Book Description Everything you can imagine is real High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angery and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved by his dead mother he finds that the real world ...(展开全部)

2006年10月25日下午一點三十分，我看完愛爾蘭作家約翰‧康諾利的新作《失物之書》，最後一章是在全身感動得雞皮疙瘩不斷的情況下唸完的。唸完最後兩段時，我的眼眶是濕的，為此又把那幾句話讀了兩次：“For a man’s lifetime was but a moment in that place, and every man dreams his own heaven. And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”。由於工作使然，在閱讀的過程中，我不斷試圖尋找一個強而有力的行銷語句（pitch），可以簡潔準確地說出這本書的特點，勾起讀者興趣。例如「黑暗版的《說不完的故事》」，或者「名導泰瑞吉利安的那部『神鬼剋星』（Brothers...(展开全部)

Book Description Everything you can imagine is real High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angery and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved by his dead mother he finds that the real world ...(展开全部)

2006年10月25日下午一點三十分，我看完愛爾蘭作家約翰‧康諾利的新作《失物之書》，最後一章是在全身感動得雞皮疙瘩不斷的情況下唸完的。唸完最後兩段時，我的眼眶是濕的，為此又把那幾句話讀了兩次：“For a man’s lifetime was but a moment in that place, and every man dreams his own heaven. And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”。由於工作使然，在閱讀的過程中，我不斷試圖尋找一個強而有力的行銷語句（pitch），可以簡潔準確地說出這本書的特點，勾起讀者興趣。例如「黑暗版的《說不完的故事》」，或者「名導泰瑞吉利安的那部『神鬼剋星』（Brothers...(展开全部)

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mournsthe death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf forcompany. But those books have begun to whisper to him in thedarkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imaginationand soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. Whilehis family falls apart around him, David is violently propelledinto a world th...(展开全部)

伊恩·特里吉利斯是一位大胡子江湖医生和某个名誉扫地的塔罗牌预言师的儿子。他还是另一位大胡子乔治·马丁的天才徒弟。 他在明尼苏达州出生长大，他的父母为了躲避一位佛兰德亲王的怒火而逃到了那里。(按他的说法，详细的故事还会牵扯到一艘荷兰不定期货船与一匹偷来的马。)如今他和妻子与一只饮食过量的猫住在新墨西哥州，而他在那里与作家、科学家及其他“恶党”为伍。 伊恩·特里吉利斯毕业于明尼苏达州州立大学，物理学博士。现就职于美国洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室。代表作品：“炼金术战争”系列，“神魔二战”系列。

In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors came to the New World in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Instead, they encountered inexplicable phenomena that have puzzled scholars and historians ever since: massive stone edifices constructed in the Earth's most inaccessible regions . . . great monuments forged with impossible skill and unknown tools . . . intricate ...(展开全部)

In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors came to the New World in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Instead, they encountered inexplicable phenomena that have puzzled scholars and historians ever since: massive stone edifices constructed in the Earth's most inaccessible regions . . . great monuments forged with impossible skill and unknown tools . . . intricate ...(展开全部)

From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enter...(展开全部)