The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fights to stay alive in their small apartment, held together by the unlikely courage and resourcefulness of twenty-two-year-old Anna. Though she dreams of an artist's...(展开全部)

From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize -a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Marquez, and Rushdie-the stunning new translation of one of his major works. In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevi...(展开全部)

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱（1936— ） 阿尔巴尼亚当代最著名的作家和诗人，1936年出生于阿尔巴尼亚南部山城吉诺卡斯特，1954年以诗集《青春的热忱》初登文坛，随后转向小说创作，其作品迄今已在四十多个国家出版。代表作有《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》《金字塔》等，在国际上广受好评。评论家称赞他的作品“其诗意的散文和叙事的灵巧，堪称炉火纯青”。曾荣获多个知名国际文学奖项，包括2005年布克国际文学奖、2009年西班牙阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，以及2015年以色列耶路撒冷文学奖等。

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱（1936— ） 阿尔巴尼亚当代最著名的作家和诗人，1936年出生于阿尔巴尼亚南部山城吉诺卡斯特，1954年以诗集《青春的热忱》初登文坛，随后转向小说创作，其作品迄今已在四十多个国家出版。代表作有《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》《金字塔》等，在国际上广受好评。评论家称赞他的作品“其诗意的散文和叙事的灵巧，堪称炉火纯青”。曾荣获多个知名国际文学奖项，包括2005年布克国际文学奖、2009年西班牙阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，以及2015年以色列耶路撒冷文学奖等。

From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize -a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Marquez, and Rushdie-the stunning new translation of one of his major works. In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevi...(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)

The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno ...(展开全部)

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 young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

Leonard Marnham is assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin. His intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. Leonard's relationship with Maria Ec...(展开全部)