In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering...(展开全部)

Faulkner s first novel, Soldiers Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran s homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers return from war on the people particularly the women who were left behind.

This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.

The story of a wounded veterans homecoming, it is partly autobiographical, filled with hope, dark laughter, and despair.

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with...(展开全部)

The year is AD100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable, from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. But the might of Rome rests entirely on the shoulders of the legionaries, who stand strong against the barbarian hordes, pushing back the frontiers of the empire. This book a kind of unofficial guide for the new recruit, written in the same enga...(展开全部)

The year is AD100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable, from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. But the might of Rome rests entirely on the shoulders of the legionaries, who stand strong against the barbarian hordes, pushing back the frontiers of the empire. This book a kind of unofficial guide for the new recruit, written in the same enga...(展开全部)

It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for “casualties.” Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote ...(展开全部)

Accept no substitutes: Wolfgang Tillmans could well be the coolest photographer on the planet. Always imitated, never bettered, he's the lens-meister of the zeitgeist, the photo-journo who went artside, a man in constant demand, moving effortlessly from magazine to fashion shoot to gallery retrospective. He creates identities, he's the brand name of hip. From Ray Gun to i-D, hi...(展开全部)

哈维尔•塞尔卡斯（1962— ），西班牙作家，生于卡塞雷斯省，毕业于巴塞罗那自治大学文哲系。他先后在美国伊利诺伊大学和西班牙赫罗纳大学任教。此外，他为《国家报》等报纸杂志撰稿。他力图打破文学类别的限制，将小说、散文、自传和新闻报道等文学体裁融会贯通。2015年凭借《骗子》获得“21世纪年度最佳外国小说”和“邹韬奋年度外国小说”奖。 侯健，文学博士，西安外国语大学欧洲学院西班牙语专业教师、拉丁美洲研究中心成员、中国拉丁美洲学会理事、文学翻译者。译有《普林斯顿文学课》《五个街角》《33场革命》等书。