The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New...(展开全部)

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmes...(展开全部)

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, " The Glass Bead Game" is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, "The Glass Bead Game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellec...(展开全部)

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, " The Glass Bead Game" is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, "The Glass Bead Game" is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellec...(展开全部)

阿比·达蕾： 伦敦大学伯克贝克学院艺术硕士，专职作家。出生成长于尼日利亚拉各斯，18岁前往英国读大学，现居英国埃塞克斯，她的母亲泰茹·索莫林是尼日利亚历史上第一位女性税务学教授。 2018年阿比·达蕾凭借小说《大声说话的女孩》获巴斯小说奖。

In this remarkable self-portrait, Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Pri...(展开全部)

In this remarkable self-portrait, Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Pri...(展开全部)

露易丝·佩妮（Louise Penny，1958— ） ·加拿大女作家，五获“阿加莎最佳推理小说奖”，其中四次蝉联，被封 “新锐推理天后”，其“伽马什探长”系列小说已先后被翻译成近三十种语言。 ·2005年，作为“伽马什探长”系列的开篇之作，《伊甸园的蛇》（Still Life）一举夺得匕首奖、亚瑟·艾利斯奖、黛利丝奖、安东尼奖、巴瑞奖等诸多推理小说大奖。 ·“伽马什探长”连发数弹，蔚然成为当今推理小说界最重要系列，每部都收获各大犯罪推理小说奖项，入选各权威推荐榜单，稳踞各大图书网站畅销榜。 ·2013年被授予加拿大勋章——加拿大给予国民的最高勋章。 ·佩妮的作品优美而危险，人物刻画细腻饱满，犯罪设计大胆创新。伽马什探长则取代阿加莎、詹姆斯、铁伊笔下的神探们，成为新世纪一位擅长烧脑、手法缜密，慈祥、坚韧又睿智的名侦探。

柳原汉雅（Hanya Yanagihara），1975年生于洛杉矶，现居纽约，日裔美国小说家、旅行作家。1995年毕业于史密斯女子学院，曾担任过出版社营销助理，2007年成为旅游杂志编辑，2015年开始担任《纽约时报》旗下的时尚杂志《T》的副主编。她的第二部小说A Little Life曾入围2015年布克奖和国家图书奖。

The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.