The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.

LIVES OF BITTER RAIN is a novella in Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning Tyrant Philosopher series. It is a prequel to the third novel in the sequence, DAYS OF SHATTERED FAITH. City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring ‘Perfection’ and ‘Correctness’ to an imperfect world. But before these ruthless Tyrant Philosophers send in their legions, they despatch...(展开全部)

In 1979, Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decad...(展开全部)

In 1979, Josef Winkler appeared on the literary horizon as if from nowhere, collecting numerous honors and the praise of the most prominent critical voices in Germany and Austria. Throughout the 1980s, he chronicled the malevolence, dissipation, and unregenerate Nazism endemic to Austrian village life in an increasingly trenchant and hallucinatory series of novels. At the decad...(展开全部)

1966: S.H.I.E.L.D. sends secret agent Ran Shen to collect two Nazi scientists with the key to winning the Cold War. But the Soviets want the scientists as well, and have unleashed their most dangerous operative: the Winter Soldier, aka the brainwashed and presumed-dead partner of Captain America - Bucky Barnes! His mission: acquire the scienti sts by any means necessary...or ki...(展开全部)

里克•瑞曼德，漫画编剧、创作者，为漫威写过复仇者联盟、X战警、美国队长、毒液等系列，还为游戏写过剧本，如《死亡地带》等。 罗兰•博斯基，漫画、动画绘师，作品包括《幽灵骑士》以及包括惩罚者、金刚狼等角色的独立故事。

作者50年代后期进入哈佛大学攻读中国史，60年代初到台湾从事博士论文考察和进修汉语，以后10年先后任《纽约时报》驻台湾临时记者、驻越南和香港特派记者，期间发表有关白宫和越战内幕的专著，获1978年普利策新闻大奖。他自1979年初至1980年末任该报驻北京首席记者，在此期间，足迹遍及中国大陆各省市自治区，采访了工农兵学商各界人士，对我国遭受文革浩劫后的百废待兴局面感触尤甚。离任回国后历时一年有余著成此书，于1982年在美国问世，随后风靡欧美，备受西方读者欢迎，对一般群众的影响也较大。

Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly...(展开全部)

Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. For older people in rural areas, food now symbolizes everything from misery and extreme want to relative abundance. Young people, on the other hand, have a different relationship to food. Many young rural Chinese are migrating to rapidly industrializing c...(展开全部)

The story of a rich, half-Japanese beauty in Batavia and her tempestuous divorce from a cold, tough colonial official. Leonard Blusse's new book is...for the light it casts on love and life on a colonial frontier, the most illuminating since 'The Cheese and the Worms'.