"The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness", first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy. Written during the prolonged world war between totalitarian and democratic forces, Niebuhr's book takes up the still timely questi...(展开全部)

Climactic volume of the Dune trilogy in which an alien society achieves ecological salvation.

Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the third in his Dune series of six novels. It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication. At the end of Dune Messiah, Paul Atreides walks into the desert, a blind man, leaving his twin children Leto and Ghanima in th...(展开全部)

In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdro...(展开全部)

斯韦特兰娜·亚历山德罗夫娜·阿列克谢耶维奇 Svetlana Alexandravna Alexievich 白俄罗斯作家，1948年生于乌克兰，毕业于明斯克大学新闻学系，曾做过记者，作品以独特风格记录了第二次世界大战、阿富汗战争、苏联解体、切尔诺贝利事故等重大事件。 曾多次获奖，包括瑞典笔会奖（1996）、德国莱比锡图书奖（1998）、法国“世界见证人”奖（1999）、美国国家书评人奖（2005）、德国书业和平奖（2013）等。 获得2015年诺贝尔文学奖。目前其作品已在全世界被翻译成35种文字，并创作有21部纪录片脚本和3部戏剧（曾在法国、德国、保加利亚演出）。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【译者简介】 晴朗李寒：诗人，译者。1...(展开全部)

In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day--were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But now, at age 75, Dora is typing up their life story, and it is a tale indeed ...(展开全部)

In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day--were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But now, at age 75, Dora is typing up their life story, and it is a tale indeed ...(展开全部)

萨曼•鲁西迪（1947— ），英国著名作家。生于印度孟买一个穆斯林家庭，在英国接受教育。一九七五年他的第一部小说出版，第二部小说《午夜之子》为他赢得了国际声誉。之后他的一系列作品深入探讨了历史和哲学问题，被称为“后殖民文学教父”。 鲁西迪目前共出版长篇小说十部、短篇小说集三部，另有两部儿童作品、一部回忆录及十余部非小说作品。代表作《午夜之子》《羞耻》《摩尔人的最后叹息》《小丑萨利玛》《她脚下的土地》《佛罗伦萨的女巫》等。

克莱夫·哈维 ，英国音乐人、作曲家，曾与BBC合作出版音乐专辑《毕加索的画像》。 《杨的战争》是他历时两年创作的第一本书，他还为本书创作了配乐主题曲，以表达对中国劳工旅的谢意与纪念。