The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia's scandal. 'A superb book. A complex story line, handled with dazzling assurance ......(展开全部)

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince ...(展开全部)

A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prin...(展开全部)

The first edition of this book presented simple proofs of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for Dirac operators on compact Riemannian manifolds and its generalizations (due to the authors and J.-M. Bismut), using an explicit geometric construction of the heat kernel of a generalized Dirac operator; the new edition makes this popular book available to students and researchers in a...(展开全部)

This is the much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. "The next Hunger Games". (The Sunday Times). "Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ...one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World". (Daily Express). In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the cha...(展开全部)

休•豪伊　Hugh Howey 一九七五年生于美国，深爱海洋，热爱读书和写作。他是得奖作品《莫莉•菲黛传奇》的作者，也就是他创造了超级畅销书《羊毛战记》系列作品。 二〇一一年夏天，他自助出版电子书《羊毛战记》，在网络上一炮而红，引爆读者狂热口碑，迅速窜上亚马逊电子书总榜第一位。随即《羊毛战记》的风潮蔓延至全球各国。各国图书版权纷纷售出。《异形》导演雷德利•斯科特一举收下电影版权，携手《辛德勒的名单》编剧史蒂夫•柴里安联手打造这部科幻史诗巨片。 休•豪伊和妻子在佛州的朱庇特岛生活，养了一条叫贝拉的狗。当他不在写作的时候，就在阅读或是拍照。

休•豪伊　Hugh Howey 一九七五年生于美国，深爱海洋，热爱读书和写作。他是得奖作品《莫莉•菲黛传奇》的作者，也就是他创造了超级畅销书《羊毛战记》系列作品。 二〇一一年夏天，他自助出版电子书《羊毛战记》，在网络上一炮而红，引爆读者狂热口碑，迅速窜上亚马逊电子书总榜第一位。随即《羊毛战记》的风潮蔓延至全球各国。各国图书版权纷纷售出。《异形》导演雷德利•斯科特一举收下电影版权，携手《辛德勒的名单》编剧史蒂夫•柴里安联手打造这部科幻史诗巨片。 休•豪伊和妻子在佛州的朱庇特岛生活，养了一条叫贝拉的狗。当他不在写作的时候，就在阅读或是拍照。