悟空传,ISBN:9787539139999,作者:
内容简介
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse isperfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love ormarriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering inthe romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings ofher good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitablematch for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soonunravel and have consequences that she never expected. With itsimperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle explorationof relationships, "Emma" is often seen as Jane Austen's mostflawless work.
José Saramago was eighteen months old when he moved from thevillage of Azinhaga with his father and mother to live in Lisbon.But he would return to the village throughout his childhood andadolescence to stay with his maternal grandparents, illiteratepeasants in the eyes of the outside world, but the fount ofknowledge, affection, and authority to young José. Shifting back and forth between childhood and his teenage years,between Azinhaga and Lisbon, this is a mosaic of memories, a simplytold, affecting look back into the author’s boyhood: the tragicdeath of his older brother at the age of four; his mother pawningthe family’s blankets every spring and buying them back in time forwinter; his beloved grandparents bringing the weaker piglets intotheir bed on cold nights; and Saramago’s early encounters withliterature, from teaching himself to read by deciphering articlesin the daily newspaper, to poring over an entertaining dialogue ina Portuguese-French conversation guide, not realizing that he wasin fa
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that noone has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growingjittery. What's going on? Should they reschedule the elections foranother day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptlyat four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had beenordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state ofemergency is declared. The president proposes that a wall be builtaround the city to contain the revolution. But are the authoritiesacting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terriblememories of the plague of blindness that had hit the city fouryears before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she bebehind the blank ballots? Is she the organizer of a conspiracyagainst the state? A police superintendent is put on the case. Whatbegins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubiousefficacy of the democratic system turns into something