✍斯坦尼斯瓦夫•莱姆（1921—2006），波兰著名作家、哲学家。当过汽车技工，终获医学博士学位，创立波兰宇航协会。代表作有《索拉里斯星》《未来学大会》《惨败》等。作品多聚焦哲学主题，探讨科技对人类的影响、智慧的本质、外星交流，以及人类认知的局限等。1996年被授予波兰国 家奖章“白鹰勋章”，波兰第一颗人造卫星以他的名字命名。 ✍莱姆是20世纪欧洲最多才多艺的作家之一，安东尼•伯吉斯称赞他是“当今活跃的作家中最智慧、最博学、最幽默的一位”，库尔特•冯内古特赞扬他“无论是语言的驾驭、想象力还是塑造悲剧角色的手法，都非常优秀，无人能出其右”。被译成52种语言，全球畅销4000余万册。

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen...(展开全部)

Translated into English at last, Fiasco joins its companion volumes Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child in telling an epic story of the author's return from the Nazi death camps, only to find his country taken over by another totalitarian government. Fiasco as Imre Kertesz himself has said, "is fiction founded on reality" — a Kafka-like account that is sur...(展开全部)

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta, a dark poetry takes over and leads them into a nightmare of misunderstanding. Translated by Michael Kandel. A Helen...(展开全部)

'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the ...(展开全部)

伊恩•麦克尤恩，1948年生，英国当代著名作家。1976年以处女作短篇小说集《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》成名，并获当年毛姆奖。此后佳作不断，迄今已出版十几部既畅销又获好评的小说，其中《阿姆斯特丹》获布克奖，《时间中的孩子》获惠特布莱德奖，《赎罪》获全美书评人协会奖。近年来，随着麦克尤恩在主流文学圈获得越来越高的评价，在图书市场上创造越来越可观的销售记录，他已经被公认为英国的“国民作家”，他的名字已经成为当今英语文坛上“奇迹”的同义词。

伊恩•麦克尤恩，1948年生，英国当代著名作家。1976年以处女作短篇小说集《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》成名，并获当年毛姆奖。此后佳作不断，迄今已出版十几部既畅销又获好评的小说，其中《阿姆斯特丹》获布克奖，《时间中的孩子》获惠特布莱德奖，《赎罪》获全美书评人协会奖。近年来，随着麦克尤恩在主流文学圈获得越来越高的评价，在图书市场上创造越来越可观的销售记录，他已经被公认为英国的“国民作家”，他的名字已经成为当今英语文坛上“奇迹”的同义词。

A tale of love, money, and family conflict--among dragons A family deals with the death of their father. A son goes to court for his inheritance. Another son agonises over his father's deathbed confession. One daughter becomes involved in the abolition movement, while another sacrifices herself for her husband. And everyone in the tale is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Her...(展开全部)