Adam Lang has been Britain's longest serving and most controversial prime minister of the last half century. And now that he's left office, he's accepted one of history's largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a professional ghostwriter to fini...(展开全部)

For fans of The Farewell, this graceful and indelible debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you've closed its covers. How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of Ghost Forest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kon...(展开全部)

迈克尔·道布斯，1948年出生于英国赫特福德郡，毕业于牛津大学。他在政治、广告和文学领域都取得了出色的成就。 道布斯纵横英国政坛三十余年，曾任政府特别顾问和撒切尔政府幕僚长，后来于保守党副主席的职位上退休，2010年被英王室册封为男爵。 作为畅销书作家的道布斯共著有十余部畅销作品。1989年，他讲述英国官场故事的处女作小说《纸牌屋》大获好评，次年被BBC改编成电视剧，风靡全球。

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebell...(展开全部)

Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction ...(展开全部)

A BEAUTIFUL NOVEL OF MEMORY, YOUTH, AND OLD AGE, FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize - winning author and cultural icon in France, here presents a Proustian novel, exquisitely intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. As the...(展开全部)

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begin...(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)

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)

蕾切尔·库什纳，1968年生于俄勒冈州，毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校，后获得哥伦比亚大学艺术硕士学位，长期从事艺术领域的报道。 库什纳的第二部长篇小说《喷火器》获2013年度美国国家图书奖最终提名，也是《纽约时报》2013年度小说。她的处女作长篇《来自古巴的电报》获得2008年度美国国家图书奖最终提名，荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜和年度好书榜。 她的小说已被翻译成15种语言，她的小说、散文可见诸《纽约客》《哈泼斯》《纽约时报》《巴黎评论》等报刊。 蕾切尔·库什纳获得2013年度古根海姆奖金，现居洛杉矶。