Jimi Hendrix continues to fascinate, and sell huge quantities of albums, even 35 years after his death. Quite apart from his influence on musicians and fans, a large part of the appeal of his sensational life story lies in the thrill of the era whose values he came to stand for. The Sixties still exert a massive pull over pop culture and this is genuinely a book for anyone inte...(展开全部)

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area,...(展开全部)

Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the messa...(展开全部)

尤金·欧·切洛维茨 E.O. Chirovici 出生于罗马尼亚的特兰西瓦尼亚，来自一个罗马尼亚、匈牙利和德国的混血家庭。他有过多年的记者生涯，曾经营一份享誉盛名的新闻报纸，之后又管理过一家重要的电视台。2013年起，他开始全职写作，曾以罗马尼亚语长篇小说《大屠杀》（T he Massacre）轰动一时。目前居住在布鲁塞尔。 译者简介 张畅 笔名赫恩曼尼。浙江大学文学学士，斯坦福大学东亚语言与文化学硕士，现为《新京报·书评周刊》文化记者。著有长篇小说《困兽手记》、散文集《孤独的行脚》等。 袁子奇 文学史译者。浙江大学社会学和英语文学学士，俄亥俄州立大学比较文学硕士。译作包括《浪漫主义革命》《青年海明威》等。

This book, Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental first novel, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, which aims to recogise and reward new writing across fiction and non-fiction. A special report featuring reviews, extracts and online resources for all the titles, plus talkboards and an online poll can be found [online].

THE BESTSELLING POLITICAL THRILLER THAT INTRODUCED THE SCHEMING FRANCIS URQUHART - THE MOST MEMORABLE POLITICIAN OF THE LAST DECADE Francis Urquhart is Chief Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics - and is willing to betray them all to become Prime Minister. Mattie Storin is a tenacious young political correspondent. She faces the biggest challenge of her life when ...(展开全部)

With "House of Glass", the fourth volume in the Buru Quartet, Indonesian writer and dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer concludes his epic of Indonesian nationhood. Here, the story of Minke, the talented, bold, and imaginative native leader, told in the preceding books--"This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations", and "Footsteps"--takes a dramatic new form.