Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t writte...(展开全部)

美国希腊裔作家，1960年4月13日出生于美国底特律。 祖父母是从小亚细亚来的希腊移民。曾就读于美国著名私立大学布朗大学，并于1986年在斯坦福大学获得英语及创作专业硕士学位。1993年发表了首部长篇《处女自杀》，这部引人入胜的小说介绍了密执安州格罗斯角上五个神秘姐妹以及那些命运被她们永远改变的男孩子们的故事。书一上市就好评如潮，成为畅销书，荣获1993年怀汀奖以及同年美国艺术协会年度风云书，并由著名导演科波拉之女索菲娅•科波拉搬上银幕。《中性》（Middlesex）出版于2002年，是他用九年时间创作的第二本小说，获得了2003年度普利策文学奖。作者以遗传学理论为基础，故事开始是女身最终变成男身的叙述者讲述了一个希腊裔家族历史遭遇的传奇故事。这位雌雄同体的叙事者也象征了美国移民身份的无奈。此书获选《洛杉矶时报》、《芝加哥论坛报》、《纽约时报书评》、...(展开全部)

In Eugenides' first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex (2002), English major and devotee of classic literature Madeleine Hanna is a senior at Reagan-era Brown University. Only when curiosity gets the best of her does she belly up to Semiotics 211, a bastion of postmodern liberalism, and meet handsome, brilliant, mysterious Leonard Bankhead. Completing a triangle i...(展开全部)

In Eugenides' first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex (2002), English major and devotee of classic literature Madeleine Hanna is a senior at Reagan-era Brown University. Only when curiosity gets the best of her does she belly up to Semiotics 211, a bastion of postmodern liberalism, and meet handsome, brilliant, mysterious Leonard Bankhead. Completing a triangle i...(展开全部)

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking office as ...(展开全部)

THE AUTUMN'S MOST THRILLING PAGE-TURNER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDOING, THE MAJOR SERIES ON HBO AND SKY. When a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake, (himself a failed novelist) helps himself to its plot. The resulting book is a phenomenal success. But what if somebody out there knows? Somebody does. And if Jake can’t figure out who he’s dealin...(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)