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)

Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile! He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where...(展开全部)

"This house, this place, knows all my secrets." It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"--the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each ...(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)

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。

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)

約翰•勒卡雷John Le Carre 原名大衛•康威爾，1931年生於英國。18歲時，便被英國軍方情報單位招募，擔任對東柏林的間諜工作；退役後在牛津大學攻讀現代語言，之後於伊頓公學教授法文與德文。1959年，進入英國外交部工作，先後於英國駐波昂及漢堡的大使館服務，同時開始寫作。1963年，以第三本著作《冷戰諜魂》（The Spy who came in from the cold）一舉成名，被知名小說家葛林盛讚說︰「這是我讀過最好的間諜小說！」從此奠定其文壇大師地位。勒卡雷一生得獎無數，包括1965年美國推理作家協會的愛倫坡大獎、1964年獲得、英國毛姆獎、James Tait Black紀念獎等，1988年更獲頒CWA終身成就獎（另外分別在1963與1977年獲頒金匕首獎），以及義大利Malaparte Prize等等。至今已出版的19部作品，不...(展开全部)