Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French—at the minimum—of negligent homicide. “Racism,” he quotes Ruth Gilmore, “is the exposure of certain groups to premature death.” And Louis goes to visit the ugly gray town of his child...(展开全部)

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

After well over a decade’s absence, Yoichi Yamashita journeys back to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral. As the relatives gather and the stories flow alongside the drinks, Yoichi’s childhood starts to resurface. The spring afternoon playing on the floor of his father’s barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents’ divorce and a new ‘mot...(展开全部)

弗兰兹・卡夫卡（Franz Kafka 1883-1924）20世纪奥地利著名小说家，西方公认的现代主义文学鼻祖，也是世界公认的文学大师。代表作有《城堡》《变形记》等。 张荣昌，北京大学西方语言系教授，著各翻译家。主要译著有《没有个性的人》（罗伯特・穆齐尔著）、《诺贝尔奖获得者与儿童对话》（福沃特・冯等编）、《写给大家的简明世界史》（贡布里希著）等。

Franz Kafka wrote this letter to Hermann Kafka in November 1919; he was then thirty-six years old. Max Brod relates that Kafka actually gave it to his mother to hand to his father, hoping that it might renew a relationship that had disintegrated into tension and frustration on both sides. Kafka's probing of the abyss between them spared neither his father nor himself, and his c...(展开全部)

For almost twenty years, two men from Georgia dominated the Russians and its empire: Stalin and Beria as head of what was to become the KGB. This book is a memoir of the daily life of these two men who sent millions to their graves. It paints Stalin's increasingly psychotic nature, but also the incomprehensible loyalty that Stalin inspired among women including the author's own...(展开全部)

谢尔戈·拉夫连季耶维奇·贝利亚(谢·阿·格格奇科里)，1924年11月24日生于第比利斯市。1941年在莫斯科第172中学毕业后，被苏联内务部中央无线电技术实验室录用。战争初期，他作为志愿者被共青团区委推荐到情报学校学习。结业后，以中尉技术员的军衔开始在军队服役。 1942年10月国防人民委员部派遣谢尔戈·贝利亚入列宁格勒布琼尼军事通讯学院学习。学习期间他曾多次奉最高统帅和总参谋部之命执行特别秘密任务。曾获“保卫高加索”奖章和红星勋章。 1947年，军事学院毕业之后，政府决定派遣谢尔戈·贝利亚到计划设计部门工作，信箱为1323(即后来著名的第一设计局)，在那里直到1953年7月担任主任工程师、主任设计师之职，曾荣获列宁勋章和苏联国家奖金。1952年通过博士论文答辩。 受其父拉夫连季·贝利亚“案件”牵连，他于1953年7月被捕，到1954年年底，先后被...(展开全部)

George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words. ...(展开全部)

George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President. Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words. ...(展开全部)

Volumes I & II in paperback of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.