A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human li...(展开全部)

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human li...(展开全部)

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain: Karfeld, menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them, facing riots, Nazi secre...(展开全部)

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above.It ...(展开全部)

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, h...(展开全部)

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have chosen to join the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to better paying jobs, more convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town Ameri...(展开全部)