玛丽亚·翁迪娜·布拉嘉（Maria Ondina Braga，1932~2003），女，葡萄牙作家。埃萨·德克罗斯文学奖获得者。生于葡萄牙布拉加，曾赴英国和法国求学，并在安哥拉、果阿、澳门和北京从事英语和葡萄牙语教学工作。一生创作多部作品，并凭借小说《澳门夜曲》（Nocturno em Macau）获得葡萄牙埃萨·德克罗斯文学奖，其作品被翻译成法语、意大利语、西班牙语、德语、日语、汉语等多种语言出版。

Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistress...(展开全部)

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)

Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistress...(展开全部)

（譯序） 徐薩斯(Montalto de Jesus)是葡萄牙為數不多的撰寫了澳門史專著的歷史學家之一，他的《歷史上的澳門》一書(1902年版)，在葡國被奉為圭臬之作。在他之後，另一個葡國人布拉加(一譯白樂嘉J.M.Braga)也寫過《西方開拓者及其發現澳門》(1949年版)，同樣享有盛名。他們所寫的澳門史代表了迄今葡國前輩學者在這個問題上的基本觀點和最高水平，並成為政府殖民政策的代言人和辯護士。但兩人著作問世相隔了半個世紀之久。比較起來，徐薩斯的資格似乎更老一些，也更權威一些。因此，我們特地把他的《歷史上的澳門》一書翻譯出版，以便讓中國讀者領略一下葡國學者的澳門史觀，拓寬領域，擴大視野，豐富硏究資料。 本書的主要特點之一，就是根據葡萄牙史料撰寫澳門史。這同時也是它的一個優點。徐薩斯作為一個葡萄牙歷史家，非常熟悉本國史料，他使用葡國史料撰寫澳門史，將...(展开全部)

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed ove r the years into a jacket, a button, and, ultimately, a story.

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed ove r the years into a jacket, a button, and, ultimately, a story.