Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing -- when Japanese troops invaded the historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes -- Nanjing 1937 is a tender and humorous story of an impossible love and a lively, detailed historical portrait of a culture on the verge of rupture. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ...(展开全部)

The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the 20th century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign before this notorious massacre has never been told in its entirety. Nanjing 1937 by Peter Harmsen fills this gap. In stirring prose, this book describes ho...(展开全部)

The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the 20th century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign before this notorious massacre has never been told in its entirety. Nanjing 1937 by Peter Harmsen fills this gap. In stirring prose, this book describes ho...(展开全部)

Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist’s Society, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But after she gets kicked out of renowned surgeon Dr. Beecham’s lectures f...(展开全部)

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before―the immortality, Beecham’s vial―were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a...(展开全部)

艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格（Isaac Bashevis Singer，1904—1991） 美国籍波兰裔犹太作家。1904年出生于波兰莱昂辛小镇里的一个犹太拉比世家。1925年发表第一篇短篇小说《在晚年》。1935年在哥哥约书亚的帮助下移居美国纽约，从事记者与专栏作家的工作。1953年，辛格的小说《傻瓜吉姆佩尔》由索尔·贝娄译成英文发表于《党派评论》（Partisan Review），引起批评界和读者的广泛关注和重视。1970年凭借儿童文学《快活的一天：一个在华沙长大的孩子的故事》、1974年凭借短篇小说集《羽冠》两次获得美国国家图书奖。1978年获得诺贝尔文学奖。 辛格在20世纪被称为“短篇小说大师”“当代最会讲故事的小说大师”，终生用意第绪语写作，作品通过英译本而广为人知。辛格擅写魔鬼、精灵、恶魔、巫师的故事，总是能以极小的篇幅、简洁的形式表现深刻...(展开全部)

Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New Y...(展开全部)

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Ar...(展开全部)

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. E...(展开全部)

喬伊斯．奧茲　Joyce Carol Oates 資深小說家，自50年代起即活躍於美國文壇，創作不斷，曾獲美國國家書卷獎。《西方正典》的作者，也是知名文學研究者卜倫（Harold Bloom）曾主編奧茲的研究文集Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates，該書稱譽奧茲是「美國當代最才華洋溢的女作家之一」，以精湛的暴力美學著稱。「奧茲作品裡最令我動容的，是她對飽受凌辱和摧殘的人物所流露的無限同情與理解，及對美國低下階層的生命情境的深刻體察。籠統的政治小說家，或社會革命者的名號並不足以界定她，她堪稱是實至名歸的普羅作家。」