The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then the earthquake struck. For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: a lover who destroyed her chances of having children. Did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Junpei's estran...(展开全部)

三岛由纪夫（Mishima Youkio 1925-1970），日本小说家、剧作家。本名平冈公威，生于东京。1949年出版长篇小说《假面自白》，文坛地位确立。1970年11月25日写完《丰饶之海》第四卷《天上五衰》后自杀。一生创作40部中长篇小说、20部短篇小说集和18部剧本集。主要著作还有《禁色》、《潮骚》、《近代能乐集》、《金阁寺》和《萨德侯爵夫人》等。

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from the Queen of Mystery. When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the odd remark she made the day before at her brother's funeral becomes chillingly important: "It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't it. ... But he was murdered, wasn't he?" Desperate to learn more about both death...(展开全部)

When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't itBut he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to u...(展开全部)

As the world races towards catastrophe, a crowd of Mayfair socialites parties its way to oblivion. At its centre is David, who idles away his sober moments researching a futile book until the beautiful Helen decides to save him, shattering his marriage and learning too late the depth of both David's indolence and his wife's undeclared love. But with finances about to crash and ...(展开全部)

杰克•康菲尔德（Jack Kornfield，1945—），生长在美国东岸的一个科学及知性家庭。1963年就读于美国新罕布什尔州达特茅斯学院（Dartmouth College），主修亚洲研究，在学期间开始学佛。1967年毕业后，即前往东南亚修学，在阿姜查主持的巴蓬寺出家，也曾经在马哈希法师和佛使比丘座下学习，并追随过西藏喇嘛、禅师、印度教上师。1972年回到美国，还俗。1976年获得临床心理学博士学位，身兼佛学老师和心理治疗师。曾与约瑟夫•戈德斯坦（Joseph Goldstein）在美国马萨诸塞州合作建立“内观禅修社”，并经常在美国、加拿大和世界各地举办密集禅修，所到之处受到热烈欢迎，为美国最受欢迎的内观禅修教师之一。他的七本著作目前译成中文的有三本——《心灵幽径》、《当代南传佛教大师》与这本《狂喜之后》。

Fairy tales revealing a deep folk wisdom about the psychological tasks of the second half of life."A book glowing with magic and delight". -- Common Boundary

弗兰克·伦特里奇亚 当代美国文学批评家、小说家兼电影学教授。他是与赛义德（Edward Said）齐名的在美国有“公共影响的文学批评家知识分子” 。伦特里奇亚教授的早期著述大都是关于现代诗歌的研究，其后他深入文学理论研究领域，并发表了一系列具有开创性意义的著作，其中就包括《新批评之后》。伦特里奇亚还著有《批评与社会变迁》(Criticism and Social Change，芝加哥大学出版社出

Technological progress has fundamentally altered how humanity lives. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the Agrarian Age, it was land. Following the Industrial Revolution, capital became scarce. Now, digital technologies have shifted scarcity from capital to attention. Previous shifts have been marked by major crises including wars, famines and pandemics; our curren...(展开全部)