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The Buried Giantby Kazuo Ishiguro

PR6059.S5 B87 2015

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The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain to find the son they have not seen for years, the son they can scarcely remember. They know they will face many hazards--some strange and otherworldly--but they cannot foresee how their journey will reveal to them the dark and forgotten corners of their love for each other. Nor can they foresee that they will be joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and a knight--each of them, like Axl and Beatrice, lost in some way to his own past, but drawn inexorably toward the comfort, and the burden, of the fullness of a life's memories.Sometimes savage, sometimes mysterious, always intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale of love, vengeance, and war.

Chutzpah! Edited by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner

PL2653 .N49 2015

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To Westerners China has often seemed a monolith, speaking with one voice--whether that of an ancient dynasty, a socialist state, or an economic powerhouse. Chutzpah! New Voices from China shatters this illusion, giving Western readers a rare chance to listen to the brilliant polyphony of Chinese fiction today.Here, in the realms of realism and fantasy, and portraying worlds lyrical, gritty, or wildly avant-garde, sixteen selections--three of which are nonfiction--by up-and-coming Chinese writers take readers from the suburbs of Nanjing to the mountains of Xinjiang Province, from London's Chinatown to a universe seemingly sprung from a video game. In these stories one may encounter a sweet, lonely fabric store owner or a lesbian housecleaner, a posse of shit-talking vo-tech students or a human hive-mind. A jeep-driving swordsman girds himself for battle by reading Borges and Nabokov. A Beijing-raised Kazakh boy hunts for his lost heritage. A teenager plots revenge on the bureaucrat responsible for demolishing his home. A starving child falls in love with a water spirit.These stories, collected by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner, and offered in English by leading translators of Chinese, travel the breadth and depth of China's remarkable literary landscape. Drawn from the pages of Chutzpah! , one of China's most innovative literary magazines, this anthology bids farewell to the tired tropes of moonlight and peach blossoms, goodbye to the constraints of socialist realism. In their place it introduces us to the imaginative power, boundless creativity, and kaleidoscopic diversity of a new generation of Chinese fiction.

The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy by Cixin Liu; Ken Liu (Translator)

PL2947.C59 S3613 2014

PL2947.C59 D3713 2015

PL2947.C59 D4313 2016

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The Three-Body Problem — An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.The Dark Forest — In The Dark Forest, the aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information remains. Humanity responds with the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.Death’s End — Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

RC265.6.L24 S55 2009

昆山杜克大学 Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons--as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb's effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave. Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta's small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia--a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo--to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. Henrietta's family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family--past and present--is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family--especially Henrietta's daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother's cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn't her children afford health insurance? Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.

卡夫卡中短篇小说全集 = Smtliche Erzhlungen von Franz Kafka by Kafuka

PT2621.A26 A53 2015

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本书既保留了原作无规则的标点符号和异乎寻常的书写方式，又突出了原作完成和未完成的两个部分，同时也纠正了其他一些版本的错误，原原本本地再现了作者手搞的风貌，为翻译和认识卡夫卡的作品提供了很有价值的参考，同时也力图为我国的卡夫卡读者和卡夫卡研究再现一个新的视野范围。卡夫卡是生活于奥匈帝国统治下的捷克小说家。他的作品大都用变形荒诞的形象和象征直觉的手法，表现被充满敌意的社会环境所包围的孤立、绝望的个人。文笔明净而想像奇诡，常采用寓言体，背后的寓意言人人殊，暂无（或永无）定论，令二十世纪各个写作流派纷纷追认其为先驱。

第一圈 by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

PG3488.O4 V23127 2016

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本书为1970年诺贝尔文学奖得主索尔仁尼琴的代表作品之一，也是俄罗斯“集中营文学”的代表作品之一。《第一圈》的书名出自但丁的《神曲》。诗中的《地狱篇》中把地狱分成了九圈，第一圈是最好的一层，索尔仁尼琴借用第一圈的喻意，描写了地处莫斯科郊区的一个特殊监狱——玛尔非诺里的生活。这里关押的犯人，都是被指控犯有“叛国罪”、“间谍罪”以及其它莫须有的罪名的科学家，他们享受比普通犯人要好的待遇，在玛尔非诺从事绝密的科学项目研究。

火星三部曲 by Kim Stanley Robinson

PS3568.O2893 G744 2017

PS3568.O2893 B558 2017

PS3568.O2893 R44127 2017

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由当代科幻小说大师金·斯坦利·罗宾逊（Kim Stantly Robin-son）创作的人类太空移民计划的科幻小说，分《红火星》、《绿火星》、《蓝火星》三部。

遮蔽的天空 by Bowles, Paul

PS3552.O874 S54127 2018

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遮蔽的天空》讲述了我们一生中会遇到的绝大多数问题：爱情、婚姻、旅行、死亡、存在价值、人生意义……意识到人生虚无的人，比任何人都更渴望真实地活着。二战结束后，三个美国知识分子前往非洲撒哈拉旅行。波特和姬特结婚12年后彼此疏远，渴望通过这次旅行来恢复感情。然而他们在空旷浩渺的沙漠中，逐渐迷失了自己，两人更加疏远。在死亡降临时，他们才真正面对彼此，发现每个人的生命都极其有限，但为时已晚，过于触碰虚无的他们注定要在沙漠里永远流浪下去……

我与父辈 by 阎连科

PL2925.L54 Z46 2014

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《我与父辈》是阎连科感动千万读者的长篇散文，一部跪着写的书。书写父亲、四叔、大伯几位普通但又伟大的农民父辈，震撼中国人的乡土神经。阎连科说：“《我与父辈》是一个常有过错的儿子跪在祖坟前的默念、回想和懊忆。在我所有的作品中，它是一颗钻石，和书的厚重相比，所有的奖项和盛誉都显得太轻了。”

生命简史 : 地球生命40亿年的演化传奇by Richard Fortey

QH366.2 .F69 2018

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人类出现之前的世界是什么模样？当三叶虫在海洋中欢快地游动时，大陆仍是一片荒芜；开花植物和昆虫的关系，竟然如盛行的舞台剧一样，充满了爱恨情仇；原以为恐龙的陆地霸主地位牢不可破，谁曾想，彗星的一次猛烈撞击，竟让恐龙从此只能在漆黑、寒冷和困惑中磕磕绊绊地行走至僵硬；从古猿到人类，看似简单的站立，却让人等待了千万年……从生命起源到人类活动的现代，生物物种灭绝是生命演进中的“家常便饭”，死亡总是突然降临，可是生命永不孤单。而这些，都是化石告诉我们的故事，也是《生命简史》的故事。英国古生物学家福提，追寻三叶虫的足迹，从寒冷的北极圈到澳大利亚中部的荒漠，从美国内华达沙漠到泰国的达鲁岛，从智利到中国再到摩洛哥的阿特拉斯山脉，跑遍了世界五大洲，用化石还原生命诞生的源头故事。可以说，《生命简史》是一座纸上生命博物馆，它的向导是专业的古生物学家，它用化石为我们描述40亿年地球生命传记，进化、生命大爆发、生命大灭绝、恐龙称霸、古猿出现、人类诞生……只需一颗好奇心，你便会发现用化石讲述的故事，却如BBC纪录片一样好看。《生命简史》是一部没有终章的传记，进化从未停止，生命总有对策！

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