"Let it Come Down" tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers.

保罗•鲍尔斯 美国传奇作家、翻译家、作曲家。一生只创作过四部长篇小说，却被视为20世纪美国极具代表性的作家，《时代》周刊称他为那个年代独一无二的作家。2002年，其作品由美国著名非营利性出版机构——美国文库收录出版，成为传世经典。 ◆鲍尔斯深受存在主义文学影响，曾翻译过萨特、博尔赫斯等作家的作品，美国评论界称：“没有哪位作家能像鲍尔斯那样对存在主义哲学作出这样全面的阐释。” ◆1929年，鲍尔斯辍学前往巴黎学习音乐创作，随后为田纳西•威廉斯等著名剧作家作曲，迅速成为美国当代著名作曲家之一。 ◆鲍尔斯一生游离于美国之外，视自己为旅人。1947年，他移居摩洛哥丹吉尔，直到去世。丹吉尔也因为鲍尔斯而吸引了众多文学家，成了一个时代的文学圣地。 · 译者简介 陆汉臻，资深英美文学译者。毕业于北京外国语大学，现任浙江越秀外国语学院教师，浙江省翻译协会理事。代表译...(展开全部)

In "Let It Come Down," Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horr...(展开全部)

爱尔兰裔女作家，1968年出生于伦敦，在都柏林度过童年，现居伦敦。处女作《光是怎么进来的》(Howthe LightGets In)获得2004年度巴诺书店发现奖(Barnes＆Noble DiscoverAward)及澳大利亚年度图书奖(TheAge Bookofthe Year in Australia)提名等。

Carry Me Down is an engrossing story that at its heart examines an adolescent's difficulties navigating the world. John Egan is a misfit -- a twelve-year-old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant -- who diligently keeps track of the lies large and small that are told to him. John's been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember; it's a source of power bu...(展开全部)

Carry Me Down is an engrossing story that at its heart examines an adolescent's difficulties navigating the world. John Egan is a misfit — a twelve-year-old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant — who diligently keeps track of the lies large and small that are told to him. John's been able to detect lies for as long as he can remember; it's a source of ...(展开全部)

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in...(展开全部)

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how spe...(展开全部)

[应版权方要求,该小说已经下架,请大家支持正版阅读~]原本是浅色系美女却要装成古风古色的大家小姐的 美少女摩罗娜迦,身体里流着欧洲最美貌管家的血液 的执事贝里安,爱慕着少女的少女,被少年爱慕的少年, 两个不同的人从那一刻开始交汇……