An international sensation, Sofi Oksanen’s award-winning novel Purge is a breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds them. When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her she...(展开全部)

索菲·奥克萨宁（Sofi Oksanen），1977年出生于芬兰，母亲是爱沙尼亚裔，父亲是芬兰人。2003年出版第一部小说《斯大林的乳牛》（Stalin’s Cows），内容充满争议，受到各界讨论。两年后，出版第二部小说《宝贝雅内》（Baby Jane）。2007年，剧本《清洗》（Puhdistus）登上芬兰国家戏剧院，成为芬兰国家戏剧院的常备剧目。2008年，同名小说《清洗》出版，一炮而红，迅速成为芬兰头号畅销书，包揽了芬兰最重要的两个文学大奖——芬兰国家文学奖和鲁内贝格奖，从而创纪录地成为第一部同时获得这两项大奖的作品。2010年，此书又获得了北欧地区的最高文学奖——北欧理事会文学奖，以及法国的费米娜外国小说奖，2013年，更是荣获素有“小诺奖”之称的瑞典学院北欧文学奖——奥克萨宁成为该奖有史以来最年轻的获奖者，也是第一位芬兰女得主。《清洗》在全...(展开全部)

"The Violet Isle" is a little-known nickname for Cuba, inspired by its richly colored soil--one of the many qualities that make the country so seductive to photographers. This handsomely designed, slipcased edition offers an engaging, at times unsettling document of a country that, for the past 50 years, has remained in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble, is...(展开全部)

"The Violet Isle" is a little-known nickname for Cuba, inspired by its richly colored soil--one of the many qualities that make the country so seductive to photographers. This handsomely designed, slipcased edition offers an engaging, at times unsettling document of a country that, for the past 50 years, has remained in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble, is...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, an...(展开全部)

A classic novel about the golden age of film. It is based on Isherwood's experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend. 'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter—an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality. In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She invest...(展开全部)