作者 [德]温弗里德·塞巴尔德，德国作家、学者，1944年出生于德国，自1970年起定居英国，在东英吉利大学执教。2001年因车祸去世。曾获德国柏林文学奖、不莱梅文学奖、海因里希·伯尔文学奖、海涅文学奖等，著有《奥斯特利茨》《土星之环》《眩晕》《移民》《自然之后：一部元素诗》《未曾叙说》。 译者 闵志荣，南京大学德语语言文学专业硕士和哥廷根大学跨文化日耳曼学专业硕士，现任江苏理工学院外国语学院德语系系主任，译有《土星之环》《德意志星球》等书。

A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English. This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style—part...(展开全部)

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Now he has traveled across the world and all the way Down Under to Australia, a shockingly under-discovered country with the friendliest i...(展开全部)

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Now he has traveled across the world and all the way Down Under to Australia, a shockingly under-discovered country with the friendliest i...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade." She stared at the picture, squinti...(展开全部)

My friend is missing. When he disappeared, he’d been working on a magazine about the paranormal―his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he’d resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki region. I have collected the relevant articles,...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯斯．康明思（Bruce Cumings） 芝加哥大學歷史系教授，主要研究領域為朝鮮半島現代史、二十世紀國際關係史、美國和東亞關係、美國對外關係、東亞的政治經濟等，是研究東亞冷戰與韓國發展的重要研究者。曾多次前往南北韓，親身經歷過韓國的街頭運動，他的著作也在社會運動狂潮裡，以地下形式廣為流傳。 第一部著作The Origins of the Korean War，即獲得費正清獎，以及Quincy Wright Book Award（對國際研究有貢獻者）。另著有North Korea: Another Country、Dominion from Sea to Sea、《朝鮮戰爭》（左岸）等書。 一九九九年獲選為美國文理科學院院士，二〇〇七年獲得金大中獎，亦榮獲福特基金會、麥克阿瑟基金會等獎助。近年，以學者身分參與濟州島的「四・三事件」轉型正...(展开全部)

作者簡介 布魯斯．康明思（Bruce Cumings） 芝加哥大學歷史系教授，主要研究領域為朝鮮半島現代史、二十世紀國際關係史、美國和東亞關係、美國對外關係、東亞的政治經濟等，是研究東亞冷戰與韓國發展的重要研究者。曾多次前往南北韓，親身經歷過韓國的街頭運動，他的著作也在社會運動狂潮裡，以地下形式廣為流傳。 第一部著作The Origins of the Korean War，即獲得費正清獎，以及Quincy Wright Book Award（對國際研究有貢獻者）。另著有North Korea: Another Country、Dominion from Sea to Sea、《朝鮮戰爭》（左岸）等書。 一九九九年獲選為美國文理科學院院士，二〇〇七年獲得金大中獎，亦榮獲福特基金會、麥克阿瑟基金會等獎助。近年，以學者身分參與濟州島的「四・三事件」轉型正...(展开全部)

Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century", and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings' leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive mo...(展开全部)