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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. T...(展开全部)