We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "collective afterlife" in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Samuel Scheffler maintains that this assumption plays a surprising - indeed astonishing - role i...(展开全部)

我的父亲是一名园丁。现在他是一座花园。 一个男人坐在父亲的床边，彻底而温和地报告，直到末尾一个冬天的早晨。 他的父亲是保加利亚二战后出生的那一代悲惨的吸烟者之一，他们紧紧抓住香烟的通气管。他是一个没有理由的叛逆者，懂得如何以英雄般的自嘲来面对失败。 他在荒芜的村庄庭院里建造的花园，先是拯救了他，又害了他。它至今仍是他鲜活的遗产：牡丹和土豆、玫瑰和樱桃树——以及无尽的故事。 但没有了他，他儿子的过去，以及所有的午后时光，开始悄然崩塌。 因为父辈的终结，就是世界的终结。 这部小说出自国际布克奖得主之手，讲述了一位父亲、一位儿子和一座孤儿花园的故事，故事发生在一个衰落的世界，从古老的伊萨卡岛到如今的索非亚，交织着悲伤的植物、故事的慰藉以及春天头一批郁金香的到来。 My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A...(展开全部)

My father was a gardener. Now he is a garden. A man sits by his father's bedside and watches him die. Watches as his past begins to crack, leaving him buried in all its afternoons. The quietly collapsing afternoons of childhood. Because the end of our fathers is the end of a world. From the winner of the International Booker Prize, comes a novel about a father and a son, about ...(展开全部)

“Epigrammatic and intimate . . . A consolation rather than a provocation, and occasionally darkly funny . . . It might have you mulling your own pithy epitaph.” —Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times Book Review From the International Booker Prize–winning author of Time Shelter comes a powerful novel about a father, a son, and the botany of grief. “The simplicity and depth of this c...(展开全部)

Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way. It's even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack's not interested in world domination. He's just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn't just an automated smashing machine, and to ...(展开全部)

Synopsis In a strangely heart-warming story, a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death. “Who are you? Why are you creeping along behind me?” “Good. You’ve finally noticed me,” said Death. “I am Death.” Duck was scared stiff. You could hardly blame her for that. Death, Duck and the Tulip is the much anticipated translation of Wolf Erlbruch’s latest masterpiece. Death, ...(展开全部)

Synopsis In a strangely heart-warming story, a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death. “Who are you? Why are you creeping along behind me?” “Good. You’ve finally noticed me,” said Death. “I am Death.” Duck was scared stiff. You could hardly blame her for that. Death, Duck and the Tulip is the much anticipated translation of Wolf Erlbruch’s latest masterpiece. Death, ...(展开全部)

The Female Detective is the first novel in British fiction to feature a professional female detective. Written by Andrew Forrester, it was originally published in 1864. The protagonist is Miss Gladden, or 'G' as she is also known - the precursor to Miss Marple, Mma Ramotswe and Lisbeth Salander. Miss Gladden's deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those of Arthur ...(展开全部)