The world of Patricia Highsmith has always been filled with ordinary people, all of whom are capable of very ordinary crimes. This theme was present from the beginning, when her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, galvanized the reading public. Here we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the mid...(展开全部)

With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled ...(展开全部)

珍妮·迪斯基，毕业于伦敦大学，她的文章及作品定期刊载于《观察家报》及《伦敦书评》等报刊上，是个创作活跃的作家。《火车怪客环游美国》曾获得托马斯•库克旅行文学奖及J．R．阿克雷自传奖。 胡洲贤，台湾成功大学外国语文学系毕业，曾赴美国加州进修翻译。现专职翻译及创作。有《撒哈 拉》《背着冰箱去旅行》等多部译著。

In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantly she meets all kinds of characters, all bursting with stories to tell and finds herself brooding about the marvellously familiar landscape of America, half-known already through film and television. Like...(展开全部)

歐大旭 (Tash Aw) 在台北出生，父母是馬來西亞人。他成長於吉隆坡，從小生活在多語言、多族群的環境下，會說中文、廣東話、馬來語和英語。之後遠赴英國修習法律，曾於律師事務所服務，但最終決心專注寫作，並於東安格利亞大學完成文學創作碩士學位。迄今著有四部小說，每部皆佳評如潮，其中《和諧絲莊》（2005）獲惠特貝瑞圖書獎，以及大英國協作家亞太獎，隨後推出《沒有地圖的世界》（2009）、《五星豪門》（2013）、《倖存者，如我們》（2019）。他的著作兩度入選曼布克獎，已印行二十三種語言譯本，為近年在國際上最炙手可熱的馬來西亞華人作家。 譯者簡介 宋瑛堂 台大外文系畢業，台大新聞碩士，著有《譯者即叛徒？》，曾兩度入圍梁實秋翻譯大師獎，曾任China Post記者、副採訪主任、Student Post主編等職。文學譯作包括《內景唐人街》、《幸運之子》、《分...(展开全部)

歐大旭 (Tash Aw) 在台北出生，父母是馬來西亞人。他成長於吉隆坡，從小生活在多語言、多族群的環境下，會說中文、廣東話、馬來語和英語。之後遠赴英國修習法律，曾於律師事務所服務，但最終決心專注寫作，並於東安格利亞大學完成文學創作碩士學位。迄今著有四部小說，每部皆佳評如潮，其中《和諧絲莊》（2005）獲惠特貝瑞圖書獎，以及大英國協作家亞太獎，隨後推出《沒有地圖的世界》（2009）、《五星豪門》（2013）、《倖存者，如我們》（2019）。他的著作兩度入選曼布克獎，已印行二十三種語言譯本，為近年在國際上最炙手可熱的馬來西亞華人作家。 譯者簡介 宋瑛堂 台大外文系畢業，台大新聞碩士，著有《譯者即叛徒？》，曾兩度入圍梁實秋翻譯大師獎，曾任China Post記者、副採訪主任、Student Post主編等職。文學譯作包括《內景唐人街》、《幸運之子》、《分...(展开全部)

Everything you need to know about finding, keeping, and training your very own pet train. Finding advice on caring for a dog, a cat, a fish, even a dinosaur is easy. But what if somebody’s taste in pets runs to the more mechanical kind? What about those who like cogs and gears more than feathers and fur? People who prefer the call of a train whistle to the squeal of a guinea ...(展开全部)

By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary e...(展开全部)

By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary e...(展开全部)