A new thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and Edgar-nominated author of "Christine"" Falls" and "The Silver Swan" John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. He works in a big office in Mulholland Tow...(展开全部)

Achieves a great deal in a short time . . . It's an edgy read, worthy of Don DeLillo'

约翰·班维尔及其犯罪小说 一 爱尔兰作家约翰·班维尔，1945年12月8日出生于爱尔兰共和国威克斯福德郡，曾担任《爱尔兰时报》文学编辑，是一位敏锐的评论家，也是一位多产的作家，多次获得文学大奖。他的小说用词丰富，语言优美，富有诗意。自1970年发表《朗·兰金》以来，他先后发表了《哥白尼博士》、《开普勒》和《牛顿书信》以及“框架三部曲”等。他的“框架三部曲”《证词》、《幽灵》和《雅典娜》堪与贝克特的《马洛伊》、《马洛伊之死》、《无名的人》媲美。2005年，班维尔的第十四部小说《海》获得英国“布克奖”。布克奖评委会将他誉为“文字大师”、“二十一世纪最伟大的小说文体家之一”，认为小说《海》采用了漂亮的散文手法，“足以代表班维尔写作的高峰”，并称这种风格是“这个时代最好的写作风格之一”。这是自1993年罗蒂·道尔以《帕蒂·克拉克，哈哈哈》“夺冠”的十二年后，...(展开全部)

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebell...(展开全部)

Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction ...(展开全部)

A BEAUTIFUL NOVEL OF MEMORY, YOUTH, AND OLD AGE, FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize - winning author and cultural icon in France, here presents a Proustian novel, exquisitely intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. As the...(展开全部)

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begin...(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)

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。