In The Moor's Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight's Children. This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a gravestone in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor b...(展开全部)

What do we do when the world's walls - its family structures, its value-systems, it political forms - crumble? The central character of this novel, 'Moor' Zogoiby, only son of a wealthy, artistic-bohemian Bombay family, finds himself in such a moment of crisis. His mother, a famous painter and an emotional despot, worships beauty, but Moor is ugly, he has a deformed hand. Moor ...(展开全部)

萨曼•鲁西迪（1947— ） 1947年6月19日出生于印度孟买一个穆斯林家庭。祖父是一位乌尔都语诗人，父亲则是剑桥大学商业系的毕业生。 14岁付英国求学，后在剑桥大学国王学院攻读历史。大学毕业后，他短暂从事过影视剧作家和广告公司文案工作。他长期生活在英国，2000年后定居纽约。 1975年，第一部小说《格里姆斯》问世。 1981年第二部小说《午夜之子》出版，获当年布克奖。1993年，荣获为纪念布克奖设置25周年而颁发的 “特别布克奖”；2008年，又获为纪念布克奖设置40周年特设的“最佳布克奖”。 1983年，根据巴基斯坦当代政治现实而写的小说《羞耻》出版。1987年出版随笔《美洲豹的微笑》。 1988年，《撒旦诗篇》的出版给他带来了长达十年的“麻烦”。这部以先知穆罕默德为原型的小说触怒了穆斯林，伊朗宗教首领霍梅尼公开谴责此书，并悬赏600万美元...(展开全部)

A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie . Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of his cinema, Buñuel turns his artistic gaze i...(展开全部)

Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva’s fast-paced novel of suspense. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, someth...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Nine years in the making, Morrow's richly detailed, cerebral tale of rationality versus superstitious bigotry is set in late-17th-century London and colonial New England, a time when everyday actions were judged according to the rigid Parliamentary Witchcraft Act and suspect women were persecuted for alleged acts of sorcery. Inquisitive, "...(展开全部)

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely li...(展开全部)

斯坦利·莱恩-普尔（Stanley Lane-Poole，1854—1931） 著名东方学家、考古学家，都柏林大学教授，阿拉伯史权威学者。主要著作有《摩尔人统治下的西班牙》《土耳其人的故事》《中世纪的埃及》《萨拉丁和耶路撒冷王国的陷落》等。被誉为是一位“没有偏见的欧洲历史学家”，其作品对人们客观认识欧洲以外的历史有重要影响。

The Story of the Moors in Spain, written roughly a century ago, is of course, a classic work, and its resurrection today to a rife readership, along with Lane Poole's general body of work and other literary contributions from authors addressing Moorish history, coincides with the contemporary movement of conscious Moors to awaken the general masses to an almost obscured and "fo...(展开全部)

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebell...(展开全部)