《The Kite Runner(追风筝的人)》是一个阿富汗作家的处女作，霸占了美国两大权威畅销书排行榜《纽约时报》排行榜、《出版商周刊》排行榜长达80余周，声势超过红透全世界的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》。 这本小说太令人震撼，很长一段时日，让我所读的一切都相形失色。文学与生活中的所有重要主题，都交织在这部惊世之作里：爱、恐惧、愧疚、赎罪……——著名作家伊莎贝拉·阿连德 ★一个阿富汗作家的处女作 ★一部以史诗般的历史景观和荡气回肠的人性故事，深深地打动全世界各地亿万读者心的文学经典 ★美国《纽约时报》、《出版商周刊》等九大畅销书排行榜榜首图书 ★英国《观察家报》2005年度最佳图书 ★台湾诚品书店、金石堂书店、博客来书店销售冠军 ★连续80余周雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，声势超过红透全球的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》 “许多年过去了，人们说陈年旧事可以被埋葬，然而我终于明白这是错的，因为往事会自行爬上来。回首前尘，我意识到在过去二十六年里，自己始终在窥视着那荒芜的小径。” 《华盛顿邮报》认为：“没有虚矫赘文，没有无病呻吟，只有精炼的篇章，细腻勾勒家庭与友谊，背叛与救赎。作者对祖国的爱显然与对造成它今日沧桑的恨一样深。故事娓娓道来，轻笔淡描，近似川端康成的《千羽鹤》。” 12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而，在一场风筝比赛后，发生了一件悲惨不堪的事，阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦，逼走了哈桑，不久，自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。 成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪，阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡，希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力，却发现一个惊天谎言，儿时的噩梦再度重演，阿米尔该如何抉择？ 小说如此残忍而又美丽，作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎，读来令人荡气回肠。 Book Description This is a wonderful, beautiful epic of a novel. Set in Afghanistan and the United States between the 1970s to the present day, it is a heartbreaking tale of a young boy, Amir, and his best friend who are torn apart. This is a classic word-of-mouth novel and is sure to become as universally loved as The God of Small Things and The Glass Palace. Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him - for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble. But Hassan is a Shi'a Muslim and this is 1970s Afghanistan. Hassan is taunted and jeered at by Amir's school friends; he is merely a servant living in a shack at the back of Amir's house. So why does Amir feel such envy towards his friend? Then, what happens to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament is to shatter all their lives, and define their futures. Amazon.co.uk Review The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling. The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca Book Dimension : length: (cm)17.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11.1

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his own–until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps. Under Holmes’s tutelage, Russell hones her talent for deduction, disguises, and danger: in the chilling case of a landowner’s mysterious fever and in a kidnapping in the wilds of Wales. But her ultimate challenge is yet to come. Soon the two sleuths are on the trail of a murderer whose machinations scatter meaningless clues…but whose objective is quite unequivocal: to end Russell and Holmes’s partnership–and their lives.

出身望族、拥有皇家血脉的上阳郡主王儇（阿妩），原本拥有世上最令人艳羡的一切——美貌、尊贵、才情与青梅竹马的恋人；然而生逢乱世，不可回避的宿命将她推上风口浪尖。萧綦，出身寒微，从行伍而起，一步步凭军功踏上高位，成为权倾天下的豫章王。迎娶王儇本是一场权力的交易。却不料，一场迟来的邂逅，改变了两个人的命运。从此铁血生涯里，有了生死契阔的相约，有了并肩同行的坚定。 外戚与皇族之争引发宫变，南方皇族起兵反叛。返京途中身陷晖州的王儇智计夺城，赢得了政治生涯的第一场胜利，从此和萧綦并肩踏上帝王霸业的漫长征途，旌麾南指，马踏天阙。 然而以王儇家族为首的士族外戚，与寒族武人势力注定了你死我活的对立。夫族与家族、爱情与亲情、昔日与今朝，逼迫王儇做出一次次残酷的抉择。 昔日皇家女儿，以征服者的身份重返宫廷，真正站在了权力的颠峰。等待她的是繁华落尽、满目凄凉；是风云诡谲、危机四伏；是已经铺展在脚下的开国之路……

内田康夫以写作长篇推理小说而闻名.<盲琴师>则是他的短篇推理小说集锦,收有五个短篇.

