卡勒德•胡赛尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生于阿富汗喀布尔市，后随父亲迁往美国。毕业于加州大学圣地亚哥医学系，现居加州。著有小说《追风筝的人》(The Kite Runner，2003）、《灿烂千阳》(A Thousand Splendid Suns，2007)、《群山回唱》（And the Mountains Echoed,2013）。作品全球销量超过4000万册。 “立志拂去蒙在阿富汗普通民众面孔的尘灰，将背后灵魂的悸动展示给世人”。2006年，因其作品巨大的国际影响力，胡赛尼获得联合国人道主义奖，并受邀担任联合国难民署亲善大使。他还创立了以自己名字命名的基金会，为阿富汗的难民提供人道主义援助。

The new work, entitled Sea Prayer, is a short, illustrated book which Hosseini wrote in response to the current refugee crisis and the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey in September 2015. Sea Prayer is an attempt to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Alan Kurdi's, who have been splintered and...(展开全部)

John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany is the inspiring modern classic that introduced two of the author's most unforgettable characters, boys bonded forever in childhood: the stunted Owen Meany, whose life is touched by God, and the orphaned Johnny Wheelwright, whose life is touched by Owen. From the accident that links them to the mystery that follows them-and the martyrdom th...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. "Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW "John Irving is an abundantly and...(展开全部)

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. "Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW "John Irving is an abundantly and...(展开全部)

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experience...(展开全部)

媒體推薦 人類無法逃脫他必須承受的命運安排，Max Morden在生命中的十字路口，他必須把他混亂生活理出個頭緒，他罹患癌症的太太剛剛過世，他想逃離現實生活中面對的失落，卻回到當年受到創傷的所在。他回到的他還是小男孩時生活的海邊小鎮，他記得當時Grace家庭的雙胞胎Myles與Chloe。不過在Max Morden試著重新在此地展開新生活的同時，卻又陷入與雙胞胎的奇怪關係。John Banville以《The Sea》以一位年過五旬的中年男子的心態，討論懷鄉的渴望與對於記憶的冥思，討論人面對的死亡與記憶，Banville優美的文字與嚴謹的風格架構讓該書在傳媒界一致認為是文字藝術的臻品，《The Sea》入圍了今年的英國布克獎，可說是呼聲相當高的一部作品。 【94年11月好讀推薦】二○○五年布克獎得主 John Banville，儘管在初審時擊退伊恩．...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)

法利•莫厄特，加拿大自然文学作家，坚定的环保主义者。一生出版著作44本，有2500多万册远销世界60多个国家。其代表作有《鲸之殇》《与狼共度》《鹿之民》《屠海》等。他透过极具热情和洞察力的写作启发世人，不同的选择对人类和生态会有重大影响：曾经的选择影响当下的生态系统，现在的抉择将左右人类和所有地球生命的未来。