A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka’s bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father’s new, gold-digging girlfriend.
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.
Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.
But the sisters’ campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe’s darkest history and sends them back to roots they’d much rather forget . . . .
重口味神作，阅读有风险，身体虚弱者勿入！
《搏击俱乐部》作者最黑暗最天才最虐心的神作。
读者在阅读后，不是火到想找作者单挑就是发出凄厉的惨叫或是整个人狂笑不行更有人虚脱到无法出声！
有73人在作者读《肠子》的时候晕倒，晕倒人数还在持续增加中。
本书包含了二十二个恐怖、好 笑，又让你反胃的故事。说这些故事的人都是应一则“作家研习营”的广告而来，却陷入类似“求生”情节的处境中——他们没有暖气，没有电力，没有食物。这些说故事的人越来越绝望时，他们的故事也越来越极端。然而，他们无情地密谋着，让自己成为由他们受苦经验改编而成的实境节目中的主角。这将是你所读过的最令人心里发毛且虐心的小说，唯有恰克·帕拉尼克才能写得出来。
Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter.
The stories are told by people who have all answered an ad headlined ‘Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months‘. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of ‘real life’ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them.
But ‘here’ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world – and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell – and the more devious their machinations to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight.
在一个炎热的夏天，父子两人和约翰夫妇骑摩托车从明尼苏达到加州，跨越美国大陆，旅行的过程与一个青年斐德洛研修科学技术与西方经典，寻求自我的解脱，以及探寻生命的意义的过程相互穿插。
一路上父亲以一场哲学肖陶扩的形式，将见到的自然景色，野外露营的经历，夜晚旅店的谈话，机车修护技术等等日常生活与西方从苏格拉底以来的理性哲学的深入浅出的阐述与评论相结合，进行了对形而上学传统的主客体二元论的反思，以及对科学与艺术，知识与价值，古典主义与浪漫主义，精神与物质，机械论与神秘主义，西方与东方等西方二分法划分下的事物间的关系的思考。并潜入自己的过去，探寻在现代文明下自己精神的分裂的起源，完成了一次自我心灵与人类文明的探索。
This lyrical, evocative, thought-provoking journal of a man’s quest for truth – and for himself – has touched and changed an entire generation, and is ready to reach out to a new one. At its heart, the story is all too simple: a man and his son take a motorcycle trip across America. But this is not a simple trip at all, for around every corner, through mountain and desert, wind and rain, and searing heat and biting cold, their pilgrimage leads them to new vistas of self-discovery and renewal.
