Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Now he has traveled across the world and all the way Down Under to Australia, a shockingly under-discovered country with the friendliest i...(展开全部)

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Here is the story of Anna Blume, a woman who has come to an unnamed city in search of her brother. Her notebook recounts her quest in this cruel modern landscape, and through her anguished narrative, Auster presents a frightening vision of the future.

在线阅读本书 In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster's other work includes "The New York Trilogy" and "Hand to Mouth", and the screenplays "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face".

Book Description To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense...(展开全部)

Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: THE SMALL ASSASSIN: a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true -- or her nightmare . . . THE EMISSARY: the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connectioin with the world outside -- and beyond . . . THE WONDERFUL DEATH OF DUDLEY STONE: a m...(展开全部)

Book Description To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets, one of Japan's greatest writers creates a work that is dense...(展开全部)

简介：  你原本很幸福拥有美满的家庭，可十岁那年的生日之旅让你的生活发生了天翻地覆的变化……   五年后，你机缘巧合下进入演艺圈，成为演员的你开始新的生活，在戏剧里释放自己，寻找自己……    进军韩国之后，你遇上了让自己心动的男生，也遇到了像家人一样的哥哥，带给你很多的变化……

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends...(展开全部)

作者简介： 埃德娜·奥布莱恩（Edna O'Brien，1936—2024） 爱尔兰文学的骄傲与不法之徒。她是最早为爱尔兰不同世代女性的经历发声的作家之一，被誉为“书写爱尔兰生活的索尔仁尼琴”；如今已成为爱尔兰年轻一代作家的文学教母——“她是我们的契诃夫，我们的艾丽丝·门罗，我们的安妮·埃尔诺”；她也曾因书写而获罪，因生活方式而招致非议，一度成为轰动事件的主角和全民公敌，终至逃离故土；她以无惧世俗审判的人生与写作，为后辈女性蹚出一条路：去成为自己吧——去生活，去经历，大声将它们讲述出来。 1960年，她的首部作品《乡下女孩》因大胆讨论女性欲望和情感生活而引发争议，进而被禁。这一主题贯穿她写作生涯的大部分作品。她共创作了20多部作品，包括小说、短篇集、戏剧和回忆录。晚期作品常涉及政治和社会问题。作品包括《异教徒之地》（1970）、《森林里》（2002）...(展开全部)