The brilliant new novel by the Booker-prize winner John Banville is, quite simply, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language today. When Max Morden returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family appear that long ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins, Chloe and Myles, Max soon finds himself entangled in their lives, which are as seductive as they are unsettling. What ensues will haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that is to follow. John Banville is one of the most sublime writers working in the English language. Utterly compelling, profoundly moving and illuminating, The Sea is quite possibly the best thing he has ever written.

约翰·班维尔：1945年出生于爱尔兰的威克斯福德。现居都柏林。1970年出版第一本小说《朗·莱金》。其作品有：《夜卵》《白桦林》《哥白尼博士》（1976年布莱克纪念奖获奖作品）《开普勒》（1981年《卫报》小说奖获奖作品）《牛顿书信》《梅菲丝特》《证词》（入围1989年布克奖提名，1989年吉尼斯皮特航空奖获奖作品）《幽灵》《雅典娜》《无法企及》《蚀》《裹尸布》《海》。