Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a rela...(展开全部)

Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return. Anthony Browne is at his most brilliant in a new edition of this profound picture book about sibling relations.Anthony Browne is at his most brilliant in a new edition of this profound picture book about sibling relations.

安东尼·布朗，1946年生于英国谢菲尔德郡。他从小就喜欢艺术，经常跟着父亲一起画画，后来进入哈瑞·都柏朗的利兹艺术学院学习绘画课程。安东尼·布朗毕业后在曼彻斯特皇家医院工作，曾为一些医学书籍做插图。而最终，他投身于自己热爱的“真正绘画”，并在绘本创作上取得了极大的成功。特殊的经历打造了安东尼·布朗独具魅力的艺术风格。一方面，医学插画的创作经验使他的绘画细腻写实，绝不粗疏；另一方面，由于受到超现实主义画家玛格丽特的影响，他往往在利落的构图、鲜明的色彩、戏剧性的画面中蕴藏“神奇而幽默的元素”：在种种精彩绝伦的构想中，他的作品时而冷静沉着，时而幻想浪漫，时而风趣可爱，时而韵味悠长。总之，他的绘本总是不时地给人新的发现和惊喜，让读者在反复的阅读和品味中感受无尽的乐趣。令人感动的是，大师安东尼·布朗不仅具有天才的艺术思维，还怀有热诚的心灵。他的创作勇于反映现实...(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 classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generationsThe final exam for Dr. Matson's Advanced Survival class was meant to be just that: only a test. But something has gone terribly wrong...and now Rod Walker and his fellow students are stranded somewhere unknown in the universe, beyond contact ...(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 award-winning, bittersweet sci-fi tale of a mysterious tunnel, time travel, and young summer love that inspired an anime film. Don’t miss the manga adaptation and the light novel Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring (by the same creators), both also from Seven Seas! One summer morning before school, Kaoru hears an unsettling rumor—of a mysterious tunnel that can grant any wish t...(展开全部)

The award-winning, bittersweet sci-fi tale of a mysterious tunnel, time travel, and young summer love that inspired an anime film. Don’t miss the manga adaptation and the light novel Wait For Me Yesterday in Spring (by the same creators), both also from Seven Seas! One summer morning before school, Kaoru hears an unsettling rumor—of a mysterious tunnel that can grant any wish t...(展开全部)

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into ...(展开全部)

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into ...(展开全部)