你没读过《英国病人》的原著小说，至少也该看过根据它改编的同名电影吧？你应该对那个情深刻骨、抵死痴缠的故事仍然记忆犹新吧？在我看来，《英国病人》的小说比电影更隽永，也更复杂，而那个最擅于驾御复杂局面和深沉情感的作家就是翁达杰。
《菩萨凝视的岛屿》是麦可·翁达杰的2001年出版的新作，写的是他的出生地斯里兰卡的故事。女主角安霓尤离国多年后，出任人权组织的法医，回到斯里兰卡调查一连串的神秘失踪案件。在这一过程中，她目睹杀戮与阴谋，而误解和伤痛则折磨着人们的心灵。随着叙事的发展，读者会逐渐领悟到，这本小说表面上讲的是侦探悬疑故事，骨子里却是在讲授在乱世中如何自处的生命艺术。
翁达杰的小说不胜在情节，而胜在他诗一般优美的文笔，胜在他对人世深刻的观察与体悟。从某种意义上来说，翁达杰的小说比一本哲学书更能挑动你的思绪。我认为，他就是那种老于世故而又不失纯真的人，斯时今世的“稀有动物”啊！

《苹果酒屋的规则》是约翰·欧文的代表作，讲述了年轻人荷马的成长历程：离家出走，寻找真爱，定位人生。身为孤儿的荷马，生活在美国缅因州的圣克劳兹孤儿院。孤儿院的拉奇医生将自己的医术悉数传授给荷马，包括当时尚不为法律允许的堕胎手术，并希望荷马能够继续承他的事业，但在拉奇医生父亲般的关爱和呵护下逐渐迈向成年的荷马却向往医术以外的东西，渴望学习生活的规则。后来，他跟随前来堕胎的坎蒂及男友华力一道离开孤儿院，来到华力家的观海苹果园工作。二战爆发后，华力奔赴战场，荷马与坎蒂坠入爱河。但是面对从战场上残废归来的华力，坎蒂和荷马只能选择分手，他们爱情的结晶安琪尔也成了荷马的“养子”……
全书围绕着荷马在燃情岁月里的悲、欢、离、合展开，反映现实生活不乏遗憾、忧伤，但同时又给人以向往和希望。该书经欧文本人改变为剧本，搬上银幕，于2000年一举获得奥斯卡最佳配角奖、最佳改编剧本奖等多项殊荣。

《基督山伯爵》是大仲马的代表作。法老号大副唐泰斯受船长委托，为拿破仑党人送了一封信，遭到两个卑鄙小人和法官的陷害，被打入死牢。狱友法里亚神甫向他传授了各种知识，并在临终前把埋于基督山岛上的一批宝藏的秘密告诉了他。唐泰斯越狱后找到了宝藏，成为巨富。从此化名基督山伯爵，经过精心策划，报答了恩人，惩罚了仇人。小说充满浪漫的传奇色彩，情节奇特新颖，引人入胜。

《荆棘鸟》是一部澳大利亚的家世小说，以女主人公梅吉和神父拉尔夫的爱情纠葛为主线，描写了克利里一家三代人的故事，时间跨度长达半个多世纪。拉尔夫一心向往教会的权力，却爱上了克利里家的美丽少女梅吉。为了他追求的“上帝”，他抛弃了世俗的爱情，然而内心又极度矛盾和痛苦。以此为中心，克利里家族十余名成员的悲欢离合也得以展现。
小说情节曲折生动，结构严密精巧，文笔清新婉丽。在描写荒蛮广漠的澳大利业风光时，颇有苍凉悲壮之美；同时女作家对女人爱情心态的探索，又十分细腻感人，故而这部作品有澳大利亚的《飘》之誉。

屋顶上放飞的鸽子，
其实放的都是闺阁的心，
飞得高高的，
看那花窗帘的窗，
别时容易见时难的样子，
还是高处不胜寒的样子。

In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life. (from Amazon.com)

