For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitzaand the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quar...(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。

A young Italian boy has moved to the Welsh hills with his family. He feels isolated and unhappy, a stranger in a strange land. It is only when he makes an unlikely friend, an old man who lets him fly one of his pigeons in a race, that he learns how he can belong. Nicola Davies's beautiful story — an immigrant's tale with powerful resonance in our troubled times — is illustrated...(展开全部)

A city ignited by hate. A man in thrall to power. The ferociously original award-winning bestseller by Poland’s literary phenomenon―his first to be translated into English. It’s 1937. Poland is about to catch fire. In the boxing ring, Jakub Szapiro commands respect, revered as a hero by the Jewish community. Outside, he instills fear as he muscles through Warsaw as enforcer for...(展开全部)

A young Italian boy has moved to the Welsh hills with his family. He feels isolated and unhappy, a stranger in a strange land. It is only when he makes an unlikely friend, an old man who lets him fly one of his pigeons in a race, that he learns how he can belong. Nicola Davies's beautiful story — an immigrant's tale with powerful resonance in our troubled times — is illustrated...(展开全部)

Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and， like most of his colleagues， dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing， he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week...(展开全部)

吉尔伯特·阿代尔（1944- ），英国著名作家、影评人、翻译家。曾获授权为经典作品《爱丽丝梦游仙境》和《彼得·潘》撰写续集。他将自己的第一部长篇小说《纯真的圣徒》改编成电影剧本《戏梦巴黎》（又名《梦想家》），由意大利电影大师贝纳尔多·贝托鲁奇拍成电影，为广大影迷、读者所熟悉。他为法国著名先锋作家乔治·佩雷克的代表作《消失》翻译的英文版荣获“斯科特·蒙克里夫法英文学翻译奖”。