With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, set in the beguiling French region he has staked out as his own.

一個在自家旅館工作的女孩麻裏被一個中年的俄語翻譯深深吸引了，她着迷于他的聲音，他的儀態和他的神秘。麻裏背著自己的母親偷偷地與這個中年男人約會，一步一步陷入了一段不能自拔的戀情。有一天，中年男人把麻裏帶到他居住的一個孤島上面，或許原本麻裏期待的是一場浪漫的約會，可等來的卻是中年男人的性虐。經過那晚的疾風驟雨后，麻裏雖然害怕，卻更不能離開那個中年男人了。他們一次又一次的在那個小屋裏進行著他們的遊戲。麻裏漸漸知道，中年男人的妻子死于一次意外，她開始懷疑是不是這個男人失手用圍巾把自己的妻子勒死。這個疑問一直存在于她的心中，直到有一天，她在男人的家裏見到了他的外甥。他是一個啞巴，確切地說是一個沒有舌頭的人，他在大學學習建築，在麻裏眼中，中年男人很愛他的外甥，這種愛讓她感受到原本屬於自己的愛被剝奪了。有一次，麻裏在沙灘上遇到了正在做素描的他的外甥。他們用紙條傳遞...(展开全部)

A funny--and often hilarious--month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations of moving into an old French farmhouse in Provence and adapting to a very different way of life.

彼得·梅尔，英国知名作家，曾任国际大广告公司的高级主管。在纽约麦迪逊大街的广告业打拼了15年之后，于1975年开始专职写作。 主要作品有旅游散文《普罗旺斯的一年》、《永远的普罗旺斯》、《重返普罗旺斯》，小说《茴香酒店》和《追踪塞尚》，时节尚读物《品位》和美食散文集《吃懂法兰西》等。《一只狗的生活意见》是他第一部关于狗儿仔仔的作品。 目前他和妻子及两只爱犬隐居于法国的普罗旺斯地区。

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children. “I have been acquainted with the smell of death.” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband ...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises a...(展开全部)

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exi...(展开全部)

哈维尔•塞尔卡斯（1962— ），西班牙作家，生于卡塞雷斯省，毕业于巴塞罗那自治大学文哲系。他先后在美国伊利诺伊大学和西班牙赫罗纳大学任教。此外，他为《国家报》等报纸杂志撰稿。他力图打破文学类别的限制，将小说、散文、自传和新闻报道等文学体裁融会贯通。2015年凭借《骗子》获得“21世纪年度最佳外国小说”和“邹韬奋年度外国小说”奖。 侯健，文学博士，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语专业教师、拉丁美洲研究中心成员、中国拉丁美洲学会理事、文学翻译者。译有《普林斯顿文学课》《五个街角》《33场革命》等书。