■ 內容簡介 痴狂曼波，半生凋零。 步歡躍，隱隱哀歌不止。 聲沂弱，新夢新戀愈追尋愈飄渺。 望昨日翻湧，青春力度今日失喪。 人遠在千里，召喚碎裂心神。 歌一曲憂傷無盡，新夢舊情埋入新墳。 ■ 序 一曲交織著愛情、親情和愛欲的人生哀歌──譯序 國著名作家奧斯卡‧海傑羅斯的長篇小說《曼波之王的情歌》出版伊始，即好評如潮。小說立即奪得了美國文壇最引人注目的大獎──普立茲文學獎。接著又被改編成電影，搬上銀幕，觀眾反響熱烈，久演不衰。 世紀三、四○年代的美國，其主流音樂是「搖擺樂」(swing)，隨著移民音樂家的到來，自由活潑的小型爵士樂演唱組紛紛形成，他們以富有生命力的即興演奏，不斷地把樂器和人聲的表現力推向極限，使情感同樣需要宣洩的觀眾如癡如醉。古巴音樂家帶來的曼波舞一時成為紐約娛樂界的時尚。 於書中有些過於裸露的性描寫，因不符合東方讀者審美情趣，所以我們...(展开全部)

奧斯卡‧海傑羅斯(Oscar Hijuelos) 國著名當代作家。著有《最後世界上我們的房子》(Our House in the Last World)與《曼波之王的情歌》等傑出文學作品。《曼波之王的情歌》出版後廣受好評，並獲頒美國文壇最引人注目的普立茲文學獎。

Amazon.com Inspired by their heroes Xavier Cugat and Desi Arnaz， brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo come to New York City from Cuba in 1949 with designs on becoming mambo stars. Eventually they do--performing with Arnaz on "I Love Lucy" in 1955 and recording 78s with their own band， the Mambo Kings. In his second novel， Hijuelos traces the lives of the flashy， guitar...(展开全部)

It's 1949, the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become, by night, stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is a golden time that thirty years later will be remembered with deep affection. In T...(展开全部)

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial distric...(展开全部)

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright's classic tale of tragic decisions in a traditional African culture. Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's powerful play concerns the intertwined lives of Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman; his son, Olunde, now studying medicine in England; and Simon Pilkings, the colonial distric...(展开全部)

Classic of erotic literature (1894), celebrating lesbian love, translation of original edition, complete with 161 sensuous illustrations by Willi Pogany.

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • From a Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • A New York Times Book Review Nota...(展开全部)

C.E.摩根，出生于1976年，美国青年作家。摩根在伯里亚学院学习英语，之后去哈佛神学院学习文学和宗教，在哈佛学习期间她完成《生活之歌》的创作。2009年，她成为美国国家图书基金会评选的年度三十五岁以下五位作家之一；2016年，她获得了“科克斯文学奖”和“温德姆-坎贝尔文学奖”；2017年，作品《赛马》入围普利策奖