捷克作家博胡米尔•赫拉巴尔（Bohumil Hrabal，1914~1997），这位法学博士为自己设计的一生是这样的：大学毕业后服兵役，做推销员、仓库管理员、炼钢工、废纸回收站打包工、舞台布景工……四十九岁时第一部作品才得以出版，而此后获得国内、国际奖项有三十多个。他的作品多数被改编为话剧和电影。与小说《严密监视的列车》同名的电影于1966年获奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。根据另一部小说《售屋广告：我已不愿居住的房子》改编的电影《失翼灵雀》获1990年柏林影展最佳影片金熊奖。1997年2月3日，这位原本即将病愈出院的作家从医院五楼窗口坠落身亡。 赫拉巴尔的作品大多描写普通、平凡、默默无闻、被抛弃在“时代垃圾堆上的人”。他对这些底层人物寄予同情与爱怜，并且融入他们的生活，发现他们心灵深处的美。他的小说是最具捷克味的作品。

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness.

Look at the harlequins ...Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'nume...(展开全部)

Look at the harlequins ...Play! Invent the world! Invent reality'. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US, and, now dying, reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre 'nume...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.Winner of The Story Prize • A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the yearRecalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and co...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.Winner of The Story Prize • A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the yearRecalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and co...(展开全部)

Published for the first time in 1979 by Rizzoli, A Man is the passionate story of Alekos Panagulis, hero of the Greek Resistance and Fallaci’s partner. On May 1, 1976, Alexandros Panagulis, known as Alekos, the lonely hero of the Greek riot against tyranny and power, died tragically in a suspicious car crash. During his funeral, millions of people crowded the streets of Athens ...(展开全部)

“Kitamura’s prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit.” —Elle "[T]he literary Gone Girl of 2017." —The Millions Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Huffington Post, The Guardian, and The Millions. This is her story. About the end of her marriage. About wha...(展开全部)