In "Love in a Dark Time", Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, born nearly a hundred years later. Toibin studies how a changing world impacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept ...(展开全部)

In "Love in a Dark Time", Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, born nearly a hundred years later. Toibin studies how a changing world impacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept ...(展开全部)

科尔姆•托宾 爱尔兰小说家、剧作家。毕业于都柏林大学，主修历史和英文。毕业后前往巴塞罗那，居住了三年，这段经历成了他首部小说《南方》的素材。曾投身新闻业，后游历非洲和南美洲。托宾的著作丰厚：《黑水灯塔船》获得英国布克奖，并获得IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖提名；《大师》获得IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖、法国最佳小说奖等奖项；另有短篇小说集《母与子》《空荡荡的家》、论文集《出走的人：作家与家人》等。

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a clo...(展开全部)

哈尼夫·库雷西，巴基斯坦移民后裔，作品包括小说、舞台剧剧本、电视电影剧本等。是继萨尔曼·拉什迪后在世界文坛成就重大影响的亚裔作家。早期作品中的幽默反讽享誉世界，近作对情欲与两性冲突的探讨充满了深情，以幽默、脱俗、前卫的风格被公认为当今世界文坛最富魅力的作家之一。代表作有惠特布莱德文学奖获奖作《郊区佛爷》及《亲密》、《爱在蓝色时代》、《身体》等。

This provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s. The stories resonate with Hanif Kureishi's dead-on observations of human passion and folly, his brilliant depiction of seedy locales and magical characters, and his original, wicked sense of...(展开全部)

[英]露丝·韦尔 Ruth Ware 在苏塞克斯郡的路易斯长大，从曼彻斯特大学毕业后搬到了巴黎，之后在伦敦北部定居。她曾经做过女服务员、书商、英语老师和发稿文宣，已婚并育有两个小孩。 《暗无边际》是露丝·韦尔的首部悬疑推理小说，一经出版即引发广大读者一致追捧，被媒体称赞为“完美承继侦探小说女王阿加莎·克里斯蒂作品风格”。 新作《十号舱的女人》（THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10）即将出版，敬请期待

Before The Firm and  The Pelican Brief made him a superstar,  John Grisham wrote this riveting story of  retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a  Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom  drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the  savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers  a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small  southern ...(展开全部)

Father is missing! His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how? Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. With the help of the mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youngsters learn to expect the unexpected as t...(展开全部)

Father is missing! His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how? Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him. With the help of the mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youngsters learn to expect the unexpected as t...(展开全部)