Udo Berger, a failed writer, travels to a small resort on Spain's Costa Brava, where he befriends another German couple. But when one of his friends disappears after a night out with two sinister local characters, Udo's serene life is disrupted.

Philip BallPhilip Ball 曾是《自然》雜誌的工作成員之一，現為專職作家。他的著作包括了《用物理學找到美麗新世界》（榮獲英國艾凡提斯科學圖書大獎）、《水》以及《明亮的地球》。作者現定居於倫敦。 譯者簡介 張毓如 清華大學外語系畢業。從事出版工作多年，曾任出版社主編、版權主任。譯有《人有14種性格，你有哪種天生優勢？》、《用心吃，不要用力吃》、《約定：帶著愛去旅行》、《小心，別讓思考抄捷徑！》等書。

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night...(展开全部)

Discovered after his death, in 2003, Bolano left this novel complete as a typewritten manuscript - meticulously corrected by hand - it is published in English translation for the first time. Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Rei...(展开全部)

豪尔赫•路易斯•博尔赫斯（Jorge Luis Borges，1899－1986） 阿根廷诗人、小说家、评论家、翻译家，西班牙语文学大师。 一八九九年八月二十四日出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，少年时随家人旅居欧洲。 一九二三年出版第一部诗集《布宜诺斯艾利斯激情》，一九二五年出版第一部随笔集《探讨集》，一九三五年出版第一部短篇小说集《恶棍列传》，逐步奠定在阿根廷文坛的地位。代表诗集《圣马丁札记》《老虎的金黄》，小说集《小径分岔的花园》《阿莱夫》，随笔集《永恒史》《探讨别集》等更为其赢得国际声誉。译有王尔德、吴尔夫、福克纳等作家作品。 曾任阿根廷国家图书馆馆长、布宜诺斯艾利斯大学文学教授，获得阿根廷国家文学奖、福门托国际出版奖、耶路撒冷奖、巴尔赞奖、奇诺•德尔杜卡奖、塞万提斯奖等多个文学大奖。 一九八六年六月十四日病逝于瑞士日内瓦。

豪尔赫•路易斯•博尔赫斯（Jorge Luis Borges，1899－1986） 阿根廷诗人、小说家、评论家、翻译家，西班牙语文学大师。 一八九九年八月二十四日出生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，少年时随家人旅居欧洲。 一九二三年出版第一部诗集《布宜诺斯艾利斯激情》，一九二五年出版第一部随笔集《探讨集》，一九三五年出版第一部短篇小说集《恶棍列传》，逐步奠定在阿根廷文坛的地位。代表诗集《圣马丁札记》《老虎的金黄》，小说集《小径分岔的花园》《阿莱夫》，随笔集《永恒史》《探讨别集》等更为其赢得国际声誉。译有王尔德、吴尔夫、福克纳等作家作品。 曾任阿根廷国家图书馆馆长、布宜诺斯艾利斯大学文学教授，获得阿根廷国家文学奖、福门托国际出版奖、耶路撒冷奖、巴尔赞奖、奇诺•德尔杜卡奖、塞万提斯奖等多个文学大奖。 一九八六年六月十四日病逝于瑞士日内瓦。

A mediados del siglo xvii, el reino de Francia se ve sacudido por las epidemias, las protestas de los hambrientos, las piras de los renegados y las revueltas contra el poder monárquico, mientras toda Europa malvive devastada por unas guerras de religión que duran ya décadas y parecen interminables. Sobre este escenario dantesco, la música aparece como refugio de lo sublime. En ...(展开全部)

Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete view of the inside of the Nazi state. Photos & illustrations.

'INSIDE THE THIRD REICH is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does...(展开全部)