A moving study of the Hiroshima bombing and its horrific aftermath by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature provides an eloquent account of the victims of the atomic blast, the efforts of caregivers, and the devastating struggle to come to terms with the tragedy. Reprint. NYT.

Book Description On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four d...(展开全部)

Book Description On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four d...(展开全部)

2015 is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, when, on 6 August at 8.15am, an atomic bob was dropped, killing one hundred thousand men, women and children in its white fury. John Hersey's spare, devastating report on the attack was first published in the New Yorker in 1946. Written in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, it chronicles what happened through the eyes of six civi...(展开全部)

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this heartrending account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. A further chapter was added when, forty years later, he returned ...(展开全部)

Jock Sturges: Notes gives fans of his unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time. A selection of preparatory studies, shot as Polaroids, accompanies the finished works included here--offering visual testimony to the complex process and inspiration that underlies each of the gorg...(展开全部)

Jock Sturges: Notes gives fans of his unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time. A selection of preparatory studies, shot as Polaroids, accompanies the finished works included here--offering visual testimony to the complex process and inspiration that underlies each of the gorg...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·杜拉斯（1914-1996），法国当代最著名的女小说家、剧作家和电影艺术家。她于1914年4月4日出生在越南嘉定，父母都是小学教师。四岁时丧父，童年的苦难和母亲的悲惨命运影响了她的一生。 杜拉斯以小说《厚颜无耻之辈》（1943）开始她的文学生涯。她的作品不仅内容丰富，体裁多样，而且尤其注重文体，具有新颖独特的风格。早期小说《抵挡太平洋的堤坝》（1950）充分反映了童年时代的贫困生活，还有不少作品也是以印度支那的社会现实为题材的。《直布罗陀海峡的水手》（1952）等作品充满了镜头般的画面和口语式的对话，因此不少都被改编成影片；后来的小说如《塔尔奎尼亚的小马》（1953），《琴声如诉》（1958），《洛尔·V.斯坦的迷醉》（1964）等则善于打破传统的叙述模式，把虚构与现实融为一体，因而使她一度被认为是新小说派作家，其实她的小说只是在手法上与新...(展开全部)

Jacket description/back: One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award. Ostensibly the story of a love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress v...(展开全部)

In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a lifetime's wisdom to consider every aspect of the instrument: from what makes a beautiful sound to suffering from stage fright, from the physical challenges of playing to tales of great musicians, including Vladimir Horowitz's...(展开全部)