The Boy in the Striped
Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the pa
日本的神话充满了天神，神灵和怪物。它借鉴了佛教和神道教的传统来解释日本岛世界的本质以及天皇一族的天上地位。帝国宫廷的武士阶层和乡村的自然精神代表了日本社会的平行和相互依存的方面，Flame Tree的 神话和传奇 系列的这本引人入胜的新书通过古代传说和民间传说对此进行了探讨。 Japan's mythology is alive with gods, spirits and monsters. It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of the island of Japan, and the heavenly status of the long line of emperors. The warrior class of the imperial court, and the natural spirits of the countryside represent parallel and interdependent aspects of Japanese society, explored through ancient legend and folklore in this fascinating new book in the Flame Tree Myths and Legend series.
紧绷，情绪激烈，并且完全可信的，这个美丽而令人振奋的处女作 （柯克斯评论）约一个年轻的黑人男孩的追求与他心爱的白色同父异母的兄弟团聚，他们被寄养在分离后对球迷一个闪闪发光的新完美花的语言。 Leon喜欢巧克力棒，星期六早上的漫画和他美丽的金发宝贝兄弟。当杰克出生的时候，莱昂把他的头伸进婴儿床，说道： 我是你的兄弟，哥哥，我的名字是，莱昂，我八点三分，我是一个男孩。杰克除了莱昂以外没有其他人能够上场，莱昂决心要让他免受任何痛苦，并且尽可能地为他赢得闪耀的宝宝笑声。 但是，莱昂不能控制这个世界，大人说一件事而意味着另一件事。当他们的母亲成为内心恶魔的受害者时，陌生人突然将杰克带走; 毕竟，一个白人婴儿很容易被采纳，而一个半黑人，九岁的孩子则面临不太确定的命运。发誓要让杰克以任何必要的方式回
