Thirty-five million individual investors jumped into the stock market for the first time during the late 1990s without asking questions about the stocks they were buying. When the bubble burst and the large number of accounting scandals began to grow, most investors didn’t know where to turn or whom to trust. Now it has become more important than ever for investors to take matt...(展开全部)

罗欣顿·米斯特里（Rohinton Mistry） 加拿大籍印度裔作家。1952年出生于印度孟买，1974年毕业于圣泽维尔大学数学与经济学专业。1975年移居加拿大，后毕业于多伦多大学乌兹沃斯学院英语与哲学专业。主要作品有长篇小说《长路漫漫》（Such A Long Journey）、《大地之上》（A Fine Balance）、《家事》（Family Matters），短篇小说集《费罗莎·巴格故事集》（Tales From Firozsha Baag）等。 其作品包揽过吉勒奖、总督奖等加拿大重要文学奖项，并三次入围布克奖短名单。2012年荣膺有“美国的诺贝尔奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖。2015年因其在文学上的突出贡献，被加拿大政府授予荣誉勋章。 ———————— 张亦琦 吉林省作家协会会员，德国海德堡大学汉学专业研究生，长期从事英语、德语文学翻译...(展开全部)

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted fro...(展开全部)

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably link...(展开全部)

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably link...(展开全部)

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted fro...(展开全部)

罗欣顿·米斯特里（Rohinton Mistry） 加拿大籍印度裔作家。1952年出生于印度孟买，1974年毕业于圣泽维尔大学数学与经济学专业。1975年移居加拿大，后毕业于多伦多大学乌兹沃斯学院英语与哲学专业。主要作品有长篇小说《长路漫漫》（Such A Long Journey）、《大地之上》（A Fine Balance）、《家事》（Family Matters），短篇小说集《费罗莎·巴格故事集》（Tales From Firozsha Baag）等。 其作品包揽过吉勒奖、总督奖等加拿大重要文学奖项，并三次入围布克奖短名单。2012年荣膺有“美国的诺贝尔奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖。2015年因其在文学上的突出贡献，被加拿大政府授予荣誉勋章。 ———————— 张亦琦 吉林省作家协会会员，德国海德堡大学汉学专业研究生，长期从事英语、德语文学翻译...(展开全部)

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxury–and for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors’ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the “rob Peter to pay Paul” scam to an art form. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was raking in ...(展开全部)

Nino Importuna has a soft face, but when he smiles, it’s terrifying. His Central Park penthouse is lavish, but it was bought with the blood of his enemies. His criminal empire controls mining, electronics, and food—legitimate corporations that he runs with a murderer’s touch. When he catches one of his capos stealing from him, Importuna could either kill the man or send him to ...(展开全部)