In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdro...(展开全部)

Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century--an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shock...(展开全部)

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the...(展开全部)

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨（1938— ），美国当代著名小说家，美国文学与艺术学院院士，两度进入诺奖最后提名，被誉为“女福克纳”。欧茨素以揭露美国社会的暴力行径和罪恶现象而闻名，其作品在整体上构成了一幅当代美国社会的全景图。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》以来，欧茨一直活跃于美国文坛，勤于笔耕，迄今已发表长篇小说四十余部。代表作品有《表姐妹》《他们》《人间乐园》《漆黑的水》《大瀑布》等。

乔伊斯•卡罗尔•欧茨（1938— ），美国当代著名小说家，美国文学与艺术学院院士，两度进入诺奖最后提名，被誉为“女福克纳”。欧茨素以揭露美国社会的暴力行径和罪恶现象而闻名，其作品在整体上构成了一幅当代美国社会的全景图。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门边》以来，欧茨一直活跃于美国文坛，勤于笔耕，迄今已发表长篇小说四十余部。代表作品有《表姐妹》《他们》《人间乐园》《漆黑的水》《大瀑布》等。

The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents' dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and low-income groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that...(展开全部)