作为一部自传体小说，《青春》不同凡响，写法也特别。它并非采用这类作品常见的第一人称途述，主人公也是一位名叫约翰的年轻人，但库切总是称之为“他”。这样的口气不大像是一种自述，因而读来自有疑问：“他”就是他自己么？有一点可以肯定，库切本人的年龄和履历都跟书中的主人公相吻合，至于那里头的诸多细节是否也是作者所亲历，想来已难以考证。库切写“他”十九岁到二十四岁几年间的生活经历，一个南非大学生跑到伦敦做了计算机初级程序员，朝九晚五的公司职员，饭碗不用担心，却还是郁闷。这个岁数的年轻人不是意气风发就是躁动不安，却玩不出轰轰烈烈的名堂，由于生性缺少热情，干不成大事也惹不出乱子。他也需要被爱抚的感觉，但性爱从来没有给他带来生命的光辉，只是在吞噬时间和精力……你想，这种内敛的性格，这般平淡无奇的生存状态，还能做出什么样的文章呢？可是，库切就有这样的本事，一段春梦无痕的人生就让他写得楚楚动人。他把年轻时的自己作为他者来观照，再度审视青春的彷徨之途。

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The ground shifts repeatedly beneath the reader's feet during the course of Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, a riff on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in the high-octane world of rock & roll. Readers get their first clues early on that the universe Rushdie is creating here is not quite the one we know: Jesse Aron Parker, for example, wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"; Carly Simon and Guinevere Garfunkel sang "Bridge over Troubled Water"; and Shirley Jones and Gordon McRae starred in "South Pacific." And as the novel progresses, Rushdie adds unmistakable elements of science fiction to his already patented magical realism, with occasionally uneven results.

Rushdie's cunning musician is Ormus Cana, the Bombay-born founder of the most popular group in the world. Ormus's Eurydice (and lead singer) is Vina Apsara, the daughter of a Greek American woman and an Indian father who abandoned the family. What these two share, besides amazing musical talent, is a decidedly twisted family life: Ormus's twin brother died at birth and communicates to him from "the other side"; his older brothers, also twins, are, respectively, brain-damaged and a serial killer. Vina, on the other hand, grew up in rural West Virginia where she returned home one day to find her stepfather and sisters shot to death and her mother hanging from a rafter in the barn. No wonder these two believe they were made for each other.

Narrated by Rai Merchant, a childhood friend of both Vina and Ormus, The Ground Beneath Her Feet begins with a terrible earthquake in 1989 that swallows Vina whole, then moves back in time to chronicle the tangled histories of all the main characters and a host of minor ones as well. Rushdie's canvas is huge, stretching from India to London to New York and beyond--and there's plenty of room for him to punctuate this epic tale with pointed commentary on his own situation: Muslim-born Rai, for example, remarks that "my parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear.... You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again." Despite earthquakes, heartbreaks, and a rip in the time-space continuum, The Ground Beneath Her Feet may be the most optimistic, accessible novel Rushdie has yet written. --Alix Wilber--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their villas, enjoying the last days of summer. But the gorgeous weather belies impending doom, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius has taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to the people around the Bay of Naples. There is a crisis on Augusta's main line--somewhere north of Pompeii, on the slopes of MOunt Vesuvius. Attilius must repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to organize an expedition in Pompeii, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work--natural and otherwise--threatening to destroy him.

建筑学专业的洛克先生从大学开始就因为不遵循传统说教而被开掉，而听话的另一位先生顺利的毕业并且找到一份好差事。所有人都不喜欢洛克先生，甚至专栏作家也时不时的老羞辱他，洛克爱着的姑娘——也不出所料的跟了那位听话的好好先生……洛克先生活着就是麻烦不断。 在一次政府建筑项目中，那位他的同学，听话的好好先生居然同意了洛克先生独立自主的设计。如果洛克先生能因此获得荣誉，获得成功，并获得尊敬，由此改变世界对他的看法，那真是美好的生活啊。可洛克先生并为因此获得好运气：公众一如既往的反对混子洛克设计建设的这个项目，政府也因此推翻了这个项目，而两位设计者也无法控告政府，政府是无权被告的。洛克先生又一次显示了他混子本色，他搞了一些炸药把那做了一半的楼给炸成一堆碎瓦片子。他也因此而上了法庭，对于自己的行为，他是这么说的：创造是自己的私事，是天赋的权利，维护创造也是同样的天赋个人的权力……
Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.

