In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renown...(展开全部)

How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even—yourself? People are capable of almost anything. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the tru...(展开全部)

阿梅丽·诺冬，比利时法语小说家，目前法国最畅销的文学作家之一，至今已出版十多本小说，本本畅销，创下法国出版界的奇迹。她曾获法兰西学院小说大奖、法国书商奖、阿兰·富尼埃奖等文学奖，不少作品被改编成电影或戏剧，已有三十多个国家翻译出版其作品。 诺冬一九六七年八月十三日生于日本神户，父亲曾任比利时驻日本大使，后调比利时驻中国大使馆任职，诺冬六岁那年随父亲来到北京，在三里屯住了两年，并根据这段经历写成小说《爱情与破坏》，受到读者欢迎。《午后四点》出版于一九九五年，是诺冬的第三部小说，故事奇特，语言幽默，对话精辟，富有哲理，被视为诺冬的代表作，曾被法国《读书》杂志评为一九九五年度最佳图书。

How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even—yourself? People are capable of almost anything. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the tru...(展开全部)

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress , and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath. It’s 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet Massachusetts town. Then Worl...(展开全部)

"The most thrilling book I have ever read." -Kingsley Amis Part surrealistic comedy, part psychological thriller, G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday inventively unravels the nightmare of paradox and surprise to probe the mysteries of human behavior. The seven members of Europe's Central Anarchist Council, who, for reasons of security, call themselves by the name...(展开全部)

Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, When Syme discov...(展开全部)

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The r...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn ...(展开全部)