悟空传，ISBN：9787539139999，作者：
米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个
米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个
The riveting story of a Japanese immigrant who leads a proper,decorous life in a New York suburb. As his life slowly unravels, heis transported back to his days as a medic in the Japanese army inWorld War II, and his obsessive love of a young comfort woman.
Now in paperback- The New York Times bestsellingnovel of rock 'n roll, super fandom, and love, by the belovedauthor of About a Boy and High Fidelity . Nick Hornby returns to his roots-music and messy relationships-inthis funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully andsympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they arenever beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England'sbleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrorsthe place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer,who's gone into seclusion in rural America-or at least that's whathis fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker's work, to the pointof derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike ofhis latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changingconsequences for all three. Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we sooften let the early promise of relationships, ambition and indeedlife evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimisticconclu
The collection that established O'Connor's reputation as oneof the american masters of the short story. The volume contains thecelebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive TheMisfit, as well as "The Displaced Person" and eight otherstories.
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At last A zesty, exuberant follow-up to the wildlypopular How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, full of JuliaAlvarez's keen observations and tender affection for hercharacters.The Garcia Girls are back, most notably Yolanda, or"Yo", who has grown up to be a writer. In the process, she hasmanaged to get kicked out of college, break more than a few hearts,have her own heart broken many times, return for extended visits tothe Dominican Republic her family fled when she was a child, andmarry three times. She has also infuriated her entire family bypublishing the intimate details of their lives as fiction.Theinjured parties -- her mother, her sisters, the Dominican cousins,the maid's daughter, her teachers, her lover, want to tell theirside of the story, and Yo hands the microphone to them. CousinLucinda shrugs off Yo's characterization of her as a "LatinAmerican Barbie" with "a size three soul", saying, "Looking at herin her late 30s, knocking around the world without a husband,house, or children, I thin
From the New York Times best-selling author Paul Theroux,Blinding Light is a slyly satirical novel of manners and mindexpansion. Slade Steadman, a writer who has lost his chops, setsout for the Ecuadorian jungle with his ex-girlfriend in search ofinspiration and a rare hallucinogen. The drug, once found,heightens both his powers of perception and his libido, but it alsoleaves him with an unfortunate side effect: periodic blindness.Unable to resist the insights that enable him to write again,Steadman spends the next year of his life in thrall to hispsychedelic muse and his erotic fantasies, with consequences thatare both ecstatic and disastrous.
Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Acadmie Franaise, Wind,Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation offlight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined withlyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of themost popular works ever written about flying. Translated by LewisGalantire.
