This spare, elegant, best-selling memoir by a celebrated French journalist and writer has been impeccably translated into English by Sydney-born Julie Rose. The tale it tells is a deeply moving tribute to a much-loved woman, the author's British-born wife, lover and constant companion for 58 years. He wrote it for her alone, without thought of publication, after a routine back ...(展开全部)

Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures f...(展开全部)

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before―the immortality, Beecham’s vial―were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a...(展开全部)

艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格（Isaac Bashevis Singer，1904—1991） 美国籍波兰裔犹太作家。1904年出生于波兰莱昂辛小镇里的一个犹太拉比世家。1925年发表第一篇短篇小说《在晚年》。1935年在哥哥约书亚的帮助下移居美国纽约，从事记者与专栏作家的工作。1953年，辛格的小说《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》由索尔·贝娄译成英文发表于《党派评论》（Partisan Review），引起批评界和读者的广泛关注和重视。1970年凭借儿童文学《快活的一天：一个在华沙长大的孩子的故事》、1974年凭借短篇小说集《羽冠》两次获得美国国家图书奖。1978年获得诺贝尔文学奖。 辛格在20世纪被称为“短篇小说大师”“当代最会讲故事的小说大师”，终生用意第绪语写作，作品通过英译本而广为人知。辛格擅写魔鬼、精灵、恶魔、巫师的故事，总是能以极小的篇幅、简洁的形式表现深刻...(展开全部)

Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New Y...(展开全部)

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Ar...(展开全部)

From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction. Michael—a.k.a. “Butcher”—Boone is an ex–“really famous” painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, ...(展开全部)

彼得·凯里(Pete r carey)，1943年生于墨尔本市郊小镇，曾在大学学习化学，未及毕业改做广告设计，后游历欧洲并转向文学创作，现居住在纽约。 凯里是当代澳大利亚文学领军人物，作品已被翻译成二十多种文字。是世界惟一的两位二度荣获布克奖的作家之一，另一位则是南非的诺贝尔文学奖得主库切。因此有评论家预言，凯里将是诺贝尔文学奖最有力的竞争者。凯里的作品怪诞、幽默，具有寓言式小说和科幻小说的特征。 因书写《凯利帮真史》等历史题材的小说而被誉为澳大利亚“民族神话创造者”的凯里，是一位关注现代人生存困境、具有国际色彩的作家。

喬伊斯．奧茲　Joyce Carol Oates 資深小說家，自50年代起即活躍於美國文壇，創作不斷，曾獲美國國家書卷獎。《西方正典》的作者，也是知名文學研究者卜倫（Harold Bloom）曾主編奧茲的研究文集Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates，該書稱譽奧茲是「美國當代最才華洋溢的女作家之一」，以精湛的暴力美學著稱。「奧茲作品裡最令我動容的，是她對飽受凌辱和摧殘的人物所流露的無限同情與理解，及對美國低下階層的生命情境的深刻體察。籠統的政治小說家，或社會革命者的名號並不足以界定她，她堪稱是實至名歸的普羅作家。」

Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose on hormones, rage, and alcohol. A victim of gang rape, left for dead in the ...(展开全部)