赫布兰德·巴克（Gerbrand Bakker），荷兰作家，一九六二年出生，曾在阿姆斯特丹大学荷兰语及荷兰文学系学习历史语言学。一九九五年到二○○二年为电影翻译字幕。二○○六年在阿尔克马尔完成园艺学。二○○七年九月，成为报纸《绿色阿姆斯特丹人》的专栏作家。此前出版过一部青少年小说《梨树盛开白花》（Pear Trees Bloom White），《上面很安静》是他首部成人小说，二○○六年在荷兰出版后，荣获诸多奖项，包括“金驴耳”奖、AKO文学奖，成为当地畅销书；二○○九年在美国出版后，随即入选“国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖”，并于二○一○年获得这一世界上奖金最高的单一文学奖。评委会对其的评价是：“小说从头到尾都那么令读者信服，静静地吸引着人们。文字精炼，但细节丰富，以稳定的节奏与自然而然的风格呈现出讲述者淡淡的冷酷、简明的幽默以及令人吃惊的温情。”

Set in the great Brazilian port of Manaus during the golden decades of the Rubber Boom in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this is the story of identical twin brothers who battle for the love of their mother. It is also a portrait of a city built over the confluence of two great rivers in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.

The third twin could be your lover, your friend ...or your killer. In the course of her work, scientist Jeannie Ferrami stumbles across a baffling mystery: Steve and Dan appear to be identical twins, but were born on different days, to different mothers. A law student and a convicted murderer, they seem a world apart, but as Jeannie begins to fall in love with Steve, she finds ...(展开全部)

Through her research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. As Ferra...(展开全部)

Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way. It's even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack's not interested in world domination. He's just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn't just an automated smashing machine, and to ...(展开全部)

‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, whi...(展开全部)

‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, whi...(展开全部)

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Scotty's big brother Jonathan tells him about Nangiyala, a land on the other side of the stars, where you go after you die. Because Scotty is little and afraid and he's sick and soon he'll die. "In Nangiyala you have adventures from morning to evening and at night, too. Because it's in Nangiyala that all sagas happen," Jonathan tells Scotty. It sounds so good that Scotty ...(展开全部)

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of fli...(展开全部)