米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera）一九二九年出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺，父亲是钢琴家、音乐学院校长，昆德拉在童年时就受到良好的音乐熏陶和教育。一九六七年，他的第一部长篇小说《玩笑》在捷克出版，获得巨大成功，从此奠定在当代文坛的重要地位。一九七五年，昆德拉离开捷克，定居法国，他的长篇小说《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑忘录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》的原作以捷克文写成；长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》，还有随笔集《小说的艺术》、《被背叛的遗嘱》和《相遇》的原作以法文写成。另著有戏剧《雅克和他的主人》。昆德拉曾于一九七三年凭借《生活在别处》获得美第奇外国文学奖，一九八五年获得耶路撒冷文学奖，二〇〇一年获得法兰西学院文学大奖。二零一四年，上海译文将推出昆德拉的最新小说以及全新包装的昆德拉作品集。马振骋1934年生于上海...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has di...(展开全部)

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner ...(展开全部)

"P"assion."D"anger."W"itchcraft . . . "The Lady of the Rivers "is #1 "New York Times "bestselling author Philippa Gregory's remarkable story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the Wars of the Roses. Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visitin...(展开全部)

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as we...(展开全部)

弗兰克·施茨廷（Frank Schätzing），1957年出生，在科隆过着多彩多姿的生活：广告公司的创意总监、作曲家、音乐制作人，同时也是热情的业余厨师和受过训练的潜水员。 1995年，施茨廷的首部小说《科隆911》即让他成为畅销书作家；2000年的政治惊悚小说《悄无 声息》则被媒体誉为“对这即将结束的世纪，所捕捉到的精彩瞬间”；2004年，《群》大放异彩，让施茨廷与迈克尔·克莱顿、丹·布朗等国际作家平起平坐，也让德国人首度学会了“海啸”这个词。无巧不成书，《群》出版后九个月，震惊世界的东南亚海啸发生，世人纷纷追问他如何能“预测”此事。《群》大获成功后，施茨廷利用写作时没用上的剩余五分之四资料，写出了《海：另一个未知的宇宙》，同样大卖。 《群》始于施茨廷数年前的梦境；而《群》的男主角西古尔·约翰逊，黄金单身汉、魅力中年型男、都会雅痞、无可救药的品味...(展开全部)

As a new age dawns in England s twelfth century, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral sets the stage for a story of intrigue and power, revenge and betrayal.

As a new age dawns in England s twelfth century, the building of a mighty Gothic cathedral sets the stage for a story of intrigue and power, revenge and betrayal.