Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers.Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means of transportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent...(展开全部)

This sea tale par excellence evolved from a passage in The Moon and Sixpence , written twelve years earlier.

This sea tale par excellence evolved from a passage in The Moon and Sixpence , written twelve years earlier.

Filled with adventure, passion, and intrigue, The Narrow Corner is a classic tale of the sea by one of the twentieth-century's finest writers.Island hoping across the South Pacific, the esteemed Dr. Saunders is offered passage by Captain Nichols and his companion Fred Blake, two men who appear unsavory, yet any means of transportation is hard to resist. The trip turns turbulent...(展开全部)

芭蕉(Basho) 又称松尾芭蕉(Matsuo Basho)，原名松尾宗房(Matsuo Munefusa)，(1644 - 1694) ，日本俳句诗人，为最伟大的俳句形式创作者。遵照他所学到禅宗哲学，他试图把世界的意义压缩到他的诗歌的简单模式中去，揭示隐藏在琐事中的希望，展现一切事物相互依赖的情况。

芭蕉(Basho) 又称松尾芭蕉(Matsuo Basho)，原名松尾宗房(Matsuo Munefusa)，(1644 - 1694) ，日本俳句诗人，为最伟大的俳句形式创作者。遵照他所学到禅宗哲学，他试图把世界的意义压缩到他的诗歌的简单模式中去，揭示隐藏在琐事中的希望，展现一切事物相互依赖的情况。

The shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we se...(展开全部)

《清洁》以一个不可避免的事实开篇：一个女孩死了。埃斯特拉是富裕中产阶级家庭的女佣，她在一间上锁的房间里向我们讲述了她的困境以及导致这一刻的情况。当我们了解她对日常生活的描述时，我们看到她看似简单的生活开始变糟，但这会让她走向不可想象的境地吗？ 《清洁》令人不安且深刻，在智利不断变化的政治格局背景下探讨了家务劳动、阶级和暴力。这是国际文学中大胆、引人入胜的惊悚小说之一。 Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances ...(展开全部)

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan’s epic novel tells the unf...(展开全部)

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan’s epic novel tells the unf...(展开全部)