Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother, Zana, stirs the troubled waters between them even more. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys, Yaqub, “the good son,” is sent from his home in Brazil to live with relatives in Lebanon, only to return five ye...(展开全部)

A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. 'My Sister, My Love' is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbours -- and even the young girl's own family. Told from the point of v...(展开全部)

Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practical...(展开全部)

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water... When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched i...(展开全部)

阎连科 1958年出生于河南嵩县田湖，1978年应征入伍，1979年开始写作，1991年毕业于解放军艺术学院文学系，现为中国人民大学文学院教授、香港科技大学冼为坚中国文化客座教授。 曾获第一、二届鲁迅文学奖及第三届老舍文学奖，入围2012年度法国费米娜文学奖短名单、2013年布克国际文学奖短名单；获得第十二届马拉西亚花踪世界华文文学奖、2014年卡夫卡文学奖、2015年日本推特文学奖、2016年第六届世界华文长篇小说奖“红楼梦”奖。 作品已被译为日、韩、越、法、英、德、意、荷、挪威、以色列、西班牙、塞尔维亚等二十多种语言出版。 代表作品 长篇小说 《日光流年》《坚硬如水》《受活》《风雅颂》《炸裂志》 中篇小说 《年月日》《黄金洞》《耙耧天歌》《朝着东南走》 短篇小说 《黑猪毛白猪毛》 散 文 《我与父辈》《田湖的孩子》

阎连科 1958年出生于河南嵩县田湖，1978年应征入伍，1979年开始写作，1991年毕业于解放军艺术学院文学系，现为中国人民大学文学院教授、香港科技大学冼为坚中国文化客座教授。 曾获第一、二届鲁迅文学奖及第三届老舍文学奖，入围2012年度法国费米娜文学奖短名单、2013年布克国际文学奖短名单；获得第十二届马拉西亚花踪世界华文文学奖、2014年卡夫卡文学奖、2015年日本推特文学奖、2016年第六届世界华文长篇小说奖“红楼梦”奖。 作品已被译为日、韩、越、法、英、德、意、荷、挪威、以色列、西班牙、塞尔维亚等二十多种语言出版。 代表作品 长篇小说 《日光流年》《坚硬如水》《受活》《风雅颂》《炸裂志》 中篇小说 《年月日》《黄金洞》《耙耧天歌》《朝着东南走》 短篇小说 《黑猪毛白猪毛》 散 文 《我与父辈》《田湖的孩子》

A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie , Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the project t...(展开全部)

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice...The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointment...(展开全部)

A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie , Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the project t...(展开全部)

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice...The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand. Later, one of his patients was found dead from a lethal dose of local anaesthetic. A clear case of murder and suicide. But why would a dentist commit a crime in the middle of a busy day of appointment...(展开全部)