By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary e...(展开全部)

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she ...(展开全部)

宝拉•霍金斯 Paula Hawkins ——我对快乐、正常的角色丝毫不感兴趣。 宝拉•霍金斯出生成长于津巴布韦，1989年迁至伦敦。 曾任记者长达15年。定居伦敦后，为了谋生，她曾为人代笔创作都市女性小说。 她每天搭乘伦敦地铁通勤，其他上班族习以为常的经历，却给予她奇妙的灵感，《火车上的女孩》的故事框架由此诞生。 在小说写到一半时，她陷入经济困境，经纪人帮她寄出不到200页的书稿，开始四处寻觅合适的出版社。 出乎意料的是，稿件公开后，引起各国小说编辑的震惊，趋之若鹜，纷纷抛出橄榄枝，砸下重金竞标。 梦工厂更是慧眼识金，在故事还未完结的情况下，就先人一步，果断签下电影改编权。 《火车上的女孩》出版前数月，在英国一年一度的犯罪小说节发送试读本，先期读到的读者，给予了一边倒的如潮好评。 2015年1月，英美同步上市发行，十天内，迅速登上各大排行榜总榜冠军...(展开全部)

YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller 'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of bac...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new kind of state ...(展开全部)

珍妮·迪斯基，毕业于伦敦大学，她的文章及作品定期刊载于《观察家报》及《伦敦书评》等报刊上，是个创作活跃的作家。《火车怪客环游美国》曾获得托马斯•库克旅行文学奖及J．R．阿克雷自传奖。 胡洲贤，台湾成功大学外国语文学系毕业，曾赴美国加州进修翻译。现专职翻译及创作。有《撒哈 拉》《背着冰箱去旅行》等多部译著。

In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously familiar landscape of America, half-known already through film and television. Like...(展开全部)

尤里·瓦西里耶维奇·布伊达 Юрий Васильевич Буйда，1954— 俄罗斯作家。出生于俄罗斯加里宁格勒地区的兹纳明斯克。小说《零号列车》入围1994年俄罗斯布克奖短名单。短篇小说集《普鲁士新娘》于1999年获得阿波罗·格里戈里耶夫奖，该书的英文版由奥利弗·雷德翻译，于2005年获得罗西卡翻译奖。