Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers' fortress (via the dumb-waiter) to face his shameless future. . . . As captivating fairy-tale, devastating politica...(展开全部)

萨尔曼·拉什迪（Salman Rushdie），1947年生于印度孟买一个中产阶级家庭。祖父是一位乌尔都语诗人，父亲则是剑桥大学商业系的毕业生。14岁时，他被送到英国的格拉比学校读书。1964年他的父亲搬到巴基斯坦的卡拉奇居住，那时候正值印巴战争。拉什迪继续在剑桥大学三一学院求学，攻读历史。 复杂的宗教、文化和社会背景，注定了他对“历史”、“政治”、“流亡”、“移民”、“混杂”、“文化翻译”、“边缘写作”等问题的热切关注。 1981年，文学天赋出众的拉什迪凭借第二部小说《午夜之子》获得了当年英国文坛最高奖项“布克奖”，却因作品触怒了印度前总理英迪拉·甘地而被印度当局禁止在国内发行。此后，其小说《羞耻》又因中伤巴基斯坦前总统齐亚·哈克以及著名的布托家族，而导致该书不仅在巴基斯坦遭禁，他本人也被指控犯有诽谤罪。 1988年，拉什迪的小说《撒旦诗篇》出版，...(展开全部)

"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides...(展开全部)

"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides...(展开全部)

‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful refl...(展开全部)

作者伯纳德•威廉斯（Bernard Williams，1929—2003），20世纪最杰出的哲学家之一，主要研究领域是伦理学、知识论、心灵哲学和政治哲学。威廉斯对功利主义和康德伦理学的批判，以及对道德和道德要求的本质的探究，主导了近30年来西方伦理理论的思维，在某种意义上是这一时期最重要的道德哲学家。著有《道德运气》（1981）等作品。 译者吴天岳，北京大学哲学系副教授，主要研究领域为：古希腊罗马哲学、教父哲学与中世纪哲学，尤其关注这一时期心灵哲学和道德哲学的研究。著有《意愿与自由：奥古斯丁意愿概念的道德心理学解读》。

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses , Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and...(展开全部)

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But t...(展开全部)