In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasure...(展开全部)

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...(展开全部)

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasure...(展开全部)

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch"ulp"o, a potters" village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter"s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated — until he finds obstacles in his path: t...(展开全部)

张翎，浙江温州人。1983年毕业于复旦大学外文系，1986年赴加拿大留学，。现定居于多伦多市。90年代开始写作，代表作有《流年物语》《余震》《金山》《雁过藻溪》等。小说曾多次获得包括中国华语传媒年度小说家奖，华侨华人文学奖评委会大奖，台湾时报开卷好书奖，香港《红楼梦》全球海外华文长篇小说专家推荐奖等两岸三地重大文学奖项。 根据其小说《余震》改编的电影《唐山大地震》，获得了包括亚太电影节最佳影片和中国电影百花奖最佳影片在内的多个奖项。小说被译成多国文字在国际发表。

A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze -- until the interplay of his life with theirs comes to a dramatic climax.

Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted as a spy into Nazi ...(展开全部)

第二次世界大战（WWII）期间，一名年轻的苏联间谍面对两难的忠义选择，决定秘密潜入纳粹德国，揭开了一宗足以改变人类历史进程的暗杀阴谋。 独行间谍——在适当的时间、地点——甚至会改变人类的历史。 亚历克西斯·伊凡诺维奇·斯米尔诺夫（Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov）从小就自己相依为命靠偷盗为生，为了生存的他不得不斗智斗勇，始终保持高度的警惕性才勉强能够在苏维埃体制下混口饭吃，可是有一天他的好运气终于用完了。1936年，16岁的亚历克西斯被内务人民委员部（NKVD）的警察抓了起来并被运往了莫斯科（Moscow）。在神秘警察那个臭名昭著的总部里，他除了下半辈子都在卢比扬卡（Lubyanka）监狱受尽折磨而死之外，还获得了一个机会：接受特训并被安插到纳粹德军中成为一名苏联间谍。受训结束后，他会有一个新的身份来顶替他最好的朋友——一位纳粹党高级...(展开全部)