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)

In un paese, dove per ordine del sovrano tutto funziona al contrario e è proibito dire la verità, arriva Gelsomino dalla voce potentissima che con l'aiuto di simpatici amici sconfigge la prepotenza e fa trionfare la sincerità. In questo libro (uno dei primi) Rodari dà prova della sua straordinaria capacità di esplorare con occhio critico la realtà sociale e di muovere con brio ...(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。

«Lo scenario che dobbiamo qui figurarci è quello delle corti europee di secondo Cinquecento (...) Questo libro intende esplorare un tale scenario seguendo esclusivamente le direzioni indicate dai testimoni dell'epoca, i letterati e gli scrittori d'arte come pure gli artisti. Quegli artisti, in particolare, che avessero avuto modo di elaborare, per iscritto, una qualsivoglia rif...(展开全部)

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)

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。