皮埃尔•布瓦洛（Pierre Boileau，1906-1989），1906年生于巴黎，自早年开始进行创作。1938年他凭借《酒神的休息》（Le repos de Bacchus）一书斩获惊险小说大奖，自此确立了推理小说写作的职业道路。他专注刻画一位无往不胜的侦探安德烈•布吕奈尔解决密室难题和“英式”谜案。1948年，他结识托马•纳尔瑟加克（Thomas Narcejac），后者刚凭借《死亡是一场旅行》（La mort est du voyage）赢得惊险小说大奖。布瓦洛－纳尔瑟加克就此开始了强强联合，成为法国推理文学界最优秀的搭档之一。

皮埃尔•布瓦洛（Pierre Boileau，1906-1989），1906年生于巴黎，自早年开始进行创作。1938年他凭借《酒神的休息》（Le repos de Bacchus）一书斩获惊险小说大奖，自此确立了推理小说写作的职业道路。他专注刻画一位无往不胜的侦探安德烈•布吕奈尔解决密室难题和“英式”谜案。1948年，他结识托马•纳尔瑟加克（Thomas Narcejac），后者刚凭借《死亡是一场旅行》（La mort est du voyage）赢得惊险小说大奖。布瓦洛－纳尔瑟加克就此开始了强强联合，成为法国推理文学界最优秀的搭档之一。

Young Fitz, the illegitimate son of the noble Prince Chivalry, is ignored by all royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has had him tutored him in the dark arts of the assassin. He has barely survived his first, soul-shattering mission, and returns to the court where he is thrown headfirst into the tumult of royal life. With the King near death, and Fitz's only ally off on...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News', 'Accordion Crimes' spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx's writing. 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more th...(展开全部)

Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News, " winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, "Accordion Crimes, " a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. "Accordion Crimes" opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accord...(展开全部)

Accordion Crimes traces the long odyssey of a button accordion, an instrument made by a Sicilian who immigrates to New Orleans in 1891. Imprisoned in a round-up of Italian suspects after the political murder of the chief of police, the accordion maker is lynched, and his accordion falls into the hands of Apollo, a black steamboat screwman. The instrument begins its lon...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

Prétextat Tach, Nobel Prize winner and one of the world's most renowned novelists, has two months to live. He has been in seclusion for years, refusing interviews and public appearances. But as news of his impending death becomes public, intrepid journalists from around the globe flock to his home in pursuit of an interview with the elusive author. One after the other they disc...(展开全部)

Prétextat Tach, Nobel Prize winner and one of the world's most renowned novelists, has two months to live. He has been in seclusion for years, refusing interviews and public appearances. But as news of his impending death becomes public, intrepid journalists from around the globe flock to his home in pursuit of an interview with the elusive author. One after the other they disc...(展开全部)