Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt aPapa Doca and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence manathese are the acomediansa of Greeneas title. Hiding behind their actorsa masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, a...(展开全部)

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt “Papa Doc” and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man—these are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life. They are men afraid of love, afraid of pain, a...(展开全部)

A striking depiction of Haiti on the brink of chaos, delivered with Greene’s characteristic dark humour, forceful story-telling, and very obvious human sympathy. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocen...(展开全部)

Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

The first edition of Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas was published in 1985 by the French publisher Contrejour, and included photographs from Salgado's numerous trips through Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. The Brazil-born, Paris-based photographer traveled extensively in Latin America between 1977 and 1984 to document the shifting religious and political...(展开全部)

TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Hant'a - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell which of his thoughts are his own and which come from his books. He has rescued many from jaws of hydraulic press and now ...(展开全部)

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean ac...(展开全部)

TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Hant'a - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell which of his thoughts are his own and which come from his books. He has rescued many from jaws of hydraulic press and now ...(展开全部)

莱瑞•克莱布博士（Dr. Larry Crabb) ，美国著名心理辅导专家、作家和讲师，圣经辅导学会创办人和董事长。克莱布于1970年获伊利诺伊州州立大学临床心理学博士学位，在佛罗里达州执业10年，另有7年在印第安纳州恩典神学院指导圣经辅导硕士课程。《里外更新》是克莱布博士的第六部作品，其他作品包括《了解人——重建关系的圣经协谈》《沉默的亚当》《男女幸不同》《承载生命的相交》《里外更新寻主面》《破碎的梦》等。克莱布博士与妻子居于美国科罗拉多州，有两个儿子，克和肯。

乱歩賞作家の特別書下ろし野心作。 平凡な主婦が犯したおぞましい罪。それは殺人者が17年前に封印した悪夢を解き放った。誰も気がつかないうちに。 たった今、新しい犯罪小説（クライム・ノベル）が誕生した！ 意表をつく展開、感動の結末！ 雅子、43歳、主婦。弁当工場の夜勤パート。彼女は、なぜパート仲間が殺した夫の死体をバラバラにして捨てたのか? 自由への出口か、破滅への扉か?　四人の女たちが突っ走る荒涼たる魂の遍路。 『OUT』は1997年発表の作品。翌年にはドラマ化され、映画化された。 7年後の2005年、米ミステリー界のアカデミー賞といわれるアメリカ探偵作家クラブ（MWA, Mystery Writers of America）主催の2004年エドガー賞（The Edgarssm: The Edgar Allan Poe Awards）最優秀作品賞の最終...(展开全部)