赫尔曼·黑塞(Hesse Hermann，1877-1962)，德国文学家、诗人、评论家。出生于南德的小镇卡尔夫，曾就读墨尔布隆神学校，因神经衰弱而辍学，复学后又在高中读书一年便退学，结束他在学校的正规教育。日后以《彷徨少年时》《乡愁》《荒原狼》《流浪者之歌》《玻璃珠游戏》等作品饮誉文坛。1946年获歌德奖，同年又荣获诺贝尔文学奖，使他的世界声誉达于高峰。1962年病逝，享年85岁。黑塞的作品以真诚剖析探索内心世界和人生的真谛而广受读者喜爱。 一生追求和平与真理的黑塞，在纳粹独裁暴政时代，也是德国知识分子道德良心的象征。

赫尔曼·黑塞(Hesse Hermann，1877-1962)，德国文学家、诗人、评论家。出生于南德的小镇卡尔夫，曾就读墨尔布隆神学校，因神经衰弱而辍学，复学后又在高中读书一年便退学，结束他在学校的正规教育。日后以《彷徨少年时》《乡愁》《荒原狼》《流浪者之歌》《玻璃珠游戏》等作品饮誉文坛。1946年获歌德奖，同年又荣获诺贝尔文学奖，使他的世界声誉达于高峰。1962年病逝，享年85岁。黑塞的作品以真诚剖析探索内心世界和人生的真谛而广受读者喜爱。 一生追求和平与真理的黑塞，在纳粹独裁暴政时代，也是德国知识分子道德良心的象征。

Philip BallPhilip Ball 曾是《自然》雜誌的工作成員之一，現為專職作家。他的著作包括了《用物理學找到美麗新世界》（榮獲英國艾凡提斯科學圖書大獎）、《水》以及《明亮的地球》。作者現定居於倫敦。 譯者簡介 張毓如 清華大學外語系畢業。從事出版工作多年，曾任出版社主編、版權主任。譯有《人有14種性格，你有哪種天生優勢？》、《用心吃，不要用力吃》、《約定：帶著愛去旅行》、《小心，別讓思考抄捷徑！》等書。

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night...(展开全部)

Discovered after his death, in 2003, Bolano left this novel complete as a typewritten manuscript - meticulously corrected by hand - it is published in English translation for the first time. Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Rei...(展开全部)

Udo Berger, a failed writer, travels to a small resort on Spain's Costa Brava, where he befriends another German couple. But when one of his friends disappears after a night out with two sinister local characters, Udo's serene life is disrupted.

Speer, the Minister of Armaments and War Production under Hitler, the man who had kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, takes a brutally honest look at his role in the war effort, giving readers a complete view of the inside of the Nazi state. Photos & illustrations.

'INSIDE THE THIRD REICH is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. The author does...(展开全部)