"Refugee", I said, pointing at my chest. "Asylum". When Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport late one afternoon, he has a badly faked passport and exhibits no knowledge of English beyond these two words. He was once a furniture shop owner, a husband, and a father. Now he has arrived in England seeking asylum from his native Zanzibar, using silence and claiming ignorance as his...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)

The Elephant is a collection of devastating satirical sketches by a Polish writer, and it has been called everything from "a short marvel" to "a brilliant literary coup." Mrozek takes deadly aim at the bureaucrats in his own society and, with buoyant and delicious fantasy, makes the absurd seem real and the real absurd. More than a political commentator, as all good satirists h...(展开全部)

伊莱恩•斯卡利（Elaine Scarry）， 英美文学语言学教授，哈佛大学Walter M. Cabot美学教授，认知接受美学的倡导者，在当代文艺理论界有重要的影响力具有重大的影响。其论著颇丰，主要代表作有：《论美与正义》（On Beauty and Being Just，普林斯顿，1999）、《痛苦中的躯体》（The Body in Pain，1985）等。

Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth is one of the defining publications in the photobook era. First published by Steidl in 2004, it was Soth's first book, sold through three editions, and established him as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice. This MACK edition launches to coincide with the first exhibition in London dedicated to the series at B...(展开全部)

Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in ...(展开全部)

Shortly before noon on October 28, 1728, General Yue Zhongqi, the most powerful military and civilian official in northwest China, was en route to his headquarters. Suddenly, out of the crowd, a stranger ran toward Yue and passed him an envelope-an envelope containing details of a treasonous plot to overthrow the Manchu government. This thrilling story of a conspiracy agains...(展开全部)

他是史上智商最高的作家，四岁通读《圣经》，十五岁发表诗作，三十岁时在四百个城市开设银行；四十岁时他一贫如洗，开始创作侦探小说糊口，五十岁时作品累计印数超过八千万册，和埃勒里•奎因并称为美国侦探小说黄金时代最高成就者；他是一位英勇的反纳粹斗士，为了理想放弃了每年超过一千万美元的收入，得到了罗斯福总统和美国民众的称赞。他就是雷克斯•斯托特！