A hypnotic, disorienting story of parallel lives unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. For two years, twenty-eight-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But now the theatre is shutting down and Ayami's future is uncertain. Her last shift completed and the theatre closed for good, Ayami walks the streets o...(展开全部)

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

A hypnotic, disorienting story of parallel lives unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. For two years, twenty-eight-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But now the theatre is shutting down and Ayami's future is uncertain. Her last shift completed and the theatre closed for good, Ayami walks the streets o...(展开全部)

The acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Infinite Ascent offers an enlightening and enthralling tour of the basics of mathematics, and reveals a world of fascination in fundamental mathematical ideas. One, Two, Three is David Berlinski’s captivating exploration of the foundation of mathematics, its fundamental ideas, and why they matter. By unraveling the complex...(展开全部)

Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the messa...(展开全部)

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area,...(展开全部)

佐渡と新潟の間に架けられた世界で一番巨大な橋。その中央にそびえる名前がつけられる事のなかった人工島―不況によって放置されたそこは不法滞在者や犯罪者が棲む九龍城さながらの無法都市と化していた。その島を二人の男が訪れる。気弱で大人しい少年・狗木誠一は、幼馴染みの少女と冒険気分で。重要指名手配犯・戊井隼人は惹きつけられるように。そして彼らは、社会から隔絶された無法地帯で全く違う道を歩み始める。だがその姿は、鏡に映る己を吼える犬のようでもあった―。

"I'll swap you my dad," I said. "Oh-oh," said my little sister. What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father? What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done? "The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish "is a hilarious adventure and was the first book for younger readers from the acclaimed author an...(展开全部)

One of the world's foremost nuclear physicists (celebrated for his theory of radioactive decay, among other accomplishments), George Gamow possessed the unique ability of making the world of science accessible to the general reader. He brings that ability to bear in this delightful expedition through the problems, pleasures, and puzzles of modern science. Among the topics scrut...(展开全部)