It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote ...(展开全部)

Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves. A college student, identified only as “K,” falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an unti...(展开全部)

Twenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior. But, whereas Miu is a glamorous and successful older woman with a taste for classical music and fine wine, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Jack Kerouac novel. Surprised that she might, after all, be a ...(展开全部)

Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves. A college student, identified only as “K,” falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an unti...(展开全部)

Twenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior. But, whereas Miu is a glamorous and successful older woman with a taste for classical music and fine wine, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Jack Kerouac novel. Surprised that she might, after all, be a ...(展开全部)

哈维尔•塞尔卡斯（1962— ），西班牙作家，生于卡塞雷斯省，毕业于巴塞罗那自治大学文哲系。他先后在美国伊利诺伊大学和西班牙赫罗纳大学任教。此外，他为《国家报》等报纸杂志撰稿。他力图打破文学类别的限制，将小说、散文、自传和新闻报道等文学体裁融会贯通。2015年凭借《骗子》获得“21世纪年度最佳外国小说”和“邹韬奋年度外国小说”奖。 侯健，文学博士，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语专业教师、拉丁美洲研究中心成员、中国拉丁美洲学会理事、文学翻译者。译有《普林斯顿文学课》《五个街角》《33场革命》等书。

哈维尔•塞尔卡斯（1962— ），西班牙作家，生于卡塞雷斯省，毕业于巴塞罗那自治大学文哲系。他先后在美国伊利诺伊大学和西班牙赫罗纳大学任教。此外，他为《国家报》等报纸杂志撰稿。他力图打破文学类别的限制，将小说、散文、自传和新闻报道等文学体裁融会贯通。2015年凭借《骗子》获得“21世纪年度最佳外国小说”和“邹韬奋年度外国小说”奖。 侯健，文学博士，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语专业教师、拉丁美洲研究中心成员、中国拉丁美洲学会理事、文学翻译者。译有《普林斯顿文学课》《五个街角》《33场革命》等书。

Faulkner s first novel, Soldiers Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran s homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers return from war on the people particularly the women who were left behind.

This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.

The story of a wounded veterans homecoming, it is partly autobiographical, filled with hope, dark laughter, and despair.