马龙·詹姆斯 Marlon James，当今文坛凤毛麟角的“文学鬼才”，英语文学至高荣誉布克奖得主。他1970 年生于牙买加金斯敦一个警察家庭，人生中第一本书是母亲送的《欧·亨利短篇故事集》；在父亲的影响下，爱上了莎士比亚和柯勒律治。现居美国，在马卡莱斯特学院教 授文学和创意写作。《七杀简史》是他写作生涯第三部小说，出版次年便一举夺得布克奖年度小说，詹姆斯因此成为布克奖历史上首位牙买加得主。

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine gun...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine gun...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine gun...(展开全部)

作者簡介 作者桑吉夫•桑亞爾（Sanjeev Sanyal） 1963年出生在加爾各答，是位年輕的經濟學家。他曾經就讀于德里大學的拉姆商學院和牛津大學的聖約翰學院，自上世紀九十年代起活躍在國際金融界，在全球經濟和金融市場方面有許多重要著述，現任德意志銀行全球戰略分析師。在專業工作之餘，他喜歡研究歷史、收集舊地圖和外出旅行，同時積極致力於自然環境和野生動物的保護工作，被達沃斯世界經濟論壇組織選作‘全球青年領袖（2010）。 桑吉夫的父親是印度共和國孟加拉邦政府的官員，他的祖父和叔祖在殖民時期都是印度獨立運動中的知名政治活動家，都曾經多次遭到逮捕和囚禁。桑吉夫的祖父納裡納克沙•桑亞爾（Nalinaksha Sanyal）作為孟加拉邦議會的國大党議員在大饑荒時（1943年）是抨擊殖民政策的頭面人物；他的叔祖父薩欽德拉•納特•桑亞爾（Sachindra Na...(展开全部)

Did the great flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give his first sermon? How did the Europeans map India? The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country’s history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and c...(展开全部)

A comprehensive history of Argentina, including its origins, culture, and future. Argentina has a population that ranks among the most educated and skilled in Latin America. Illiteracy scarcely exists among even the poor and working-class citizens, and Argentina's middle class has historically been large and politically engaged. Yet this country remains mired in economic instab...(展开全部)

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It’s easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world ov...(展开全部)