作者簡介 湯瑪士．麥登Thomas F. Madden 美國聖路易大學歷史系教授暨中古世紀與文藝復興研究中心主任，古根漢基金會研究員、美國學術團體聯合會ACLS及美國中世紀研究中心成員。個人網站：thomasmadden.org 譯者簡介 林玉菁 紐約市立大學政治學博士班，劍橋大學印度研究碩士，政大新聞系。曾任職IFRC國際紅十字與紅星月會聯合會美洲辦公室，雲門基金會，北藝大傳統藝術研究中心及國內外NGO組織。現為專職口譯、筆譯。

作者簡介 湯瑪士．麥登Thomas F. Madden 美國聖路易大學歷史系教授暨中古世紀與文藝復興研究中心主任，古根漢基金會研究員、美國學術團體聯合會ACLS及美國中世紀研究中心成員。個人網站：thomasmadden.org 譯者簡介 林玉菁 紐約市立大學政治學博士班，劍橋大學印度研究碩士，政大新聞系。曾任職IFRC國際紅十字與紅星月會聯合會美洲辦公室，雲門基金會，北藝大傳統藝術研究中心及國內外NGO組織。現為專職口譯、筆譯。

From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Ca...(展开全部)

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recov...(展开全部)

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recov...(展开全部)

Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history. “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily’s s...(展开全部)

查尔斯•金，美国乔治敦大学国际事务与政府学教授。他经常作为全球问题评论员出现在媒体上，主要著作有Odessa：Genius and Death in a City of Dreams; Extreme Politics: Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe; The Black Sea: A History; 等等。现居华盛顿。

查尔斯•金，美国乔治敦大学国际事务与政府学教授。他经常作为全球问题评论员出现在媒体上，主要著作有Odessa：Genius and Death in a City of Dreams; Extreme Politics: Essays on Nationalism, Violence, and Eastern Europe; The Black Sea: A History; 等等。现居华盛顿。

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is yo...(展开全部)

费莉希蒂·海斯-麦科伊出生在爱尔兰的都柏林。作为一名撰稿人，她的作品所涉及的领域包括电视和广播戏剧、故事片、纪录片、剧本和改编本，电影剧本，音乐剧本，儿童文学和互动多媒体作品。 她的丈夫威尔弗雷德·贾锝是一名歌剧导演，他们夫妻二人平时居住在爱尔兰的寇卡戴瑞夫尼和伦敦的博蒙德塞区。烹饪，园艺和写作是她最喜欢的事情。 《世界尽头的图书馆》是她的小说处女作。