2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and no...(展开全部)

Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. I...(展开全部)

2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and no...(展开全部)

2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and no...(展开全部)

Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex with her English teacher. She is now thirty-two and in the storm of allegations against powerful men in 2017, the teacher, Jacob Strane, has just been accused of sexual abuse by another former student. Vanessa is horrified by this news, because she is quite certain that the relationship she had with Strane wasn't abuse. I...(展开全部)

2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and no...(展开全部)

它是亚洲东西两部分之间的支点，也是海上丝绸之路的关键节点；它是和中国并列的四大文明古国之一，也是世界第三和第四大宗教的发源地。如今，它的人口位列世界人口榜头位，它的影响力已超越印度洋、覆盖全球。它就是印度，一个神奇而又充满矛盾的国家，一个与中国巨龙毗邻而居的南亚巨象。 与中国历史可以清晰地划分为连续的大一统王朝不同，印度历史呈现出一种断裂感、破碎感。公元前3000年左右，印度河流域的哈拉帕等地便出现了文明的曙光。文明的覆盖面积一度超过了埃及和美索不达米亚。到了公元前1300年左右，可能的大干旱终结了印度河文明，一拨接一拨的雅利安人涌入印度。从这时开始到印度共和国成立，这片次大陆见证了一次又一次的外部势力入侵。来自西北的波斯人、希腊人、伊斯兰势力和来自东方的贵霜人、匈奴人，通过次大陆西北的开伯尔隘口来到印度；而英国人和法国人则自海上而来。英国人到来之前，印度从未形成统一的国家。即便是强大的孔雀王朝、笈多王朝、莫卧儿帝国，也只是统一了印度中北部地区，而且统一也都是短暂的。印度南方从来都是小国林立的局面，偶有朱罗王国这种将影响投射到东南亚的强权出现。是英国人统一了印度。 1947年，印度摆脱英国统治、实现独立。然而独立后的印度并没有走上繁荣之路。印巴冲突、家族政治、计划经济、贫富分化以及种姓制度等导致这个国家步履蹒跚。尼赫鲁家族出身的两位总理都遭到暗杀，政局动荡。20世纪90年代以来，随着转向市场经济，印度才快速崛起。如今，它的经济实力位居世界前十，其软件、电影等产业在全球处于前沿，其庞大、年轻的劳动力资源更预示着它有强大的后劲和充满活力的未来。 在5000年的历史长河中，印度容纳了宗教、文化、语言、种族和政治的多样性，外来文明从来不曾真正征服印度，反而被印度吸纳甚至同化。独立以来，基于多元文化的世俗民族主义也一直是印度的立国之本。但新的问题正在出现。印度人民党的印度教文化民族主义倾向，导致印度教徒与穆斯林的关系日益紧张，而当局在应对新冠疫情时的拙劣表现，也不禁让人对印度的未来充满忧虑。 未来或许可期，但这取决于印度人民如何应对巨大的挑战。也许，印度人民可以从他们5000年的文明史中找到一些答案。