The most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction, Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession. River of Fire interweaves...(展开全部)

Now available as a paperback, the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. Now available as a New Directions Paperbook, Qurratulain Hyder's River of Fire makes a bid to be recognized in the West as what it has long been acknowledged in the East: the most important novel of twentieth-century Urdu fiction. First published as Aag ka Darya in 1959, River of Fire enco...(展开全部)

Never before available in English, River of Fire, originally published as Aag ka Darya in 1959, is without question the most important novel of 20th-century Urdu literature. An amazing, sui generis book, River of Fire spans two and a half millennia. Set during four Indian epochs (the classical, the medieval, the colonial, and the modern post-national), the novel is a meditation...(展开全部)

In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven , Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own...(展开全部)

The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels.

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita, an opium carrier...(展开全部)

The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels.

From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House—a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was th...(展开全部)

安德烈·斯帕克沃斯基，波兰著名幻想文学家，全欧洲除已故大师托尔金之外的奇幻第一人，以细腻而幽默的文笔和对“灰色英雄”的独特鉴赏力闻名。《猎魔人》系列是他的成名作，也是整个东欧最有影响力的的文学作品之一。 21世纪初，波兰工作室CDproject穷数年之力，将《猎魔人》改 编为游戏《巫师》系列，轰动全球，曾作为波兰国家国礼赠送给奥巴马总统。

安德烈·斯帕克沃斯基，波兰著名幻想文学家，全欧洲除已故大师托尔金之外的奇幻第一人，以细腻而幽默的文笔和对“灰色英雄”的独特鉴赏力闻名。《猎魔人》系列是他的成名作，也是整个东欧最有影响力的的文学作品之一。 21世纪初，波兰工作室CDproject穷数年之力，将《猎魔人》改 编为游戏《巫师》系列，轰动全球，曾作为波兰国家国礼赠送给奥巴马总统。