Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the messa...(展开全部)

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area,...(展开全部)

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet – it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunte...(展开全部)

一部关于被指控的女巫们令人震撼的幽灵故事——一本施展巫术的书——出自备受赞誉的《明日雇员停摆事件》(The Employees) 和《我的工作》(My Work) 的作者之手。 在十七世纪的丹麦，贵族女子克里斯坦泽·克鲁考，一位未婚女性，被指控施行巫术。她和其他几名女性被谣传为魔鬼附身——魔鬼以一个高大无头男子的形态出现在她们面前，赋予她们黑暗力量：她们能偷走人们的幸福，她们行过不敬神的邪行，她们能引发瘟疫或死亡。她们都面临着被处以火刑的危险。 《蜡孩》由克里斯坦泽·克鲁考制作的蜡像娃娃讲述，是一部令人不安的恐怖故事，探讨了残酷与权力、自然与巫术，背景设定在前现代欧洲的脆弱社群中。 《蜡孩》基于十七世纪发生在日德兰半岛北部的一系列真实巫术审判案件，研究深入，浸透着令人身临其境、充满氛围感的细节。奥尔加·拉文不仅以其华丽的叙事和令人惊异的丰沛想象力，还...(展开全部)

一部关于被指控的女巫们令人震撼的幽灵故事——一本施展巫术的书——出自备受赞誉的《明日雇员停摆事件》(The Employees) 和《我的工作》(My Work) 的作者之手。 在十七世纪的丹麦，贵族女子克里斯坦泽·克鲁考，一位未婚女性，被指控施行巫术。她和其他几名女性被谣传为魔鬼附身——魔鬼以一个高大无头男子的形态出现在她们面前，赋予她们黑暗力量：她们能偷走人们的幸福，她们行过不敬神的邪行，她们能引发瘟疫或死亡。她们都面临着被处以火刑的危险。 《蜡孩》由克里斯坦泽·克鲁考制作的蜡像娃娃讲述，是一部令人不安的恐怖故事，探讨了残酷与权力、自然与巫术，背景设定在前现代欧洲的脆弱社群中。 《蜡孩》基于十七世纪发生在日德兰半岛北部的一系列真实巫术审判案件，研究深入，浸透着令人身临其境、充满氛围感的细节。奥尔加·拉文不仅以其华丽的叙事和令人惊异的丰沛想象力，还...(展开全部)

This book, Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental first novel, has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, which aims to recogise and reward new writing across fiction and non-fiction. A special report featuring reviews, extracts and online resources for all the titles, plus talkboards and an online poll can be found [online].

With "House of Glass", the fourth volume in the Buru Quartet, Indonesian writer and dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer concludes his epic of Indonesian nationhood. Here, the story of Minke, the talented, bold, and imaginative native leader, told in the preceding books--"This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations", and "Footsteps"--takes a dramatic new form.

THE BESTSELLING POLITICAL THRILLER THAT INTRODUCED THE SCHEMING FRANCIS URQUHART - THE MOST MEMORABLE POLITICIAN OF THE LAST DECADE Francis Urquhart is Chief Whip. He has his hands on every secret in politics - and is willing to betray them all to become Prime Minister. Mattie Storin is a tenacious young political correspondent. She faces the biggest challenge of her life when ...(展开全部)