In Don Juan, Peter Handke offers his take on the famous seducer. Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On
Peter Handke Absence-缺席
The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Peter Handke Across-穿过
Handke's novel tells the story of a quiet, organized classics teacher named Andreas Loser. One night, on the way to his regularly scheduled card game, he passes a tree that has been defaced by a swastika. Impulsively yet deliberately, he tracks down
Peter Handke The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick-守门员罚点球的焦虑
The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger" (Richard Locke,
Peter Handke Slow Homecoming-迟归
Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers
Peter Handke The Afternoon of a Writer-作家的下午
A visit to the city's outskirts, a stolen newspaper, narrow alleyways, and an open field are the elements of a writer's afternoon. As the nameless writer confronts his fears, he goes on with his life in one of the most original and provocative w
Peter Handke A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia-河流之旅:塞尔维亚的正义
Now for the first time in English, the book that lit a firestorm of controversy across Europe. A Journey to the Rivers is a German reporter's attempt to see the Bosnian conflict through Serbian eyes.
André Aciman Harvard Square-哈佛广场
André Aciman has been hailed as "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine), a "brilliant chronicler of the disconnect…between who we are and who we wish we might have been" (Wall Street Journ
Eleanor Catton De Repetitie-重复
Een seksschandaal maakt een groep tienermeisjes op schokkende wijze bewust van hun eigen ontluikende seksualiteit. Victoria, een leerling van de meisjesschool Abbey Grange heeft een affaire gehad met meneer Saladin, een muziekleraar van in de dertig. Het
Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal-彩排
All the world's a stage - and nowhere is it that more true than at an all-girls high school, particularly one where a scandal has just erupted. When news spreads of a high school teacher's relationship with his underage student, participants and
Jhumpa Lahiri Whereabouts-去向
A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade.
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. Th
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. Th
Jhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth-不适之地
From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as t
Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake-同名的
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 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
Jhumpa Lahiri Hell-Heaven-地狱天堂
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor Internat
Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor Internat
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
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 Travesty-拙劣的模仿
Travesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the “privileged
John Hawkes Second Skin-第二次皮肤
Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present—what he refers to as his "naked history"—in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well
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
John Tanner The falcon-猎鹰号
This fascinating autobiography chronicles the life of John Tanner (the Falcon) who was captured in 1789 at the age of nine by the Shawnee tribe and then sold to an Ojibwa family with whom he spent the first half of his adult life ranging the north woods o
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
Louise Erdrich The Painted Drum(Love Medicine #8)-彩绘鼓
“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath
Louise Erdrich Four Souls(Love Medicine #7)-四个灵魂
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse(Love Medicine #6)
This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, nearing the end of his life, dreads the discovery of his physical identity -- for he is a woman who has lived as a man.
For more than a half century, Father Da
For more than a half century, Father Da
Louise Erdrich Tales of Burning Love(Love Medicine #5)-燃烧的爱情故事
In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet, award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist Louise Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains women whose lives are connected through one man. Stranded in a Nort
Louise Erdrich The Bingo Palace(Love Medicine #4)-宾果宫
At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time--with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who's already considering a marriage proposal from Lipsha'