Thomas Bunting, charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating, and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy PhD, he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork, a vast atheistic project he has privately entitled 'The Book Against God'. But when his father is suddenly taken ill Thomas returns hom...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood），1965年生，英国批评家、散文家、小说家，曾任《卫报》首席文学批评家、《新共和》资深编辑，现为《纽约客》专栏作家、哈佛大学文学教授，著有《破格》（1999）、《不信之书》（2004）、《不负责任的自我》（2004）、《小说机杼》（2009）、《私货》（2013）、《最接近生活的事物》（2015）、《纽约上州》（2018）。 译者 张朔然，1986年生，目前工作、生活于南京。出版译作有《我们的时代》《往事不曾离去》《BBC苏格兰史》《我是我的光明》等。

Thomas Bunting while neglecting his philosophy Ph.D., still unfinished after seven years, is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork--a vast atheistic project to be titled The Book Against God. In despair over his failed academic career and failing marriage, Bunting is also enraged to the point of near lunacy by his parents' religiousness. When his father, a belov...(展开全部)

A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.

It's been two years since Konoha's first encounter with Tohko, the mysterious president of the literature club who introduced herself so oddly. The two have shared any number of unusual adventures in the interim, but as Tohko's graduation approaches, she inadvertently confesses a betrayal. Stunned by this revelation, Konoha is further rattled by a warning that his club presiden...(展开全部)

It's been two years since Konoha's first encounter with Tohko, the mysterious president of the literature club who introduced herself so oddly. The two have shared any number of unusual adventures in the interim, but as Tohko's graduation approaches, she inadvertently confesses a betrayal. Stunned by this revelation, Konoha is further rattled by a warning that his club presiden...(展开全部)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and...(展开全部)

The inimitable Thomas Pynchon has done it again. Hailed as aa major work of arta by "The Wall Street Journal," his first novel in almost ten years spans the era between the Chicago Worldas Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I and moves among locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all). With a phantasmagoria of characters...(展开全部)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, Against the Day moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the revolution, Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one...(展开全部)

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and...(展开全部)