【作者简介】：凯瑟琳•格雷丝•卡茨，作家、历史学家，在哈佛大学和剑桥大学接受历史学教育，师从英国著名历史学家尼尔•弗格森。 【译者简介】：李阳，南京大学历史学博士，伦敦大学历史研究所访问学者。现为上海外国语大学国际关系与公共事务学院讲师，开设中英文课程“国际关系史”及“A Survey of Chinese History”等，研究兴趣主要包括国际关系历史叙事的书写、建构与翻译。

CATHERINE GRACE KATZ is a writer and historian from Chicago. She holds degrees in history from Harvard and Cambridge and is currently pursuing her JD at Harvard Law School.

Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is defended and deployed. It is ther...(展开全部)

黛博拉·贝克, 传记作家和散文家。著有《建一座农场：罗伯特·布莱的一生》（Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly）、《绝境：劳拉·赖丁的故事》（In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding，入围普利策奖人物传记类决选作品）、《蓝色之手：印度节拍》（The Blue Hand: The Beats in India）以及2011年美国国家图书奖的最终入围作品《皈依：放逐与极端主义的故事》（The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism）。她曾获得古根海姆奖学金（Guggenheim Fellowship）和怀汀非虚构奖（Whiting Award for Nonfiction），主要居于印度果阿和纽约两地。

A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers--W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender--achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that...(展开全部)

The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl named Lientje had been tak...(展开全部)

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER “The hidden gem of the year . . . Sensational and gripping, and shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time, this was our unanimous winner.” —Judges of the 2018 Costa Award The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of fos...(展开全部)

The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl named Lientje had been tak...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)