在线阅读本书 Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freel...(展开全部)

From the witty author of Nice Work comes a story of a group of British tourists whose trip to Hawaii isn't quite what anyone bargained for. "Wonderfully entertaining . . . a welcome addition to a rich and diverting oeuvre".-- New York Times Book Review.

Teun A. van Dijk：1943年生，阿姆斯特丹大学话语研究教授，分别获得阿姆斯特丹自由大学法语语言文学学士学位、阿姆斯特丹大学文学理论硕士学位和阿姆斯特丹大学语言学博士学位，曾在斯特斯堡、巴黎和伯克利作研究。早期研究文学语言学，很快转向“文本语法”和话语语用学，后与沃尔特·金什研究话语加工中的认知心理学。 中文简历：http://www.discourses.org/cv/Academic%20biography%20Teun%20A%20van%20Dijk%20in%20Chinese.pdf

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a roomful of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practises what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic ...(展开全部)

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Simultaneously intimate and panoramic, the narrative flows from Carlota's fevered memories of her husband's ill-fated empire to the multip...(展开全部)

维克多·弗拉基米罗维奇·叶罗菲耶夫（Виктор Владимирович Ерофеев, Viktor Vladimirovich Yerofeyev，1947.9.19~ ）苏联、俄罗斯作家、文学评论家、广播和电视节目主持人。 生于莫斯科一个外交官家庭。1955~1959年父亲在苏联大使馆担任参赞期间与父母住在巴黎。1970年莫斯科大学语言文学系毕业，1973年在苏联科学院世界文学研究所攻读研究生，1975年获语言文学副博士学位，论文题目是《陀思妥耶夫斯基和法国的存在主义》。1973年在苏联《文学问题》杂志上发表随笔评论法国作家萨德侯爵的创作，在文坛上崭露头角。1979年因参与未经审查的“文学年鉴”《大都会》而被开除出苏联作家协会。2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后和家人逃离俄罗斯赴德国定居。 作品有《亚德雷娜·芬亚》[Ядрёна Феня，收入...(展开全部)

The novel Good Stalin is inspired by Erofeev's experience growing up amidst the Soviet political hierarchy. His father, a staunch Stalinist who has dedicated his life and soul to the party, begins as Stalin's personal interpreter, and rises rapidly to the top of the political ladder and into the leader's inner circle. The book reflects the family's prestigious - and yet precari...(展开全部)

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause? Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible t...(展开全部)