Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter...(展开全部)

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, "The Bone People" is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Ma...(展开全部)

Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a paint...(展开全部)

Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter...(展开全部)

R.奥斯汀•弗里曼 （R. Austin Freeman, 1862—1943） 英国侦探小说家，以桑代克系列侦探小说闻名于世。生于伦敦，于1887年获得医学学位。1891年开始创作侦探小说，将医学知识大量运用到作品中。1907年推出第一部以桑代克医师为主角的长篇小说《上帝的指纹》，接着便推出一系列短篇集和多部长篇，保持着旺盛的创作力直至逝世。1912年的短篇集《歌唱的白骨》开创了“反叙述性侦探小说”的先河，在推理小说史上占有独特的伟大地位。弗里曼笔下的桑代克医师堪称侦探小说史上科学办案的典范，也是CSI、犯罪实验室的灵感起源。

大卫·米切尔，英国著名作家，欧美文学界公认的新一代小说大师。1969年生于英格兰伍斯特郡，在肯特大学主修英美文学、比较文学。曾在日本广岛担任工程系学生的英文教师八年。 米切尔博采村上春树、奥斯特、卡尔维诺、博尔赫斯诸大师作品所长，自成一派，其作波诡云谲，灵气无穷。处女作《幽灵代笔》（1999）震撼欧美文学界，荣获莱斯文学奖，入围《卫报》处女作奖决选；《九号梦》（2001）入围布克奖和詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖决选，米切尔也因此书被评为英国优秀青年小说家；《云图》（2004）荣膺英国国家图书奖小说奖和理查与茱蒂读书俱乐部年度选书，同时入围布克奖、星云奖、克拉克奖决选，改编同名电影轰动全球；《绿野黑天鹅》（2006）获得美国图书馆协会青少年图书和《学校图书馆报》图书称号，入围科斯塔图书奖和《洛杉矶时报》图书奖；《雅各布·德佐特的千秋》（2010）问鼎英联...(展开全部)

One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking ...The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as...(展开全部)

大卫·米切尔，英国著名作家，欧美文学界公认的新一代小说大师。1969年生于英格兰伍斯特郡，在肯特大学主修英美文学、比较文学。曾在日本广岛担任工程系学生的英文教师八年。 米切尔博采村上春树、奥斯特、卡尔维诺、博尔赫斯诸大师作品所长，自成一派，其作波诡云谲，灵气无穷。处女作《幽灵代笔》（1999）震撼欧美文学界，荣获莱斯文学奖，入围《卫报》处女作奖决选；《九号梦》（2001）入围布克奖和詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖决选，米切尔也因此书被评为英国优秀青年小说家；《云图》（2004）荣膺英国国家图书奖小说奖和理查与茱蒂读书俱乐部年度选书，同时入围布克奖、星云奖、克拉克奖决选，改编同名电影轰动全球；《绿野黑天鹅》（2006）获得美国图书馆协会青少年图书和《学校图书馆报》图书称号，入围科斯塔图书奖和《洛杉矶时报》图书奖；《雅各布·德佐特的千秋》（2010）问鼎英联...(展开全部)

One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking ...The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as...(展开全部)