内容简介： 联合国儿童基金会，受战争影响儿童代言人伊斯梅尔·比亚震撼世界的战争回忆 全球35个国家联手推出，美国2007年连印35版行销65万的最畅销自传 2007年纽约时报华盛顿邮报年选佳作，2007年亚马逊书店非虚构类最佳图书 联合国儿童基金会报告，二零零七年武装组织雇佣的儿童超过二十五万，其中年龄最小的只有六岁。这些童兵颁在全球十多个冲突地区。武装组织往往使用物质诱饵误导他们对战争产生兴趣，继而达到雇佣童兵的目的。武装组织不仅仅会把这些孩子当作战争工具，而且洞天福地让他们充当报信者、间谍和搬运工的角色。更为严重的是，相当数量的孩子还被武装人员当作性奴。全球现有童兵中，女孩约占百分之四十，她们通常最易受到性侵害。保护儿童权益，帮助儿童尽早回归社会，为儿童创造一个可以享有权利的世界，是人类一个迫在眉睫的挑战。 这是世界上所有人都应该阅读的一本书。不...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 塞巴斯蒂安‧巴里，他是爱尔兰当代最优秀的作家、诗人与剧作家之一，爱尔兰影星琼‧奥哈拉之子。其文学生涯始于诗歌，近年来，小说创作上的成就为其赢得了极高的文学地位，其作品多次获得布克奖提名，长篇小说《绝密手稿》获包括科斯塔年度图书奖在内的多项文学大奖。巴里的小说语言优美，富有诗意，善用深沉忧郁的历史视角探究爱尔兰与爱尔兰人充满悲欢离合的曲折命运。 【译者简介】 苏福忠，人民文学出版社编审，从事编辑工作三十余年，编辑过《莎士比亚全集》《伍尔芙文集》《福斯特文集》等大型图书及多种散本图书。他曾翻译《月亮与六便士》《汤姆索亚历险记》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等多部文学名著，代表著作有《译事余墨》《编译曲直》《席德这个小人儿》等。

【作者简介】 塞巴斯蒂安‧巴里，他是爱尔兰当代最优秀的作家、诗人与剧作家之一，爱尔兰影星琼‧奥哈拉之子。其文学生涯始于诗歌，近年来，小说创作上的成就为其赢得了极高的文学地位，其作品多次获得布克奖提名，长篇小说《绝密手稿》获包括科斯塔年度图书奖在内的多项文学大奖。巴里的小说语言优美，富有诗意，善用深沉忧郁的历史视角探究爱尔兰与爱尔兰人充满悲欢离合的曲折命运。 【译者简介】 苏福忠，人民文学出版社编审，从事编辑工作三十余年，编辑过《莎士比亚全集》《伍尔芙文集》《福斯特文集》等大型图书及多种散本图书。他曾翻译《月亮与六便士》《汤姆索亚历险记》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》等多部文学名著，代表著作有《译事余墨》《编译曲直》《席德这个小人儿》等。

With acclaimed works like "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty," Irish author Sebastian Barry has earned a reputation as a amaster storytellera ("The Wall Street Journal"). In "A Long Long Way" he has created an unforgettable portrait of the horrors of war through the story of Willie Dunne, a young man who leaves his native Dublin in 1914 to join the Allies on the Western Front. C...(展开全部)

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple：he has，in his own words，‘issed his life away’.And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all …But not，as it happens，alone.Because first single-mum Maureen，then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen his idea-but brought their own reasons. Ye...(展开全部)

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple：he has，in his own words，‘issed his life away’.And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all …But not，as it happens，alone.Because first single-mum Maureen，then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.They've stolen his idea-but brought their own reasons. Ye...(展开全部)

In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, "New York Times"-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is Americ...(展开全部)

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”―Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary worl...(展开全部)

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)