Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But...(展开全部)

阿拉文德•阿迪加1974年出生于印度海港城市马德拉斯，后移居澳大利亚，求学于哥伦比亚大学与牛津大学。他在长篇小说处女作《白老虎》中，以一位印度班加罗尔的企业家给中国总理温家宝写信讲述自己人生故事的形式，反映了当今印度经济“奇迹”表相下的真实面貌，凭借独一无二的原创性获二○○八年曼布克奖。另外他还出版有短篇小说集《两次暗杀之间》。阿迪加曾任《时代周刊》驻印度通讯记者，并为《纽约客》、《格兰塔》、《金融时报》、《独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》等媒体撰稿。现居印度。

Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, ...(展开全部)

Aravind Adiga’s first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger (“Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I’ve read in decades” —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society—a f...(展开全部)

Written by one of the most widely-studied of contemporary French writers, La Dernier Homme is an austere, intriguing work of nontraditional fiction that explores the distance between desire and its attainment. The story unfolds in the form of an interior monologue at once forbidding and compelling. In what seems to be a sanatorium near a mountain, from twhich the sea is visible...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlinand survived: ';Consummately suspenseful' (Los Angeles Times). When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, appr

At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned aga...(展开全部)

Babel Tower is the third novel in Byatt's highly acclaimed Frederica quartet. Frederica is embroiled in two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an 'obscene' book. Frederica's personal and legal crises mirror an age; alongside Frederica's intellectual life teaching at art school in London are the diverging...(展开全部)

A.S.拜厄特（A.S.BYATT）， 英国小说家、诗人、布克奖得主，2008年被《泰晤士报》评为1945年以来英国50位伟大作家之一。 1990年凭借天才之作《占有》获得布 克奖，一举 轰动世界文坛；1990年和1999年，先后被授予大英帝国司令勋章和大英帝国女爵士勋章。 拜厄特以令人叹为观止的博学和绮丽高超的修辞艺术闻名。她的作品主题涉及生物学、达尔文主义、绘画艺术，体裁包含戏剧、诗歌、书信，兼之以丰富的隐喻和超凡的想象力，磅礴壮丽，又洞悉人性之微。 拜厄特的成长四部曲（《花园中的少女》《静物》《巴别塔》《吹口哨的女人》）是她耗时近30年写就的颇负盛名的代表作，以一位英国知识女性弗雷德丽卡的成长史诗，串连起二战后几十年英国的历史变迁。 = 译者简介 = 王一鸣，毕业于澳大利亚蒙纳士大学新闻系，全职记者，主攻文化、艺术。曾专访坂本龙一、伊东丰雄、杉...(展开全部)

'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In ...(展开全部)