Thomas, the child-protagonist of "The Issa Valley," is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes ...(展开全部)

Thomas, the child-protagonist of "The Issa Valley," is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes ...(展开全部)

切斯瓦夫·米沃什 波兰著名诗人、散文家、文学史家。 1911年出生于波兰第一共和国的立陶宛。曾荣获波兰雅盖沃大学、美国哈佛大学、意大利罗马大学等近十座世界知名学府的荣誉博士学位及各种勋章。1980年获诺贝尔文学奖，瑞典文学院在对他的授奖词中说: “他在自己的全部创作中，以毫不妥协的深刻性揭示了人在充满剧烈矛盾的世界上所遇到的威胁。”2004年8月在波兰克拉科夫逝世，享年93岁。 译者 赵刚，教授，博士生导师。现任北京外国语大学副校长，兼任中国欧洲学会中东欧分会副会长。主要研究波兰文学、中波关系及中东欧文化等，出版专著、译著、编著30余部。曾获得波兰格但斯克大学奖章、波兰文化与民族遗产部颁发的“波兰文化功勋奖章”、波兰“GloriaArtis”文化功勋奖章等。 易丽君，北京外国语大学教授，资深翻译家，波兰格但斯克大学名誉博士。著有《波兰文学》《波兰战后...(展开全部)

切斯瓦夫·米沃什 波兰著名诗人、散文家、文学史家。 1911年出生于波兰第一共和国的立陶宛。曾荣获波兰雅盖沃大学、美国哈佛大学、意大利罗马大学等近十座世界知名学府的荣誉博士学位及各种勋章。1980年获诺贝尔文学奖，瑞典文学院在对他的授奖词中说: “他在自己的全部创作中，以毫不妥协的深刻性揭示了人在充满剧烈矛盾的世界上所遇到的威胁。”2004年8月在波兰克拉科夫逝世，享年93岁。 译者 赵刚，教授，博士生导师。现任北京外国语大学副校长，兼任中国欧洲学会中东欧分会副会长。主要研究波兰文学、中波关系及中东欧文化等，出版专著、译著、编著30余部。曾获得波兰格但斯克大学奖章、波兰文化与民族遗产部颁发的“波兰文化功勋奖章”、波兰“GloriaArtis”文化功勋奖章等。 易丽君，北京外国语大学教授，资深翻译家，波兰格但斯克大学名誉博士。著有《波兰文学》《波兰战后...(展开全部)

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)

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)