Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of thei...(展开全部)

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is yo...(展开全部)

乔治·普罗尼克（George Prochnik） 小说家，人物传记作家，自由编辑，曾在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授英美文学。著有《追求宁静》《普特南隐身之所》等。

乔治·普罗尼克（George Prochnik） 小说家，人物传记作家，自由编辑，曾在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授英美文学。著有《追求宁静》《普特南隐身之所》等。

乔治·普罗尼克（George Prochnik） 小说家，人物传记作家，自由编辑，曾在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授英美文学。著有《追求宁静》《普特南隐身之所》等。

乔治·普罗尼克（George Prochnik） 小说家，人物传记作家，自由编辑，曾在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学教授英美文学。著有《追求宁静》《普特南隐身之所》等。

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with al...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY GRAND PRIX A tribute to George Orwell's 1984 and a cry of protest against totalitarianism of all kinds, Sansal's 2084 tells the story of a near future in which Islamic fundamentalists have established an oppressive caliphate where autonomus thought is forbidden. It is the year 2084. In the kingdom of Abistan—named after the prophet Abi, earthly mess...(展开全部)