成濑纯一：普通的相貌、普通的经历、普通的工作、普通的性格，典型的到哪里都随处可见的那种人。工作两年，不好不坏，性格懦弱……唯一比较拿手的就是画画，并在买画材的时候认识了在油画店工作的小惠，然后象普通人一样陷入热恋。本该充满着幸福与宁静的生活，却被始料不及的一宗抢劫事件打乱——为了救一名小女孩，成濑被抢劫犯用枪射杀！ 醒来后的成濑被告知由于发生了亿分之一的奇迹，医院用刚好死去的别人的右脑移植到他遭枪击，受到破坏的右脑，手术奇迹般地成功。苏醒过来后，虽说有医生的详细解说和安慰，但自己的大脑有一半是别人的，有别人存在于自己的脑中。带着这份疑问的成濑忐忑不安地回到阔别已久的工作岗位和爱人身边，可慢慢地，他发现自己的身心正逐步发生一些变化，于是他决定要调查捐赠者的生前事迹以及为何自己会越来越暴躁的真正原因……

Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bo...(展开全部)

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head’s preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapita...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔(Marguerite Yourcenar，1903－1987)，出生于比利时布鲁塞尔，成长时期在法国度过，同时游历欧洲各国。1939年起定居美国东北海岸，1987年在缅因州荒山岛辞世。1980年尤瑟纳尔入选法兰西学院院士，成为该机构350年历史上的第一位女性“不朽者”。 尤瑟纳尔是一位典型的学者型作家，深受自古希腊罗马以来的欧洲人文主义传统浸润；同时，她很早就意识到欧洲中心主义的局限，一直对东方哲学和文学抱有浓厚兴趣。她的作品以渊博的学识、广阔的视野和深邃的哲思见长，包括诗歌、戏剧、随笔等，尤以小说创作著称。主要作品有小说《哈德良回忆录》《苦炼》《默默无闻的人》等，回忆录《世界迷宫》三部曲也享有盛誉。 尤瑟纳尔的语言优美典雅，纯净洗练，一向为人称道。 乔治·勒穆瓦纳，出生于法国鲁昂，已为六十余部图画书绘制了精美的插图，并获得诸多相...(展开全部)

The 21 stellar writers in this international short-story collection include five Nobel winners. All the stories were chosen by the writers themselves and contributed without any fee, and all profits go to fight HIV-AIDS in southern Africa. The stories are not about AIDS, but several are about war and about dying. In Njabulo Ndbele's "Death of a Son," parents fight to get their ...(展开全部)

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time

Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)―a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their c...(展开全部)

The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lo...(展开全部)

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combine...(展开全部)

瓦尔拉姆·沙拉莫夫（Варлам Шаламов，1907－1982） 俄苏著名作家，出生于沃洛格达一个神甫家庭。曾因“政治问题”三次遭逮捕判刑，在远北地区的苦寒荒僻之地科雷马度过了十五年劳改生涯。1956年获平反回到莫斯科。1979年健康恶化，住入残老院，失明失聪，直至去世。著有系列作品“科雷马故事”和“科雷马诗抄”等。