"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格（Garth Risk Hallberg） 美国作家、评论家。华盛顿大学文学学士，纽约大学艺术硕士。出版有中篇小说《北美家庭图鉴》（A Field Guide to the North American Family），短篇故事和批评散文多发表于《纽约时报》《纽约时报书评》《卫报》等媒体。 加思·里斯克·霍尔伯格耗时七年完成《燃烧之城》。这部近千页的处女作以两百万美元的竞价震惊欧美文坛，成为2015年当之无愧的话题之书。

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice. Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had al...(展开全部)

库沙那瓦·乔杜里，生于加尔各答，后随父母移民美国。在耶鲁大学完成本科学业后，回到加尔各答并以记者身份供职于当地的《政治家报》，后又返回美国在耶鲁大学攻读政治学博士学位。本书是其第一本公开发表的文学创作。

库沙那瓦·乔杜里，生于加尔各答，后随父母移民美国。在耶鲁大学完成本科学业后，回到加尔各答并以记者身份供职于当地的《政治家报》，后又返回美国在耶鲁大学攻读政治学博士学位。本书是其第一本公开发表的文学创作。

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, not only writers, architectural and literary s...(展开全部)