A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could l...(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)

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? Can they create their own traditions and rituals? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, spends her days gathering footage from the neighborhood park like an anthropolog...(展开全部)

《朗读者》演绎被禁忌的罪责之爱，采用关乎人性的严肃题材，贯穿全书的却是一个让人唏嘘的爱情故事。《朗读者》被列为年度好书口碑之选。同名影片荣膺金球奖，并获奥斯卡五项核心大奖提名。 伟大的爱情是用来唏嘘的。为了守护秘密，你会走多远？ 战后的德国萧条破败，一个15岁的少年在电车上病倒了，他独自下车，行走在滂沱大雨中，最后在一个逼仄的过道里吐得一塌糊涂，一个36岁的陌生女人帮助了他•••••• 3个月后，少年伯格从突如其来的猩红热侵袭中恢复过来，他只是为了去感谢那个曾经在他生病时给予过他帮助的女人，但是，情欲，或者是爱情，在15岁的少年伯格心中渐渐燃烧起来。 电车售票员汉娜总是让伯格为她朗读，《荷马史诗》、《带小狗的女人》、《战争与和平》，在伯格的朗读中，汉娜像个孩子似的时而痛哭，时而大笑，那个夏天，是他们一生中最短暂最快乐并最终影响了后来岁月的时光。 不久...(展开全部)