This icily innovative thriller begins with every parent's worst nightmare, when Davis Moore's teenage daughter is brutally raped and murdered by an unknown assailant. It gets worse. For Davis Moore is a fertility doctor, dealing with cutting-edge genetic reproductive techniques. It's a controversial and dangerous occupation: Moore has already been the object of a fanatic's assa...(展开全部)

2006年第三期《译林》杂志出版 译 林 本期长篇小说《投影》以其情节曲折、悬念不断以及出人意料的结尾,让我们这些先睹为快的编者不忍释手。尽管作者是初涉长篇小说创作,《芝加哥论坛报》已经将本书选为2005年最佳图书之一。小说取名《投影》,体现了爱女之死在戴维斯及其妻子心灵上投下的阴影,戴维斯克隆出的贾斯汀得知自己的来历后所产生的心理阴影,变态的萨姆．科恩、“上帝之手”的米基的恐怖行径给他人正常生活投下的阴影等多层阴影的重合。小说中,生与死、创造生命与毁灭生命纠缠在一起,作者只是在最后才不经意地点出戴维医生爱女的死亡真相,让人大跌眼镜。关于克隆这种有关生命复制的内容,古今中外早已有之。从《西游记》中的孙悟空拔下毫毛变成无数个让妖怪难辨真假的孙悟空,到美国电影《Code 46》(常见译名《代码46》,但不准确),都在讲述人类的梦想——复制生命。时至今日,...(展开全部)

E.H.贡布里希 E.H.Gombrich (1909-2001)，艺术史家。生于维也纳，后移居英国。1959年起，任伦敦瓦尔堡研究院院长，直至1976年退休。1972年，获封爵士；1988年，获功绩勋章。著有脍炙人口、影响深广的《艺术的故事》和 《世界小史》等书。 译者 王立秋，北京大学国际关系学院比较政治学系政治思想专业博士生，出版有《潜能》（与严和来等合译）等译著。

Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose, reincarnation of a centuries-dead heroine. Yet now some of the Company have discovered that the mute girl they rescued and shelt...(展开全部)

布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。

布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)

Horace Cross, the 16-year-old descendent of slaves and deacons of the church, spends a horror-filled spring night wrestling with the demons and angels of his brief life. Brilliant, popular, and the bright promise of his elders, Horace struggles with the guilt of discovering who he is, a young man attracted to other men and yearning to escape the narrow confines of Tim's Creek. ...(展开全部)