By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary e...(展开全部)

珍妮·迪斯基，毕业于伦敦大学，她的文章及作品定期刊载于《观察家报》及《伦敦书评》等报刊上，是个创作活跃的作家。《火车怪客环游美国》曾获得托马斯•库克旅行文学奖及J．R．阿克雷自传奖。 胡洲贤，台湾成功大学外国语文学系毕业，曾赴美国加州进修翻译。现专职翻译及创作。有《撒哈 拉》《背着冰箱去旅行》等多部译著。

In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously familiar landscape of America, half-known already through film and television. Like...(展开全部)

The team behind the #1 New York Times bestseller Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site returns with another fabulous book for bedtime! The dream train pulls into the station, and one by one the train cars are loaded: polar bears pack the reefer car with ice cream, elephants fill the tanker cars with paints, tortoises stock the auto rack with race cars, bouncy kangaroos stuff ...(展开全部)

The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask....(展开全部)

伊坂幸太郎 日本文坛独树一帜的新锐作家，以异想天开而独创的世界观、多重的构想力著称。 知识广博，文风豪迈诙谐，极具思想性和娱乐性。 曾获推理作家协会奖、山本周五郎奖、新潮推理俱乐部奖等多项文学奖，更曾五度入围直木奖。 与东野圭吾、村上春树连续包揽权威书评杂志《达文西》最受欢迎男作家 前3名。

TOOT-TOOT! Maisy is taking her friends for a ride to the country — climbing up a hill and down a valley, chugging through a tunnel, and emerging into the bright sunshine. WHEEEEEE!

伊坂幸太郎 日本文坛独树一帜的新锐作家，以异想天开而独创的世界观、多重的构想力著称。 知识广博，文风豪迈诙谐，极具思想性和娱乐性。 曾获推理作家协会奖、山本周五郎奖、新潮推理俱乐部奖等多项文学奖，更曾五度入围直木奖。 与东野圭吾、村上春树连续包揽权威书评杂志《达文西》最受欢迎男作家 前3名。

M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirat...(展开全部)

The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask....(展开全部)