One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way. It's even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack's not interested in world domination. He's just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn't just an automated smashing machine, and to ...(展开全部)

From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész comes this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, using them to narrate his involvemen...(展开全部)

As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torture...(展开全部)

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement From his prison cell, Antonio Martens, an interrogator for the recently fallen dictatorship, awaits execution. His charge? Multiple counts of murder; the murder of those disappeared by the state. Bereft of authority, and unable to avoid the consequences of his actions any longer, Martens tu...(展开全部)

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the...(展开全部)