Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile! He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where...(展开全部)

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)

伊斯梅尔·卡达莱（1936―），小说家、诗人。出生于阿尔巴尼亚南部靠近希腊边界的山城吉罗卡斯特，先后求学于地拉那大学和莫斯科高尔基世界文学学院。1950年代开始文学写作，2005年获得首届布克国际文学奖，2009年获得阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，2015年获得耶路撒冷奖。代表作有《亡军的将领》、《梦宫》、《破碎的四月》等。

"This house, this place, knows all my secrets." It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"--the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each ...(展开全部)

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmes...(展开全部)

亚当•威廉姆斯（Adam Williams），中文名韦蔼德。英国小说家，商人，旅行探险家。出身香港洋行大班、香港赛马会会长之家，少年时期成长在日本，先在英国牛津大学主修英国文学，后在香港、台湾学习中文。先后做过水手、记者、中英商会会长，曾获英女王颁发大英帝国骑士勋章。除经商外，还极富冒险精神，曾组织骆驼探险队，深入塔克拉玛干沙漠寻找古城；2000年，又参加了古董车长途越野赛，从伦敦一路开到北京。现任有170年远东历史的英国怡和洋行驻中国大陆首席代表，二十年来一直在北京工作生活，是家族中第四代在中国生活的人。 已出版的小说有：以中国历史为背景的三部曲《慈禧的面子》《乾隆的骨头》《龙之尾》，还有一部《炼金术士之书》，均已被译成世界上15种主要语言出版。

Epic adventure, grand passion and historical intrigue in the bestselling tradition of Wilbur Smith