J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, are distributed in more than 200 territories, translated into 73 languages, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films. She has also written two small volumes, which appear as the titles of Harry’s schoolbooks within the novels. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages were published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books in March 2001 in aid of Comic Relief. In December 2008, The Tales of Beedle the Bard was published in aid of the Children’s High Level Group, and quickly became the fastest selling book of the year
As well as an OBE for services to children’s literature, J.K. Rowling is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees including the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, France’s Légion d’Honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and she has been a Commencement Speaker at Harvard University USA. She supports a wide number of charitable causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of Lumos, a charity working to transform the lives of disadvantaged children
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.
Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.
Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems.
And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
##初中讀的,今天突然想起,懷念一下。很喜歡,印象最深的是媽媽吸毒的那個女生,還記得她愛的歌Umbrella……
評分##文/嚴傑夫 年初,《哈利•波特》的大戲纔剛落幕,所有人都還沒來得及揣測羅琳未來的創作計劃,但她新作的消息已經不脛而走:據說是一部沒有瞭魔法和鬼怪的作品,據說是一個完全發生在現實中的故事……。當這些四處傳播的小道消息還未完全散去,羅琳新作的中文版已擺到瞭我的...
評分 評分 評分##A fine piece of work with the same ambition and gravitas of ‘Middlemarch’.
評分 評分生活諷刺,徹骨的無奈。
評分##A fine piece of work with the same ambition and gravitas of ‘Middlemarch’.
評分生活諷刺,徹骨的無奈。
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