芬德拉·维达（Vendela Vida），美国当代文坛新一代的美丽佳人，毕业于哥伦比亚大学，凭借处女作《现在你可以离开》一炮而红。她的全新力作《北极光》一经出版也大获好评，登上《旧金山纪事报》排行榜第三位、北加州独立书商协会选书第十一位，并入围2007年巴诺书店年度图书。

芬德拉·维达（Vendela Vida），美国当代文坛新一代的美丽佳人，毕业于哥伦比亚大学，凭借处女作《现在你可以离开》一炮而红。她的全新力作《北极光》一经出版也大获好评，登上《旧金山纪事报》排行榜第三位、北加州独立书商协会选书第十一位，并入围2007年巴诺书店年度图书。

在线阅读本书 On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiancé has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made ...(展开全部)

在父亲的葬礼上，二十八岁的克莱丽莎感到深深的孤独。她有一个发育不完全的弟弟，从不会开口说话，她的母亲在十四年前就离家出走，从此音讯全无，留下孤单的克莱丽莎一人，随波逐流。可是克莱丽莎翻寻家族的一些文件时，无意中看到了自己的出生证，而上面列出的父亲却是一个陌生人。 原来她并非死去父亲的亲生女儿，而她唯一可以信赖的人——她的未婚夫也早已知情，却始终把她蒙在鼓里。那一天，克莱丽莎世界里所有的信念都变成了虚构和谣言，她无法忍受这场“长达十五年的背叛”，于是飘然远走，搭上前往赫尔辛基的飞机，再北行至北极圈里的拉普兰，去寻找母亲的下落，探询自己的身世之谜。 那是一个昼短夜长，满是驯鹿的世界，克莱丽莎相信母亲就是在那里与亲生父亲相遇的。她踏着母亲的足迹，寻找着她们之间的联系。在一个太阳照不到、却被北极光笼罩的地方，克莱丽莎找到拉普兰一位当地的牧师，老人交给了她寻找...(展开全部)

Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal a man baffled by his wife s obsession with her young employer, T., and haunted by the accident that paralyzed his daughter, Casey. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find T. the protagonist of Lydia Millet s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream who has vanished in a jungle. On his trip to Central America, Hal...(展开全部)

In the days of sail Viking longships and Hanse roundships plied the waters of the Baltic, and for centuries the area formed the axis of a five-nation power struggle, as bids were made for glory both on land and at sea. Today towering ferries and container ships criss-cross routes between cities with a proud past, and travellers are entranced by legendary castles and captivating...(展开全部)

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.