‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’ A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. ‘The melancholy folklore of...(展开全部)

The acclaimed Chilean author’s first collection of stories to be published in English. Here are fourteen stories set largely among those living in the margins, on the edge. “The most haunting and mesmerizing collection I have ever read.”— Daily Telegraph

The first story collection by Roberto Bolano --"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolano's story collection "Last Evenings on Earth" was acclaimed by Francine Prose in "The New York Times Book Review" as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolano is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric ...(展开全部)

‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’ A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. ‘The melancholy folklore of...(展开全部)

The acclaimed Chilean author’s first collection of stories to be published in English. Here are fourteen stories set largely among those living in the margins, on the edge. “The most haunting and mesmerizing collection I have ever read.”— Daily Telegraph

The first story collection by Roberto Bolano --"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolano's story collection "Last Evenings on Earth" was acclaimed by Francine Prose in "The New York Times Book Review" as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolano is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric ...(展开全部)

New York Times Best Selling author Scott Snyder reunites with Dark Nights: Metal artist Greg Capullo for their final Batman epic. Twenty years in the future Bruce Wayne wakes up in Arkham Asylum. Young. Sane. And...he's never been Batman. So begins this sprawling tale of the Dark Knight as he embarks on a quest through a devastated DC landscape featuring a massive cast of famil...(展开全部)

1977年愛知縣出生。畢業於福島大學行政社會學系。2002年以「槍」獲選為第34屆新潮新人文學獎，以及第128屆的芥川文學獎候補。2003年以「遮光」榮獲第129屆的芥川文學獎候補。2004年榮獲第26屆的野間文藝新人獎。2005年以「惡意的手記」榮獲第18屆三島文學獎候補。以「泥土裡的孩子」榮獲第133屆芥川文學獎

Today was his first climb to the top. He knew if he was there, watching, then she would never leave him. Her name was Bernadette and he climbed the shed every day.~This is a not a football book, as such. Rather, it is a memoir by someone who happened to have superior ability at the sport during his formative years which led him on a remarkable journey. Paul Ferris became a prof...(展开全部)

For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ic...(展开全部)