A gift from a wizard makes Jack's fortune grow by ones and twos, then threes and fours, then faster and faster, challenging you to keep track of his riches.

A gift from a wizard makes Jack's fortune grow by ones and twos, then threes and fours, then faster and faster, challenging you to keep track of his riches.

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life . Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead...(展开全部)

奈保尔(Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul)，英籍印度裔作家。1932年8月17日出生于中美洲特立尼达和多巴哥。18岁赴牛津大学求学，获得文学学士学位后定居英国。曾任BBC“加勒比之声”栏目主持人3年。游走世界各地写作多年，批判发展中社会的精神和物质的双重匮乏，语多辛辣诙谐。主要作包括《灵异推拿师》（约翰·卢埃林·里斯纪念奖），《米格尔大街》（萨莫塞特·毛姆奖），《黑暗之地》，《印度：一个伤痕累累的文明》，《自由国度》（1971年布克奖），《河湾》，《半生》，《魔种》等。1990年获英国皇室封爵；1993年，成为英国大卫·柯恩文学奖首位获奖者，该奖旨在表彰“尚在人世的英国作家一生的成就”。2001年，因“作品中兼具犀利的叙述与正直的洞察，迫使我们正视那些被压抑的历史的存在”，被授予诺贝尔文学奖。

From the Nobel laureate–a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willie Chandran–whom we first met in Half a Life–is a man in his early forties who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him, as if he could truly know himself by becoming what others imagine him to be. His life has tak...(展开全部)

安野光雅最新的「旅之繪本」要帶領讀者造訪西班牙，承襲以往用無字書的形式，透過其細膩的插畫，將當地人文風情呈現讀者眼前，進行一趟充滿人文與知性的西班牙之旅。讀者可以藉由作者敏銳的觀察力，來認識西班牙的歷史、藝術與文學，別忘仔細欣賞插畫，圖畫中藏有玄機，所謂「畫中有畫」，而這正是欣賞安野光雅作品最大樂趣。

Join Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winner Mitsumasa Anno for a marvelous illustrated journey through northern Europe in this stunning wordless picture book that brings the artist's inventive eye to the worlds of art and architecture, geography and social studies.--"Executed in meticulous and gently hued watercolors, this imaginative rendering will fill hours of wonderment". -- ...(展开全部)

Join Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winner Mitsumasa Anno for a marvelous illustrated journey through northern Europe in this stunning wordless picture book that brings the artist's inventive eye to the worlds of art and architecture, geography and social studies.--"Executed in meticulous and gently hued watercolors, this imaginative rendering will fill hours of wonderment". -- ...(展开全部)

安野光雅 画家、绘本作家、随笔作家。 1926年出生于日本岛根县津和野町，山口师范学校研究科毕业。1968年以《不可思议的画》（福音馆书店）出道，从此开始了源源不断的绘本创作。 主要著作有《ABC之书》、《五十音》（以上为福音馆书店）、《安野光雅画集》（讲谈社）、《安野光雅文集（1～6）》（筑摩书房）、《壶中的故事》、《奇妙的种子》、《进入数学世界的图画书》、《跳蚤市场》、《天动说》、《旅之绘本I~V》、《童话国的邮便切手》等。 安野光雅的作品不仅在日本国内非常受欢迎，在国际间也大放异彩，至今已获奖无数。荣获日本国内的获艺术类奖文部大臣新人奖、产经儿童文化奖首奖。英国格林威奖特别奖、美国号角书奖、纽约科学院奖、布鲁克林美术馆奖、捷克BIB金苹果奖、意大利波隆那国际儿童书展设计大奖等等，更在1984年获得国际童书界最高荣誉的“安徒生奖”画家奖。 安野光...(展开全部)