The schoolchildren call it the Ice Palace: a frozen waterfall in the Norwegian fjords transformed into a fantastic structure of translucent walls, sparkling towers and secret chambers. It fascinates two young girls, lonely Unn and lively Siss, who strike up an intense friendship. When Unn decides to explore the Ice Palace alone and doesn't return, Siss must try to cope with the...(展开全部)

This hauntingly beautiful novel deals in utmost simplicity of language and narrative with the paramount themes of most great literature: love, death, and the maturing of the individual. Two eleven-year-old girls, Siss and Unn, are separated at the very beginning of their friendship by the death of the latter in a strange, labyrinthine palace of ice.This book was also made into ...(展开全部)

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as "the warden" search for an elusive girl in a frozen, post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organization. There is destruction everywhere: great walls of ice overrun the world in this hallucinatory quest-novel. Acclaimed by Brian Aldiss on its publica...(展开全部)

Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan's masterwork follows one man's pursuit of a mysterious silver-haired girl to the ends of the earth; to the end of everything.

Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan's masterwork follows one man's pursuit of a mysterious silver-haired girl to the ends of the earth; to the end of everything.

保罗•奥斯特（Paul Auster，1947—），生于新泽西州的纽渥克市。在哥伦比亚大学念英文暨比较文学系，并获同校硕士学位。 奥斯特于1990年获美国文学与艺术学院所颁发“莫顿‧道文‧萨伯奖”，1991年以《机缘乐章》获国际笔会福克纳文学奖提名，1993年以《巨兽》获法国麦迪西文学大奖，2006年10月获颁阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖。作品除了小说《月宫》、《纽约三部曲》、《幻影书》、《神谕之夜》、《密室中的旅行》等，还包括回忆录《孤独及其所创造的》、评论集《饥渴的艺术》及诗集《烟灭》。作品已被译成三十多国语文。 在文学创作之外，奥斯特也热衷于电影剧本写作并曾独立执导电影。目前与妻儿定居于纽约布鲁克林区。

弗兰克·穆尔豪斯，当代澳大利亚著名作家，其作品广受好评，分别获澳大利亚文学协会金奖、南澳节日奖。2001年，《黑暗的宫殿》获得澳大利亚最高文学奖迈尔斯·富兰克林奖、新南威尔士总督文学奖、维多利亚州杰出文学奖和《时代报》年度著作奖。弗兰克·穆尔豪斯无疑是当今澳大利亚将历史与文学完美结合的杰出作家之一。

弗兰克·穆尔豪斯，当代澳大利亚著名作家，其作品广受好评，分别获澳大利亚文学协会金奖、南澳节日奖。2001年，《黑暗的宫殿》获得澳大利亚最高文学奖迈尔斯·富兰克林奖、新南威尔士总督文学奖、维多利亚州杰出文学奖和《时代报》年度著作奖。弗兰克·穆尔豪斯无疑是当今澳大利亚将历史与文学完美结合的杰出作家之一。