In the dying days of the War, Seita and Setsuko must fend for themselves. Firebombs have obliterated their home in Kobe, leaving them searching for shelter, and scrambling to survive in the depths of the countryside. But, as their suffering becomes a constant companion, so do the lights of the fireflies – shining from the bomber planes, and the insects glowing by the lake at ni...(展开全部)

In the dying days of the War, Seita and Setsuko must fend for themselves. Firebombs have obliterated their home in Kobe, leaving them searching for shelter, and scrambling to survive in the depths of the countryside. But, as their suffering becomes a constant companion, so do the lights of the fireflies – shining from the bomber planes, and the insects glowing by the lake at ni...(展开全部)

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied...(展开全部)

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied...(展开全部)

[英]简世勋（Stephen D. King） 汇丰银行（HSBC）首席经济学家，英国下议院财政委员会专家顾问。英国政府亚洲工作组成员，欧洲中央银行影子银行委员会成员。毕业于牛津大学。长期担任《金融时报》《泰晤士报》《独立报》《旗帜晚报》等媒体的专栏作家、首席评论员。

[英]简世勋（Stephen D. King） 汇丰银行（HSBC）首席经济学家，英国下议院财政委员会专家顾问。英国政府亚洲工作组成员，欧洲中央银行影子银行委员会成员。毕业于牛津大学。长期担任《金融时报》《泰晤士报》《独立报》《旗帜晚报》等媒体的专栏作家、首席评论员。

Uncle Three loves good food, good booze, good card games, and bad women–and he’s never found a grave he wouldn’t rob. He can’t help it–it’s in his blood–grave robbing has been the family business for centuries. So when his bookseller nephew comes to him with a map to an ancient tomb, Uncle Three sets off to find it, in the company of some grave-robbing colleagues, his nerdy nep...(展开全部)

Uncle Three loves good food, good booze, good card games, and bad women–and he’s never found a grave he wouldn’t rob. He can’t help it–it’s in his blood–grave robbing has been the family business for centuries. So when his bookseller nephew comes to him with a map to an ancient tomb, Uncle Three sets off to find it, in the company of some grave-robbing colleagues, his nerdy nep...(展开全部)

It was a summer morning in 1982 when soldiers entered the village of Chupan Ya and rounded up the women and children. The bodies are said to lie in a mass grave. Dr Temperance Brennan digs in the cold, damp pit. From what her trowel uncovers, she knows that something savage happened back then.

Investigating a massacre that took place in Guatemala in 1982, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan discovers that those events are linked to the disappearance of four girls from Guatemala City, as well as the murder of a human rights investigator.