Jonathan Safran Foer.

作者是乔纳森·萨法兰·佛耳
And the main reason I wanted to pitch it, of course,

推荐它的主要原因当然是
was: Professor Hungerford said that she's waiting for one of us to pitch

亨格福德教授说过她正在等待学生
their own book, and--contrary to conventional wisdom--

推荐自己的书与一般的理解相反
this is actually my own book, just so you know.

我推荐的就是"自己的书" 在此说明
But, setting aside authorship issues-- the thing is, you just had to

不管著作人是谁关键是我得留下悬念
introduce the seed of doubt, and then the rumors percolate,

让大家议论纷纷
so this is good--I love books that have outrageous characters.

这样就好了我喜欢人物离奇的书
Actually, hearing some of these pitches, I was like,

其实听了前几位同学的推荐
"oh, maybe I should vote for some of the other books."

我想也许我该投票选别的书
But I won't tell you that.

但我不会透露
But, this book does have outrageous characters, which is really cool.

但这本书也有一些离奇的人物都很酷