The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast movi...(展开全部)

布赖恩·W.奥尔迪斯（1925—2017），英国著名科幻作家，人称“英国科幻小说教父”，也集诗人、剧作家、评论家、编辑等于一身。奥尔迪斯一生极为高产，著作等身，写作、汇编的作品不下百部，并荣获过多个科幻小说奖项，包括雨果奖、星云奖、坎贝尔奖等，2000年荣获世界科幻界的最高荣誉——科幻大师奖，2004年入选“科幻名人堂”，2005年因为在文学方面的卓著贡献被授予帝国爵士勋章。 奥尔迪斯的代表作有《海利科尼亚》系列、《地球的漫长午后》《永不着陆》，以及科幻研究作品《亿万年大狂欢》等。他的短篇小说《超级玩具够玩一整夏》，由著名导演斯蒂芬•斯皮尔伯格拍成电影《人工智能》。

1939. A world torn apart by war. Two families forwever entwined by secrets

1939. A world torn apart by war. Two families forwever entwined by secrets

A masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, "The Hothouse" created a literary stir when it appeared in hardcover. Evoking comparisons to works by James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry, it traces the final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of post-World War II German politics and grieving after the sudden death...(展开全部)

沃尔夫冈·克彭（Wolfgang Koeppen，1906—1996） 德国作家，战后德国文坛传奇。早年做过记者、演员、戏剧顾问、报刊编辑，20世纪30年代开始文学创作，著有长篇小说《伤心情事》等。1951年起发表的“战后三部曲”——《草中鸽》《温室》《死于罗马》以独特的现代主义风格完整呈现了战后德国的社会政治氛围，轰动当时的德语文坛，被公认为战后德语文学经典，奠定了克彭的大师地位。德国著名作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主君特·格拉斯称其为“当代德国最伟大的小说家”。后期著有一些游记以及回忆录《青春》。1962年，荣获德语文学最高奖项“毕希纳奖”。 【译者简介】 聂宗洋 德国图宾根大学德语文学硕士，现从事儿童文学编辑出版工作。译作《被风吹落的报纸》获第十七届文津图书奖少儿类推荐图书。

A progenitor of both W. G. Sebald and Günter Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen emerges with an existential masterpiece. Harrowing, moody, and supremely powerful, The Hothouse, first published in 1953, stands among the finest novels written in postwar Germany. Largely unrecognized beyond Germany during his lifetime, Wolfgang Koeppen sought to make sense of German life amid the vast politi...(展开全部)

There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a...(展开全部)

There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had two such women - at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a...(展开全部)

Could a book by any other name smell as sweet? Absolutely not. The rose is the world’s favorite flower—and always has been. It is our greatest floral symbol of love and romance, and it is a bloom that touches our hearts as the flower most often chosen to celebrate significant milestones—weddings, anniversaries, births, and indeed, deaths. In this book, Catherine Horwood traces ...(展开全部)