A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. In this game, there’s one rule: survive. Orphaned after her father’s political campaign ended in tragedy, Josephine is alone taking care of the family home while her older brother is off in Manila, where r...(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)

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)

阿扎德‧莫阿維尼 記者、作家及學者。在中東二十餘年新聞工作期間，報導範圍涵蓋伊朗、黎巴嫩、敘利亞、埃及與伊拉克等國，並出版《唇膏聖戰》、《德黑蘭蜜月》等書，曾與諾貝爾和平獎得主希林·伊巴迪（Shirin Ebadi）合著了《伊朗覺醒》一書。她的作品出現在衛報、紐約時報等知名報刊裡，其中關於ISIS的報導曾獲普立茲新聞獎提名。莫阿維尼亦在紐約大學教授新聞學，現於國際危機組織內擔任資深性別分析師。 譯者簡介 李易安 專職譯者與獨立記者。關注邊界、地緣政治、族裔性、海外華人、移動以及交通基礎設施等議題，對於中亞、太平洋地區、前蘇聯國家與伊斯蘭世界尤感興趣。著有：《搭便車不是一件隨機的事：公路上3萬5千6百公里的追尋，在國與界之間探索世界》。譯有：《歐亞帝國的邊境》《啟蒙運動》等書。

阿扎德‧莫阿維尼 記者、作家及學者。在中東二十餘年新聞工作期間，報導範圍涵蓋伊朗、黎巴嫩、敘利亞、埃及與伊拉克等國，並出版《唇膏聖戰》、《德黑蘭蜜月》等書，曾與諾貝爾和平獎得主希林·伊巴迪（Shirin Ebadi）合著了《伊朗覺醒》一書。她的作品出現在衛報、紐約時報等知名報刊裡，其中關於ISIS的報導曾獲普立茲新聞獎提名。莫阿維尼亦在紐約大學教授新聞學，現於國際危機組織內擔任資深性別分析師。 譯者簡介 李易安 專職譯者與獨立記者。關注邊界、地緣政治、族裔性、海外華人、移動以及交通基礎設施等議題，對於中亞、太平洋地區、前蘇聯國家與伊斯蘭世界尤感興趣。著有：《搭便車不是一件隨機的事：公路上3萬5千6百公里的追尋，在國與界之間探索世界》。譯有：《歐亞帝國的邊境》《啟蒙運動》等書。

'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.' On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glori...(展开全部)

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)

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)