Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich I finished first grade in May of 41, and my parents took me for the summer to the Pioneer camp. I came there, went for a swim once, and two days later the war began. German planes flew over, and we shouted "Hurray!" We didn...(展开全部)

The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories, six of which have never been published. With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor was regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the admired master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered stories that illuminate the human cond...(展开全部)

In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchan...(展开全部)

威廉•特雷弗 （1928－2016） 爱尔兰当代文学大师，被《纽约客》誉为“当代英语世界最伟大的短篇小说家”。出生于爱尔兰科克郡米切尔斯敦一个中产阶级新教家庭，在外省度过童年时代，后到都柏林圣三一学院历史系求学，毕业后先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案。从一九五四年起，和妻子移居英国。 自一九五八年出版第一部长篇小说《行为标准》以来，已创作近二十部中长篇小说、数百篇短篇小说，还著有多部戏剧剧本、童书及散文集。先后三次获得英国惠特布雷德图书奖，五次入围布克奖，一度是诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。二○○二年，英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予骑士爵位。二○○八年，获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖。 二○一六年十一月，病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories, six of which have never been published. With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor was regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the admired master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered stories that illuminate the human cond...(展开全部)

In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchan...(展开全部)

威廉•特雷弗 （1928－2016） 爱尔兰当代文学大师，被《纽约客》誉为“当代英语世界最伟大的短篇小说家”。出生于爱尔兰科克郡米切尔斯敦一个中产阶级新教家庭，在外省度过童年时代，后到都柏林圣三一学院历史系求学，毕业后先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案。从一九五四年起，和妻子移居英国。 自一九五八年出版第一部长篇小说《行为标准》以来，已创作近二十部中长篇小说、数百篇短篇小说，还著有多部戏剧剧本、童书及散文集。先后三次获得英国惠特布雷德图书奖，五次入围布克奖，一度是诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。二○○二年，英国女王伊丽莎白二世授予骑士爵位。二○○八年，获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖。 二○一六年十一月，病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unb...(展开全部)

Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant recognition as one of the most influential voices writing in England today. Taut, brooding, and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unb...(展开全部)

Draws on a wide range of new sources, from welfare and medical files to private diaries, letters and drawings, evoking the individual voices of children under Nazi rule, to produce a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War.