A story of the lively adventures of four young Russians whose unconventional ideas are matched only by their off-beat behavior. When this novel by a twenty-eight-year-old Moscow doctor appeared in Russia, it caused a storm of literary excitement. Some critics attacked it for its "hateful" slang, its effervescent irreverence, its frivolity. Still other Russian critics--represent...(展开全部)

A story of the lively adventures of four young Russians whose unconventional ideas are matched only by their off-beat behavior. When this novel by a twenty-eight-year-old Moscow doctor appeared in Russia, it caused a storm of literary excitement. Some critics attacked it for its "hateful" slang, its effervescent irreverence, its frivolity. Still other Russian critics--represent...(展开全部)

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine ca...(展开全部)

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine ca...(展开全部)

Milwaukee, 1932. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent on what should be a routine case: locating the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune. Before he knows it, he finds himself on a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and of co...(展开全部)

A private eye is catapulted on to a continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape. ‘A masterpiece… A vintage tale of adventure’ Daily Telegraph ‘Swing bands, spies and surreal danger… A wild ride’ i Paper ‘Brilliant fun… Rollicking’ Washington Post Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the f...(展开全部)

In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the steep-sided Hill of Cronus. Here, between the eighth century BCE and the fourth century CE, rival athletes competed for glory in the ancient Olympic Games. Every four years, and from every corner of th...(展开全部)

作者簡介 希瑟．伍德（Heather Wood） 是加拿大作家凱利．伍德的女兒，生長在亞伯達省(Alberta)的紅鹿鎮(Red Deer)，曾在蒙特婁、加州和牛津主修歷史、宗教以及人類學。她為了攻讀人類學學士學位，為了研究孟加拉人首次到印度。 希瑟．伍德已婚，有一對雙胞胎兒子。 譯者簡介 黃芳田 一九五二年出生於高雄。國立台灣師範大學國文系畢業。曾任中學教師、文字記者，熱愛旅行與文字工作。 著有《辭職去旅行》、《踏著音符去旅行》、《筆尖下的鏡頭》等書。譯作：《日昇之處》、《深入賽普勒斯》、《傳說之城》、《印度沒有句點》、《可以這樣老去》等。

作者簡介 希瑟．伍德（Heather Wood） 是加拿大作家凱利．伍德的女兒，生長在亞伯達省(Alberta)的紅鹿鎮(Red Deer)，曾在蒙特婁、加州和牛津主修歷史、宗教以及人類學。她為了攻讀人類學學士學位，為了研究孟加拉人首次到印度。 希瑟．伍德已婚，有一對雙胞胎兒子。 譯者簡介 黃芳田 一九五二年出生於高雄。國立台灣師範大學國文系畢業。曾任中學教師、文字記者，熱愛旅行與文字工作。 著有《辭職去旅行》、《踏著音符去旅行》、《筆尖下的鏡頭》等書。譯作：《日昇之處》、《深入賽普勒斯》、《傳說之城》、《印度沒有句點》、《可以這樣老去》等。

作者簡介 希瑟．伍德（Heather Wood） 是加拿大作家凱利．伍德的女兒，生長在亞伯達省(Alberta)的紅鹿鎮(Red Deer)，曾在蒙特婁、加州和牛津主修歷史、宗教以及人類學。她為了攻讀人類學學士學位，為了研究孟加拉人首次到印度。 希瑟．伍德已婚，有一對雙胞胎兒子。 譯者簡介 黃芳田 一九五二年出生於高雄。國立台灣師範大學國文系畢業。曾任中學教師、文字記者，熱愛旅行與文字工作。 著有《辭職去旅行》、《踏著音符去旅行》、《筆尖下的鏡頭》等書。譯作：《日昇之處》、《深入賽普勒斯》、《傳說之城》、《印度沒有句點》、《可以這樣老去》等。