爱德加·斯诺，美国著名记者和作家。1928年来到中国。九一八事变后，他亲赴前线采访，写下了一批颇有影响的有关中日战争的报道。特别是他撰写了轰动世界舆论的《红星照耀中国》——不带任何政治偏见和党派色彩，通过亲自采访所得的第一手资料，得到了中国人民和世界人民的信任。抗战期间 ，斯诺作为中国人民的朋友，把中国的事业当作自己的事业，组织、发起、宣传“工合”运动，支持中国的战时经济；如实报道中国抗战实况；开展大量的国际宣传，极大地支持了中国的反侵略战争。他把一生最宝贵的年华献给了中国人民的解放事业，他以自己的行动，在中美两国人民之间架起了一座友谊的桥梁。 1937年7月7日，七七事变爆发，斯诺在北平南苑目睹了中日战争的开端。他在参加日军召开的一次记者招待会上，大声质问：“为什么要在中国领土上进行军事演习？为什么借口士兵失踪动用大兵？为什么侵略者不撤兵回营，反叫...(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 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)

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.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning...(展开全部)

安妮•卡森（Anne Carson） 1950年生于多伦多，童年随着家人迁居，在安大略省多个小城生活过。她在多伦多大学学习古典学，在苏格兰受教于肯尼斯•多福，博士期间她回到多伦多大学研读诗人萨福，研究所得后来被她整理出版为《爱欲的苦甜》。 卡森深受哈罗德•布鲁姆推崇，称其为“在世诸天才之一”，是“智慧作家”，可与艾米丽•勃朗特和艾米丽•狄金森相提并论。 她是目前古典功底最为深厚的一位诗人。同时她也是形式上的创新派，经常用当代的方式，创新的形式来重新阐释古典——以图像、研究和比较切入诗歌写作，所出版的作品几乎每一本都将多种体裁杂糅在一起，如诗歌、论文、翻译等。 目前卡森在美国多所大学教授古典学和比较文学，是纽约大学的驻校诗人。她还活跃在艺术舞台和歌剧剧坛上。

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje "This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning...(展开全部)