The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's ;greatness ; and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

本书是大学生必读丛书中的一册，书中以教育部全国高等学校中文学科教学指导委员会指定书目为依据，收录了日本著名作家川端康成先生的中篇小说《雪国》。 本书具有很强的经典性及学术性，该书不仅是语言文学专业大学生从事专业学习和学术研究不可缺少的重要书籍，同时也是其他专业大学生加强人文素养、丰富文化底蕴、促进专业学习的重要读物。可供不同专业的大学生阅读收藏。

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.
Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. Alienation, the fear of anonymity, spiritual doubt--all could have been given a purely modern inflection in the hands of a lesser talent than Camus, who won the Nobel Prize in 1957 and was noted for his existentialist aesthetic. The remarkable trick of The Stranger, however, is that it's not mired in period philosophy.
The plot is simple. A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. The trial's proceedings are absurd, a parsing of incidental trivialities--that Meursault, for instance, seemed unmoved by his own mother's death and then attended a comic movie the evening after her funeral are two ostensibly damning facts--so that the eventual sentence the jury issues is both ridiculous and inevitable.
Meursault remains a cipher nearly to the story's end--dispassionate, clinical, disengaged from his own emotions. "She wanted to know if I loved her," he says of his girlfriend. "I answered the same way I had the last time, that it didn't mean anything but that I probably didn't." There's a latent ominousness in such observations, a sense that devotion is nothing more than self-delusion. It's undoubtedly true that Meursault exhibits an extreme of resignation; however, his confrontation with "the gentle indifference of the world" remains as compelling as it was when Camus first recounted it. --Ben Guterson
From Library Journal
The new translation of Camus's classic is a cultural event; the translation of Cocteau's diary is a literary event. Both translations are superb, but Ward's will affect a naturalized narrative, while Browner's will strengthen Cocteau's reemerging critical standing. Since 1946 untold thousands of American students have read a broadly interpretative, albeit beautifully crafted British Stranger . Such readers have closed Part I on "door of undoing" and Part II on "howls of execration." Now with the domestications pruned away from the text, students will be as close to the original as another language will allow: "door of unhappiness" and "cries of hate." Browner has no need to "write-over" another translation. With Cocteau's reputation chiefly as a cineaste until recently, he has been read in French or not at all. Further, the essay puts a translator under less pressure to normalize for readers' expectations. Both translations show the current trend to stay closer to the original. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, SUNY at Binghamton
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and ­devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” –from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie
From the Hardcover edition.
Description
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
From the Inside Flap
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

In a south Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experience-the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision.

Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes. Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone addresses one of the most pivotal issues of our time, facing it head-on in a voice that is both nostalgic and frightening.

An extraordinary work of fiction from one of Australia's best-selling and most admired writers.
First, in my spare room, I swivelled the bed on to a north-south axis. Isn't that supposed to align the sleeper with the planet's positive energy flow, or something? She would think so. I made it up nicely with a fresh fitted sheet, the pale pink one, since she had a famous feel for colour, and pink is flattering even to skin that has turned yellowish.
Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit - Nicola has advanced cancer. She is coming to Melbourne to receive treatment she believes will cure her. From the moment Nicola steps off the plane, Helen becomes her nurse, her protector, her guardian angel and her stony judge.
The Spare Room tells a story of compassion and rage as the two women - one sceptical, one stubbornly serene - negotiate their way through Nicola's gruelling treatments. Garner's dialogue is pitch perfect, her sense of pacing flawless as this novel draws to its terrible and transcendent finale.

