戴维·皮斯，1967年生于约克郡，作家、编剧，在东京生活了十几年。2003年被《格兰塔》文学杂志评选为英国最佳青年作者。著有《血色侦程》四部曲（Red Riding Quartet），后被改编为同名电影；第五部小说GB84于2004年获詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖；他所撰写的布莱恩·克拉夫的虚构传记小说《魔鬼联队》（The Damned Utd）也受到高度赞誉；而《红或死》（Red or Dead）则入围2013年的金史密斯奖。

From one of Granta's 2003 Best Young British Novelists comes this electrifying novel--fiction generated by fact--that revisits a series of shocking crimes committed in American Occupied Tokyo post-World War II. On August 15th, 1946--the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender--the partially decomposed bodies of two women are found in the ruins of Zojoji Temple in central To...(展开全部)

From one of Granta's 2003 Best Young British Novelists comes this electrifying novel--fiction generated by fact--that revisits a series of shocking crimes committed in American Occupied Tokyo post-World War II. On August 15th, 1946--the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender--the partially decomposed bodies of two women are found in the ruins of Zojoji Temple in central ...(展开全部)

It's August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender—and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police—irreverent, angry, despairing—goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard—a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the...(展开全部)

伊恩•布鲁玛(Ian Buruma，1951— )，生于荷兰海牙，先后在荷兰和日本就学，曾于莱顿大学攻读中国文学和历史，后专注于研究日本。现任纽约巴德学院（Bard College）民主、人权与新闻Henry R. Luce教授。出版的著作有：《面具背后》（又名《日本之镜》）、《罪行的报应：日本和德国的战争记忆》、《伏尔泰的椰子》、《传教士和浪荡子》、《异议分子》、《西方主义》、《发明日本：1853—1964》、《零年：1945》等。

A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, an...(展开全部)

A marvelous global history of the pivotal year 1945 as a new world emerged from the ruins of World War II Year Zero is a landmark reckoning with the great drama that ensued after war came to an end in 1945. One world had ended and a new, uncertain one was beginning. Regime change had come on a global scale: across Asia (including China, Korea, Indochina, and the Philippines, an...(展开全部)

伊恩•布鲁玛(Ian Buruma，1951— )，生于荷兰海牙，先后在荷兰和日本就学，曾于莱顿大学攻读中国文学和历史，后专注于研究日本。现任纽约巴德学院（Bard College）民主、人权与新闻Henry R. Luce教授。出版的著作有：《面具背后》（又名《日本之镜》）、《罪行的报应：日本和德国的战争记忆》、《伏尔泰的椰子》、《传教士和浪荡子》、《异议分子》、《西方主义》、《发明日本：1853—1964》、《零年：1945》等。

On the eve of his fortieth birthday, a professor of no discernible musical talent learns to play the guitar and investigates how anyone of any age might master a new skill. Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start pi...(展开全部)