A masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, "The Hothouse" created a literary stir when it appeared in hardcover. Evoking comparisons to works by James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry, it traces the final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of post-World War II German politics and grieving after the sudden death...(展开全部)

沃尔夫冈·克彭（Wolfgang Koeppen，1906—1996） 德国作家，战后德国文坛传奇。早年做过记者、演员、戏剧顾问、报刊编辑，20世纪30年代开始文学创作，著有长篇小说《伤心情事》等。1951年起发表的“战后三部曲”——《草中鸽》《温室》《死于罗马》以独特的现代主义风格完整呈现了战后德国的社会政治氛围，轰动当时的德语文坛，被公认为战后德语文学经典，奠定了克彭的大师地位。德国著名作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主君特·格拉斯称其为“当代德国最伟大的小说家”。后期著有一些游记以及回忆录《青春》。1962年，荣获德语文学最高奖项“毕希纳奖”。 【译者简介】 聂宗洋 德国图宾根大学德语文学硕士，现从事儿童文学编辑出版工作。译作《被风吹落的报纸》获第十七届文津图书奖少儿类推荐图书。

A progenitor of both W. G. Sebald and Günter Grass, Wolfgang Koeppen emerges with an existential masterpiece. Harrowing, moody, and supremely powerful, The Hothouse, first published in 1953, stands among the finest novels written in postwar Germany. Largely unrecognized beyond Germany during his lifetime, Wolfgang Koeppen sought to make sense of German life amid the vast politi...(展开全部)

1939. A world torn apart by war. Two families forwever entwined by secrets

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

“The world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has created – a world of infinite kindness, wisdom, mutual care and tenderness, and true love between real friends. My prayer/hope is that our world will become more like this one.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic)

A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into a short animated film, coming this Christmas. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online. They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They...(展开全部)

With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special eff...(展开全部)

The first volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, revised and with a new foreword and an index by Professor Tolkien. The trilogy recounts the War of the Ring, in which the Third Age of Middle-earth came. This volume opens with the discovery of the Nature of the Ring. "Destined to outlast our time." -- New York Herald Tribune