我们终此一生，就是要摆脱他人的期待，找到真正的自己。
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莉迪亚死了，可他们还不知道。
莉迪亚是家中老二，李先生和李太太的掌上明珠，她遗传了母亲的蓝眼睛和父亲的黑头发。父母深信，莉迪亚一定能实现他们无法实现的梦想。莉迪亚的尸体被发现后，她的父亲内疚不已，母亲则一心报复。莉迪亚的哥哥觉得，隔壁的坏小子铁定脱不了关系，只有莉迪亚的妹妹看得一清二楚，而且，她很可能是唯一知道真相的人……
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关于爱与失去，以及我从未告诉你的秘密
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即使我们熟知身边有这类故事，也从来没在美国小说中见过，起码，在伍绮诗之前，没有谁处理过这类故事。这部小说写的是成为“异类”的那种负担与压力，这种负担与压力，通常会摧毁一个人，而不是塑造一个人。
——《纽约时报书评》
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2014美国亚马逊年度最佳图书第一名——《无声告白》探索了身份危机、人生成就、种族、性别、家庭以及个人道路。并且，这本小说没有任何一处落笔是粗疏的。我唯一担心的是，我对《无声告白》的刻骨崇拜，会导致读者对这本书抱有太高的期待。但这本书就是好得这么极致！深情力透纸背，刺痛你心，用词精准而克制，文风温婉而细腻。
——美国亚马逊编辑推荐语
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爆发力惊人的处女作,笔触闪烁着散文的美感与精准，观察与洞见则像社会学家一样深刻。伍绮诗的小说从第一页开始就吸引住了读者，我们迫不及待要了解莉迪亚之死背后的故事……而小说最终揭示的真相，振聋发聩。
——《赫芬顿邮报》
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情节展开极为机智，处处撩动你的情绪……伍绮诗用扣人心弦、精彩得让人拍手叫好的故事，讲述了一个关于性别与种族的严肃主题。这样严肃的主题竟然可以被剖析得如此透彻，而且故事的节奏，竟然还可以越来越快，越来越惊心动魄，直到最后真相大白，好像有阳光铺满房间。
——《奥普拉》
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伍绮诗这部处女作，令人惊叹地包容了各种复杂情绪，以一种罕见的洞察力，表达了文化与文化之间的冲突，时代与时代之间的冲突，而这种表达，完全是一位精通写作的大师的杰出手笔。伍绮诗值得期待。
——《书目》
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这部情感真挚、充沛的处女作小说，是以一个年轻女孩的死亡开始的。莉迪亚，生于上世纪七十年代美国的一个混血家庭，被给予无限厚望和父母的憧憬，她不幸的少女生活没有任何一盎司的陈词滥调。伍绮诗的行文，是如此准确和敏锐，她刻画的人物入木三分。
——《出版人周刊》
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一部温柔的小说处女作……这部小说可能会触发无数的悲伤，关于每个人内心深处的秘密以及一个悲剧是如何影响了一个家族的故事。
——《TIMEOUT 纽约》
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在这本书中，伍绮诗深入地谱写和揭晓了詹姆斯一家的秘密……这些隐藏已久，安静而具有爆炸性的真相，加之种族和性别等议题的探讨，慢慢地带领读者见识到伍绮诗文字的多愁善感和引人入胜，直至读到最后一页，深深的触动仍在心间回荡。伍绮诗的首部小说，情感复杂，仿佛一股吸引人的强劲水流，拖着你随着急流向前，直到抵达最后的秘密。
——《科克斯书评》
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异常优秀，非常完整的一部处女作……这个故事令人心痛，伍绮诗非常巧妙地将这部复杂、跨越多个年代小说的线索串联在一起。《无声告白》是一部难得的佳作，独具魅力，她深入写出了这个美国家庭里每个人内心的秘密。读完的时候，仍让人泪流不止。
——《洛杉矶时报》
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神奇！感人！感情充沛，描述准确！围绕身份焦虑和巨大悲恸，作者出色地、漂亮地展开了故事……本书会和每一个人取得共鸣，只要你曾经向家人撒过哪怕一个微不足道的小谎。
——《波士顿环球报》
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一个动人的故事，对于生为女儿们的书中女性来说，文化之间的隔阂与差异是人生中的第一道课题。
——《Vogue》
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我对《无声告白》爱不释手……伍绮诗的笔触细腻、观察敏锐，对李家每一位成员的描摹，对他们种族差异问题的深入挖掘，以及搜寻杀害家中二女莉迪亚真凶的线索，一直读到最后一页，都让我紧扣心弦。
——《纽约时报》畅销书作家第一名，《就说你和他们一样》作者乌文•阿克潘
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既是一部扣人心弦的推理作品，也是一次对这个混种家庭的深度剖析。伍绮诗的这部处女作，张力十足，余味久久不散。
——《娱乐周刊》
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这不仅是一个关于爱和失去的故事，这还是一个美丽而让人难以忘怀的，讲述一位少女如何努力去寻找自己的人生意义的故事。
——《书道》
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性别、种族、父母未竟的野心压在子女的肩头，对以上这些，本书进行了深刻而细腻的反思……伍绮诗巧妙的、令人信服地揭示，某种程度上，有些误解，永远无法消弭。
——《旧金山记事报》
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读完了还久久沉浸在故事里面。16岁少女的死亡让她的家人们开始怀疑——她究竟在过一种什么样的生活？这部处女作让人想起了《可爱的骨头》。
——《嘉人》
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感人至深，大师手笔。伍绮诗没有给她笔下角色任何俗套而轻松的未来，也没有给她的读者任何虚假的希望。她给的是真实的希望。
——《安娜堡观察员》杂志
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冷静，激烈……这个家庭逐步暴露了它深藏的秘密，你不由自主被这一家人深深吸引……
——《密苏里人》
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伍绮诗极有技巧，她将这个悲剧的每个微小线头都捡拾了起来，顺着这些线头，牵出了很多秘密，诸多真相纷至沓来，酸楚而最终令人振奋。
——《娱乐周刊》编辑评论语
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伍绮诗这部处女作的第一个章节有些阅读难度，一个家庭的大女儿死了，这个情节，对那些追逐快感的读者而言，可能是个挑战。但是，马上，随之而来的，就是密集而紧凑的各种转折——这个家庭的成员们，彼此都深藏着太多从未诉说的秘密。这绝对是我今年最爱的一本小说。
——美国《大观》杂志

