乔纳森•勒瑟姆 Jonathan Lethem 1964年出生于纽约布鲁克林。年少时，他沉迷于鲍勃•迪伦的音乐，钟情于《星球大战》，读过菲利普•迪克的全部小说。 1982年，勒瑟姆从本宁顿学院退学，怀揣四十美元，从科罗拉多搭便车穿越一千多里的荒漠与山岭，来到加利福尼亚。在加利福尼亚，他为一家二手书店工作，同时开始了他的文学写作。 勒瑟姆是美国当代最具创造力、最受瞩目的作家之一。他的作品杂糅了科幻、推理的元素，又能推陈出新，突破类型小说的限制，将纯文学与通俗文学完美地融合在一起。不仅深受读者欢迎，时常荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜，也获得了美国国家图书奖、世界奇幻奖、金匕首奖、麦克阿瑟奖等众多大奖。 主要作品有《枪，偶尔有音乐》、《布鲁克林孤儿》、《孤独堡垒》、《久病之城》等。

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an afflu...(展开全部)

乔纳森•勒瑟姆 Jonathan Lethem 1964年出生于纽约布鲁克林。年少时，他沉迷于鲍勃•迪伦的音乐，钟情于《星球大战》，读过菲利普•迪克的全部小说。 1982年，勒瑟姆从本宁顿学院退学，怀揣四十美元，从科罗拉多搭便车穿越一千多里的荒漠与山岭，来到加利福尼亚。在加利福尼亚，他为一家二手书店工作，同时开始了他的文学写作。 勒瑟姆是美国当代最具创造力、最受瞩目的作家之一。他的作品杂糅了科幻、推理的元素，又能推陈出新，突破类型小说的限制，将纯文学与通俗文学完美地融合在一起。不仅深受读者欢迎，时常荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜，也获得了美国国家图书奖、世界奇幻奖、金匕首奖、麦克阿瑟奖等众多大奖。 主要作品有《枪，偶尔有音乐》、《布鲁克林孤儿》、《孤独堡垒》、《久病之城》等。

法国杰出的小说家、翻译家、编剧，全世界最受欢迎的法国作家之一，被称为法国的格雷厄姆·格林，作品充满浪漫主义色彩，情节曲折离奇，语言细腻，擅写悬疑小说和爱情小说。创作生涯获奖和荣誉不断，年仅十七岁时创作的处女作《出师不利》便获声望极高的“全体”文学评委奖，随后的作品《灰姑娘的陷阱)获法国侦探小说大奖，《车中拿枪戴墨镜的女人》获法国荣誉奖和英国金匕首奖，《夏日谋杀》获法国双叟文学奖和瑞典马丁·贝克奖，《漫长的婚约》获同盟文学奖。《夏日谋杀》和《漫长的婚约》等均被改编成同名电影，分别由阿佳妮和奥黛丽·塔图主演。雅普瑞索还翻译了塞林格的名著《麦田里的守望者》，并创作了《朋友再见》、《视死如归》、《雨中过客》等电影的剧本。

Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father have established Mona Simpson as one of our most accomplished writers. In her new novel--the portrait of a legendary, quintessentially American entrepreneur trapped by the age he helped to define--she brilliantly extends her achievement. More powerfully than ever before, Simpson uncovers the nature of longing and belonging, of blood relatio...(展开全部)

Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father , won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the search for, and the attempt to understand, the absent father. This time the ...(展开全部)

Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes. Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex’s ‘Guns for God’ programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl’s world is upended. Eli...(展开全部)

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent ...(展开全部)