维托尔德•贡布罗维奇（Witold Gombrowicz, 1904-1969），波兰著名小说家、剧作家，被米兰•昆德拉誉为“我们这个世纪最伟大的小说家之一”，与卡夫卡、穆齐尔、布鲁赫并称为“中欧四杰”。 贡布罗维奇出生于波兰，曾在华沙大学学习法学，后赴法国深造两年。1939年横渡大西洋到阿根廷后，适逢二战爆发，滞留南美达二十四年之久。1963年获得福特基金会全年奖金，在柏林逗留。1964年，他到法国南部的旺斯定居，1967年获得国际文学奖。1969年7月24日，贡布罗维奇在旺斯辞世。贡布罗维奇用母语写作，作品被翻译成多种语言出版，由于他不接受二战后的政治体系，他的大部分作品都不得在波兰出版，直到1986年，波兰才出版了他的全集。

维托尔德•贡布罗维奇（Witold Gombrowicz, 1904-1969），波兰著名小说家、剧作家，被米兰•昆德拉誉为“我们这个世纪最伟大的小说家之一”，与卡夫卡、穆齐尔、布鲁赫并称为“中欧四杰”。 贡布罗维奇出生于波兰，曾在华沙大学学习法学，后赴法国深造两年。1939年横渡大西洋到阿根廷后，适逢二战爆发，滞留南美达二十四年之久。1963年获得福特基金会全年奖金，在柏林逗留。1964年，他到法国南部的旺斯定居，1967年获得国际文学奖。1969年7月24日，贡布罗维奇在旺斯辞世。贡布罗维奇用母语写作，作品被翻译成多种语言出版，由于他不接受二战后的政治体系，他的大部分作品都不得在波兰出版，直到1986年，波兰才出版了他的全集。

The stunning "New York Times" bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple," reissued in a handsome new edition. From the author the "New York Times Book Review" calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in "The Color Purple" whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be...(展开全部)

The stunning "New York Times" bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple," reissued in a handsome new edition. From the author the "New York Times Book Review" calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in "The Color Purple" whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be...(展开全部)

In The Possessed, Witold Gombrowicz, considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, draws together the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and playful subversion of the form. With dreams of escaping his small-town existence and the limitations of his status, a young tennis coach travels to the heart of the Polish countryside where he is to train...(展开全部)

In The Possessed, Witold Gombrowicz, considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, draws together the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and playful subversion of the form. With dreams of escaping his small-town existence and the limitations of his status, a young tennis coach travels to the heart of the Polish countryside where he is to train...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

弗兰克·施茨廷（Frank Schätzing），1957年出生，在科隆过着多彩多姿的生活：广告公司的创意总监、作曲家、音乐制作人，同时也是热情的业余厨师和受过训练的潜水员。 1995年，施茨廷的首部小说《科隆911》即让他成为畅销书作家；2000年的政治惊悚小说《悄无 声息》则被媒体誉为“对这即将结束的世纪，所捕捉到的精彩瞬间”；2004年，《群》大放异彩，让施茨廷与迈克尔·克莱顿、丹·布朗等国际作家平起平坐，也让德国人首度学会了“海啸”这个词。无巧不成书，《群》出版后九个月，震惊世界的东南亚海啸发生，世人纷纷追问他如何能“预测”此事。《群》大获成功后，施茨廷利用写作时没用上的剩余五分之四资料，写出了《海：另一个未知的宇宙》，同样大卖。 《群》始于施茨廷数年前的梦境；而《群》的男主角西古尔·约翰逊，黄金单身汉、魅力中年型男、都会雅痞、无可救药的品味...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as we...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has di...(展开全部)