Grande Sertão: Veredas (Portuguese for "Big Backcountry: Tracks"; English translation: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) is an influential novel published in 1956 by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa. The original title refers to the veredas - small paths of wetlands usually located at higher altitudes carachterized by the presence of grasses and buritizais, groups of t...(展开全部)

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entang...(展开全部)

"The Devil in the Flesh," one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions-the pride o...(展开全部)

"The Devil in the Flesh," one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions-the pride o...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 吉尔伯特·金（Gilbert King），生于1962年，美国作家，2013年凭借《林中之恶》获普利策奖，并入围爱伦·坡奖、肖托夸文学奖。他为《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》等媒体撰写有关种族、民权和死刑的文章，同时也是报道美国刑事司法系统的非营利新闻组织“马歇尔项目”的成员之一。他挖掘那些被淡忘、被掩藏的历史，另著有《在无情的阳光下》《威利·弗朗西斯的死刑》。现居住于纽约。 【译者简介】 张芝梅，复旦大学哲学系逻辑学硕士、北京大学法学院法学博士，中国社会科学院社会学研究所《青年研究》编辑部主任、中国社会科学院编审。另著有《美国的法律实用主义》，译有《律师会馆》、《法律的道路及其影响》（合译）。

An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, "Backlands" is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in ...(展开全部)

"STARTLING . . . FIENDISH . . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING."--New York Daily News "Like Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife."--Rolling Stone "SENSUAL . . . BOLD, FAST-PAC...(展开全部)

"STARTLING. . . FIENDISH. . . MEMNOCH'S TALE IS COMPELLING." --New York Daily News Like Interview With the Vampire, Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife. --Rolling Stone "SHOCKING. . . A BRILLIANT BOOK....(展开全部)

'A blood-pumping, nerve-shredding thriller . . . ingenious'(A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window) How do you find a killer when you're surrounded by madness?1935. As Europe prepares itself for a calamitous war, six homicidal lunatics - the so-called 'Devil's Six' - are confined in a remote castle asylum in rural Czechoslovakia. Each patient has their own dark story to ...(展开全部)

Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The state-of-the-art facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle outside of Prague, though the site is infamous for concealing dark secrets going back many generations. The asylum houses the country's six most treacherous killers-...(展开全部)