿着迷你裙的自传作家”，她一心想以心目中的偶像席勒的小说为题做一篇硕士论文。当海瑟与席勒相遇之后，海瑟掩藏不住内心对从少女时代就视为精神领袖的席勒的好奇，也因为席勒婉言谢绝配合她完成她的硕士论文，在种种复杂的情感作用之下，年轻的她大胆地向老人示爱。故事由此展开激烈的戏剧冲突。正如席勒所言：生命里大部分的困难抉择，并非对与错间的冲突，而是两个都是对的抉择。这就是为什么，生命总是悲伤的。小说中充满了对生命、梦想...(展开全部)

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike p...(展开全部)