日本当代著名作家渡边淳一，最新长篇爱情小说，2004年日本《读读新闻》连载一年。细致反映现代精神医疗的真实世界，深入探究美女医生隐秘的内心深处。 精神病院的护士北向健吾一直深深地暗恋着美丽高贵的女院长冰见子医生，正当两人的恋情渐入佳境时，冰见子医生有时出现的奇怪言行及对两位患者的不可思议的治疗，却使北向的困惑日益加深…… 冰见子医生年轻貌美，医术精湛，又是两家精神病医院的院长。然而因小时候受到过父亲的性侵犯，同时又有恋父情结，故成年后在人格、性格上都有着时隐时现的分裂和异常。这种异常不仅导致了她的畸形情爱，最终也使自己身败名裂，自杀而亡。 这是日本当代著名作家渡边淳一最新创作的长篇情爱小说。作者以其擅长的细腻入微的心理描写将男女主人公的情爱心理刻划得丝丝入扣、引人入胜。

琵琶湖是日本最大的內陸湖，也是一個風景秀麗的旅遊勝地，工業化污染卻使這個幾千萬人的食水之源成為「瀕死之湖」。 「環保」運動竟引來一連串殺人事件，慟人的哀歌後面記錄了一段鮮為人知的史實……。

小说以一首经典的老歌――《田纳西华尔兹》，演绎出一段扭曲的畸情。孤苦无依的时江迫不得已嫁给一名伤残军人，育有两子。与同母异父的妹妹――日本战后头号红歌星阿幸相认之后，时江抛夫弃子，热衷于当妹妹的跟班，并开始人生第一次真正的恋爱。然而，强烈的嫉妒心将时江引上了歧路。她利用阿幸的信任，将大量钱财用来投资，最终令阿幸一无所有。在她的离间之下，阿幸与丈夫小勇离了婚，不久因醉酒溺死于家中，而时江也难逃牢狱之灾。 书中阿幸的原型为日本红歌星江利智惠美，而小勇就是大名鼎鼎的高仓健。江利是高仓健生命中惟一的妻子，两人的婚姻颇多风雨，始终给人扑朔迷离的感觉。早在1952年，江利智惠美就以一曲《田纳西华尔兹》一举成名，跃升为日本头号歌星。她于1959年7月与高仓健结婚，尽管两人在演艺界有“鸳鸯夫妇”之称，但是他们的婚姻只维持了12年便告结束。 至于分手的原因，据在当时的演艺圈有“母亲”之称的演员清川虹子说：“自从出演侠客以后，仓健君就渐渐变成了一个独往独来的‘独行侠’，经常好几天不回家，而且不说去什么地方，这令江利感到坐卧不安。于是就有人在江利耳边煽风，要她同仓健君分手。”这一情节在小说中得到了印证。之后的14年，江利一直郁郁寡欢，过着独居生活，直到1982年2月，人们在东京江利智惠美的公寓内发现了她僵硬的尸体，经验证是酗酒引起窒息而死。这也与小说中的描写如出一辙。 看过高仓健晚年主演的电影《铁道员》的观众或许还记得，影片中多次出现江利的成名曲《田纳西华尔兹》。其实，这是高仓健在拍摄现场突然提议导演加进去的，他要以这首歌表达对亡妻深深的怀念。 这部作品与林真理子其他以婚爱情感为主题的小说风格迥然不同，充满了怀旧的氛围和令人扼腕的内心拷问。林真理子通过对女性内心世界细致入微的刻画、解剖，使得这段似乎平淡无奇的故事，变得极富内涵。该书当初在日本出版时，就引起了不小的轰动，被日本媒体誉为林真理子的“惊情之作”。

汽车公司接待员真之子辞去现有职位，离开了一个与自己长久维持肉体关系的男人，后又因性交易行为而被迫住进精神病院。出院后，一个男人答允带她离开日本，到她想要去的地方。她决定要去Ibiza，一段诡异的感官旅程，由此展开……

