盖伊·加夫里尔·凯，加拿大小说家，被誉为“托尔金的传人”，曾整理过托尔金遗作《精灵宝钻》，后创作出大获成功的“费奥纳瓦织锦”三部曲。盖伊擅长“架空历史奇幻小说”，近期以中国历史为背景的小说《天下》《星河》分别入围IMPAC都柏林文学奖及轨迹奖决选名单，并在国际上获得了众多读者的一致好评。

In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven , Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own...(展开全部)

In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven , Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own...(展开全部)

盖伊·加夫里尔·凯，加拿大小说家，被誉为“托尔金的传人”，曾整理过托尔金遗作《精灵宝钻》，后创作出大获成功的“费奥纳瓦织锦”三部曲。盖伊擅长“架空历史奇幻小说”，近期以中国历史为背景的小说《天下》《星河》分别入围IMPAC都柏林文学奖及轨迹奖决选名单，并在国际上获得了众多读者的一致好评。

盖伊·加夫里尔·凯，加拿大小说家，被誉为“托尔金的传人”，曾整理过托尔金遗作《精灵宝钻》，后创作出大获成功的“费奥纳瓦织锦”三部曲。盖伊擅长“架空历史奇幻小说”，近期以中国历史为背景的小说《天下》《星河》分别入围IMPAC都柏林文学奖及轨迹奖决选名单，并在国际上获得了众多读者的一致好评。

The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves...(展开全部)

Now available as a paperback, the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. Now available as a New Directions Paperbook, Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire makes a bid to be recognized in the West as what it has long been acknowledged in the East: the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. First published as Aag ka Darya in 1959, River of Fire enco...(展开全部)

The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels.

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita, an opium carrier...(展开全部)

The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels.