Swan Lake is perhaps the best-loved ballet of all time. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winner Lisbeth Zwerger brings her singular vision to a glorious picture-book adaptation of the haunting story of an enchanted swan princess. She has based her version on Tchaikovsky’s original 1877 ballet, which had a happy ending, unlike the later, better-known, 1893 version. Her illustration...(展开全部)

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this stunning follow-up to 2007's Christine Falls, Black (pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) spins a complex tale of murder and deception in 1950s Ireland. Pathologist Garret Quirke, surprised by a visit from a college acquaintance, Billy Hunt, is even more surprised when Billy begs Quirke not to perform an autopsy on his w...(展开全部)

The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of b...(展开全部)

被雨困住的威尼斯，究竟藏著什麼祕密？ 旅人們的傳奇軼事，竟貿然闖入異世界。 奧黛爾和新婚夫婿D伯爵來到古老而美麗的威尼斯度蜜月， 巧遇她的前男友齊格菲和新女伴艾蜜莉，同行的還有一位神祕人物希斯。 大雨淹沒了城市，來自各地的旅客束手無策，圍聚餐廳枯等， 他們約定每晚分享一則故事，但天亮後，為何他們都憑空消失？ 難道是薇拉在婚禮上的詛咒被應驗了…… 「你很快就會發現，你遠比自己所想像的要強大許多，奧黛爾。」 D伯爵用一種故意做出來的歡快調子說，「因為這裡是屬於你的世界，歡迎回來。」 有別於描述魔鬼、吸血鬼等人物，《餘暉》首度加入奇幻題材── 關於水、土、風、火四個元素精靈， 人魚的鱗片、矮人的卷軸、風鳥的黑羽毛、蜥蜴的紅尾巴， 齊聚四種物件就可以令人起死回生？ 透過濃霧，踏上橋樑，跟隨他們穿梭危機四伏的平行時空。 我已經擁有了一個全世界製作最精緻的面具，...(展开全部)

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that l...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman’s dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls , and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, his surro...(展开全部)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Mi...(展开全部)

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship wi...(展开全部)

From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France. Sadie Smith – a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty – is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote co...(展开全部)