篇目 The Southern Thruway The Health of the Sick Meeting Nurse Cora The Island at Noon Instructions for John Howell All Fires the Fire The Other Heaven

篇目 The Southern Thruway The Health of the Sick Meeting Nurse Cora The Island at Noon Instructions for John Howell All Fires the Fire The Other Heaven

"Fires" consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of "Fires"...(展开全部)

"Fires" consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life. "The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of "Fires"...(展开全部)

The author's experience as a prisoner captured by American forces during WWII figures prominently in this haunting novel about the ultimate degradation of a man by war. Set in Leyte, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammering blows of American forces, the story focuses on the disintegration of one man, Private Tamura. One by one, each of his ties to society i...(展开全部)

The author's experience as a prisoner captured by American forces during WWII figures prominently in this haunting novel about the ultimate degradation of a man by war. Set in Leyte, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammering blows of American forces, the story focuses on the disintegration of one man, Private Tamura. One by one, each of his ties to society i...(展开全部)

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor, the man who trained him---new from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael ConnellyBack when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every c...(展开全部)

弗朗西斯卡•海格（Francesca Haig），作家，诗人。墨尔本大学博士毕业，主要研究领域是灾难文学，现任英国切斯特大学高级讲师，好莱坞知名经纪公司UTA签约作家。她曾在澳大利亚与英国的文学刊物上发表多篇诗作，并于2006年出版首部个人诗集《生命之水》，2010年获英国霍桑登（Hawthornden）奖学金。 《烈火的召唤》是海格的奇幻小说处女作，以一对双胞胎之间的致命关联为主线，讲述了同生共死命运下的敌对阵营，试图重建末日后的世界以及为自由而斗争的故事。作者以高度丰满的叙事架构和诗意的语言，构建了一个黑暗与希望交织的世界，引领读者跟随着勇敢的主人公一路冒险，破除桎梏，拯救他们所爱。作品充满了迷人的复杂性，情节变幻莫测，隐秘而深刻的故事氛围贯穿始终，十分引人入胜。 该系列的第二部《人骨地图》目前已创作完成，预计于2016年5月出版。