Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and d...(展开全部)

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrat...(展开全部)

忠告：不要看书上的简介！！！ 重复：不要看书上的简介！！！ 再来：不要看书上的简介！！！ 最后：不要看书上的简介！！！ ------------------------------------ 16岁的少年弗兰克，从小和他的父亲同住在一个荒凉的小岛上。他个性孤僻、性情冷漠、迷恋暴力，喜欢残杀小动物，以此预测将要发生的事情。 从小，他的家庭就充满阴影――在他出生后不久，他的母亲就离家出走，他的父亲也没有为他办理出生证明。他的大哥一直痛恨他的父亲，一度离家出走，后因为试图纵火烧死一群狗而被关进精神病院。 ……然而，这一切又都是为了什么？ ------------------------------------ 小说中，伊恩・班克斯对人性及社会黑暗洞察入微――在一系列看似恐怖血腥的故事中隐藏着对人类命运的深度思考，以及对科技发展所带来的负面影响的深刻忧虑。...(展开全部)

忠告：不要看书上的简介！！！ 重复：不要看书上的简介！！！ 再来：不要看书上的简介！！！ 最后：不要看书上的简介！！！ ------------------------------------ 16岁的少年弗兰克，从小和他的父亲同住在一个荒凉的小岛上。他个性孤僻、性情冷漠、迷恋暴力，喜欢残杀小动物，以此预测将要发生的事情。 从小，他的家庭就充满阴影――在他出生后不久，他的母亲就离家出走，他的父亲也没有为他办理出生证明。他的大哥一直痛恨他的父亲，一度离家出走，后因为试图纵火烧死一群狗而被关进精神病院。 ……然而，这一切又都是为了什么？ ------------------------------------ 小说中，伊恩・班克斯对人性及社会黑暗洞察入微――在一系列看似恐怖血腥的故事中隐藏着对人类命运的深度思考，以及对科技发展所带来的负面影响的深刻忧虑。...(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)

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)