查尔斯•金，美国乔治敦大学国际事务与政府学教授。他经常作为全球问题评论员出现在媒体上，主要著作有Odessa：Genius and Death in a City of Dreams; Extreme Politics: Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe; The Black Sea: A History; 等等。现居华盛顿。

查尔斯•金，美国乔治敦大学国际事务与政府学教授。他经常作为全球问题评论员出现在媒体上，主要著作有Odessa：Genius and Death in a City of Dreams; Extreme Politics: Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe; The Black Sea: A History; 等等。现居华盛顿。

Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile! He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where...(展开全部)

The schoolchildren call it the Ice Palace: a frozen waterfall in the Norwegian fjords transformed into a fantastic structure of translucent walls, sparkling towers and secret chambers. It fascinates two young girls, lonely Unn and lively Siss, who strike up an intense friendship. When Unn decides to explore the Ice Palace alone and doesn't return, Siss must try to cope with the...(展开全部)

This hauntingly beautiful novel deals in utmost simplicity of language and narrative with the paramount themes of most great literature: love, death, and the maturing of the individual. Two eleven-year-old girls, Siss and Unn, are separated at the very beginning of their friendship by the death of the latter in a strange, labyrinthine palace of ice.This book was also made into ...(展开全部)

伊斯梅尔·卡达莱（1936―），小说家、诗人。出生于阿尔巴尼亚南部靠近希腊边界的山城吉罗卡斯特，先后求学于地拉那大学和莫斯科高尔基世界文学学院。1950年代开始文学写作，2005年获得首届布克国际文学奖，2009年获得阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，2015年获得耶路撒冷奖。代表作有《亡军的将领》、《梦宫》、《破碎的四月》等。

康豹（Paul Katz），1961年在美國洛杉磯出生，1984年耶魯大學歷史系學士，1990年美國普林斯頓大學東亞系博士。曾經在臺灣中正大學歷史研究所、“中央大學”歷史研究所擔任過副教授和教授。2002年獲聘為“中央研究院”近代史研究所副研究員，2005年獲聘為研究員。研究主要集中在近代中國宗教社會史，以跨學科的方法综合歷史文獻和田野調查，並參酌社會科學的理論。

"This house, this place, knows all my secrets." It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"--the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each ...(展开全部)