The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

评分 8.6分

A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties. It is

From Where You Dream

Robert Olen Butler

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Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University — his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream, Butler reimagines t

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Kenzaburo Oe

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Oe's dark musings on moral failure have come to symbolize an alienated generation in postwar Japan. This novel recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain vi

The Covenant Of Water

Abraham Verghese

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The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of Cutting for Stone. Published in 2009, Cutting for Stone became a literary phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million

The Voyeur’s Motel

Gay Talese

评分 7.4分

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-c

Gaddafi's Harem

Annick Cojean

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How Asia Works

Joe Studwell

评分 8.5分

In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle. Japan was going to dominate, then China. Countries were called “tigers” or “mini-dragons,” and

War Dances

Sherman Alexie

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In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian , best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, wi

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

William S. Burroughs

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In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tal

Stet

Diana Athill

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Diana Athill's Stet is "a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at the heyday of postwar London publishing by a woman who was at its center for nearly half a century"

Asleep

Banana Yoshimoto

评分 8.0分

The New York Daily News has called Asleep "enchanting, surreal ... Yoshimoto brings readers to another powerful, atmospheric place." Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her visio

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

Bill Brewster

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From the first time a record was played over the airwaves in 1906, to a modern club economy that totals $3 billion annually in New York City alone, the DJ has been at the center of popular music. S

Steps (Kosinski, Jerzy)

Jerzy Kosinski

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A portrayal of men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination. 耶日·科辛斯基（1933—1991），出生于波兰，在“二战”纳粹大屠杀中幸存，1

Fado Alexandrino

Antonio Lobo Antunes

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On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal’s Vietnam. In

Juliette

Marquis de Sade

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“An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy—all pale beside Juliette.”—Library Journal

Travesties

Tom Stoppard

评分 9.0分

Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all liv

Anthology of Japanese Literature

Donald Keene

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The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poet

Nova Express

William S. Burroughs

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Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’s nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It’s up to