故事的主角叫安娜Anna。她的姐姐凯特Kate在2岁的时候被诊断出患有acute promyelocytic leukemia（急性早幼粒细胞白血病），为了拯救这个孩子，安娜的父母通过体外受精方式生下了和姐姐有着完美基因配型的安娜。从安娜出生时为她的姐姐提供的脐带血细胞开始，每当姐姐的白血病一次又一次的复发，安娜就要不断的提供血液和骨髓来维持姐姐的生命。凯特16岁的时候面临肾衰竭的威胁，而唯一能挽救她的生命的就是肾脏移植手术，由于接受无血缘关系的人的肾脏的成功率不高，他们的家族里又没有适合的肾脏，安娜就需要为姐姐献出自己的一个肾脏，而那时候，她才13岁。然而安娜决定聘请一名律师，要从父母那儿解放自己的身体，赢得自己的“身体支配权”。她的律师亚历山大Campbell Alexander于是为她奔波上诉。 作者在接近尾声的时候才揭开了安娜控告她父母的原因...(展开全部)

故事的主角叫安娜Anna。她的姐姐凯特Kate在2岁的时候被诊断出患有acute promyelocytic leukemia（急性早幼粒细胞白血病），为了拯救这个孩子，安娜的父母通过体外受精方式生下了和姐姐有着完美基因配型的安娜。从安娜出生时为她的姐姐提供的脐带血细胞开始，每当姐姐的白血病一次又一次的复发，安娜就要不断的提供血液和骨髓来维持姐姐的生命。凯特16岁的时候面临肾衰竭的威胁，而唯一能挽救她的生命的就是肾脏移植手术，由于接受无血缘关系的人的肾脏的成功率不高，他们的家族里又没有适合的肾脏，安娜就需要为姐姐献出自己的一个肾脏，而那时候，她才13岁。然而安娜决定聘请一名律师，要从父母那儿解放自己的身体，赢得自己的“身体支配权”。她的律师亚历山大Campbell Alexander于是为她奔波上诉。 作者在接近尾声的时候才揭开了安娜控告她父母的原因...(展开全部)

朱迪·皮考特，美国当代著名畅销书作家，小说家。1992年出版第一部小说以来，十五部作品无一不持续畅销，甚至每有新作，必迅速登上《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、亚马逊网站等畅销书榜首位。作品涉及的尖锐话题．也迅速在全美国甚至全球引发激烈争议。 作家总能以超凡的敏锐捕捉新锐题材安乐死、器官移植、青少年自杀、克隆、干细胞……这些人类至今莫衷一是的话题，常常成为她书写的焦点，常常使她笔下的人物，既极具浓郁的伦理争议，又背负深重的悲凉宿命。难得的是，作家并非讨论“问题”，而以绵密细致的小说笔法编织精彩绝伦的感人情节，以深情灵动的语言和出人意料的转合，写尽人间至情。

England, 1766: After a long voyage from the East Indies, a ship docks in Bristol, England, and rumor quickly spreads about its unusual cargo. In the final two crates is a pair of young elephants, in poor health but alive. Seeing a unique opportunity, a wealthy sugar merchant purchases the elephants for his country estate and turns their care over to a young stable boy, Tom ...(展开全部)

England, 1766: After a long voyage from the East Indies, a ship docks in Bristol, England, and rumor quickly spreads about its unusual cargo. In the final two crates is a pair of young elephants, in poor health but alive. Seeing a unique opportunity, a wealthy sugar merchant purchases the elephants for his country estate and turns their care over to a young stable boy, Tom ...(展开全部)

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim ou...(展开全部)

One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life o...(展开全部)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who “captures the messy essence of being human” (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a ...(展开全部)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who “captures the messy essence of being human” (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a ...(展开全部)

One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life o...(展开全部)