埃拉·伯绍德 Ella Berthoud，五岁时从德黑兰去往伦敦，旅途中靠在一辆Wolsey 1300的包裹架上开始阅读生涯。此后十三年间在各种不合时宜的地方读过书，比如在滑雪缆车和蹦床上。进入剑桥大学就读英国文学专业之后，她更是全身心地投入到了小说阅读中。 苏珊·埃尔德金 Susan Elderkin，2003年被《格兰塔》(Granta) 评选为二十位最杰出的年轻英国小说家之一。现从事小说写作，著有《日落巧克力山脉》(入围柑橘奖决选名单)，以及《声音》(入围国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖长名单)，同时教授写作、撰写书评。 两位作者二十五年前同为剑桥大学英文系同学，上学时她们便给彼此推荐各类小说，并相互交换，结下了深厚的友谊，同时积累了大量的阅读。两人在阿兰·德波顿开办的“人生学校”负责书目治疗，为全世界客户开书目处方，经过五年“临床治疗”的累积，才有...(展开全部)

From novelist and master psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, author of Lying on the Couch and When Nietzsche Wept, comes the world's first accurate group-therapy novel, a mesmerizing story of two men's search for meaning. At one time or another, all of us have wondered what we'd do in the face of death. Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, distinguished ...(展开全部)

From novelist and master psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, author of Lying on the Couch and When Nietzsche Wept, comes the world's first accurate group-therapy novel, a mesmerizing story of two men's search for meaning. At one time or another, all of us have wondered what we'd do in the face of death. Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, distinguished ...(展开全部)

埃拉·伯绍德 Ella Berthoud，五岁时从德黑兰去往伦敦，旅途中靠在一辆Wolsey 1300的包裹架上开始阅读生涯。此后十三年间在各种不合时宜的地方读过书，比如在滑雪缆车和蹦床上。进入剑桥大学就读英国文学专业之后，她更是全身心地投入到了小说阅读中。 苏珊·埃尔德金 Susan Elderkin，2003年被《格兰塔》(Granta) 评选为二十位最杰出的年轻英国小说家之一。现从事小说写作，著有《日落巧克力山脉》(入围柑橘奖决选名单)，以及《声音》(入围国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖长名单)，同时教授写作、撰写书评。 两位作者二十五年前同为剑桥大学英文系同学，上学时她们便给彼此推荐各类小说，并相互交换，结下了深厚的友谊，同时积累了大量的阅读。两人在阿兰·德波顿开办的“人生学校”负责书目治疗，为全世界客户开书目处方，经过五年“临床治疗”的累积，才有...(展开全部)

This remarkable book is an account of a year of new life for the author, following a severe bout of depression. Mabey, author of the groundbreaking bestseller, Flora Britannica, finds his niche not in passive submission to nature, but in an active, sensual re-engagement.

The most controversial thriller ever written about health-care reform in America. "Riveting...filled with action." ( San Diego Union-Tribune) "A hair-raising, cautionary tale." ( Detroit News )

美国著名畅销书作家，同时也是一位有成就的医学博士。他的小说如《入侵》、《紧急传染》等主要涉及生物犯罪等内容，在《夺命病毒》的作者寄语中，罗宾科克写道：“很不幸，有关生物武器和生物恐怖主义，小说人物所谈内容基本属实。针对美国和欧洲发生重大生物恐怖主义事件的可能性，侦探卢索达洛发表的一番评论最扣人心弦：问题不是到底会不会发生，而是什么时候发生。

Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express here the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels. -- Milan Kundera Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially pe...(展开全部)