The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. A real historical figure, Ines Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this ...(展开全部)

Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek ...(展开全部)

The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. A real historical figure, Ines Suarez came to Chile with the Conquistadors in 1540, helping to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. In this ...(展开全部)

Born into a poor family in Spain, Ines, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Ines uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek ...(展开全部)

A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. 'My Sister, My Love' is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbours -- and even the young girl's own family. Told from the point of v...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consc...(展开全部)

Herein is the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family destroyed a decade ago by the murder of Skylers six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder, part elegy for the lost Bliss and for his own lost chil...(展开全部)

乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨1938年出生于纽约州的工人家庭，1960年毕业于锡拉丘兹大学，次年在威斯康星大学获文学硕士学位，1968至1978年在加拿大温索尔大学教英美文学，1978年以后，她搬到新泽西的普林斯顿，在普林斯顿大学教授文学创作。同时她和丈夫还经营一家小出版社，出版文学杂志《安大略评论》，直到她丈夫于2008年去世。 欧茨的创作力极为旺盛，以多产而闻名。自处女作短篇小说集《北门畔》问世以来，迄今她已出版一百余部作品，包括长篇小说、短篇小说集、诗集、剧本和文学评论等。1970年以长篇小说代表作《他们》获得美国国家图书奖，《漆黑的水》等三部作品曾获普利策提名，《大瀑布》获2005年度法国费米纳文学奖。《我们是马尔瓦尼一家》于2001年入选“奥普拉读书俱乐部”的推荐书。她被认为是1960年代以来最重要的美国小说家之一。

Almost ten years have passed since Karl Ove’s father drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts, he is now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail, Knausgaard breaks down his own life story into its elementary particles, reliving memories, reopening wounds, and examining with candor the turbulence and the epiphanies that emerge from his own exper...(展开全部)