"Appointment in Samarra" is a fast-paced, blackly comic depiction of the rapid decline and fall of Julian English. English is part of the social elite of his 1930s American hometown but from the moment he impetuously throws a cocktail in the face of one of his powerful business associates his life begins to spiral out of control - taking his loving but troubled marriage with it...(展开全部)

约翰·奥哈拉（1905-1970），凭借处女作《相约萨马拉》一举成名，并迅速成为美国最杰出的作家之一。 他以《北弗雷德里克街十号》一书获得了美国国家图书奖，并且在《纽约客》杂志发表了数量远多于其他作家的短篇小说。 他一生共写了14部长篇小说，包括：《向怒而生》《酒绿花红》，《青楼艳妓》以及《露台青潮》，他的短篇小说被收录为共12册的作品集。

A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.” In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite ...(展开全部)

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted hom...(展开全部)

In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted hom...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A tyrannical old martinet, a mental sadist and the incarnation of evil. These were only three of the character descriptions levelled at Mrs. Boynton, the matriarch who kept her family totally dependent on her. But did she really deserve to die on the excursion to beautiful Petra? Hercule Poirot hears about the murder and feels compelled to investigate-despite the fami...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A tyrannical old martinet, a mental sadist and the incarnation of evil. These were only three of the character descriptions levelled at Mrs. Boynton, the matriarch who kept her family totally dependent on her. But did she really deserve to die on the excursion to beautiful Petra? Hercule Poirot hears about the murder and feels compelled to investigate-despite the fami...(展开全部)

时间：1998年2月份之后，1999年4月之前 约会地点：20 Maresfield Gaederns,LONDON. 人物：作者MS.Sophie calle Mr.Sigmund Freud(以故） 事件：Ms.Sophie在 Mr.Sigmund曾经生活过而今是 博物馆的这栋楼里，面对已故的他的遗物， 回想自己的和他的生活点滴，2人也因此产生交集。 当然，这种交集是精神上的。也就是我们中文的所谓“神 交”吧。

"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp". Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker in totalitarian Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy. "Marry me" the notes say, with her name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she thinks over the events and people of her life under terror. In her distraction, sh...(展开全部)

From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the Nobel Prize, a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life "I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; this time, she believes, will be...(展开全部)