小说发生在当代的东京，主人公少女朔美有一个奇特的家庭，成员有美貌的母亲、同母异父的小学生弟弟、寄住的表妹和母亲的一个女友，他们性格各有怪异，生活在一起非常有趣。朔美有个妹妹真由曾走红演艺圈，后患忧郁症自杀，朔美偷偷爱着真由的男友小说家龙太郎，但直到妹妹死后也不敢开口。正在这时，她因脑部撞伤丧失了记忆，在一点点恢复的过程中用全新的目光看待周围世界，终于与龙太郎建立了恋爱关系。同时，自称有特异功能的弟弟性格日愈古怪，情绪低沉，朔美正与龙太郎在太平洋上的塞班岛旅游，便把弟弟接去散心，在大海夕阳和纯朴热情的当地人的影响下，弟弟恢复了精神健康，而朔美与龙太郎在这一过程中也更加知心，塞班岛上关于死者灵魂永生于海洋的古老传说，解开了他们原本觉得有愧于真由的心结，使他们对人生和生命的含义有了更深切的感悟。此后他们返回日本，继续着有烦恼有欢笑的生活，品味着平凡的满足。 这部小说思路奇特，行文随兴所至，变幻莫测，无拘无束。海岛景象的神奇瑰丽，人物情感的起伏波荡，处处给人以别开生面、耳目一新之感。作者是写孤独不幸少女的高手，对她们曲折内心的发掘特别深切，令青少年读者为之如痴如醉，这本书也是如此，再加上热带风光和传说的渲染，记忆恢复阶段的独特视角，以及家人朋友的各种小插曲，遍布全文的妙语警句，这一切交织在一起，使整个作品宛如一组色调光怪陆离的连环图画，充满着梦幻色彩。

本书是日本当代超级畅销书女作家江国香织的清新系列小说之一，她以女性特有的纤细感受、敏锐的观察力和清新的文字，道出了女性对情爱的渴望以及各种矛盾、挫折、激情，展现了属于女性的细腻氛围。作品清淡、宁静，深受女性读者喜爱。

伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基最为鲜明的作品描述的都是犹太人和俄国人的世界。在《狗与狼》里，她描绘了早期的商人联合会里的资产阶级生活，这些商人享有在基辅居住的权利，而根据尼古拉一世颁布的条令，从原则上来说，这个城市不允许犹太人居住。 伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基并不否定东欧的犹太文明，她的祖父母（雅各夫·马尔居里斯和贝拉·丘吉德洛维奇）接受的就是这样的文明，尽管家族有了钱之后，他们远离了它。但是，在伊莱娜的眼里，对于金钱的操纵，积聚由金钱堆砌起来财产都是不名誉的行为，虽然在她的少年时代，包括她成年以后，过的都是大资产阶级的生活。 在描绘犹太人社会地位的上升时，伊莱娜拾起了所有反犹主义的偏见，将那个时代为犹太人所勾勒的种种偏见性的描述按在他们身上。犹太人的一幅幅画像就这样从她的笔下冒了出来，用的都是最残忍、最讽刺的语汇，而她则带着一种心醉神迷的恐惧欣赏着，尽管她承认自己与他们属于一个命运共同体。这一点，正是她日后遭受一系列悲剧事件的根由。

'Akunin is an outstanding novelist...Fandorin is a beautifully drawn character who more than lives up to comparisons with Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes...The characters are delightful and you can imagine them in a Woody Allen version of an Agatha Christie novel...Akunin's work is gloriously tongue-in-cheek but seriously edge-of-your-seat at the same time' Daily Express On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby, an English eccentric and collector, is found murdered in his Paris house together with nine members of his staff. A gold whale in the victim's hand leads Erast Fandorin to board the Leviathan, the world's largest steamship, as the murderer is one of the 142 first class passengers. Commissioner Gauche of the French police has narrowed down the suspects to ten, and they are forced to eat together at every meal time in the ship's Windsor Suite until 'the Crime of the Century' is solved. But is the murderer really at the table, and can Erast Fandorin discover his or her identity before Gauche? As more passengers are murdered and the Leviathan heads towards Calcutta, Fandorin needs all his investigative skills to find the truth.

Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

In one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before--and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.

Andre Gide praised "The Asiatics" as "an authentic masterpiece"; Thomas Mann called it "brilliant." First published in 1935 and virtually unavailable for years, this extraordinary novel tells the story of a young American--the unnamed narrator--who hitchhikes his way across Asia, from Beirut to China, living off the land and depending on the hospitality of the people he meets along the road. As Pico Iyer writes in the introduction, " Prokosch] catches the peculiar logic that makes travel a land of alternative reality, a foreign state in itself that is an intoxication."