In the tradition of Ian Buruma's Anglomania, a probing, irreverent, and immensely colorful look at the meaning of Englishness. Not so long ago, everybody knew who the English were. They were "polite, unexcitable, reserved, and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life." As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little ne...(展开全部)

The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through th...(展开全部)

The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through th...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·席尔瓦（Daniel Silva），全球首屈一指的国际阴谋论大师，以惊心动魄的故事，为您揭示国际政治斗争的阴暗本质，四次夺得《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜全球第一。美国政府为表彰他对国际政治真相的深刻批判，任命他为美国大屠杀纪念会的委员。 媒体评论 “剪辑利落，故事清晰，人物精致，剧情曲折。” ——《纽约时报》 “高智商的动作惊悚小说。” ——《落基山新闻报》 “对时事新闻敏感，骇人地可信，读起来就像在预言欧洲恐怖主义的成长。” ——《华尔街日报》 悲剧的巴以冲突，绝望的和平议程，复杂国际阴谋和恐怖主义……席尔瓦震撼人心的小说，充满令人目不暇接的紧张情节。 ——《出版人周刊》 有趣，扣人心弦，很伟大。 ——《罗利新闻与观察》

在线阅读本书 Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich, to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker. But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece, and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings ndash; stolen by Nazis in the war ndash; is missing. With the Swiss author...(展开全部)

A master writer of espionage" ("Cincinnati Enquirer"), Daniel Silva makes his Signet debut with his most acclaimed novel to date... Framed for the murder of a millionaire banker, Israeli spy by trade and art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon, will have to fight for his life-against an assassin he himself helped train.

Whereas I am the man who fasts until I see what I want. 我是个一直斋戒的人,直到我看到我喜欢的... I carried Katharine Clifton into the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. 我抱着凯塞琳-克里福藤走入沙漠,那里有苍天下淌满月光的书,我们被关于井的谣言å...(展开全部)

The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces theintersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; t...(展开全部)