Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.

Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.

'"night, Mother" is a taut and fluid drama that addresses different emotions and special relations. By one of America's most talented playwrights, this play won the Dramatists Guild's prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. "'night, Mother "had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater i...(展开全部)

A companion novel to "Slaughterhouse 5", covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband’s mother, she knew she wasn’t the wife Diana had envisioned for her perfect son. Exquisitely polite, friendly, and always generous, Diana nonetheless kept Lucy at arm’s length despite her desperate attempts to win her over. ...(展开全部)

冯内古特参加过二战，在对德战役中被俘，关在小城德累顿的一个屠宰场地下冰库做苦役，又赶上了盟军的大轰炸，十三万五千德国平民葬身火海，爬出地下以后，被分派了挖尸体的工作。那些尸体被烤得像姜饼一样。姜饼是一种历史悠久的圣诞节小点心，用蜂蜜、红糖、杏仁、蜜饯、丁香等烘焙，成品焦黄色，装饰有彩色的糖霜，经常会被做成人形。所以这个比喻还是蛮形象的， 从军经历并没有什么好吹嘘的，那个时代，没上过战场的年轻男人是少数，而无论怎么样悲惨的经历后，只要没有死，生活都将继续。冯内古特说，“如果我过去生在德国，我想我会成为一名纳粹分子，到处殴打犹太人、吉卜赛人和波兰人，穿长靴踩遍雪堤，暗地里用良知使自己振作起来，事情就是这样。” 事情就是这样，在作家生涯里，这个家伙用的总是这样心平气和的语气，像苦涩的微笑，和淡淡的自嘲。被残酷事件折磨过又在现有生活中继续默默体验着悲伤的人，...(展开全部)

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely li...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

【生平简介】 高尔基（1868～1936）——全名：马克西姆·高尔基（Gorkey，Maksim） 前苏联作家。原名阿列克塞·马克西莫维奇·彼什科夫。1868年3月16日生于下诺夫哥罗德市一个木工家庭，1936年6月18日卒于莫斯科。 【文学创作】 1、早期生活与创作 高尔基4岁丧父，11岁起独立谋生，当过学徒、搬运工和面包师。1884年流落到喀山，19世纪80年代末90年代初两次漫游俄国各地，广泛了解民情；其间因参加秘密革命组织于1889年被捕，获释后行动仍受宪警监视。1892年发表处女作《马卡尔·楚德拉》，不久开始在地方报刊当编辑、记者。1898年出版两卷集《随笔和短篇小说》，从此蜚声俄国和欧洲文坛。他只上过2年学，完全靠自学成才。 早期创作多为短篇体裁。其中，《马卡尔·楚德拉》和《少女与死神》、《伊则吉尔老婆子》和《鹰之歌》等作品以黑暗与光明的...(展开全部)