詹姆斯·索特 (James Salter，1925—2015)，美国小说家、短篇小说作家。成长于纽约曼哈顿，毕业于西点军校，做过战斗机飞行员。1957年出版长篇小说《猎手》，后全职从事写作。 主要作品有长篇小说《一场游戏一次消遣》（1967）、《光年》（1975 ）、《 独面》（1979）、《这一切》（2013），短篇小说集《暮色》（1988）、《昨夜》（2005），回忆录《燃烧的日子》（1997）等。曾获得福克纳奖（1989）、迈克尔•雷短篇小说奖（2010）、《巴黎评论》哈达达奖（2011）、马拉默德小说奖（2012）等。 . 译者简介： 刘伟，毕业于北京大学中文系，自由译者、撰稿人。

A literary event--a major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in post-World War II America that tells of one man's great passions and regrets over the course of his lifetime. From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Ph...(展开全部)

There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real" and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important traits like "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences"; and tha...(展开全部)

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable...(展开全部)

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable...(展开全部)

There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is built up with ammunition boxes and corpses'. In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Rober...(展开全部)

Good-bye to All That is the autobiography of Robert Graves.[1] First published in 1929, the work is a landmark anti-war memoir of life in the trenches during World War I. The title expresses Graves' disillusionment in the existence of traditional, stable values in European and English society. Graves first wrote the work in his thirties, when he had a long and eventful life ahe...(展开全部)

This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story ...(展开全部)

东野圭吾 Keigo Higashino 当代最知名的日本推理小说作家，无可争议的畅销小说天王。 1958年2月4日生于大阪。1985年凭借《放学后》荣获江户川乱步奖出道。1999年凭借《秘密》夺得有“推理奥斯卡”之称的日本推理作家协会奖。先后以《秘密》、《白夜行》、《单恋》、《信》、《幻夜》五度入围日本大众文学最高荣誉直木奖。2006年，依靠《嫌疑人X的献身》一举摘取直木大奖，并且同时包揽“这本推理小说了不起！”、“周刊文春推理小说BEST10”、“本格推理小说 BEST10”三大日本最权威推理小说榜单第一名，确立了其日本推理第一人的地位。

东野圭吾 Keigo Higashino 当代最知名的日本推理小说作家，无可争议的畅销小说天王。 1958年2月4日生于大阪。1985年凭借《放学后》荣获江户川乱步奖出道。1999年凭借《秘密》夺得有“推理奥斯卡”之称的日本推理作家协会奖。先后以《秘密》、《白夜行》、《单恋》、《信》、《幻夜》五度入围日本大众文学最高荣誉直木奖。2006年，依靠《嫌疑人X的献身》一举摘取直木大奖，并且同时包揽“这本推理小说了不起！”、“周刊文春推理小说BEST10”、“本格推理小说 BEST10”三大日本最权威推理小说榜单第一名，确立了其日本推理第一人的地位。