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A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where...(展开全部)

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in...(展开全部)

The anecdotal literature of late-medieval China is not unknown, but it is under-used. Glen Dudbridge explores two collections of anecdotal memoirs to construct an intimate portrait of the first half of the tenth century as seen by people who lived through it. The author Wang Renyu's adult life coincided closely with that period, and his memoirs, though not directly transmitted,...(展开全部)

约翰•朱利叶斯•诺威奇于1929年生于英国。服完兵役后，他在牛津大学新学院攻读了法语和俄语文学专业。 诺威奇著述颇丰，包括《征服，1016—1130》（The Normans in the South,1967)、《王国，1130—1194》（The Kingdom in the Sun,1970）、《地中海史》（The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean,2006）、《教皇史》（¬The Popes: A History,2011）、《四君主》（Four Princes, 2017）等。 他还写了多部关于旅游、建筑和音乐的著作。此外，他曾为英国广播公司的约30部纪录片撰稿。 ★译者简介 陈薇薇，浙江杭州人，自由译者。从事翻译十余载，译有《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。

约翰•朱利叶斯•诺威奇于1929年生于英国。服完兵役后，他在牛津大学新学院攻读了法语和俄语文学专业。 诺威奇著述颇丰，包括《征服，1016—1130》（The Normans in the South,1967)、《王国，1130—1194》（The Kingdom in the Sun,1970）、《地中海史》（The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean,2006）、《教皇史》（¬The Popes: A History,2011）、《四君主》（Four Princes, 2017）等。 他还写了多部关于旅游、建筑和音乐的著作。此外，他曾为英国广播公司的约30部纪录片撰稿。 ★译者简介 陈薇薇，浙江杭州人，自由译者。从事翻译十余载，译有《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。