It's 1949, the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become, by night, stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with deep affection. In T...(展开全部)

奧斯卡‧海傑羅斯(Oscar Hijuelos) 國著名當代作家。著有《最後世界上我們的房子》(Our House in the Last World)與《曼波之王的情歌》等傑出文學作品。《曼波之王的情歌》出版後廣受好評，並獲頒美國文壇最引人注目的普立茲文學獎。

Amazon.com Inspired by their heroes Xavier Cugat and Desi Arnaz， brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo come to New York City from Cuba in 1949 with designs on becoming mambo stars. Eventually they do--performing with Arnaz on "I Love Lucy" in 1955 and recording 78s with their own band， the Mambo Kings. In his second novel， Hijuelos traces the lives of the flashy， guitar...(展开全部)

■ 內容簡介 痴狂曼波，半生凋零。 步歡躍，隱隱哀歌不止。 聲沂弱，新夢新戀愈追尋愈飄渺。 望昨日翻湧，青春力度今日失喪。 人遠在千里，召喚碎裂心神。 歌一曲憂傷無盡，新夢舊情埋入新墳。 ■ 序 一曲交織著愛情、親情和愛欲的人生哀歌──譯序 國著名作家奧斯卡‧海傑羅斯的長篇小說《曼波之王的情歌》出版伊始，即好評如潮。小說立即奪得了美國文壇最引人注目的大獎──普立茲文學獎。接著又被改編成電影，搬上銀幕，觀眾反響熱烈，久演不衰。 世紀三、四○年代的美國，其主流音樂是「搖擺樂」(swing)，隨著移民音樂家的到來，自由活潑的小型爵士樂演唱組紛紛形成，他們以富有生命力的即興演奏，不斷地把樂器和人聲的表現力推向極限，使情感同樣需要宣洩的觀眾如癡如醉。古巴音樂家帶來的曼波舞一時成為紐約娛樂界的時尚。 於書中有些過於裸露的性描寫，因不符合東方讀者審美情趣，所以我們...(展开全部)

Back in print by popular demand, national bestselling author Jodi Picoult's acclaimed debut novel treats fans old and new to a beautiful, poignant story of family, friendship and love. Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionaly charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment. For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego...(展开全部)

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them all by surprise. Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across America to the sanctuary of the New Engla...(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.

We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happe...(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.

在线阅读本书 From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of an...(展开全部)