One of the world's most ruthless warriors, Chinggis Khan conquered nearly all of Asia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, transforming the scattered and impoverished Mongols into an exceptionally proud and powerful nation. In this riveting and thoroughly researched portrait, Japan's celebrated epic novelist drives at the root of the khan's great desires and insatiable appe...(展开全部)

《人虫变》创作于一九九三年，是一部苏联瓦解后社会群众生活面貌的写真。它是一部科幻奇想小说，也可以说是黑色喜剧版的《蜕变》，但没有卡夫卡作品的沉重，加入了斯拉夫人的戏谑，读来趣味横生，发笑的同时也令人深深思索剧中人的处境困窘。 《人虫变》的文学传统可以追溯至俄国十九世纪擅以怪诞讽刺手法称着的果戈里，媲美二十世纪初德文作家卡夫卡「蜕变」?的荒谬批判味道。作者犹如一名社会行为的心理观察者，打破以往刻画脑袋里的思维蜕变，直接以躯体外的转型控诉环境的残酷、无奈和荒谬。 二十世纪末的俄国政治社会经历重大变迁，不仅对一般民众的精神层面上造成巨大的冲击，甚至刺激整体行为思想的转型和发酵；对作者来说，「肉体异形」──昆虫社会，最能凸显当今人民的精神炼狱。 故事发生在克里米亚岛的观光胜地，人不知怎么变成了蚊子。读者将在文中遇上急欲和嗜血成性的美国...(展开全部)

During the thirteenth century, Mongol armies under Chinggis Khan and his successors established the largest contiguous land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe. Contemporary descriptions of their conquests have led to a popular misconception that the Mongols were an undisciplined horde of terrifying horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force ...(展开全部)

During the thirteenth century, Mongol armies under Chinggis Khan and his successors established the largest contiguous land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe. Contemporary descriptions of their conquests have led to a popular misconception that the Mongols were an undisciplined horde of terrifying horsemen who swept over opponents by sheer force ...(展开全部)

“The Alienist set in eighteenth-century Stockholm: Brawny, bloody, intricate, enthralling—and the best historical thriller I’ve read in twenty years.” —A.J. Finn, #1 bestselling author of The Woman in the Window “Thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful.” —Fredrik Backman, #1 bestselling author of A Man Called Ove “Chilling and thought-provoking. Relentless, well-written, an...(展开全部)

"The Blue Mountain" is the first novel by one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers and as with all his writing is a virtuoso example of Shalev's skill as a storyteller. Published to outstanding reviews all over the world, its publication in Britain re-affirms his reputation as a major international writer. Set in a small rural village prior to the creat...(展开全部)

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, a new novel--at once trenchant, witty, and shattering--about the intricacies of artistic creation and theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme, is a painter of some renown, ...(展开全部)

"The Blue Mountain" is the first novel by one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers and as with all his writing is a virtuoso example of Shalev's skill as a storyteller. Published to outstanding reviews all over the world, its publication in Britain re-affirms his reputation as a major international writer. Set in a small rural village prior to the creat...(展开全部)

Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter's territory, a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge, a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sjón's slender, spellbinding fable of a novel, none of their liv...(展开全部)

Collected here are ten superb tales by today's master of the seemingly impossible crime, the Frenchman Paul Halter. Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt, a tunnel that murders people, a werewolf killer who leaves no trace on the snow, a victim killed by an invisible hand at the top of a guarded tower, a homicidal snowman that kills in front of witnesses... There canno...(展开全部)