恩里克·维拉-马塔斯，1948年出生于巴塞罗那，西班牙当代著名作家。佛朗哥时期曾被迫流亡法国。1973年，发表第一篇小说《镜前看风景的女人》。自此笔耕不辍，主要作品有《受启发的女凶手》（1977）、《便携式文学掠影》（1985）、《自杀典范》（1991）、《编造的回忆》（1994）、《奇特的生活方式》（1997）、《垂直之旅》（2000）、《巴特比和同伴》（2001）、《蒙塔诺的烦恼》（2002）、《巴黎永无止境》（2003）、《帕萨温托医生》（2005）等。此外还有散文集若干，如《最慢的旅行者》（1992）等。其作品倍受评论界关注，被译为法、英、德、意、俄、中、日等20多种语言，曾获得过委内瑞拉罗慕洛•加拉戈斯奖（2001）、法国梅迪西外国小说奖（2003）、西班牙文学批评奖（2003）等多项重要国际奖项。

恩里克·维拉-马塔斯，1948年出生于巴塞罗那，西班牙当代著名作家。佛朗哥时期曾被迫流亡法国。1973年，发表第一篇小说《镜前看风景的女人》。自此笔耕不辍，主要作品有《受启发的女凶手》（1977）、《便携式文学掠影》（1985）、《自杀典范》（1991）、《编造的回忆》（1994）、《奇特的生活方式》（1997）、《垂直之旅》（2000）、《巴特比和同伴》（2001）、《蒙塔诺的烦恼》（2002）、《巴黎永无止境》（2003）、《帕萨温托医生》（2005）等。此外还有散文集若干，如《最慢的旅行者》（1992）等。其作品倍受评论界关注，被译为法、英、德、意、俄、中、日等20多种语言，曾获得过委内瑞拉罗慕洛•加拉戈斯奖（2001）、法国梅迪西外国小说奖（2003）、西班牙文学批评奖（2003）等多项重要国际奖项。

Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above...(展开全部)

aFully lives up to expectations . . . Story collections arenat always high on readersa to-do lists these days. This one should be.aa"San Francisco Chronicle" In "When the Nines Roll Over," David Benioff uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic emotional lives of a diverse set of characters. Over the course of eight stories, w...(展开全部)

David Benioff burst onto the literary scene with The 25th Hour， a debut praised by Janet Maslin of The New York Times for its “pungent， funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires.” Now， with When the Nines Roll Over， Benioff uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling， sometimes pathetic state of the American urban male. O...(展开全部)

Over the course of eight tales, often with an appealing touch of the surreal, we are introduced to a record comany exec searching for a rock star, an inexperienced Russian soldier trapped between his murderous colleagues and a clever old woman, a faded football star recalling his lost chance at love, an acress who has a shot at a role that will free her from a lifetime of waitr...(展开全部)

トラック運転手のヒデは事情あって同僚の弟と謎の男を同乗させるハメになる。 散らかる車内、仕事の邪魔、ピクニック気分の二人に気の休まらないヒデだったが、次第に仲間意識も芽生え─運ちゃん、ロッカー、柳腰で送る青春爆走24時!

The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.

The "vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other and their land give them the strength to defy rural Southern racism during the Depression"--Booklist, starred review).

No one embodied the Sex Pistols raw, anarchic excesses like bassist Sid Vicious. Told from an insider's perspective, "Sid Vicious: Rock 'n' Roll Star covers the brief life of punk's original poster boy including everything from Vicious's lowly beginning as the only child of a drug-addicted parent to his obsession with violence and the notorious death of girlfriend Nancy Spungen...(展开全部)