(加) 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔Emily St. John Mandel 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔1979年出生于不列颠哥伦比亚省西海岸的一个小岛，18岁时离家远赴多伦多舞蹈学院学习现代舞，毕业后成为职业舞蹈演员。目前与丈夫生活在纽约。 曼德尔2002年开始文学创作，短篇作品曾被许多选集收录。2009年起，她陆续创作发表了三部长篇小说《蒙特利尔的最后一夜》《歌手的枪》和《洛拉的四重奏》，均列入美国独立书商协会推荐榜单。 曼德尔2014年的作品《第十一站》备受瞩目，不仅被美国亚马逊网站列为当年度最佳科幻图书，而且入围了美国国家图书奖的决选名单，并在2015年夺得了由英国科幻协会颁发的阿瑟·C.克拉克奖。这部作品也将改编成电影登上大银幕。

在线阅读本书 A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio...(展开全部)

保罗・科埃略，1947年生于巴西里约热内卢市。他是当今世界最具影响力的作家之一。其作品已被译成56种文字，在150多个国家和地区出版、发行，共售出5100余万册。他的文学作品已为国际评论界所承认，并屡获奖项。其中有《女性》杂志读者奖(法国，1995)、金书奖(南斯拉夫，1995-2000，2004)、克林扎内・卡沃尔奖(意大利，1996)、弗拉亚诺奖(意大利，1996)。他曾被法国政府授予“国家荣誉勋位团骑士勋章”(1999)，还获世界经济论坛水晶奖章(1999)、第13届国际弗雷杰内奖(意大利，2001)、年度班比文学奖(德国，2001)。另外，他的《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》(原著名《炼金术士》)获得了德国最佳小说奖(2002)。2002年，保罗・科埃略当选为巴西文学院院士。

A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes h...(展开全部)

One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between s...(展开全部)

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)