The international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges them throughout their lives. Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the Dolomites, the mountains...(展开全部)

The international sensation about the friendship between two young Italian boys from different backgrounds and how their incredibly strong connection evolves, changes, and challenges them throughout their lives. Pietro is a lonely boy living in Milan. With his parents becoming more distant each day, the only thing the family shares is their love for the Dolomites, the mountains...(展开全部)

扬·马特尔，著有畅销全球的小说《少年Pi的奇幻漂流》。该作品赢得二〇〇二年度布克奖及其他众多奖项，并由导演李安拍成电影，获得奥斯卡奖。他的其他作品包括：《赫尔辛基罗氏家族的幕后真相》（荣获加拿大“旅程奖”），长篇小说《自我》和《标本师的魔幻剧本》，以及非虚构作品《给总理的一百零一封信》。马特尔一九六三年出生于西班牙，毕业于加拿大特伦特大学哲学系，毕业后从事过植树工、洗碗工、保安等多种行业。他到世界各地游历，最终潜心写作。他目前与同为作家的伴侣艾丽丝·凯珀斯以及四个子女住在加拿大萨斯卡通市。

薩爾曼‧魯西迪Salman Rushdie （1947.06.19-） 印度獨立的那一年，魯西迪誕生於孟買一個穆斯林家族。他於中學時期起移居英國，後在劍橋大學攻讀歷史。他是當今世界最富勇氣、最具爭議性的名家之一，也是歷年公認諾貝爾文學獎熱門人選，有「後殖民文學教父」之美譽，另與石黑一雄、奈波爾並稱「英國文壇移民三雄」。 魯西迪的作品忠實反映印度次大陸多元而神祕的古老文化，往往融神話、寓言故事、史實於一爐，以華麗筆法與浩瀚架構為印度民族的繁複歷史形塑史詩般的故事。他擅長以魔幻寫實的風格寫出西方讀者素來陌生的東方文化，不僅揭開印度長年以來的厚重面紗，也在小說中建立一家史觀，在全世界讀者面前奠定「新印度」的形象。 一九七五年，魯西迪以科幻小說《Grimus》出道。真正讓他聲名大噪的是一九八一年出版的第二部作品《午夜之子》，這部作品先是觸怒當時的印度總理，於...(展开全部)

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling. I...(展开全部)

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family—and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for—and everything she feared

蕾切尔·库什纳，1968年生于俄勒冈州，毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校，后获得哥伦比亚大学艺术硕士学位，长期从事艺术领域的报道。 库什纳的第二部长篇小说《喷火器》获2013年度美国国家图书奖最终提名，也是《纽约时报》2013年度小说。她的处女作长篇《来自古巴的电报》获得2008年度美国国家图书奖最终提名，荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜和年度好书榜。 她的小说已被翻译成15种语言，她的小说、散文可见诸《纽约客》《哈泼斯》《纽约时报》《巴黎评论》等报刊。 蕾切尔·库什纳获得2013年度古根海姆奖金，现居洛杉矶。

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass...(展开全部)

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens-...(展开全部)

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Otto...(展开全部)