Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky. Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye....(展开全部)

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky. Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye....(展开全部)

贾平凹的《废都》的简介（来自“搜搜问问”） 该作40余万字，载《十月》1993年第4期。小说以历史文化悠久的古都西安当代生活为背景，记叙“闲散文人”作家庄之蝶、书法家龚靖元、画家汪希眠及艺术家阮知非“四大名人”的起居生活，展现了浓缩的西京城形形色色“废都”景观。 小说核心人物庄之蝶，在他身上可能影印了作者的痕迹。他集合了现代都市生活赋予一个名人复杂多面的特征：不喜拘束、洒脱行意、豪饮畅谈、学识渊博，颇具“魏晋风度”。然而，透过这些表象，古城墙夜里的埙声，实则契合了他内心深处最孤独的痛苦。 40万字篇幅中，作者以庄之蝶与几位女性情感的纠葛为主线，以阮知非等诸名士穿插叙述为辅线，笔墨浓淡相宜，时有“笑口常开”一类时政幽默小景展现，活跃了气氛，激活了读者思路，令人叫绝。 贾平凹不愧为写女性系列的大手笔，在诸多女性中，唐宛儿、柳月、牛月清为他塑造最为成功也最...(展开全部)

This rollicking page-turner with a cast of real and imagined literary characters and cunning intertwined plots stars a skeptical H.G. Wells as a time-traveling investigator. Set in Victorian London, The Map of Time boasts a triple-play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel. Now, he must save the ...(展开全部)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three ...(展开全部)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three ...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports."--Linda Winer, Newsday"An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world's brutalities. Nottage is one of ...(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

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)

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)