《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human li...(展开全部)

A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human li...(展开全部)

Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father sends her and her brother...(展开全部)

By turns luminous and horrific, this debut ensnares the reader from the first page and lingers in the memory long after its tragic end. First-person narrator Kambili Achike is a 15-year-old Nigerian girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife and personal struggle. She and her brother, Jaja, and their quiet mother, who speaks "the way a bird ...(展开全部)

奇玛曼达•恩戈兹•阿迪契，1977年出生于尼日利亚南部城市埃努古，起初在尼日利亚大学学习医药学，后在东康涅狄格州立大学学习传媒学和政治学，之后在约翰•霍普金斯大学获得创意写作的文学硕士学位。 2003年，她的首部长篇小说《紫木槿》获得2004年橘子小说奖的提名，讲述了上世纪九十年代尼日利亚的政治骚乱和一个被信仰裹挟的家庭的悲剧，该书最终获得2005年英联邦图书奖最佳新人小说奖。她的第二部长篇小说《半轮黄日》窥探了尼日利亚的内战伤痛，小说获2007年橘子小说奖。2009年，她的小说《绕颈之物》获得弗兰克•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖提名。 2014年，她的TED演讲被集结成同名散文集《我们都应该是女权主义者》。她最近的一部长篇小说《美国佬》呈现了作者对美国种族政治的思考和感受，该书摘得2013年美国国家书评人协会奖。 2010年，阿迪契入选《纽约客》评出的“二...(展开全部)

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A’s, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. ...(展开全部)