This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter's spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates 'the year of the suicides.'

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blu...(展开全部)

A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging of a play about Elizabeth I.

A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided.

First published in 1993, "The Virgin Suicides" announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the fam...(展开全部)

The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.

土耳其作家奥尔罕·帕慕克被认为是当代欧洲最核心的三位文学家之一（此说备考，尚不知另外两位为谁），是享誉国际的土耳其文坛巨擘。1952年出生于伊斯坦堡，在伊斯坦布尔科技大学主修建筑。 1979年第一部作品《塞夫得特州长和他的儿子们》得到《土而其日报》小说首奖，并在1982年出版，1983年再度赢得奥尔罕·凯马尔小说奖。 1983年出版第二本小说《寂静的房子》，并于1991年获得得到欧洲发现奖，同年出版法文版。 1985年出版第一本历史小说《白色城堡》，这本小说让他享誉全球，纽约时报书评称他：“一位新星正在东方诞生——土耳其作家奥尔罕.帕慕克。”这本书荣获1990年美国外国小说独立奖。 1990年出版《黑书》是一个里程碑，这本小说让他在土耳其文学圈备受争议的同时也广受一般读者喜爱。法文版获得了法兰西文化奖。1992年他以这本小说为蓝本，完成《隐蔽的脸》的...(展开全部)

Joseph P. Byrne, The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World) Greenwood Press | ISBN 0313324921 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 263 pages The Black Death, by Joseph Byrne, isolates the event of the epidemic of bubonic plague in 1347–52 as having had a signal impact on medieval Europe. It was, however, only the first of many related such episodes involving v...(展开全部)

理查德•阿尔德里奇 华威大学国际安全教授，战争和情报领域的定期评论员，《标准晚报》《卫报》《泰晤士报》《每日电讯》撰稿人。2007年9月加入公共事务情报服务部（PAIS），其研究专注于情报与安全机构。在数个英国政府部门担任档案管理、档案解密、公司记忆库等方面的顾问；2015—2016年，协助德国联邦议院调查了美国国家安全局的斯诺登事件。 在过去的数年中，阿尔德里奇主导了名为“秘密景观：1947—2001中央情报局及美国外交政策中的争议性记录”的研究项目，并获得资金支持。出版过数本图书，包括“唐纳图书奖”获奖作品《看不见的手：英国、美国和冷战时的秘密情报组织》。 罗里•科马克 新一代情报史专家中的佼佼者，专业领域为英国秘密行动和秘密外交政策——这或许是英国情报史上最激动人心，目前还未得到充分研究的领域。科马克出版了大量关于安全问题的作品，并且经常出现在...(展开全部)