A gorilla, a witch, a ghost, then a fierce scaly dragon hungry for his tea. Who will be next? Each time there's a knock at the door, there's a different monster, but each time they're wearing the same tartan slippers. Of course, it's just Dad, playing an hilarious bedtime game.

在线阅读本书 From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep for the annual fair, he is entranced by the fable surrounding the misty peak ofKneeknock Rise: On stormy nights when the rain drives harsh andcold, an undiscovered creature raises its voice and moans. Nobody knows what it is—nobody has ever dared to try to find out and come back again. Before long, Egan is climbing the Ris...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep for the annual fair, he is entranced by the fable surrounding the misty peak ofKneeknock Rise: On stormy nights when the rain drives harsh andcold, an undiscovered creature raises its voice and moans. Nobody knows what it is—nobody has ever dared to try to find out and come back again. Before long, Egan is climbing the Ris...(展开全部)

埃特加•凯雷特（1967- ），以色列作家，在短篇小说、绘本小说和剧本等领域均建树颇丰。 凯雷特出生于以色列拉马干，父母为纳粹大屠杀幸存者。1992年他出版第一部短篇小说集《管道》。1994年第二部短篇集《消失的基辛格》获得广泛关注。从1998年起，作品开始被翻译成英文，2004年，英文版短篇小说集《想做上帝的巴士司机》出版，其中的短篇小说《割腕者的天堂》被改编成同名电影。 2006年，凯雷特当选为以色列“文化杰出基金”优秀艺术家。2007年，他和妻子合作导演的电影首作《水母》获戛纳电影节金棕榈最佳处女作奖。2010年，荣获法国文艺骑士勋章。另获总理文学奖、文化部电影奖等。目前担任内盖夫大学和特拉维夫大学讲师。 凯雷特已经出版六部畅销短篇小说集，作品见于《哈珀斯》《纽约时报》《巴黎评论》《西洋镜》等刊物。他的作品也经常被其他作者改编成绘本。 凯雷特...(展开全部)

"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see...(展开全部)

Tommy Orange's shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death, has come to wor...(展开全部)

8 hours, 2 minutes Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking--Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven int...(展开全部)

8 hours, 2 minutes Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking--Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven int...(展开全部)