约翰•班维尔（1945— ）： 当代最伟大的小说文体家之一。1945年出生于爱尔兰，曾担任《爱尔兰时报》文学编辑。现居住于都柏林。班维尔是一位敏锐而多产的作家，至今已著有二十余部小说，其主题涉及面广，创作技法新颖脱俗，语言清晰流畅。《哥白尼博士》、《证词》、《无法企及》、《海》等都是享誉国际的代表作。班维尔获得过无数国际文学大奖，包括布莱克纪念奖、卫报小说奖、弗朗茨•卡夫卡文学奖等，其代表作《海》于2005年荣获最高英语文学奖——布克奖。

One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville’s masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from its conflagrations, with the wounds to prove it. And e...(展开全部)

约翰•班维尔（1945— ）： 当代最伟大的小说文体家之一。1945年出生于爱尔兰，曾担任《爱尔兰时报》文学编辑。现居住于都柏林。班维尔是一位敏锐而多产的作家，至今已著有二十余部小说，其主题涉及面广，创作技法新颖脱俗，语言清晰流畅。《哥白尼博士》、《证词》、《无法企及》、《海》等都是享誉国际的代表作。班维尔获得过无数国际文学大奖，包括布莱克纪念奖、卫报小说奖、弗朗茨•卡夫卡文学奖等，其代表作《海》于2005年荣获最高英语文学奖——布克奖。

One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville’s masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is also an escapee from its conflagrations, with the wounds to prove it. And e...(展开全部)

Shroud for a Nightingale is a 1971 detective novel by English writer P. D. James, part of her Adam Dalgliesh series. Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate the death of two student nurses at the hospital nursing school of Nightingale House. Student nurses Heather Pearce and Josephine Fallon have died of mysterious circumstances in the h...(展开全部)

Shroud for a Nightingale is a 1971 detective novel by English writer P. D. James, part of her Adam Dalgliesh series. Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate the death of two student nurses at the hospital nursing school of Nightingale House. Student nurses Heather Pearce and Josephine Fallon have died of mysterious circumstances in the h...(展开全部)