The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. ...(展开全部)

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings ndash; stolen by Nazis in the war ndash; is missing. With the Swiss author...(展开全部)

A master writer of espionage" ("Cincinnati Enquirer"), Daniel Silva makes his Signet debut with his most acclaimed novel to date... Framed for the murder of a millionaire banker, Israeli spy by trade and art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon, will have to fight for his life-against an assassin he himself helped train.

丹尼尔·席尔瓦（Daniel Silva），全球首屈一指的国际阴谋论大师，以惊心动魄的故事，为您揭示国际政治斗争的阴暗本质，四次夺得《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜全球第一。美国政府为表彰他对国际政治真相的深刻批判，任命他为美国大屠杀纪念会的委员。 媒体评论 “剪辑利落，故事清晰，人物精致，剧情曲折。” ——《纽约时报》 “高智商的动作惊悚小说。” ——《落基山新闻报》 “对时事新闻敏感，骇人地可信，读起来就像在预言欧洲恐怖主义的成长。” ——《华尔街日报》 悲剧的巴以冲突，绝望的和平议程，复杂国际阴谋和恐怖主义……席尔瓦震撼人心的小说，充满令人目不暇接的紧张情节。 ——《出版人周刊》 有趣，扣人心弦，很伟大。 ——《罗利新闻与观察》

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family—and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for—and everything she feared

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its reviews have generally recognized its excellence and it was named a New York Times Editor's Choice. The novel fits the expectations of a number of different novel genres: immigrant, mystery, political, ...(展开全部)

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens-...(展开全部)

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Otto...(展开全部)