Max Delmarc, age 50, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the only treatment. In this unparalleled comedy from the Prix Concourt-winning French novelist Jean Echenoz, we journey with Max, from the trials of his everyday life, through his untimely death, and on into the afterlife. After a brief st...(展开全部)

Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

For fans of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes, Amanda Coplin's The Orchardist A tour-de-force about two women and the piano that inexorably ties their lives together through time and across continents, for better and for worse. In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built ...(展开全部)

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

He awakes in a hotel that might be a hospital or might be something else much more mysterious. His nurses bear an uncanny resemblance to Dean Martin and Peggy Lee and explain to him that there are certain rules to be obeyed on his return to Paris: the most important being that he must lose his old identity entirely. Defying the regulations, Max struggles to retrieve pieces of h...(展开全部)

让·艾什诺兹，法国当代最重要的作家之一，他的作品影响了许多年轻的写作者。 1947年出生于奥朗日。1979年以来，他在午夜出版社发表了17部作品，其中« 切罗基 »获1983年梅迪西斯文学奖， «我走了» 获1999年龚古尔文学奖。2016年，让·艾什诺兹获得法国国家图书馆大奖。 译者：余中先，1954年8月26日生，浙江宁波人，中国作家。《世界文学》主编，中国社会科学院研究生院教授，博士生导师。北京大学西语系法语专业研究生班，曾留学法国，在巴黎第四大学（Paris—Sorbonne）获得文学博士学位。 长年从事法国文学作品译介工作，翻译介绍了奈瓦尔、克洛代尔、阿波利奈尔、贝克特、克洛德·西蒙、阿兰·罗布-格里耶、昆德拉等人的小说、戏剧作品三十多部。获法国政府授予的文学艺术骑士勋章。

Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the concert stage after six decades of performing, he has been passing on his insight and experience in the form of lectures, readings and master-classes. This reader for lovers of the piano distils his musical and linguistic eloquence and vast knowledge, and will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technique, history and...(展开全部)

(澳)保罗·基尔迪亚(Paul Kildea) 著 丁一 译 保罗·基尔迪亚（Paul Kildea），澳大利亚指挥家、作家，伦敦威格莫尔音乐厅前艺术总监。 他2013 年出版的《本杰明·布里顿：二十世纪的一生》（Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century）一书开布里顿传记先河，被《星期日泰晤士报》和《金融时报》评为年度畅销书。丁一，毕业于北京师范大学天文系课程与教育论专业，获教育学硕士学位，译有《月球之书》《改变世界的伟大发明家》等，并在《自然科学与博物馆研究》《环球科学》等杂志上发表过专业论文及译作。

In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism - his 24 Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on...(展开全部)