米歇尔•法柏（Michel Faber） 英国文坛备受瞩目的小说家，被誉为“狄更斯的接班人”、“能像康拉德那样写出完美句子的人”。 1960年生于荷兰，成长于澳洲，目前定居于苏格兰高地。读书期间主修英语文学，毕业后做过护士、腌菜包装工人、清洁工、医学研究实验对象等。这些经历为法柏以后的作品提供了丰富的素材。 1998年，处女作《雨必将落下》赢得多项大奖，被《泰晤士报》赞誉为“炙手可热的天才，短篇小说的大师”。2000年，《皮肤之下》的出版更是让法柏声名鹊起，奠定了他在英国文坛的地位。 其他代表作品有：《199级阶梯，玻璃瓶里的秘密》、《勇气伴侣》、《华氏双胞胎》、《腥红色的花瓣和白色》等。

米歇尔•法柏（Michel Faber） 英国文坛备受瞩目的小说家，被誉为“狄更斯的接班人”、“能像康拉德那样写出完美句子的人”。 1960年生于荷兰，成长于澳洲，目前定居于苏格兰高地。读书期间主修英语文学，毕业后做过护士、腌菜包装工人、清洁工、医学研究实验对象等。这些经历为法柏以后的作品提供了丰富的素材。 1998年，处女作《雨必将落下》赢得多项大奖，被《泰晤士报》赞誉为“炙手可热的天才，短篇小说的大师”。2000年，《皮肤之下》的出版更是让法柏声名鹊起，奠定了他在英国文坛的地位。 其他代表作品有：《199级阶梯，玻璃瓶里的秘密》、《勇气伴侣》、《华氏双胞胎》、《腥红色的花瓣和白色》等。

Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swi...(展开全部)

The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect--he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that h...(展开全部)

Life’s struggles bring two men together as they teach one another trust, acceptance, and how to love again. Ethan lives a monotonous life trying to pay off his crippling debt—until the day Mike appears at the neighborhood laundromat looking the worse for wear. Both men find themselves struggling in different ways to go on, and it’s these struggles that bring them together in th...(展开全部)

Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life...(展开全部)

Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness. His novel What Belongs to You won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book o...(展开全部)

Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life...(展开全部)

Garth Greenwell is the author of Cleanness. His novel What Belongs to You won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the James Tait Black Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, it was named a Best Book o...(展开全部)

彼得·史比尔 1927年出生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，1950年移民美国，曾从事广告业，后投身于图画书的创作。他为儿童创作了30多本图画书，擅长以铅笔、墨水和水彩作画，明快流畅，许多作品都非常注重细节和历史的考据，满足各年龄层读者多重、无穷的乐趣。 其作品《诺亚方舟》（Noah’s Ark）获得了1978年“凯迪克奖”和“克里斯多佛奖”，《在寒冷的夜晚狐狸出走了》（The Fox Went Out Out a Chilly Night）获得了“波士顿全球号角奖”。