Synopsis On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds j...(展开全部)

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" ( Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometow...(展开全部)

理查德·鲍尔斯（1957— ）　美国小说家，曾就读于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校物理系，后获文学硕士学位。他兴趣广泛，博览群书，涉猎考古学、海洋学、历史、社会学、政治学、美学、医学、音乐等领域。 鲍尔斯是在电视和电脑时代出生的第一代人的代言人，被誉为美国文坛在后品钦时代涌现的最重要、最令人钦佩的作家之一。他的小说致力于探索现代科学技术的影响，呈现出鲜明的后现代主义小说的特点，把词汇上的艺术鉴赏力和结构上的大胆结合得令人眼花缭乱。他大都采用多角度平行叙事的表现手法，以对照不同人物的性格，增加故事的悬念和复杂性，并提醒读者：我们从未如此紧密地联系在一起，同时又从未如此孤单。此外，他还注重事实与虚构相结合，并通过不确定性的语言符号系统构建虚拟世界，以揭示现实世界的零散和混乱。鲍尔斯获得过各种奖项二十多次。

For maverick Lapd homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a dari...(展开全部)

A literary page-turner about one manas macabre ambition to create lifeaand secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant childrenathree identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte,...(展开全部)

Music, magic, and a real-life miracle meld in this genre-defying masterpiece from storytelling maestro Pam Muñoz Ryan. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California...(展开全部)

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

父亲获罪下狱，廖青妩为救廖家于危难，拦下了当朝内阁首辅卫显允的车驾。他曾是她父亲最寄予厚望的门生，如今也是她在绝境中唯一能抓住的浮木。一纸契约，一缔结缡。本以为一切不过逢场作戏，事成之后便可一别两宽直至朝堂风起，卫显允身陷囹圄，以一纸和离书将她推开。　　他以为这是他能给予她最终的庇护。却在漫天风雪中，看见廖青妩攥着那封休书，一步步向他走来，在他惊颤的目光中，将纸张撕得粉碎。雪落无声，唯余她清晰的一句：“卫显允，这一次，换我来选你。”　　青鹤鸣，时太平