Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero—or antihero—of Mo Yan’s new novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants. His story is a deliriously unique journey and absolutely riveting tale that reveals ...(展开全部)

Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out . This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks the help of her coworkers to d...(展开全部)

莫言，山东高密人，1955年生，2012年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。著有《红高粱家族》、《酒国》、《丰乳肥臀》、《檀香刑》、《生死疲劳》、《蛙》等长篇小说十一部，《透明的红萝卜》、《司令的女人》等中短篇小说一百余部，并著有剧作、散文多部；其中许多作品已被翻译成英、法、德、意、日、西、俄、韩、荷兰、瑞典、挪威、波兰、阿拉伯、越南等多种语言，在国内外文坛上具有广泛影响。 莫言及其作品曾获：“华语文学传媒大奖•年度杰出成就奖”、“茅盾文学奖”，香港浸会大学“世界华文长篇小说奖•红楼梦奖”，台湾“联合文学奖”，法国“Laure Bataillin（儒尔•巴泰庸）外国文学奖”、“法兰西文化艺术骑士勋章”，意大利“Nonino（诺尼诺）国际文学奖”，日本“福冈亚洲文化大奖”，美国“纽曼华语文学奖”，等。

First published in 1967, Death Kit--Susan Sontag's second novel--is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience.AUTHORBIO: Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America (winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction). She has ...(展开全部)

An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder of respected police officer Sergeant Zheng Haoming sends shockwaves through Chengdu, a modern metropo...(展开全部)

An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach. A wild thriller and deadly game of cat-and-mouse from one of China's most popular authors. For fans of Jo Nesbo, Se7en, and Hong Kong police cinema. The brutal murder of respected police officer Sergeant Zheng Haoming sends shockwaves through Chengdu, a modern metropo...(展开全部)

莫言，山东高密人，1955年生，2012年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。著有《红高粱家族》、《酒国》、《丰乳肥臀》、《檀香刑》、《生死疲劳》、《蛙》等长篇小说十一部，《透明的红萝卜》、《司令的女人》等中短篇小说一百余部，并著有剧作、散文多部；其中许多作品已被翻译成英、法、德、意、日、西、俄、韩、荷兰、瑞典、挪威、波兰、阿拉伯、越南等多种语言，在国内外文坛上具有广泛影响。 莫言及其作品曾获：“华语文学传媒大奖•年度杰出成就奖”、“茅盾文学奖”，香港浸会大学“世界华文长篇小说奖•红楼梦奖”，台湾“联合文学奖”，法国“Laure Bataillin（儒尔•巴泰庸）外国文学奖”、“法兰西文化艺术骑士勋章”，意大利“Nonino（诺尼诺）国际文学奖”，日本“福冈亚洲文化大奖”，美国“纽曼华语文学奖”，等。

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, for a period a danger to others, he begins to question, as Auden wrote, "what Authority gives / existence its surpr...(展开全部)