Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)

Reads L to R (Western Style). In a perfect world, there is no escape In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It do...(展开全部)

Under the weathered skies of America's heartland, and in the wounded hearts of every family in one tiny rural town, a terrible secret has been kept for too many years. Now, a young boy named Trevor must try to keep his younger brother Will from falling victim to the worst fears of a troubled town that can't begin to understand the tragic secret that binds its families together....(展开全部)

Under the weathered skies of America's heartland, and in the wounded hearts of every family in one tiny rural town, a terrible secret has been kept for too many years. Now, a young boy named Trevor must try to keep his younger brother Will from falling victim to the worst fears of a troubled town that can't begin to understand the tragic secret that binds its families together....(展开全部)

Walter Piston（1894-1976）是祖籍意大利的美国作曲家。他除了从事创作外，还著有和声、对位方面的音乐理论专书，曾任哈佛大学音乐系主任。

A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnn...(展开全部)

欧大旭。他生于台北，长成于马来西亚，先后受教于吉隆坡的一所天主教学校及英国剑桥大学。

Conrad, Maugham, and Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. Now, with The Harmony Silk Factory, we have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. Through his examination of a mysterious and larger than life character-hero or traitor?-Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.

Already an international literary event, and translated into a dozen languages, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's Metamorphoses directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's reexploration of the fantastic fables we may think we know explodes the entire world of Greek mythology, pie...(展开全部)

罗伯托•卡拉索（Roberto Calasso），1941年出生于意大利佛罗伦萨的一个知识分子家庭，外祖父是佛罗伦萨大学的哲学系教授，叔叔是教育部部长，父母均是学者。得益于良好的出身和家庭教育，卡拉索一直活跃在意大利文化圈，除了母语意大利语之外，他还精通英语、法语、德语、西班牙语、拉丁语和古希腊语。他于上世纪中期加入阿德尔菲（Adelphi）出版社，并于1999年出任该出版社董事长，该出版社引介了库宾、尼采、卡夫卡、瓦尔泽等人进入意大利语世界。作为意大利出版业巨子，他被誉为独一无二的“文学出版规范”。卡拉索不仅是一个优秀的出版人，也是一位作家，著有《K》《文学与众神》等。2021年在米兰去世。