Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practical...(展开全部)

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water... When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched i...(展开全部)

From the master of American detective novels comes this riveting short story collection. In his early works, Chandler laid the groundwork for his signature character, the legendary Philip Marlowe. The hero of such novels as the Big Sleep, and Farewell, My Lovely takes center stage in the gripping stories in this series.

和田惠美对我之影响并非在造型上，而是对细节无以复加的挑剔。《英雄》里，她实验各种面料的混织法与染色法，日日泡在染坊里，以求54种不同的红色。雨中的武士那出戏，她则要实验灰色面料的干湿颜色效果。她给章子怡的衣服做了一朵精致的小襟花，待到开拍时，她拉住杜可风的袖子，一再提醒：“你千万要把那朵襟花拍拍清楚啊。” ---by Ian Lin

Once known a the "great fire, "the spotted death" or "destroying angel", smallpox has been rivaled only by plague as a source of supreme terror. Spreading easily through the air, especially in crowded urban conditions, smallpox even today is fatal to 25% of its victims; there is no known cure once symptoms appear. Although naturally occurring smallpox was eradicated in 1977, re...(展开全部)

A rainy day can be a great day ... to bring the outside inside and let imagination take over! And a few dazzling costumes can lead to a full day of dress-up for the four little girls who know just what they would do if they were morning glories or toads or ladybugs or worms. But even the hardiest of garden creatures must sleep when night falls and the fireflies come to say good...(展开全部)

François Truffaut (1932-1984), perhaps the most respected member of the New Wave group of French moviemakers, left a legacy of beloved and influential films that include The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, and The Story of Adele H. Equally fascinating is the very large body of film criticism Truffaut wrote over many years for Cahiers du Cinema and...(展开全部)

埃利亚斯·卡内蒂（Elias Canetti，19O5～）的国籍问题，至今众说纷坛，这与他一生游踪不定有关。他生于保加利亚北部鲁斯丘克（今鲁塞），祖父是居住在西班牙的犹太人，父母以经商为业。8岁丧父，随母迁至维也纳，先后在苏黎世、法兰克福等地求学，大学毕业获哲学博士学位。由于从小就酷爱艺术，对犹太教、商业活动深感厌恶，卡内蒂潜心研究文学、历史，并开始写作。 1938年，德国法西斯侵占奥地利，卡内蒂流亡法国，辗转至英国，定居伦敦并加入英国国籍，但他一直用德语写作。我国翻译界倾向于把他归属于奥地利或英国德语作家。 卡内蒂自幼受母亲影响颇深。德国文学，尤其是歌德对他一生的创作影响很大，乃至被称为“一个生活在2O世纪里的18世纪的作家”。此外，卡夫卡也给他很大影响，他们是至交。卡内蒂早年攻读过自然科学，这又使他喜好以冷峻的态度表现精神与现实的冲突，特别喜好剖...(展开全部)