约翰·班维尔

Kepler is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1981. In Kepler Banville recreates Prague despite never having been there when he wrote it. A historical novel, it won the 1981 Guardian Fiction Prize.

A work of dazzling imagination, Mefisto, like John Banville's other novels, takes as its theme the price the true scientist or artist must pay for his calling in terms of his own humanity, his ability to live fully. Like his Copernicus, Kepler, and the nameless narrator of The Newton Letter, the central character of …

裹尸布是约翰·班维尔第16本著作，讲述一个自称为阿雷克斯‧范德的大骗子的历史和恐惧。他本身其实并不是“阿雷克斯‧范德”，年青时与真正的阿雷克斯‧范德，一个好朋友，四处享受。但真正的阿雷克斯‧范德死后，这个大骗子就感到阿雷克斯‧范德的不幸—未被世人歌颂，遂远走他国，以阿雷克斯‧范德的名义打工结婚。他一直以为瞒得住事实，但忽然一个他不认识的年轻女子威胁他，而他在大学里的两个学生亦开始怀疑“阿雷克斯‧范德”的真实身份。但最后这骗子知道很多人都为他保守过他的秘密，使他更感羞耻。 …

The incomparable Booker Prize winner's next great crime novel--the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in …