在《哭泣的骆驼》中，三毛依然恋恋着墨沙漠生活周遭的人与事，《收魂记》、《搭车客》、《逍遥七岛游》、《一个陌生人的死》、《大胡子与我》等篇，情趣盎然；《沙巴军曹》与《哑奴》所刻画的主角，给人留下了难以磨灭的印象；而压轴的《哭泣的骆驼》，以游击战事为背景，细细铺写一对沙漠情鸳的生死盟，竟犹如史诗般的磅礴。

作者以第一人称讲述了一个家庭的欢乐和苦痛，细腻地刻画了柔弱的母亲如何完成了自己忍受的一生，她唯一爆发出来的愤怒是在弥留之际；名叫孙广财的父亲又是如何骄傲地将自己培养成一名彻头彻尾的无赖，他对待自己的父亲和对待自己的儿子，就像对待自己的绊脚石。家中的三兄弟的道路只是短暂地有过重叠，随即就又叉向了各自的方向。

《白银时代》是《时代三部曲》之二。这是由一组虚拟时空的作品构成的长篇。这组作品写的是本世纪长大而活到下世纪的知识分子，在跨世纪的生存过程中，回忆他们的上辈、描述他们的上辈、描述他们自己的人生。与其说这是对未来世界的预测，不如说是现代生活的寓言。

《红楼梦》是中国古典小说举世公认的巅峰，是封建社会的百科全书，也是中华文化的结晶。二百多年来，深受广大读者的欢迎，历久而不衰。这次推出的豪华本《红楼梦》，心版本价值较高的程乙本为底本，并请著名红学家、作家蒋和森先生撰写了怎样读《红楼梦》的前言，著名画家刘旦宅先生创作了精美的插图。全书装帧典雅豪华，版式疏朗大方，既有很高的阅读收藏豪华，版式疏朗大方，既有很高的阅读收藏价值，又是馈赠亲友的最佳礼品。

《兄弟》讲述了江南小镇两兄弟李光头和宋钢的人生。李光头的父亲不怎么光彩地意外身亡，而同一天李光头出生。宋钢的父亲宋凡平在众人的嘲笑声中挺身而出，帮助了李光头的母亲李兰，被后者视为恩人。几年后宋钢的母亲也亡故，李兰和宋凡平在互相帮助中相爱并结婚，虽然这场婚姻遭到了镇上人们的鄙夷和嘲弄，但两人依然相爱甚笃，而李光头和宋钢这对没有血缘关系的兄弟也十分投缘。
李兰去上海看病，而“文革”开始，宋凡平遭受了极其残酷的虐待，但他坚持给病中的妻子写信，隐瞒了事实真相，用想像出的美好生活欺骗着妻子，但最终仍然逃脱不了惨死的命运。李兰为宋凡平守孝，7年不洗头，而李光头和宋钢则在相互照顾中成长……

一个受过高等教育，每天要去京城最著名写字楼经营网络事业，资质不错，外貌美丽的单身女子，她的真实故事、她的奋斗经历，总是引人入胜的；有恋爱女孩的梦想，现代女性的自主，成熟女人的倔强；有一点风月浪漫，有一点世事残酷，有一点曲折离奇；其实她就在每个城市的每个办公室里，就在我们身边……

Unabridged on mp3 audio disk. How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church. On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?" As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland

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"Oprah's Book Club(r) May 1999 Selection Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery-but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Tough, irrepressible, funny, and warm, Astrid is one of the most indelible characters in recent fiction. White Oleander is an unforgettable story of mothers and daughters, burgeoning sexuality, the redemptive powers of art, and the unstoppable force of the emergent self. Written with exquisite beauty and grace, this is a compelling debut by an author poised to join the ranks of today's most gifted novelists."

《红楼梦》原名“石头记”，写于清乾隆时。前八十回为曹雪芹作，后四十回一般认为系高鹗所续。小说内容以贾、史、王、薛四大家族为背景，以爱情故事为主要线索，着重描写在贾家荣、宁二府由盛到衰的过程中，贾宝玉和一群红楼女子为中心的许多人物的悲剧命运。

(Twentieth Century Classics)