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)

A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. "War and War," Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by th...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize War & War begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked and robbed by thuggish teenagers. From here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archive...(展开全部)

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished 'good Germans' from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. But how was the American public made to accept an allianc...(展开全部)

In his War Books Cyril Falls expresses uncertainty whether this book should be classed as fiction or reminiscence, eventually plumping for the former but based on personal experiences. The Times Literary Supplement of the day comments that he [Renn] recorded his impressions with that extreme simplicity which is one of the highest forms of literary art. The author is the central...(展开全部)

路德维希 • 雷恩（Ludwig Renn），原名阿诺尔德 • 维特 • 冯 • 格尔瑟瑙，1889年出生，1979年逝世，德国作家。曾是德国贵族，代表作有纪实小说《战争》和《战后》，后用成名作《战争》里的主人公名字作为自己的笔名。 西班牙内战时期，曾任国际第11纵队参谋长和台尔曼营营长。1939~1947年流亡墨西哥。1947年回国，任人类学教授、德累斯顿文化研究院院长和萨克森文化联盟主席等职。1950年迁居柏林，成为职业作家。

War - in the mind of the fragile Bea B., in the infinite icy landscape she journeys through, in Vietnam, in 10,000 years of human history. The war of the title is not merely a war of arms but a generalised state of violence permeating every atom of Le Clezio's creation. Bea B. searches for clues for the origin of the evil. Under her searching gaze the most everyday objects - ad...(展开全部)

路德维希 • 雷恩（Ludwig Renn），原名阿诺尔德 • 维特 • 冯 • 格尔瑟瑙，1889年出生，1979年逝世，德国作家。曾是德国贵族，代表作有纪实小说《战争》和《战后》，后用成名作《战争》里的主人公名字作为自己的笔名。 西班牙内战时期，曾任国际第11纵队参谋长和台尔曼营营长。1939~1947年流亡墨西哥。1947年回国，任人类学教授、德累斯顿文化研究院院长和萨克森文化联盟主席等职。1950年迁居柏林，成为职业作家。

In his War Books Cyril Falls expresses uncertainty whether this book should be classed as fiction or reminiscence, eventually plumping for the former but based on personal experiences. The Times Literary Supplement of the day comments that he [Renn] recorded his impressions with that extreme simplicity which is one of the highest forms of literary art. The author is the central...(展开全部)