A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored. This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of th...(展开全部)

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored. This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of th...(展开全部)

**Winner of the China Times Million Yuan Literary Prize for the Novel (Jury Prize, 1994)** Island of Silence is a mesmerising psychological portrait of evasion. Chen-mian, a young Taiwanese woman with a troubled background, can’t bear the reality of her life, and creates an idealised fantasy existence – ‘the other Chen-mian’, a happily-married woman with a stable, loving family...(展开全部)

The classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened when the universe began, and how we know.

The classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened when the universe began, and how we know.

America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. She agrees to a radical plan—time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer, the company will pay for the l...(展开全部)

Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In "The Last Three Minutes, " Paul Davies reveals the latest theories. It might end in a whimper, slowly scattering into the infinite void. Then again, it might be yanked back by its own gravity and end in a catastrophic " Big Crunch." There are other, more frightening possibilitie...(展开全部)

Ragnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In "The Last Three Minutes, " Paul Davies reveals the latest theories. It might end in a whimper, slowly scattering into the infinite void. Then again, it might be yanked back by its own gravity and end in a catastrophic " Big Crunch." There are other, more frightening possibilitie...(展开全部)

马克斯·皮卡德（Max Picard，1888-1965），瑞士著名哲学家，作为20世纪为数不多的柏拉图式的重要思想家，其作品受到了加布里埃尔·马塞尔、海德格尔、里尔克、荷尔德林等思想家的影响，同时也受到战后现代保守主义的熏陶，注重对一个破碎世界的重塑和恢复。

莎蒙德•勒普顿（Rosamund Lupton），英国当红畅销书女作家，英国皇家宫廷剧院编剧，毕业于剑桥大学。 2010年以第一部长篇小说《妹妹》出道成为专职作家，该书销量超过150万册，成为2010年英国最畅销的小说，也是《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》的超级畅销书。《沉默的告白》是罗莎蒙德的最新长篇小说，位列英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书前十名，为英国理查德&朱蒂俱乐部春季选书。