As the "Kaisar-i-Hind" weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three ...(展开全部)

Donal Ryan's short stories pick up where his acclaimed novels The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December left off, dealing with the human cost of loneliness, isolation and displacement. Sometimes this is present in the ordinary, the mundane; sometimes it is triggered by a fatal encounter or a tragic decision. At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are draw...(展开全部)

As the "Kaisar-i-Hind" weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three ...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

Among Renaissance utopias, "The City of the Sun" is perhaps second in importance only to More's more famous work. There are striking similarities between Campanella's utopia and More's, but also striking differences which reflect both changed historical circumstances and the highly original nature of Campanella's thought. "La citta del sole" is one of many books written by Tomm...(展开全部)

In South of the Border, West of the Sun , the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime-- beginning in Japanese--has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a...(展开全部)

In South of the Border, West of the Sun , the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime-- beginning in Japanese--has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a...(展开全部)

毛里齐奥·维罗利（Maurizio Viroli），1952年生于弗利，毕业于博洛尼亚大学哲学系，1985年获佛罗伦萨欧洲大学学院的社会政治科学博士学位，曾执教于乔治顿大学的新社会研究学院和比萨高等师范学院，现为普林斯顿大学政治学教授。其著作包括：Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Well-Ordered Society（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1988），From Politics to Reason of State：The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics1250-1600（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1992），For Love of Co...(展开全部)

毛里齐奥·维罗利（Maurizio Viroli），1952年生于弗利，毕业于博洛尼亚大学哲学系，1985年获佛罗伦萨欧洲大学学院的社会政治科学博士学位，曾执教于乔治顿大学的新社会研究学院和比萨高等师范学院，现为普林斯顿大学政治学教授。其著作包括：Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Well-Ordered Society（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1988），From Politics to Reason of State：The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics1250-1600（Cambridge：Cambridge University Press，1992），For Love of Co...(展开全部)