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.
On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind.
A bestseller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, but with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best. It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation, in French or English.

据说，那里是一片梦游之地。因为当人们沉睡时，土地会移动到另外的时空。
《梦游之地》是米亚•科托的长篇小说处女作，入选“20世纪非洲最伟大的12部小说”，奠定了他不可撼动的国际文学地位。1980年代，莫桑比克深陷内战。身为战争遗民，一位老人和一个男孩将一辆烧毁的巴士当作栖 居之所。他们发现了已故的乘客留下的笔记本，其中记叙了自己一生的故事。男孩为老人娓娓道来，笔记本里的故事与现实交织、融合。它隐喻的是战争过后的莫桑比克，人们在现实中残破的非洲大陆上寻找身份和文化认同，精神上却怀有对美好生活的希冀，而梦境则成为衔接现实与精神世界的桥梁。《梦游之地》写于1992年，它有力地控诉了战争遗留的深重苦难，并且用高度诗意、生动的语言，创造了一种与现实紧密连结的魔幻氛围，成为葡萄牙语文学史上珍贵的精神宝藏。
许多伟大作品巨细靡遗地描写崩毁与颓败，来展现战争摧残后的凋敝世界，但科托选择了另一条路：他呈现了战争所创造的世界。它如同不安的梦境，书中的角色、书外的读者，令他们惊奇的不是“反常”逐渐变得寻常，而是人们将“荒诞”当作现实，全然接受的能力。
——《纽约时报》
科托的叙述语调时而冷漠，时而令人着迷，而他对时间的精湛掌控力，让他足够媲美拉丁美洲最伟大的魔幻现实主义大师。
——《泰晤士文学增刊》
米亚·科托对文学语言的再创造是乔伊斯式的……他超越了西方的文学形式，为当代莫桑比克文学叙事创造了一种全新的模式。
——皮雷斯•拉兰热拉（非洲文化学者）

“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.
We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him, that I’m holding on to him outside.
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.
Dazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love—and the heartbreaking passage of time.

