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)

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。

The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast movi...(展开全部)

布赖恩·W.奥尔迪斯（1925—2017），英国著名科幻作家，人称“英国科幻小说教父”，也集诗人、剧作家、评论家、编辑等于一身。奥尔迪斯一生极为高产，著作等身，写作、汇编的作品不下百部，并荣获过多个科幻小说奖项，包括雨果奖、星云奖、坎贝尔奖等，2000年荣获世界科幻界的最高荣誉——科幻大师奖，2004年入选“科幻名人堂”，2005年因为在文学方面的卓著贡献被授予帝国爵士勋章。 奥尔迪斯的代表作有《海利科尼亚》系列、《地球的漫长午后》《永不着陆》，以及科幻研究作品《亿万年大狂欢》等。他的短篇小说《超级玩具够玩一整夏》，由著名导演斯蒂芬•斯皮尔伯格拍成电影《人工智能》。

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family—and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for—and everything she feared

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。

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass...(展开全部)

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens-...(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)