Swan Lake is perhaps the best-loved ballet of all time. Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winner Lisbeth Zwerger brings her singular vision to a glorious picture-book adaptation of the haunting story of an enchanted swan princess. She has based her version on Tchaikovsky’s original 1877 ballet, which had a happy ending, unlike the later, better-known, 1893 version. Her illustration...(展开全部)

With flash, the lake was based in a shimmering light, and before him stood the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. "I am the Swan Queen," she said. "I am the swan that you tried to kill." A prince's love for a swan queen breaks an evil spell in this fairy tale adaptation of the beloved ballet written by Tchaikovsky Swan Lake is perhaps the best-loved ballet of all time. Hans...(展开全部)

莉丝贝特·茨韦尔格（Lisbeth Zwerger） 当代最优秀的儿童插画家之一。1954年出生于奥地利，父亲是版画家。自幼喜欢绘画，曾在维也纳应用艺术大学学习。1977年凭《怪孩子》（Das fremde Kind）入选博洛尼亚国际儿童书展插画展，崭露头角，从此成为自由插画家，全心投入经典童书的插画创作。茨韦尔格著作等身，成就斐然，几乎囊括了颁发给插画师的所有奖项：她曾获奥地利儿童文学绘画大奖、奥地利青少年荣誉奖、博洛尼亚国际儿童书展插图奖、美国《新闻周刊》年度图书奖、美国图书馆协会最佳童书奖、蓝丝带奖，两次获得捷克布拉迪斯拉发国际插画双年展大奖金苹果奖，四次获得美国《纽约时报》年度最佳图画书奖，并于36岁时荣获被称为“少儿文学界的诺贝尔奖”的国际安徒生奖，是该奖项迄今为止最年轻的获奖者。现居故乡维也纳，潜心专注于儿童文学插画的创作。

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)

“Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer.” -------- The Times Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1 950s, that low, dishonorable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired i...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this stunning follow-up to 2007's Christine Falls, Black (pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) spins a complex tale of murder and deception in 1950s Ireland. Pathologist Garret Quirke, surprised by a visit from a college acquaintance, Billy Hunt, is even more surprised when Billy begs Quirke not to perform an autopsy on his w...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In this stunning follow-up to 2007's Christine Falls, Black (pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) spins a complex tale of murder and deception in 1950s Ireland. Pathologist Garret Quirke, surprised by a visit from a college acquaintance, Billy Hunt, is even more surprised when Billy begs Quirke not to perform an autopsy on his w...(展开全部)

The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. It follows the life of a mute teenager called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of b...(展开全部)

被雨困住的威尼斯，究竟藏著什麼祕密？ 旅人們的傳奇軼事，竟貿然闖入異世界。 奧黛爾和新婚夫婿D伯爵來到古老而美麗的威尼斯度蜜月， 巧遇她的前男友齊格菲和新女伴艾蜜莉，同行的還有一位神祕人物希斯。 大雨淹沒了城市，來自各地的旅客束手無策，圍聚餐廳枯等， 他們約定每晚分享一則故事，但天亮後，為何他們都憑空消失？ 難道是薇拉在婚禮上的詛咒被應驗了…… 「你很快就會發現，你遠比自己所想像的要強大許多，奧黛爾。」 D伯爵用一種故意做出來的歡快調子說，「因為這裡是屬於你的世界，歡迎回來。」 有別於描述魔鬼、吸血鬼等人物，《餘暉》首度加入奇幻題材── 關於水、土、風、火四個元素精靈， 人魚的鱗片、矮人的卷軸、風鳥的黑羽毛、蜥蜴的紅尾巴， 齊聚四種物件就可以令人起死回生？ 透過濃霧，踏上橋樑，跟隨他們穿梭危機四伏的平行時空。 我已經擁有了一個全世界製作最精緻的面具，...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman’s dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls , and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, his surro...(展开全部)