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters two decades after their first meeting.
No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.
The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the horror his discoveries might cause.
Erwin Schroedinger and Werner Heisenberg battle over the soul of physics after creating two equivalent yet opposed versions of quantum mechanics. Their fight will tear the very fabric of reality, revealing a world stranger than they could have ever imagined.
Using extraordinary, epoch-defining moments from the history of science, Benjamin Labatut plunges us into exhilarating territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness.

所谓深河，即印度的圣河——恒河。
河畔，死者的尸体被焚烧，骨灰撒入河中，期望灵魂在来世复活；无数虔诚的人用混有骨灰或尸体漂流其中的河水洗漱、沐浴，祈求来世的幸福。
深河，神的爱河，无论多么丑陋的人、多么肮脏的人都不拒绝。
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一个前往印度的日本旅行团，成员心性各异：有一心追寻妻子转世可能性的职员，有欲将心事寄托于鸟儿的作家，也有曾在缅甸丛林历尽炼狱之苦的老兵，还有无法爱上他人的失婚女人……他们每一个人有各自的人生，有不能对他人说的秘密；他们背负着这些重担而活，他们在深河里有非净化不可的东西……

Janina Beauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War began but, unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, this is a story of survival. When Hitler's decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, Janina, an intelligent, lively girl, suddenly found herself in a cramped flat, hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina, with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move, hiding in the ruins of the ghetto to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the 'Aryan' side was followed by two years in hiding, taking shelter with those willing to help them and living in constant fear of betrayal. Told through her teenage diaries, giving her story a rare immediacy, this is the extraordinary tale of a passionate young woman's courage and survival.

Appearing for the first time in English, this masterful novel by one of the foremost figures of postwar German literature is an indelible portrait of Nazism slowly overtaking and poisoning a small town. Semi-autobiographical, it is also a remarkably vivid account of a childhood fraught with troubles, yet full of remembered love and touched by miracle.
In a provincial town on Lake Constance, Johann basks in the affection of the colorful staff and regulars at the Station Restaurant. Though his parents struggle to make ends meet, around him the world is rich in mystery: the attraction of girls; the power of words and his gift for music; his rivalry with his best friend, Adolf, son of the local Brownshirt leader; a circus that comes to town bringing Anita, whose love he and Adolf compete to win. But in these hard times, with businesses failing all around them and life savings gone in an instant, people whisper that only Hitler can save them. As the Nazis gradually infiltrate the churches, the school, the youth organizations—even the restaurant—and come to power, we see through Johann’s eyes how the voices of dissent are silenced one by one, until war begins the body count that will include his beloved older brother.
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In the years before the Second World War, a man throws a statue of the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later, in Hitler's trenches, he loses his arms to an enemy grenade. The blasphemer, screaming in agony, presided over by Satan, who pours a cup of gall into his open mouth, is portrayed amid the flames of Hell in a painting by the parish priest that is mounted on a calvary where the two streets in the cross-shaped village meet. Thus begins When the Time Comes, Josef Winkler's chronicle of life in rural Austria written in the form of a necrology, tracing the benighted destiny of a community through its suicides and the tragic deaths that befall it, punctuated by the invocation of the bone-cooker whose viscous brew is painted on the faces of the work horses and the haunting stanzas of Baudelaire's "Litanies of Satan." In a hypnotic, incantatory prose reminiscent at times of Homer, at times of the Catholic liturgy, at times of the naming of the generations in the book of Genesis, When the Time Comes is a ruthless dissection of the pastoral novel, laying bare the corruption that lies in its heart. Writing in the vein of his compatriots Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek, but perhaps going further in his relentlessness and aesthetic radicalism, Josef Winkler is one of the most significant European authors working today.