IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS (LPTP)(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　“Larson is a marvelous writer…superb at creating characters
with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review
　　Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative
non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil
in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during
Hitler’s rise to power.
　　The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes
America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that
proved to be a turning point in history.
　　A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his
wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is
entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of
the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring
Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “New
Germany,” she has one affair after another, including with the
suprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But
as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling
first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a
largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with
alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of
frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds
and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of
excitement, intrigue, romance—and ultimately, horror, when a
climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler’s true
character and ruthless ambition.
　　Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with
unforgettable portraits of the bizarre G?ring and the expectedly
charming–yet wholly sinister–Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts
lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold
in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity.
The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks
volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat
posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and
terror.

　　ERIK LARSON is the author of the national bestsellers
Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and
Isaac’s Storm. ErikLarsonBooks.com

　　”By far his best and most enthralling work of novelistic
history….Powerful, poignant…a transportingly true story.”–The New
York Times
　　”Tells a fascinating story brilliantly well.”–Financial
Times
　　”Highly compelling…Larson brings Berlin roaring to life in all
its glamour and horror…a welcome new chapter in the vast canon of
World War II.”–Christian Science Monitor
　　”Terrific.”–Los Angeles Times
　　“A stunning work of history.”–Newsweek
　　“Larson has meticulously researched the Dodds’ intimate witness
to Hitler’s ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of this
historical byway that has all the pleasures of a political
thriller….a fresh picture of these terrrible events.”–The New York
Times Book Review
　　”Larson has taken a brilliant idea and turned it into a gripping
book.”–Women’s Wear Daily
　　”Harrowingly suspenseful.” Vogue.com
　　”A gripping, deeply-intimate narrative with a climax that reads
like the best political thriller, where we are stunned with each
turn of the page.”–Louisville Courier Journal
　　”Electrifying reading…fascinating.” Minneapolis
Star-Tribune
　　“Larson’s latest chronicle of history has as much excitement as a
thriller novel, and it’s all the more thrilling because it’s all
true.”–Asbury Park Press
　　”A superb book…nothing less than masterful.”–Toronto Globe and
Mail 
　　“Even though we know how it will end — the book’s climax, the
Night of the Long Knives, being just the beginning, this is a
page-turner, full of flesh and blood people and monsters too, whose
charms are particularly disturbing.”–Portland Herald
　　”Larson succeeds brilliantly…offers a fascinating window into the
year when the world began its slow slide into war.”–Maclean’s
Magazine
　　”Erik Larson tackles this outstanding period of history as fully
and compellingly as he portrayed the events in his bestseller, THE
DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY. With each page, more horrors are revealed,
making it impossible to put down. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS reads
like the true thriller it is.”–BookReporter.com
　　”Larson’s strengths as a storyteller have never been stronger
than they are here, and this story is far more important than
either “The Devil in the White City” or “Thunderstruck.” How the
United States dithered as Hitler rose to power is a cautionary tale
that bears repeating, and Larson has told it
masterfully.”–Cleveland Plain Dealer
　　“Reads like an elegant thriller…utterly compelling… marvelous
stuff. An excellent and entertaining book that deserves to be a
bestseller, and probably will be.”—The Washington Post
　　“Larson’s scholarship is impressive, but it’s his pacing and
knack for suspense that elevates the book from the matter-of-fact
to the sublime.”–Pittsburgh Review
　　“A master at writing true tales as riveting as fiction.”–People
(3 1/2 stars)
　　”Larson has done it again, expertly weaving together a fresh new
narrative from ominous days of the 20th century.”–Associated
Press
　　””Mesmerizing…cinematic, improbable yet true.”–Philadelphia
Inquirer
　　”[L]ike slipping slowly into a nightmare, with logic perverted
and morality upended….It all makes for a powerful, unsettling
immediacy.”–Bruce Handy, Vanity Fair
　　“Dazzling….Reads like a suspense novel, replete with colorful
characters, both familiar and those previously relegated to the
shadows.  Like Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories or
Victor Klemperer’s Diaries, IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS is an
on-the-ground documentary of a society going mad in slow
motion.”–The Chicago Sun-Times
　　“[G]ripping, a nightmare narrative of a terrible time.  It
raises again the question never fully answered about the Nazi
era—what evil humans are capable of, and what means are necessary
to cage the beast.”–The Seattle Times
　　”In this mesmerizing portrait of the Nazi capital, Larson plumbs
a far more diabolical urban cauldron than in his bestselling The
Devil in the White City…a vivid, atmospheric panorama of the
Third Reich and its leaders, including murderous Nazi factional
infighting, through the accretion of small crimes and petty
thuggery.”–Publishers Weekly(Starred Review)
　　Praise for Erik Larson
　　THUNDERSTRUCK
　　“A ripping yarn of murder and invention.”—Los Angeles Times
　　“Larson’s gift for rendering an historical era with vibrant
tactility and filling it with surprising personalities makes
Thunderstruck an irresistible tale.”—The Washington Post Book
World
　　“Gripping….An edge-of-the-seat read.”—People
　　DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
　　“[Larson] relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give
this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel….a dynamic,
enveloping book.”
　　—The New York Times
　　“A hugely engrossing chronicle of events public and private.
Exceedingly well-documented, exhaustive without being excessive,
and utterly fascinating.”
　　—Chicago Tribune
　　“An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling,
sleep-defying fiction.”—Time Out New York
　　 ISAAC’S STORM
　　“A gripping account…fascinating to its core, and all the more
compelling for being true.”—New York Times Book Review
　　“Superb…Larson has made the Great Hurricane live again.”—The
Wall Street Journal
　　“Gripping….The Jaws of hurricane yarns.”—Newsday
　　From the Hardcover edition.