From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into ...(展开全部)

帕特里克•聚斯金德（Patrick Süskind），德国当代知名作家。他的处女作《低音提琴》于1981年9月在慕尼黑首演，至今仍常演不衰。1984年，聚斯金德完成了他的第一部长篇小说《香水》，出版后轰动了德语文坛，后被译成多种语言。他还著有中篇小说《鸽子》，《夏先生的故事》及其他一些非虚构作品，在当代德语文学界具有显著的影响力。

伊凡·克里玛，捷克著名作家。1931年出生于布拉格一个犹太人家庭，10岁时随父母被关进纳粹集中营，在那里度过三年时光。他所有儿童时代的同伴都死于毒气室。　　　　 1956年，克里玛毕业于布拉格大学文学语言系，在一家出版社任编辑，同时开始小说和剧本的创作。1968年苏军进入捷克后，克里玛应邀去美国一所大学做访问学者。一年后，他谢绝了朋友们的劝告回到捷克，随即失去了工作。为了生计他做过救护员、送信员、勘测员等工作，同时作为自由撰稿人写作。有20年时间他的作品在捷克完全遭到禁止，只能以“地下文学”的形式在读者中流传。 克里玛和哈维尔、昆德拉并称捷克文坛的三驾马车，近年来国际声誉日隆。有很多评论者认为，他的文学成就和社会声望都在昆德拉之上。

伊凡·克里玛，捷克著名作家。1931年出生于布拉格一个犹太人家庭，10岁时随父母被关进纳粹集中营，在那里度过三年时光。他所有儿童时代的同伴都死于毒气室。　　　　 1956年，克里玛毕业于布拉格大学文学语言系，在一家出版社任编辑，同时开始小说和剧本的创作。1968年苏军进入捷克后，克里玛应邀去美国一所大学做访问学者。一年后，他谢绝了朋友们的劝告回到捷克，随即失去了工作。为了生计他做过救护员、送信员、勘测员等工作，同时作为自由撰稿人写作。有20年时间他的作品在捷克完全遭到禁止，只能以“地下文学”的形式在读者中流传。 克里玛和哈维尔、昆德拉并称捷克文坛的三驾马车，近年来国际声誉日隆。有很多评论者认为，他的文学成就和社会声望都在昆德拉之上。

Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a rela...(展开全部)

Following in the wake of hugely successful medical memoirs such as Do No Harm and Fragile Lives, Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed – this could be your lungs, your he...(展开全部)

'Critical' is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensive care medicine and the lives of people who have forever been changed by it. Being critically ill means one or more of your vital organs have failed - this could be your lungs, your heart, your kidneys, gut or even your brain. Starting with the first recognised case in which a l...(展开全部)

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. When she was 26 years old, she finally had her wish and ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions, she braved the dangers of the jungle and survived encounters with leopards and lions in the African bush. More importantly, she got to know an ...(展开全部)

比尔・克林顿，1946年8月19日出生于美国阿肯色州霍普市一个小店主家庭。法学博士学位。妻子是同班女同学希拉里。1976年，当选阿肯色州司法部长。1979年，他就任阿肯色州第40任州长。时年仅32岁，被新闻界称为“孩子州长”。1992年11月3日，他在大选中以压倒性优势获胜，击败布什，当选美国第42任总统。

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees -- intelli...(展开全部)