Sandeep is an only child living in a Bombay high-rise and in this book makes two long visits to his extended family in Calcutta. This novel tells the story of the atmosphere in the small house where they live. Chaudhuri writes precisely and carefully trying to capture in the rhythms of his prose the faded happiness of things, the strange, pure remembered moments.

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis - this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. Arguing against the simplistic division in literary criticism between nihilism and the sublime, the book demonstrates that both are clearly implicated with the Enlightenment. Postmodernism, as a product of Enlightenment, is t...(展开全部)

埃里克·弗兰克·拉塞尔（Eric Frank RUSSELL，1905-1978）是英国早期比较有名的科幻小说家，在上世纪三、四十年代创作了大量的优秀科幻作品，于1955年凭借《阿拉玛果沙》（Allamagoosa）获得了当年雨果奖的最佳短篇。他曾是《Fantasy--The Magazine of Science Fiction》杂志某两期的主打人物（尽管该杂志只坚持了三期，分别为1946年12月号、1947年4月号和1947年8月号）。他是第一位为《惊人科幻小说》杂志作出巨大贡献的英国作家，他的科幻处女作《西部英雄鹈鹕传奇》（The Saga of Pelican West）于1937 年出现在该杂志里。他的小说包括《险障》（Sinister Barrier，1943）、《黄蜂》（Wasp，1957）和《大爆炸》（The Great Explos...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret.

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala’ refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that ar...(展开全部)

托尼·霍维茨（Tony Horwitz,1958-2019） 美国记者、作家。曾长期供职于《华尔街日报》，报道中东、非洲和巴尔干地区的战争和冲突，并于1995年获普利策新闻奖（美国）国内报道奖。在成为专职作家之前，亦为《纽约客》杂志撰稿。 霍维茨独特的报界工作经历使他在写作时乐于将旅途中的故事与真实历史结合起来。除本书外，他还著有《阁楼上的邦联军》（Confederates in the Attic）、《蓝色纬度》（Blue Latitudes）等类似风格的畅销作品。

Long before the Pilgrims, other Europeans pioneered North America, seeking land, converts and cities of gold. By exploring Americas lost, or often repressed, heritage, award-winning writer Tony Horwitz unmasks the countrys founding myths. A Voyage Long and Strange opens with the Vikings in ad 1000, but focuses on the neglected period in early American history between Columbuss ...(展开全部)

托尼·霍维茨（Tony Horwitz,1958-2019） 美国记者、作家。曾长期供职于《华尔街日报》，报道中东、非洲和巴尔干地区的战争和冲突，并于1995年获普利策新闻奖（美国）国内报道奖。在成为专职作家之前，亦为《纽约客》杂志撰稿。 霍维茨独特的报界工作经历使他在写作时乐于将旅途中的故事与真实历史结合起来。除本书外，他还著有《阁楼上的邦联军》（Confederates in the Attic）、《蓝色纬度》（Blue Latitudes）等类似风格的畅销作品。

In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala’ refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that ar...(展开全部)