约翰·麦凯恩（John Sidney McCain Ⅲ）美国著名的政治家、共和党人，现为亚利桑那州国会参议员。 麦凯恩一九三六年出生于美国控制的巴拿马运河区域，父亲小约翰·西德尼·麦凯恩和祖父老约翰·西德尼·麦凯恩皆曾任美国海军上将二麦凯恩在弗吉尼亚州亚历山德里亚的圣公会中学和安那波利斯海军学院接受教育。其后他担任海军飞行员，在越南执行战斗任务，被浮后被拘禁长达五年半之久，由此成为全国知名人物。 获释回国后，麦凯恩在一九八二年当选亚利桑那州第一选区的众议员，并在一九八六年当选参议员目前是他作为参议员的第四个任期。 麦凯恩曾在二○○○年美国总统选举中角逐共和党的提名，但被乔治·沃克·布什击败；二○○八年他成为美国总统大选的共和党候选人，最终在与民主党候选人奥巴马参议员的对决中落败。

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

This taboo-breaking book deepens the understanding of the death of one's parents through the experiences of the author, a daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her parents never communicated their imprisonment experiences, causing Lydia Flem to grow up in a stifling silence that was finally broken upon their deaths as she emptied the old house. She discovers that the lonely process ...(展开全部)

During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of Salzburg, tells his story to a narrator. The pharmacist is known and well-respected, but lonely and estranged from his wife. He feels most comfortable wandering about in nature, collecting and eating hallucinogenic mushrooms. One day he receives a blow to the head that leaves him unable ...(展开全部)

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

"Boarding House" shows an imaginary space of transient residence, of coming and goings, of people without homes, sheltering in an abode that they are using for their immediate survival. The structure is basic and fundamental and it is furnished with objects that are necessarily for an elementary existence. Remnants function here as physical symbols of events that have occurred ...(展开全部)

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area,...(展开全部)

Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the messa...(展开全部)