Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink’s landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and her suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice In the tradition of the best writing on medicine, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those...(展开全部)

There were five of them altogether. Five misfits. ÿÿÿÿ The five had never amounted to much in life, nor did they feel like doing anything. And then one day, from who knows where, came an extraordinary fellow... When Mr Perfect comes to stay, the five misfits find themselves questioning what their purpose in life is. Can they teach him that not fitting in is more fun than trying...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·罗特 Joseph Roth (1894-1939) 是可以和卡夫卡、穆齐尔相提并论的重要德语作家，堪称作家中的作家，深受多位文学名家推崇。 罗特出生于奥匈帝国东部边境的犹太家庭，曾参加第一次世界大战，战后作为记者为维也纳不同报社写稿，成为二三十年代德语世界的明星记者 ，曾就职于《法兰克福报》。罗特不到三十岁时开始发表文学作品，至四十五岁英年早逝时已出版小说数十部，其中篇、长篇和短篇小说均出手不凡，成为那个时代具有代表性的最优秀的德语作家之一。 罗特较为人所知的小说有《拉德茨基进行曲》《先王冢》《皇帝的胸像》《百日》《无尽的逃亡》《约伯记》《塔拉巴斯》《沉默的先知》等，均以精湛的叙事技巧、独特的语言风格、深邃广阔的人文思想受到广泛关注。其代表作《拉德茨基进行曲》更是现代德语文学中关于“哈布斯堡神话”的标志性作品，是两次世界大战之间写成的最优秀...(展开全部)

Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica―an unlucky creature who ...(展开全部)

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small...(展开全部)

The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same ...(展开全部)

The End of Days, a brilliant novel of contingency and fate, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Ha...(展开全部)