贾平凹的《废都》的简介（来自“搜搜问问”） 该作40余万字，载《十月》1993年第4期。小说以历史文化悠久的古都西安当代生活为背景，记叙“闲散文人”作家庄之蝶、书法家龚靖元、画家汪希眠及艺术家阮知非“四大名人”的起居生活，展现了浓缩的西京城形形色色“废都”景观。 小说核心人物庄之蝶，在他身上可能影印了作者的痕迹。他集合了现代都市生活赋予一个名人复杂多面的特征：不喜拘束、洒脱行意、豪饮畅谈、学识渊博，颇具“魏晋风度”。然而，透过这些表象，古城墙夜里的埙声，实则契合了他内心深处最孤独的痛苦。 40万字篇幅中，作者以庄之蝶与几位女性情感的纠葛为主线，以阮知非等诸名士穿插叙述为辅线，笔墨浓淡相宜，时有“笑口常开”一类时政幽默小景展现，活跃了气氛，激活了读者思路，令人叫绝。 贾平凹不愧为写女性系列的大手笔，在诸多女性中，唐宛儿、柳月、牛月清为他塑造最为成功也最...(展开全部)

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky. Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye....(展开全部)

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky. Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does his alluring yet alcoholic wife hire a private eye....(展开全部)

A New York Times Notable Book •One of the ten top novels of the year— Time and NPR NAMED A BEST BOOK ON MORE THAN TWENTY END-OF-THE-YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING The New Yorker • The Atlantic • The Economist • Newsweek /The Daily Beast • The New Republic • New York Daily News • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Minneapolis Star Tr...(展开全部)

A New York Times Notable Book •One of the ten top novels of the year— Time and NPR NAMED A BEST BOOK ON MORE THAN TWENTY END-OF-THE-YEAR LISTS, INCLUDING The New Yorker • The Atlantic • The Economist • Newsweek /The Daily Beast • The New Republic • New York Daily News • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Minneapolis Star Tr...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises a...(展开全部)

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to ...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises a...(展开全部)

New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city’s great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown’s punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor—and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to ...(展开全部)

美国作家多克特罗（E.L.Doc-torow）曾出版多部小说，荣膺包括国家图书奖在内的七项重要文学奖项。