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)

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)

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)

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

蕾切尔·库什纳，1968年生于俄勒冈州，毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校，后获得哥伦比亚大学艺术硕士学位，长期从事艺术领域的报道。 库什纳的第二部长篇小说《喷火器》获2013年度美国国家图书奖最终提名，也是《纽约时报》2013年度小说。她的处女作长篇《来自古巴的电报》获得2008年度美国国家图书奖最终提名，荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜和年度好书榜。 她的小说已被翻译成15种语言，她的小说、散文可见诸《纽约客》《哈泼斯》《纽约时报》《巴黎评论》等报刊。 蕾切尔·库什纳获得2013年度古根海姆奖金，现居洛杉矶。

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 biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens-...(展开全部)

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Otto...(展开全部)