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)

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)

This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Dap...(展开全部)

This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Dap...(展开全部)

From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George...(展开全部)

From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. Ge...(展开全部)

In "Tales of the Field" John Van Maanen offers readers a survey of the narrative conventions associated with writing about culture and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of various styles. "Engaging and well written."--H. Ottenheimer, "Choice"

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came volun...(展开全部)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came volun...(展开全部)