Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections–narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices–Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma...(展开全部)

Captives, the acclaimed writer Norman Manea's first novel, is a fascinating, kaleidoscopic, and imaginative look into postwar Romania. Divided into three sections–narrated in first-, second-, and third-person voices–Captives explores the lives of several defeated characters as they become almost too much to bear under the weight of endless humiliations: loss of identity, trauma...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Colley (Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837) brilliantly marshals an array of captivity narratives by everyday Britons captured by foreign powers to show the dizzying ethnic and cultural complexity of empire. She considers four zones of the British Empire-the Mediterranean, North America, India and Afghanistan-between the years 1600 and 1850. For reaso...(展开全部)

【英】琳达•科利（Linda Colley） 英国国家学术院院士、英国皇家历史学会和皇家文学学会会员、欧洲科学院院士、剑桥大学基督学院首位女研究员，现为普林斯顿大学历史系教授，长于英国史、帝国史、1700年后的全球史问题研究。著有《英国人：国家的形成，1707—1837年》（沃尔夫森历史奖作品）、《伊丽莎白·马什的磨难：一个女人的世界史》（《纽约时报》年度图书）、《战争、法律与现代世界的形成》等多部作品。 李旭 北京大学法律史专业博士研究生，研究方向为近现代国际法史、帝国史、区域国别研究，译有《经济制裁：封锁、遏制与对抗的历史》等书。