[美] 库尔特•冯内古特（Kurt Vonnegut，1922—2007） 20世纪美国极具影响力的黑色幽默文学作家。格雷厄姆•格林推崇他为“美国当代zui有才能的作家”。在1960年代的美国大学校园，冯内古特的小说几乎人手一册，他被称为“几代美国青年的偶像”。 冯内古特擅长以黑色幽默描绘时代的荒谬。当暴力、愚蠢、敌视、仇恨泛滥成灾，绝望的人们遭受无法愈合的创伤。在笑声下，是冯内古特对全人类深切的关爱和疗愈。 他的许多文学创作与其在二战中的亲身经历息息相关。 1945年，年仅23岁的冯内古特遭德军俘虏，被囚禁在德累斯顿战俘营。英美联军发动大轰炸时，冯内古特身处屠场的地下室内。整座城市在炮火中烧成废墟，他是幸存的7名美军战俘之一。 战争在冯内古特心底留下难以磨灭的创伤：“我目睹过德累斯顿的毁灭……我的反应之一当然是笑。上帝知道，这是灵魂在寻找宽慰。”2...(展开全部)

Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begin...(展开全部)

Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begin...(展开全部)

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and a LibraryReads Pick • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The Washington Post, Bustle, Goodreads, and She Reads Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where ...(展开全部)

A successful socialite's beautiful wife was raped and murdered in her own home -- and Matt Scudder believes the victim's "grieving" husband was responsible for the outrage. But to prove it, the haunted p.i. must descend into the depths of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where young lives are commodities to be bought, perverted...and destroyed.

A successful socialite's beautiful wife was raped and murdered in her own home -- and Matt Scudder believes the victim's "grieving" husband was responsible for the outrage. But to prove it, the haunted p.i. must descend into the depths of New York's sex-for-sale underworld, where young lives are commodities to be bought, perverted...and destroyed.

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.

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise. Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across America to the sanctuary of the New Engla...(展开全部)