莎拉·佩里 英国作家，1979年出生于埃塞克斯。她拥有英国皇家霍洛威学院创意写作博士学位，除了小说写作，也为《卫报》和《金融时报》撰写评论。2016年，莎拉在布拉格被联合国教科文组织授予“文学之都驻地作家”称号。 《埃塞克斯之蛇》是她的第二部作品，书写了关于生命、爱情和信仰之间的隐秘碰撞，是一部充满智慧与波动的小说。这本书获得了多个文学奖项，包括2016年水石年度图书、2017年英国国家图书奖，并入围2017年科斯塔小说奖、2017年英国女性小说奖和2018年都柏林文学奖长名单。由小说改编的同名电视剧已经上映。

Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scientific and medical discovery which defined the era, The Essex Serpent has at its heart the story of two extraordinary people who fall for each other, but not in the usual way. They are Cora Seaborne and Will Ransome. Cora is a well-to-do London widow who moves to the Essex parish of ...(展开全部)

羊眼鳥喙、長著一對飛翼，「艾塞克斯之蛇」再度現蹤，是惡兆還是天啟…… 十九世紀末，一個迷信與科學交織的年代，經濟和工業的發達拉大了貧富差距，達爾文的學說引發了信仰危機，外科醫學手術剛有創新革命，階級隔閡仍持續加深。 年輕寡婦珂拉擺脫了不幸的家暴婚姻，帶著保姆和兒子搬離倫敦，來到風光明媚的艾塞克斯郡附近村落。她得以脫掉緊身束衣，追求自己的人生，循著偶像古生物學家瑪麗‧安寧的腳步，一頭栽進熱愛的生物學和考古學之中。 當地盛傳有古老怪物「艾塞克斯之蛇」出沒，相傳這隻怪物1669年當時曾經肆虐黑水河畔，而後突然消失，如今因為一場八年前的地震，彷彿從水底被釋放。關於「牠」的種種傳聞不亞於尼斯湖水怪。珂拉堅信「艾塞克斯之蛇」是某種尚未被發現的古生物，執意解開這個傳說之謎，然而當地的教區牧師威廉則認為這只是老百姓的迷信作祟。 欲望與信念在沼澤裡交融，但真正的奇蹟是...(展开全部)

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its reviews have generally recognized its excellence and it was named a New York Times Editor's Choice. The novel fits the expectations of a number of different novel genres: immigrant, mystery, political, ...(展开全部)

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could l...(展开全部)

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award An American Library Association Notable Book Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Str...(展开全部)

保罗·比第（Paul Beatty），生于1962年，美国当代著名作家、诗人，先后获得波士顿大学心理学学士学位、布鲁克林大学艺术硕士学位。 20世纪90年代，保罗·比第以诗人身份崭露头角，出版诗集《大银行收了小银行》《小王，大王，2》等；90年代中期投入小说创作，1996年出版小说处女作《白人男孩曳步舞》，被《纽约时报》称赞为“天赋之作”，随后出版《岩石》《梦乡》。 2015年，出版耗时五年写就的小说《背叛》，于当年捧回全美书评家协会奖，横扫《纽约时报》等数十家媒体年度书榜，次年一举拿下布克奖，成为美国历史上第一位获得布克奖的作家。 保罗·比第现居纽约，在哥伦比亚大学教授创意写作。

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begin...(展开全部)