'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; an...(展开全部)

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in whic...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben ...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben ...(展开全部)

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert concentration camps in whic...(展开全部)

'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; an...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's ...(展开全部)

Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated plot and invents a series of deeply felt letters written by him to the novel's ...(展开全部)

慕容雪村 慕容雪村，男，1974年出生，A型血，双鱼座，单身，卖过假药，当过骗子，学过法律。 本书首先在新浪文化频道连载，很快被诸多媒体争相转载。并且引起意想不到的轰动效应，成为大众争议与讨论的焦点话题。而更为令我们惊讶　的是，在此后短短一周内竟然相继售出港台和海外版权。这肯定是近年来作为一部文学作品不可思议的奇迹。慕容，这位首次写作的新人，注定是我们生活中的一个异数！他的作品同样具有一种先天的�酷，他似乎喜欢割开自已的伤口，让人们看到最迷幻，却又绝对是最真实的世界！

慕容雪村 慕容雪村，男，1974年出生，A型血，双鱼座，单身，卖过假药，当过骗子，学过法律。 本书首先在新浪文化频道连载，很快被诸多媒体争相转载。并且引起意想不到的轰动效应，成为大众争议与讨论的焦点话题。而更为令我们惊讶　的是，在此后短短一周内竟然相继售出港台和海外版权。这肯定是近年来作为一部文学作品不可思议的奇迹。慕容，这位首次写作的新人，注定是我们生活中的一个异数！他的作品同样具有一种先天的�酷，他似乎喜欢割开自已的伤口，让人们看到最迷幻，却又绝对是最真实的世界！