米歇尔•法柏（MICHEL FABER, 1960—） 英国文坛近来最受瞩目的非典型欧系小说家，被誉为“惊悚大师”和狄更斯的接班人，幻想大师罗尔德•达尔与存在主义大师卡夫卡的混合体。他出生于荷兰海牙，后随父母移居澳洲，在澳洲墨尔本大学主修古代，中古世纪和现代英国文学。1993年，他搬到苏格兰高地的一座旧农场定居，那里便是本书的背景。 米歇尔•法柏曾赢得多项文学奖项，其中包括—— 惠特贝瑞奖（Whitbread Award）； 尼尔•刚恩奖（Neil Gunn Prize）； 杨•圣詹姆斯奖（Ian St James Award）； 苏格兰艺术协会奖（Scottish Arts Council Award）； 苏格兰十字年度最佳小说奖（Saltire First Book of the Year Award）。 他的作品中，《绛红与雪白的花瓣》（The...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consc...(展开全部)

Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peerin...(展开全部)

The There's a Nightmare In My Closet, bringing back that story's imaginative young hero for an even funnier nighttime adventure. Full-color illustrations.

The There's a Nightmare In My Closet, bringing back that story's imaginative young hero for an even funnier nighttime adventure. Full-color illustrations.

In this examination of the monster as cultural object, Judith Halberstam offers a rereading of the monstrous that revises our view of the Gothic. Moving from the nineteenth century and the works of Shelley, Stevenson, Stoker, and Wilde to contemporary horror film exemplified by such movies as "Silence of the Lambs," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "Candyman," "Skin Shows" unders...(展开全部)

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne Anlin Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within large...(展开全部)

“It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte’s own service as an Italian liaison officer with the Allies during the invasion of Italy was the basis for this searing and surreal novel, in which the contradictions inherent in any attempt to simultaneously conquer and liberate a people beset the triumphant but ingenuous American forces as they ma...(展开全部)

库尔齐奥▪马拉巴特（1898-1957） Curzio Malaparte 意大利作家、记者、外交官。因其代表作《完蛋》（1944）、《皮》（1949）等获得国际声誉。1951年导演电影《被禁止的基督》，提名戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，获柏林电影节柏林市特别奖。

Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a "weather official" on a tiny, remote island on the edge of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. Gruner, the man inhabiting the lighthouse, approaches the newcomer at first as an...(展开全部)