After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of au...(展开全部)

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of au...(展开全部)

One of the threads that runs through Elena Poniatowska's oeuvre is that of foreigners who have fallen in love with Mexico and its people. This is certainly the case of Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela - a brief novel (so short it was originally published in its entirety in Octavio Paz's literary magazine Vuelta). The Russian exile and painter Angelina Beloff writes from the cold...(展开全部)

One of the threads that runs through Elena Poniatowska's oeuvre is that of foreigners who have fallen in love with Mexico and its people. This is certainly the case of Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela - a brief novel (so short it was originally published in its entirety in Octavio Paz's literary magazine Vuelta). The Russian exile and painter Angelina Beloff writes from the cold...(展开全部)

一九四六年生于和歌山县新宫市。十八岁时，在校内参与发行文艺校刊《车轮》，发表过小说、诗歌。高中毕业后前往东京准备考大学，后来更加入人才辈出的同人志《文艺首都》，受到更大的创作影响，发表了《十八岁》，并开始在《诗学》、《文学界》等杂志上投稿。二十七岁时，发表《十九岁的地图》，被提名角逐第六十九届芥川赏，之后发表的作品多部被提名角逐芥川赏。三十岁时，终于以《岬》获得第七十四届芥川赏。小说《枯木滩》获得第二十八届艺术选奖文部大臣新人赏。四十六岁因肾脏癌病逝。中上健次被评为“日本最后的一位文学家”，他的作品皆以故乡纪洲为背景，内容多反射自己的一生，以文学性强烈且笔触细腻的作品，深受日本广大读者的热爱。

The phenomenon of "Chinatown" has been of great interest to the general public as well as scholars. Movies and story books have made Chinatown to be exotic, mysterious, gangster filled, and sometimes, a gilded ghetto, an ethnopolis, a cultural diaspora as well as a model community. The authors of Chinatowns around the World seek to expose the social reality of Chinatowns with e...(展开全部)

罗贝托·萨维亚诺 生于一九七九年，在那不勒斯大学主修哲学，《蛾摩拉》是他的处女作，为他赢得多项大奖，包括声誉崇隆的意大利维亚雷焦文学奖。二00六年，本书出版之后，他受警方保护至今。

罗贝托·萨维亚诺 生于一九七九年，在那不勒斯大学主修哲学，《蛾摩拉》是他的处女作，为他赢得多项大奖，包括声誉崇隆的意大利维亚雷焦文学奖。二00六年，本书出版之后，他受警方保护至今。

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers ...(展开全部)

麦高登（Gordon Mathews），香港中文大学人类学系主任。著作包括《全球文化/个人身份：在文化超市中寻求家园》（Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket）、《人生的意义是什么？日本人和美国人如何理解他们的世界》（What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds）及《香港，中国：培育国家认同》（Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation），并合编过多本书籍。 译者杨玚，香港中文大学学能提升研究中心研究助理。译著包括《香港重庆大厦：世界中心的边缘地带》、...(展开全部)