Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neu...(展开全部)

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism...(展开全部)

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neu...(展开全部)

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in a dizzying conspiracy of ritualistic violence, cultism...(展开全部)

從簽下英文版權開始就被受國際媒體注目的文學作品 台灣首位華文作家與全球第一大出版社蘭登書屋首度合作！ 「吳明益的《複眼人》可媲美村上春樹的《1Q84》、楊．馬泰爾的《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》及瑪格麗特．愛特伍的《洪水之年》（暫譯）。」，這不僅是關於台灣東海岸的故事，也是一位迷失的小男孩及其傷心欲絕的母親，在失落中找回愛及救贖的動人旅程。 我們曾經以為已然棄絕的記憶與物事，終將在海的某處默默聚集成島，重新隨著堅定的浪，擱淺在憂傷的海灘上。 《複眼人》，全書共分11章31節，多條敘事線分進合擊的情節鋪排、多層次的角色塑造，複眼式的立體觀照，呈現作家吳明益不同以往的寫作風格。複雜的敘述與視域交織成一部長篇的交響詩，在在發出對土地與生命的情感極強音；不變的是他對人類心靈掙扎與生態議題一貫溫潤、內斂的關懷，仍時隱時現地貫穿整個迷人的故事。 瓦憂瓦憂島，一座太平洋上...(展开全部)

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform his life. Breaking away from his ...(展开全部)

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago Senhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one – of an apparently ordinary woman – will transform his life. Breaking away from his ...(展开全部)

Stuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many more giving themselves over to the hatred only war can engender. Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning of Names is the story of...(展开全部)

DO YOU KNOW ONE OF THESE MEN?"The catch-me-if-you-can lover... "Phil's romantic and passionate one minute, distant and cold the next."The deviously manipulative coworker or boss... "Jack denies resenting Nora's rapid rise in the company, but when they're assigned to work together on a project, he undermines her."The obstructionist, procrastinating husband... "Bob keeps telling ...(展开全部)