June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in Marseille with the aim of rescuing as many as possible. This is the harrowing story of their flight from the Nazi...(展开全部)

Juni 1940: Hitlers Wehrmacht hat Frankreich besiegt. Die Gestapo fahndet nach Heinrich Mann und Franz Werfel, nach Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger und unzähligen anderen, die seit 1933 in Frankreich Asyl gefunden haben. Derweil kommt der Amerikaner Varian Fry nach Marseille, um so viele von ihnen wie möglich zu retten. Uwe Wittstock erzählt die aufwühlende Geschichte ihrer Flu...(展开全部)

Winner of the Best Artist Award at the Angoulême Festival! Jean-Pierre Gibrat’s lushly colored graphic novel is one of the most stunningly beautiful comics of the 21st Century. The story takes place in Paris during the German Occupation and stars a memorable heroine in the French Resistance fighter named Jeanne. With the help of an apolitical cat burglar named François, she tri...(展开全部)

克里肴那穆提（1895-1986）20世纪最卓越的心灵导师。1895年生于印度，1925年悟道，他的一生极富传奇色彩。他主张真理纯属个人的了悟，一定要用自己的光照亮自己。他一生的教诲皆在帮助人类从恐惧和无明中解脱，体悟慈与至乐的境界。因此佛教徒肯定他是“中观”的导师，印度教徒认为他是彻底的“觉者”，神智学者则认为他是道道地地的“禅”师。 他的40本著作，全是由空性流露的演讲和谈话集结而成，目前已译成了47国文字，在欧美、印度及澳洲有着广泛而深远的影响。

克里肴那穆提（1895-1986）20世纪最卓越的心灵导师。1895年生于印度，1925年悟道，他的一生极富传奇色彩。他主张真理纯属个人的了悟，一定要用自己的光照亮自己。他一生的教诲皆在帮助人类从恐惧和无明中解脱，体悟慈与至乐的境界。因此佛教徒肯定他是“中观”的导师，印度教徒认为他是彻底的“觉者”，神智学者则认为他是道道地地的“禅”师。 他的40本著作，全是由空性流露的演讲和谈话集结而成，目前已译成了47国文字，在欧美、印度及澳洲有着广泛而深远的影响。

詹姆斯·斯沃洛是荷鲁斯之乱小说《惧于踏足》和《宿敌》的作者，两部作品都登上了《纽约时报》的畅销书榜。他还为荷鲁斯之乱撰写了《艾森斯坦号的逃亡》《埋葬的匕首》以及描写内森尼尔 · 加罗的一系列广播剧，其文字版现已被收录进选集《加罗》。他在战锤 40000 中最著名的作品是他的四部圣血天使小说、广播剧《狂怒之心》以及两部战斗修女小说。他的短篇小说收录于《星际战士传奇》和《叛乱故事》。

Having witnessed the terrible massacre of Imperial forces on Isstvan III, Death Guard Captain Garro seizes a ship and sets a course for Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus’s treachery. But when the fleeing Eisenstein is damaged by enemy fire, it becomes stranded in the warp – the realm of the Dark Powers. Can Garro and his men survive the depredations of Chaos and get his warnin...(展开全部)

"A wonderful mix of magical realism and wordplay that has a similar tone to MArquez at his best. Couto writes in an idiom all his own that feels authentically African."-"Ink" In Mozambique after the end of the civil war, local soldiers have been unaccountably blown up. When it begins to happen to UN peacekeepers, a high-level delegation visits the village of Tizangara to initia...(展开全部)

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

What is literature? What is the quality in a text that leads a reader to call it 'literary'? What is the 'certain way' of reading that calls into being the literary potential of a text? Why have we been unable to definitively answer these questions, and where does that leave us? Derek Attridge argues that the impossibility of definition leaves us at a beginning. From the point ...(展开全部)