Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not only as one of South America’s greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. In this gorgeously wrought, award-winning novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia. In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo o...(展开全部)

Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not only as one of South America’s greatest literary stars, but also as one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. In this gorgeously wrought, award-winning novel, Vásquez confronts the history of his home country, Colombia. In the city of Bogotá, Antonio Yammara reads an article about a hippo that had escaped from a derelict zoo o...(展开全部)

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the...(展开全部)

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the...(展开全部)

胡安·加夫列尔·巴斯克斯（Juan Gabriel Vásquez，1973— ），哥伦比亚作家，曾于1996-1998年在法国索邦大学学习拉丁美洲文学。2004年，他的小说《告密者》(Los informantes)出版后获得广泛好评，2007年出版《科斯塔瓦纳秘史》（Historia secreta de Costaguana），2011年出版的《坠物之声》（El ruido de las cosas al caer）获西班牙丰泉小说奖、国际都柏林文学奖。2015年出版《废墟之形》（La forma de las ruinas），入围曼布克国际文学奖短名单。此外，还创作有短篇集《万圣节的情人们》(Los amantes de Todos los Santos)、《为火而歌》（Canciones para el incendio）等。他的作品已被翻...(展开全部)

胡安·加夫列尔·巴斯克斯（Juan Gabriel Vásquez，1973— ），哥伦比亚作家，曾于1996-1998年在法国索邦大学学习拉丁美洲文学。2004年，他的小说《告密者》(Los informantes)出版后获得广泛好评，2007年出版《科斯塔瓦纳秘史》（Historia secreta de Costaguana），2011年出版的《坠物之声》（El ruido de las cosas al caer）获西班牙丰泉小说奖、国际都柏林文学奖。2015年出版《废墟之形》（La forma de las ruinas），入围曼布克国际文学奖短名单。此外，还创作有短篇集《万圣节的情人们》(Los amantes de Todos los Santos)、《为火而歌》（Canciones para el incendio）等。他的作品已被翻...(展开全部)

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a...(展开全部)

"Falling Man" is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. "DeLillo's most affecting novel yet...A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "The clearest vi...(展开全部)

"Falling Man" is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. "DeLillo's most affecting novel yet...A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "The clearest vi...(展开全部)