Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Amo
Jhumpa Lahiri The Lowland-底洼地
Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country torn by revolution. A powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the price of idealism and a love that can last long past death.
Growing up i
Growing up i
Mavis Gallant The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories -生活成本:早期和未收集的故事
A New York Review Books Original
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression f
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression f
Lavina Dhingra Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Canons and controversies-命名朱姆帕·拉希里:经典与争议
Jhumpa Lahiri is among the few contemporary writers being read widely by both mainstream and minority audiences, the general public and academic scholars, in the U.S. and globally. While her works focus on specific ethnic experiences of highly educated, u
Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies-弊病翻译家
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," publi
After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa L
Mindful of the tunnel vision sometimes created by the privileging of 'hybridity talk' and matters of culture in discussions of texts by minority writers, Delphine Munos in After Melancholia reads the work of the Bengali-American celebrity author
Jhumpa Lahiri A Temporary Matter-暂时的事
Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," publi
John Hawkes An Irish Eye-爱尔兰人的眼睛
Dervia O'Shannon, the 13-year-old who tells this tale, finds herself at the dawn of true womanhood when the children of Saint Martha's Home for Foundling Girls embark on a series of festive visits to Saint Clement's Home for Old Soldiers. T
John Hawkes Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse-甜蜜的威廉:老马回忆录
"A moving book, a warm, cranky book, in the end a book full of love of the horse."--The Washington Post
In his most engaging, accessible novel to date, John Hawkes brings to life the sad, stately voice of Old Horse, nee Sweet William, who rec
In his most engaging, accessible novel to date, John Hawkes brings to life the sad, stately voice of Old Horse, nee Sweet William, who rec
Lunar Landscapes: Stories and Short Novels, 1949-1963-月球风景
Six Short Stories: "The Traveler"; "The Grandmother"; "A Little Bit of the Old Slap and Tickle"; "Death of an Airman"; "A Song Outside"; "The Nearest Cemetery".
Novella: Charivari (first publi
Novella: Charivari (first publi
John Hawkes Death, Sleep and the Traveler-死亡、睡眠和旅行者
The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. His most recent novel, Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, hi
The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow-急箭之谜
作者:Anna Katharine Green
书名:The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow-急箭之谜
主要卖点:作者格林被称为美国“侦探小说之母”,代表了美国经典侦探小说创作的最高水平,
书名:The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow-急箭之谜
主要卖点:作者格林被称为美国“侦探小说之母”,代表了美国经典侦探小说创作的最高水平,
John Hawkes The Blood Oranges-血橙
"Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acc
John Hawkes The Lime Twig-青柠枝
An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal
John Hawkes The Cannibal-食人族
"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique
Joan Silber Secrets of Happiness-幸福的秘密
When a man discovers his father in New York has long had another, secret, family—a wife and two kids—the interlocking fates of both families lead to surprise loyalties, love triangles, and a reservoir of inner strength.
Ethan, a young lawyer in New Yor
Ethan, a young lawyer in New Yor
Joan Silber Lucky Us-我们真幸运
Once upon a very recent time in New York City, there was a couple, two ordinary single people who met the way city people meet. Even though mismatched, they fell in love. And after some hesitations they decided, finally, to marry-only to look up and find
Joan Silber The Size of the World-世界的大小
A richly imagined novel—set in wartime Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Sicily, and contemporary America—about men and women whose jolting encounters with the unfamiliar force them to realize how many “riffs there are to being human.” Travelers, colonials, immi
Joan Silber Fools: Stories-傻瓜:故事
A dazzling new collection of interconnected stories by the National Book Award finalist.
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement t
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement t
Joan Silber Household Words-家常话
The year is 1940, and Rhoda Taber is pregnant with her first child. Satisfied with her comfortable house in a New Jersey suburb and her reliable husband, Leonard, she expects that her life will be predictable and secure. Surprised by an untimely death, an
Joan Silber Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories-天堂的想法:一个故事的环
An anthology of short fiction explores the issue of human longings and how sex and religion have become parallel forms of comfort and dedication, linking each story with the following by a minor element in one tale that becomes a major theme of the next.
Joan Silber Improvement-改善
One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in New York, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them.
Reyna knows he
Reyna knows he
Louise Erdrich The Round House-圆房子
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here
One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The
One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The
Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves-鸽子的瘟疫
The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation.
Part Ojibwe, part white
Part Ojibwe, part white
Louise Erdrich The Night Watchman-守夜人
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful no