Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters: the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus prie...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns a...(展开全部)

First published in 1975, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining railway odyssey has become a modern classic of travel literature. Here Theroux recounts his early adventures on an unusual grand continental tour. Asia's fabled trains -- the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-...(展开全部)

保罗•索鲁 Paul Theroux, 1941- 美国旅行作家。曾在马拉维的丛林学校担任和平团教师，在乌干达的大学担任讲师。在新加坡大学任教期间，将短篇故事及为报刊撰写的文章结集成册，并开始写小说。后与家人移居英国，居住十多年。目前在美国定居，仍前往各处旅行。 保罗•索鲁著作丰富，包括《赫拉克勒斯之柱》《老巴塔哥尼亚快车》《美国深南之旅》等。荣获英国惠特布雷德文学奖、托马斯•库克旅行文学奖。

尤里·瓦西里耶维奇·布伊达 Юрий Васильевич Буйда，1954— 俄罗斯作家。出生于俄罗斯加里宁格勒地区的兹纳明斯克。小说《零号列车》入围1994年俄罗斯布克奖短名单。短篇小说集《普鲁士新娘》于1999年获得阿波罗·格里戈里耶夫奖，该书的英文版由奥利弗·雷德翻译，于2005年获得罗西卡翻译奖。

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she ...(展开全部)

宝拉•霍金斯 Paula Hawkins ——我对快乐、正常的角色丝毫不感兴趣。 宝拉•霍金斯出生成长于津巴布韦，1989年迁至伦敦。 曾任记者长达15年。定居伦敦后，为了谋生，她曾为人代笔创作都市女性小说。 她每天搭乘伦敦地铁通勤，其他上班族习以为常的经历，却给予她奇妙的灵感，《火车上的女孩》的故事框架由此诞生。 在小说写到一半时，她陷入经济困境，经纪人帮她寄出不到200页的书稿，开始四处寻觅合适的出版社。 出乎意料的是，稿件公开后，引起各国小说编辑的震惊，趋之若鹜，纷纷抛出橄榄枝，砸下重金竞标。 梦工厂更是慧眼识金，在故事还未完结的情况下，就先人一步，果断签下电影改编权。 《火车上的女孩》出版前数月，在英国一年一度的犯罪小说节发送试读本，先期读到的读者，给予了一边倒的如潮好评。 2015年1月，英美同步上市发行，十天内，迅速登上各大排行榜总榜冠军...(展开全部)

YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller 'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of bac...(展开全部)

By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion in an increasingly chaotic Russia by arranging for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the most notorious of revolutionary e...(展开全部)

西村京太郎，1930年生于日本国东京。毕业于东京都立电机工业学校后，在政府人事院工作11年。嗣后立志作为作家而辞去公职，在从事着各种工作的同时坚持小说创作。他的作品《天使的伤痕》1965年获第11届江户川乱步奖。1980年，他的作品《终点站杀人案》获第34届日本推理作家协会奖。他擅长写作以神秘旅行为题材的推理小说，在此类风格的日本作家中堪称第一。现在他仍精力旺盛地创作着大量的长、短篇小说。