From Publishers Weekly Gowda's debut novel opens in a small Indian village with a young woman giving birth to a baby girl. The father intends to kill the baby (the fate of her sister born before her) but the mother, Kavita, has her spirited away to a Mumbai orphanage. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Somer, a doctor who can't bear children, is persuaded by her Indian husband, Krish...(展开全部)

In a tiny hut in rural India, Kavita gives birth to Asha. Unable to afford the luxury of raising a daughter, her husband forces Kavita to give the baby up-a decision that will haunt them both for the rest of their lives. Halfway around the globe, Somer, an American doctor, decides to adopt a child after making the wrenching discovery that she will never have one of her own. Whe...(展开全部)

Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind. Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father—Pikeville's notorious defense attorney—devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repai...(展开全部)

Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, the Schwarts immigrate to a small town in upstate New York. Here the father—a former high school teacher—is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. When local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty give rise to an unthinkable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca heads out into America. Embarking up...(展开全部)

金惠珍 1983年生于韩国大邱。 2013年，凭借长篇小说《中央站》获第5届“中央长篇小说文学奖”。 2018年，凭借《关于女儿》获第36届“申东晔文学奖”，该作也成为了继《82年生的金智英》之后最受关注的韩国女性小说。 2020年，再次以《9号的工作》（简中版待出）获得第28届“大山文学奖”。

Kim Edwardsas stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every motheras silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haun...(展开全部)

Kim Edwardsas stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every motheras silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haun...(展开全部)

作者｜苔丝·格里森 美籍华裔女作家。一九七五年，毕业于斯坦福大学人类学专业。一九七九年，取得加州大学旧金山分校医学博士学位。在夏威夷檀香山担任内科医生行医多年，后辞职成为职业作家。 一九九五年，苔丝·格里森出版了第一本医疗惊悚小说《宰割》，迅速跃居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜前列。二〇〇一年，她的第一本犯罪惊悚小说《外科医生》甫一面世便获得瑞塔文学奖。波士顿警察局凶案组女警简·里佐利作为配角首度登场，在随后的十二本小说里，她作为核心人物，与女法医莫拉·艾尔斯搭档冒险，共同探案。苔丝·格里森被《出版人周刊》誉为“医学悬疑女王”，“里佐利与艾尔斯系列”为她的代表作，后被改编为美剧《妙女神探》，受到许多观众的喜爱。 译者｜王冉 兼职译者，韩语专业，后来读了英文翻硕笔译。比较喜欢悬疑恐怖小说，入手第一本就是迪弗，觉得蛮奇妙的。译有杰弗里·迪弗著作《冷月》《致命...(展开全部)

The stunning "New York Times" bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple," reissued in a handsome new edition. From the author the "New York Times Book Review" calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in "The Color Purple" whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be...(展开全部)

The stunning "New York Times" bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple," reissued in a handsome new edition. From the author the "New York Times Book Review" calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in "The Color Purple" whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be...(展开全部)