Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

A young woman losing her vision rides the subway with her dog in search of emotional healing.

A young woman losing her vision rides the subway with her dog in search of emotional healing.

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a dec...(展开全部)

Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, and a malicious recording that can make "the whole world scream at the exact same time." Private detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him so...(展开全部)

A father's decades-long search for a missing daughter. A young woman about to perfect the darkest art. The most dangerous secret Hollywood has ever kept. Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with his first major lead in over a decade, and he may finally be on the verge of di...(展开全部)

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain exp...(展开全部)

《The Waves》是英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫在其创作力鼎盛时期所著的长篇小说，首次出版于1931年。这是一部高度诗意化、抽象化、程式化的实验作品，没有传统意义上的故事情节，更像是一部由九个乐章构建的音乐作品。小说通过六个没有姓氏的人物在各自人生阶段的内心独白，展现了从儿童到老年“人的六个时代”的成长经历和体验，深刻探讨了时间、生命和死亡的主题。引子与正文互相映射，为读者的感官开辟前所未有的通道，最大限度地接近生命、时间、意识以及感觉的实质。这部作品以其精美绝伦的文本结构和诗意盎然的笔调，在现代文学殿堂中占据重要地位。

The Waves, more than any of Virginia Woolf's novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that conveys the inne...(展开全部)