【编者简介】 吉恩•贝尔-维亚达（ Gene H. Bell-Villada），美国威廉姆斯学院罗曼语系主任，著有《为艺术而艺术及文学生活：政治和市场如何帮助塑造唯美主义的思想和文化，1790—1990》（入围美国国家图书评论奖）、《海外美国人：在热带长大的外国佬》等。 【译者简介】 许志强，浙江大学世界文学和比较文学研究所教授、博导，著有《马孔多神话和魔幻现实主义》，译有《在西方的注视下》《水手比利•巴德》等。

Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1927) is a sophisticated literary artist who has attained broad popularity. His masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, has sold tens of millions of copies world wide. His later works have enjoyed equally astounding sales. His achievement as an author received the highest official recognition with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Convers...(展开全部)

In this rich, vibrant tale, Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber. Sweeping us from the battlefields of eighteenth-century Scotland to the exotic West Indies, Diana Gabaldon weaves magic once again in an exhilarating and utterly unforgettable novel.... Their love ...(展开全部)

卡尔·萨根（Carl Sagan，1934—1996） 美国天文学家、享誉全球的科普大师，第2709号小行星就是以他的名字命名。长期参与美国太空探测计划，获得NASA颁发的特别科学成就奖和阿波罗成就奖。萨根是美国天文协会行星科学学会的主席、美国地球物理学会联合会行星研究 会主席、美国科学促进协会行星学会主席。曾任美国康奈尔大学行星研究中心主任，也曾在哈佛、加州理工任教。 萨根的文学艺术造诣颇高，一生共创作了数十部作品，获得过普利策奖、雨果奖、艾美奖、阿西莫夫奖等重量级奖项，80年代他自编自导的系列纪录片《宇宙》在60多个国家上映，引起巨大轰动。此外，他还获得了美国天文学会的“突出贡献奖”和美国国家科学院的最高奖“公共福利奖”，以表彰他在“将科学应用于公众福利方面所做出的杰出贡献”。

The Garcias-Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia-belong to the uppermost echelon of Spanish Caribbean society, descended from the conquistadores. Their family compound adjoins the "palacio" of the dictator's daughter. So when Dr. Garcia's part in a coup attempt is discovered, the family must flee. They arrive in N...(展开全部)

The Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia is revered worldwide not only for the extreme realism he brings to his paintings and drawings, but because he conveys through this extreme realism a wonderful sensitivity to light, color and space, enabling each to breathe with a tranquility that allows for the encroachments of everyday life. Interior scenes of dining tables, bathroom sin...(展开全部)

The Spanish artist Antonio Lopez Garcia is revered worldwide not only for the extreme realism he brings to his paintings and drawings, but because he conveys through this extreme realism a wonderful sensitivity to light, color and space, enabling each to breathe with a tranquility that allows for the encroachments of everyday life. Interior scenes of dining tables, bathroom sin...(展开全部)

作者尼古拉斯·布莱克，1904年生于爱尔兰，英国牛津大学和剑桥大学教授，皇家文学协会副主席。主要作品以英国现代诗歌著称，并于1968年至1972年期间担任英国桂冠诗人。与此同时，还出版有20部侦探小说，是英国黄金时代侦探小说的代表性作家，其中以“奈杰尔·斯特雷奇威”为侦探主角的16部系列小说，囊括了黄金时代侦探小说的所有悬疑探案模式，文笔流畅，人物鲜明，被誉为西方犯罪小说的经典。一版再版，畅销不衰，并多次被改编成电影、电视剧，风靡一时。

In Carlos Rojas' imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theatre in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgangers appear, one a middle-aged L...(展开全部)