What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, re...(展开全部)

乔弗里•梅耶斯（Jeffrey Meyers） 皇家文学学会会员，在世界各地演讲，并经常出现在电视节目中。他四十五部关于文学、电影与艺术的书，已被译成十一种语言，包括凯瑟琳•曼斯菲尔德、温德汉姆•刘易斯、海明威、洛威尔、劳伦斯、康拉德、坡、菲茨杰拉德、埃德蒙•威尔逊、弗洛斯特、鲍嘉、库珀、埃洛尔•弗林和西恩•弗林、萨默塞特•毛姆等人的传记，以及四位印象派画家。最近他被美国艺术文学院授予文学奖项，目前正在撰写萨缪尔•约翰逊的传记。

在线阅读本书 Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer follows the inner lives of characters confronted by unforeseen circumstances. Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he??s diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioa...(展开全部)

罗伯特·泽塔勒，1966年出生于奥地利维也纳，做过演员和编剧，在意大利著名导演保罗·索伦蒂诺执导的《年轻气盛》中饰演过重要角色。40岁发表第一部小说《碧内和库尔特》，荣获布登布洛克之屋新人奖，从此一鸣惊人，人气急剧上升。他的小说《大雪将至》（Ein ganzes Leb en）面世后大受读者欢迎，数月雄踞畅销书排行榜，荣获2011年德国格林美尔斯豪森奖，并入围2016年布克国际奖终选短名单。

胡安·卡洛斯·奥内蒂 （Juan Carlos Onetti，1909-1994） 乌拉圭作家。1909年生于乌拉圭蒙得维的亚。年少时家境贫寒，未受高等教育。曾任左翼杂志《前进》周刊秘书，后担任路透社驻布宜诺斯艾利斯办事处主任，1955年回国后任蒙得维的亚市图书馆馆长，1974年因受军政府迫害流亡到西班牙，1994年病逝于马德里。在生命的最后十二年里，他足不出户，终日躺在床上阅读、吸烟、喝威士忌，在位于马德里美洲大道31号的家中接受读者和记者的拜访。 1939年，奥内蒂凭借长篇小说《井》走上文坛，他在二十世纪四五十年代创作出的《无主之地》《为了今夜》《离别》等作品被文学界认为是拉丁美洲“新小说”的奠基之作。在1950年出版的小说《短暂的生命》中，奥内蒂虚构出了一个名叫 “圣玛利亚”的城镇，这座城镇也与加西亚·马尔克斯的马孔多、胡安·鲁尔福的科马拉等地...(展开全部)

Written in 1950, "A Brief Life" is the first novel to feature Onetti's mythical town of Santa Maria. His protagonist Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbours, a husband and wife, imagining their gestures, their expressions.Brausen lives with his wife, who has undergone major surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer. To compensate for this physical void w...(展开全部)

"A Quiet Life" is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of 20 gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a famous novelist; her older brother is brain-damaged but possesses a gift for music; and her mother's life is devoted to caring for them both. When her father is offered a visiting professorship in an American university, Ma-chan finds herself ...(展开全部)

Beethoven biographer Solomon here presents a revisionist biography of Mozart, which his publisher claims is the first full-scale biography in nearly 40 years. Certainly it is a major work in terms of heft and range. Solomon will have none of the "divine child" approach, limning instead a man growing up under the shadow of an impossibly demanding father who was at once overprote...(展开全部)