The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as we...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as we...(展开全部)

被誉为“加拿大文学女王”的玛格丽特•阿特伍德是一位勤奋多产的作家，她获得过除诺贝尔文学奖之外的几乎所有的国际文学奖和不计其数的其他奖励和荣誉，并被多伦多大学等十多所国内外大学授予荣誉博士学位，享有很高的国际声誉。其作品已被译成30多种文字。 自从1969年，她出版了第一部长篇小说《可以吃的女人》之后，她的作品频频获奖，这也为她赢得了广泛的国际声誉。她创作的三部优秀长篇小说《女仆的故事》（1985）、《猫眼》（1988）、《别名格雷斯》（1996）曾三次获得布克奖提名，最后凭借第十部小说《盲刺客》摘得了这项最高文学奖的桂冠。 阿特伍德的影响不仅跨越了国界，也跨越了文学领域。她一直十分关注美国文化对加拿大无所不在的强大影响和加拿大日益美国化的倾向；为抗拒这种倾向，她大力支持以推进独立的加拿大民族文化为宗旨的阿南西出版社，做了很多实实在在的工作；她帮助成立...(展开全部)

The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning. The waterless flood ? a manmade plague ? has ended the world. But two young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped where she worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest ...(展开全部)

t is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hin...(展开全部)

艾米塔•葛旭（Amitav Ghosh） 1956年生於印度加爾各答，先後於德里的聖史蒂芬學院、德里大學，以及牛津大學聖艾德蒙學院學習接受教育，並獲社會人類學博士學位。畢業後任職於《新德里快報》擔任記者。 1986年起，他陸續發表《理性環》（The Circle of Reason）、《陰影線》（The Shadow Lines）、《加爾各答染色體》（The Calcutta Chromosome）、《玻璃宮殿》（The Glass Palace）與《餓潮》（The Hungry Tide）等五部小說。2008年，他推出背景設於鴉片戰爭爆發前夕的東方殖民史小說「朱鷺號三部曲」第一集《罌粟海》，2011年推出第二集《煙籠河》（River of Smoke），2015年則是三部曲終篇《烽火劫》（Flood of Fire）。 他的首部小說《理性環》出版後...(展开全部)

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sist...(展开全部)

In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sist...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has di...(展开全部)