A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his chi...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul）：英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，50年代进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后开始出版文学作品。著有《米格尔街》《毕司沃斯先生的房子》《大河湾》《自由国度》《游击队员》《非洲的假面剧》和“印度三部曲”“美洲三部曲”等。2001年，获诺贝尔文学奖。

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul）：英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，50年代进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后开始出版文学作品。著有《米格尔街》《毕司沃斯先生的房子》《大河湾》《自由国度》《游击队员》《非洲的假面剧》和“印度三部曲”“美洲三部曲”等。2001年，获诺贝尔文学奖。

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul）：英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，50年代进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后开始出版文学作品。著有《米格尔街》《毕司沃斯先生的房子》《大河湾》《自由国度》《游击队员》《非洲的假面剧》和“印度三部曲”“美洲三部曲”等。2001年，获诺贝尔文学奖。

特德·科斯玛特卡出生于美国印第安纳州。他大学主修生物与化学，父亲去世后辍学。之后几年从事过很多工作，比如动物园饲养员、化学实验室技术员、餐馆的洗碟工。最后，他在一家科研机构找到了一份稳定工作：操作电子显微镜。 以上这些工作经历，为他积累了丰富的创作素材。 他的作品多次被编入年度最佳科幻小说选集，被改编成舞台剧，入选过星云奖、斯特金奖、轨迹奖，获得过《阿西莫夫科幻杂志》读者选择奖。同时，他也是游戏“DOTA2”的脚本作者之一。 在他的诸多作品中，最为中国读者所熟悉的，是以双缝实验为科幻内核的《观察者》。

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's ...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's ...(展开全部)

A tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces by the internationally acclaimed author of Out Stealing Horses. Men in My Situation, Per Petterson’s evocative and moving new novel, finds Arvid Jansen in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident. In the aftermath, Arvid’s wife, Turid, divorced him and took their ...(展开全部)

Shortly after the 1989 publication of "Women Without Men" in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, "...(展开全部)

Shortly after the 1989 publication of "Women Without Men" in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, "...(展开全部)