From the acclaimed - and controversial - Chinese novelist,"Brothers" is a big-spirited comedy of society running amok inmodern China. When Baldy Li's mother marries Song Gang's fathertheir lives become entangled. Then when both their parents die,Song Gang swears never to forsake his younger brother. In theevent, though, both are undone by their love for one woman.Sprawling, rambunctious, energetic and brutal, Brothers is adizzying rollercoaster ride through life in a newly capitalistworld. 'Yu Hua has long been considered one of China's mostimportant novelists' - Nell Freudenberger. 'This is modern Chinacoming to terms with itself in a mixture of gore, laughter andself-mockery' - "Independent". '"Brothers" gives us contemporaryChina with a picaresque panache that Western critics have beenquick to call Rabelaisian, but which is actually Chinese all theway' - "Financial Times". 'Yu Hua effortlessly moves from thegrotesque to the tragic and from the ironic to the dramatic...There is Hemingway in Yu Hua, certain
The Buying of the President 2004 reveals how the process of choosing a president has moved from the voting booth to the auction block, and highlights the special interests that heavily invest in the politicians seeking the nation's highest office. Lewis and his team reveal and investigate the sponsors and the known and not-so-known conflicts of interest entangling each of the aspirants to the White House. This is the only book of its kind, containing investigative profiles and personal histories of the major presidential candidates. Here you will find answers to questions like Which candidate was paid by a pharmaceutical firm to give speeches while running for the Senate? Who turned the Homeland Security Act into a bonanza for the biotech industry? Which candidate proposed 32 separate tax breaks for big businesses that support his campaign? Who is the "go-to guy" for the insurance industry?
米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-),法国当代文学大师,当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家,而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至,评价极高,认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一,发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言,它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材,在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后,按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后,非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶,反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净,同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙,使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统,变成了一个能
三分天下归一晋n一部司马家族创业史nn司马师去世前,将大将军之职传位司马昭,在父兄创立的基业上,司马昭在魏国独揽朝纲。n魏帝曹髦见威权日去,意欲讨伐权臣,事情泄漏后,太子舍人成济在贾充的授意下将曹髦刺死。n司马昭闻讯后将成济斩首谢罪,又用太后的名义,以不敬太后、自寻死路的罪名将曹髦的皇帝名位废掉。n曹魏实权落入司马昭手中。n
With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? Reuters correspondent Connie Burns is no stranger to the world's troublespots, including the vicious civil unrest in Sierra Leone and the war in Iraq. But as she begins to suspect that a foreigner is using the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women, her efforts to bring him to justice leave her devastated. Degraded and terrified, she goes into hiding in England and strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire, a loner whose reclusive nature may well be masking secrets of her own. Connie draws from the other woman's strength and makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer . . . Knowing he will come looking for her . . .
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A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human - and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
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TheriseofBarackObamaisoneofthegreatstoriesofthiscentury:adefiningmomentforAmerica,andonewithtrulyglobalresonance.Thisisthebookofhisphenomenaljourneytoelection.Throughextensiveon-the-recordinterviewswithfriendsandteachers,mentorsanddisparagers,familymembersandObamahimself,DavidRemnickhasputtogetheranuanced,unexpectedandmasterlyportraitofthemanwhowasdeterminedtobecomethefirstAfrican-AmericanPresident.Mostimportantly,"TheBridge"arguesthatObamaimaginedandfashionedanidentityforhimselfagainsttheepicdramaofraceinAmerica.InawaythatObama'sownmemoirscannot,itexaminesboththepersonalandpoliticalelementsofthestory,andgivesshapenotonlytoadecisiveperiodofhistory,butalsotothewayitcruciallyinfluenced,animatedandmotivatedagiftedandcomplexman.'Speakingtohundredsoffriendsandcolleagues,RemmickinvestigatesandcorrectsObama'sownaccoutofhislifewithanassuredandeleganttonethatclarifiesratherthanaccusesorunmasks...600masterlypages'-"DailyTelegraph".'Thepublishingeventoftheyear'-"Observer".
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米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-),法国当代文学大师,当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家,而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至,评价极高,认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一,发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言,它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材,在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后,按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后,非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶,反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净,同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙,使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统,变成了一个
THENEVER-BEFORE-SEENHISTORYOFWESTEROSANDTHELANDSBEYOND?WITHHUNDREDSOFPAGESOFALL-NEWMATERIALFROMGEORGER.R.MARTIN Ifthepastisprologue,thenGeorgeR.R.Martin’smasterwork—themostinventiveandentertainingfantasysagaofourtime—warrantsonehellofanintroduction.Atlonglast,ithasarrivedwith TheWorldofIceandFire . Thislavishlyillustratedvolumeis acomprehensivehistoryoftheSevenKingdoms,providingvividlyconstructedaccountsoftheepicbattles,bitterrivalries,anddaringrebellionsthatleadtotheeventsofASongofIceandFireandHBO’s GameofThrones .Inacollaborationthat’sbeenyearsinthemaking,MartinhasteamedwithElioM.García,Jr.andLindaAntonsson,thefoundersoftherenownedfansiteWesteros.org—perhapstheonlypeoplewhoknowthisworldalmostaswellasitsvisionarycreator. Collectedhereisalltheaccumulatedknowledge,scholarlyspeculation,andinheritedfolktalesofmaestersandseptons,maegiandsingers.ItisachroniclewhichstretchesfromtheDawnAgetotheAgeofHeroes;fromtheComingoftheFirstMentothearrivalofAegontheConqueror;fromAegon’sestablishmentoftheIro
米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-),法国当代文学大师,当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家,而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至,评价极高,认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一,发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言,它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材,在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后,按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后,非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶,反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净,同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙,使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统,变成了一个