In the 1970s, Bobby Desoto and Mary Whittaker -- passionate, idealistic, and in love -- design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-old...(展开全部)

Eat the Document is a compelling story of activism, sacrifice and the cost of living a secret. It tells the story of two lovers, passionately committed 1970s anti-war protestors who, as a consequence of choices made back then, have had to erase their pasts, forge new identities and never see each other again. Dana Spiotta illuminates the buried connections between past and pres...(展开全部)

达娜·斯皮奥塔 美国女作家，目前与丈夫和女儿生活在纽约。《销毁文件》是她的第二部小说。她的第一部小说《照亮旷野》于2001年问世，获《纽约时报》“年度最受关注小说”以及《洛杉矶时报》“西部最佳图书”荣誉。《销毁文件》出版于2006年。达娜·斯皮奥塔的创作深受唐·德里罗影响，在创作中融入了大量的美国文化和历史，代表了一种新的潮流，即在关注形式技巧创新的同时，更注重与社会现实的契合。

'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.' Henry James left America for England in 1876 and remained in his adopted country for the next three decades. Arriving in Liverpo...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger Award 2010They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn't dare trust anyone - except her father, back home in America. When he puts pressure on the politicians, they know that to protect their country's image, they must find Rachel's hiding place before the...(展开全部)

An unputdownable thriller from South Africa's #1-bestselling crime writer. Some would call Detective Benny Griessel a legend. Others would call him a drunk. Either way, he has trodden on too many toes over the years ever to reach the top of the promotion ladder, and now he concentrates on staying sober and mentoring the new generation of crime fighters -- mixed race, Xhosa an...(展开全部)

狄昂．梅爾 Deon Meyer 於1958年在南非西開普省的葡萄酒產區出生，在西北普羅旺斯的黃金開採地區成長。從大學畢業之後，擔任日報記者，同時也撰寫文字廣告，或為雜誌創作短篇小說。1994年出版了第一本以南非荷蘭文創作的小說以來，他的作品經常登上南非暢銷書排行榜的冠軍寶座，並已被翻譯成25國語言，獲得國際上無數獎項，被喻為「南非驚悚小說之王」。 他於2010年出版的《13小時》不但是當年南非暢銷小說冠軍，更進入2010年英國犯罪小說協會金匕首獎（The CWA International Dagger）的決選名單，並且已被英國製片公司買下電影版權。 現與妻子以及四名子女定居於南非西海岸的克博斯特蘭。 官方網站：www.deonmeyer.com

在《時時刻刻》中，作者麥可·康寧漢，極具創意地以維吉尼亞·吳爾芙的生平與作品為背景，描述一群在愛與傳承、期望與絕望的衝突中掙扎的當代人物的故事。這本小說以回溯吳爾芙在一九四一年自殺的最後的日子開場，隨後發展至兩個現代美國婦女的故事，她們罔顧自己朋友、愛人、及家人的要求，試圖爭取自己的天空。 克勞麗莎是個住在紐約格林威治村的出版社編輯；我們見到她時，她正要為她朋友理察舉辦宴會而出門買花；理察是個纏綿病榻的詩人，剛榮獲一項重要的文學獎。蘿拉·布朗是二次大戰後住在加州的家庭主婦，她撫養她的獨子並在她窒悶的婚姻之外尋求生活的真諦。康寧漢藉著罕見的輕鬆與自信的筆觸，使這兩個女人的生活與維吉尼亞·吳爾芙的生活以一種出人意表並令心碎的方式，在替理察舉辦宴會期間融為一體。隨著小說在二十世紀各年代間跳躍，每一行都與康寧漢清晰、鏗鏘有力、熱情奔放的當代之聲起共鳴。作品熱...(展开全部)

'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention such a spot enchantment lurks in it.' - Henry James In these essays on travels in Italy written from 1872 to 1909, Henry James ...(展开全部)