On the 45th floor of the Matsumoto Tower in LA, the headquarters of the Japanese Electronics Corporation, celebrities from the film and music world mix with the captains of industry and politics. On the 46th floor, the dead body of a young woman is discovered. By the author of "Jurassic Park".

在线阅读本书 During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners. During the grand opening celebration of the new A...(展开全部)

During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate， the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins， and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski h...(展开全部)

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told a...(展开全部)

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told a...(展开全部)

Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who once worked as a sushi chef; Nora, the German woman who loves Nanook but is equally concerned with social justice and the environment; ...(展开全部)

著：多和田　葉子（タワダ　ヨウコ） 多和田葉子（たわだ・ようこ） 小説家、詩人。1960年東京都生まれ。早稲田大学第一文学部卒業。ハンブルク大学大学院修士課程修了。文学博士(チューリッヒ大学)。1982年よりドイツに在住し、日本語とドイツ語で作品を手がける。1991年『かかとを失くして』で群像新人文学賞、1993年『犬婿入り』で芥川賞、2000年『ヒナギクのお茶の場合』で泉鏡花文学賞、2002年『球形時間』でBunkamuraドゥマゴ文学賞、2003年『容疑者の夜行列車』で伊藤整文学賞、谷崎潤一郎賞、2005年にゲーテ・メダル、2009年に早稲田大学坪内逍遙大賞、2011年『尼僧とキューピッドの弓』で紫式部文学賞、『雪の練習生』で野間文芸賞、2013年『雲をつかむ話』で読売文学賞、芸術選奨文部科学大臣賞を受賞。2016年にドイツのクライスト賞を日本人...(展开全部)