Review 'It's clear from the first page that this is prize-winning stuff... Being a truthful writer, Jones sees nothing neither his heroes nor his villains in black and white. His is a bold inquiry into the way that we construct and repair our communities, and ourselves, with stories old and new' (The Times ) 'In this dazzling story-within-a-story, Jones has created a microcosm...(展开全部)

'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.' Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. Eighty-six days have passed since Matilda's...(展开全部)

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, ob...(展开全部)

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go.

亚历山德罗·巴里科（Alessandro Baricco），意大利作家。1958年生于都灵。曾获意大利坎皮耶罗奖、法国美第奇外国作品奖、维亚雷焦文学奖和博斯克城堡文学奖。巴里科的作品有着浓烈的艺术与童话气质，富有实验性与音乐感，浓缩了人类美好而温暖的情感，既古老又新鲜，既传统又现代。 译者： 陈英，意大利马切拉塔大学语言学博士，现为四川外国语大学教授。译有马格里斯《微型世界》、费兰特“那不勒斯四部曲”、斯塔尔诺内《鞋带》、巴里科《一个人消失在世上》《海上钢琴师》、格罗西《拳头》等。2020年获评“单向街年度译者”，2021 年获意大利共和国总统颁布的“意大利之星”骑士勋章、意大利外交与国际合作翻译奖。

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go.

亚历山德罗·巴里科（Alessandro Baricco），意大利作家。1958年生于都灵。曾获意大利坎皮耶罗奖、法国美第奇外国作品奖、维亚雷焦文学奖和博斯克城堡文学奖。巴里科的作品有着浓烈的艺术与童话气质，富有实验性与音乐感，浓缩了人类美好而温暖的情感，既古老又新鲜，既传统又现代。 译者： 陈英，意大利马切拉塔大学语言学博士，现为四川外国语大学教授。译有马格里斯《微型世界》、费兰特“那不勒斯四部曲”、斯塔尔诺内《鞋带》、巴里科《一个人消失在世上》《海上钢琴师》、格罗西《拳头》等。2020年获评“单向街年度译者”，2021 年获意大利共和国总统颁布的“意大利之星”骑士勋章、意大利外交与国际合作翻译奖。

It's an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home until his long-absent muse wanders in. Mary Foxe (beautiful, British and 100% imaginary) is in a playfully combative mood. "You're a villain," she tells him. 'A serial killer ...can you grasp that?" Mr Fox has a predilection for murdering his heroi...(展开全部)

It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questi...(展开全部)