From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known. 2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Coron...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

《我们所能知道的》是一部探索、一部文学惊悚片和一段爱情故事，它跨越过去、现在和未来，提出了关于我们是谁以及我们将去往哪里的深刻问题。 2014年：一首伟大的诗歌被大声朗诵，却再也听不到。几代人以来，人们一直在猜测它所蕴含的信息，但至今仍未找到任何抄本。 2119年：英国的低地被不断上升的海平面淹没。幸存下来的人们被失落的世界的丰富多彩所困扰。 汤姆·梅特卡夫是南唐斯大学的学者，南唐斯大学是英国仅存的群岛之一。他深入研究了21世纪初的档案，被人类生活时期的自由与可能性深深吸引。 当他偶然发现一条可能指向这失传巨作的线索时，纠缠不清的爱情和残酷的犯罪真相浮现，打破了他对一个他自认为非常了解的故事的假设。 《我们能知道什么》是一部杰作，它将我们眼前的现实从迫在眉睫的灾难感中解放出来，并描绘了一个并非一切都已消失的未来世界。 A quest, a liter...(展开全部)

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.” In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even ...(展开全部)

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.” In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even ...(展开全部)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do televi...(展开全部)

· 代表作《异类》《引爆点》中文版累计销量破百万册 · 畅销榜常客，屡屡创造书市神话， 人称“《纽约客》怪才” · 《纽约客》特约撰稿人，会讲故事的非虚构作家 2005 年，被《时代》周刊评为“全球影响力100 人”之一 2011 年，被授予加拿国民殊荣“加拿大勋章” 2011 年，被《快公司》誉为“21 世纪的彼得·德鲁克”

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why a...(展开全部)