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 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.

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)

First published in 1958, ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ achieved instant critical acclaim and helped to establish Alan Sillitoe as one of the greatest British writers of his generation. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema and was much imitated. This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebel...(展开全部)

露易丝·格丽克（Louise Glück，1943— ），美国桂冠诗人，2020年诺贝尔文学奖得主，生于一个匈牙利裔犹太人家庭，1968年出版处女诗集《头生子》，至今著有十三本诗集和两本随笔集，遍获各种诗歌奖项，包括普利策奖、国家图书奖、全国书评界奖、美国诗人学院华莱士·斯蒂文斯奖、波林根奖等。格丽克的诗长于对心理隐微之处的把握，早期作品具有很强的自传性，后来的作品则通过人神对质，以及对神话人物的心理分析，导向人的存在根本问题，爱、死亡、生命、毁灭。自《阿勒山》开始，她的每部诗集都是精巧的织体，可作为一首长诗或一部组诗。从《阿勒山》和《野鸢尾》开始，格丽克成了“必读的诗人”。

露易丝·格丽克（Louise Glück，1943— ），美国桂冠诗人，2020年诺贝尔文学奖得主，生于一个匈牙利裔犹太人家庭，1968年出版处女诗集《头生子》，至今著有十三本诗集和两本随笔集，遍获各种诗歌奖项，包括普利策奖、国家图书奖、全国书评界奖、美国诗人学院华莱士·斯蒂文斯奖、波林根奖等。格丽克的诗长于对心理隐微之处的把握，早期作品具有很强的自传性，后来的作品则通过人神对质，以及对神话人物的心理分析，导向人的存在根本问题，爱、死亡、生命、毁灭。自《阿勒山》开始，她的每部诗集都是精巧的织体，可作为一首长诗或一部组诗。从《阿勒山》和《野鸢尾》开始，格丽克成了“必读的诗人”。