‘When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love…’ Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother s loneliness Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive ...(展开全部)

加拿大籍科幻小说作家卡尔·施罗德出生于1964年，他的小说多为对遥远未来进行猜想，主要题材有纳米技术，星球改造及星际旅行等，他的作品同时具有极深的哲学内涵。

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendle...(展开全部)

加拿大籍科幻小说作家卡尔·施罗德出生于1964年，他的小说多为对遥远未来进行猜想，主要题材有纳米技术，星球改造及星际旅行等，他的作品同时具有极深的哲学内涵。

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendle...(展开全部)

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid S...(展开全部)

After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and with four million copies of The Kite Runner shipped, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid S...(展开全部)

Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.

Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.

作者：施耐德(Schneider, Laurence A.)著/梅寅生譯