The extraordinary life and death-defying work of one of the most important and pioneering performance artists in contemporary art.

作者简介： 亚当•弗格森（Adam Fergusson），1932年出生于苏格兰。剑桥大学历史系毕业后，曾任《格拉斯哥先驱报》《统计学家报》与《泰晤士报》记者。他担任过欧洲议会成员、英国外交部特别顾问及欧洲国际工商事务顾问等数职。目前任英国皇家文学学会会员。

卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰（Carlos Ruiz Zafón），西班牙当代作家。一九六四年生于巴塞罗那，原任职于广告界，后赴美定居，目前在洛杉矶从事电影编剧以及文学创作。一九九三年以处女作《雾中王子》惊艳亮相，接下来出版的几部作品如《午夜皇宫》《九月之光》等，都是极受好评的青少年小说。二〇〇一年出版《风之影》，随即席卷西班牙书市，畅销五年热潮不退；二〇〇四年，《风之影》获西班牙年度最畅销小说奖；在法国获年度最佳外国小说奖；在英国成为有史以来第一本登上畅销榜冠军的西班牙小说。目前《风之影》已译成五十多种语言在全球出版，总销量达一千五百万册，突破西班牙出版历史纪录。

'Fifteen years on, the remembrance of that day has returned to me. I have seen that boy wandering through the mist of the railway station, and the name of Marina has flared up again like a fresh wound. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine...' In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the ol...(展开全部)

Orlando has always been an outsider...His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own time. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England amd imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashing explorer Shelmerdine the ideal man? And what form will Orlando ta...(展开全部)

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers, and one of the most powerful and influential in contemporary philosophy. Taking account of the most recent scholarship, Manfred Kuehn allows the reader to follow the same journey that Kant himself took in emerging as a central figure i...(展开全部)

Global thinker, public intellectual and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced migration, built a very successful academic career and, after retirement, became a prolific and popular writer and an intellectual talisman for young people everywhere. He was one of those rare scholars who, grey-haired and in his eig...(展开全部)

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. 'It can only be defined in a living context together with others.' In this major new biography, Stefan Muller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biog...(展开全部)

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virgin...(展开全部)

Orlando’s journey, from the court of Queen Elizabeth I to modern times will also be an internal one. He is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia’s Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation is a funny, exuberant tale which examines the very nature of sexuality.