There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but a...(展开全部)

A writer called Amit Chaudhuri arrives in Bombay on a book-related visit,and finds himself in search of the city he grew up in.In a city shaken to its core not long ago by the 2008 terrorist strikes,his errant local friend,Ramu,a six-foot-tall Kannadiga and one-time junkie who cannot reconcile himself to modern-day adult life,is an unlikely protagonist,Bombay incarnate.The writ...(展开全部)

InFriend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home. Amit Chaudhuri's new novel is about ...(展开全部)

'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America. When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged hu...(展开全部)

'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America. When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged hu...(展开全部)

A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the appa...(展开全部)

芙洛儿·雅埃吉(Fleur Jaeggy，1940-)，1940年出生于瑞士苏黎士，是一位自我风格极其强烈的小说家。挚友英格博格·巴赫曼评价其“拥有对人对事那令人钦羡的敏锐目光，她身上夹杂着漫不经心的轻浮和真正的智慧”。她的代表作《管教的甜蜜岁月》于1989年首次出版，荣获意大利巴古塔奖等多项文学奖，版权已售至23个国家和地区。

芙洛儿·雅埃吉(Fleur Jaeggy，1940-)，1940年出生于瑞士苏黎士，是一位自我风格极其强烈的小说家。挚友英格博格·巴赫曼评价其“拥有对人对事那令人钦羡的敏锐目光，她身上夹杂着漫不经心的轻浮和真正的智慧”。她的代表作《管教的甜蜜岁月》于1989年首次出版，荣获意大利巴古塔奖等多项文学奖，版权已售至23个国家和地区。

A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the appa...(展开全部)

艾丽丝·门罗（1931——），加拿大女作家，2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主。一生专注于中短篇小说创作，讲述小地方普通人特别是女性隐含悲剧的平常生活，以细腻透彻又波澜不惊的话语，洞见人性的幽微处。