David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them ...(展开全部)

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them ...(展开全部)

The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their unspecified original location, the father leads the boy south, through a desolate American landscape along a ...(展开全部)

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Grasshopper, insouciant hero of Lobels free-and-easy reader, goes where the road leads, en route unsettling a series of set-in-their-ways insects. SLJ. One of the richest examples of characterization in the beginning-to-read genre. BL. Notable Children's Book of 1978 (ALA) 1979 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) "Best of the Best" Children's Books 19661978 (SLJ) Chil...(展开全部)

《On the Road》，杰克·凯鲁亚克的半自传体小说，是一部激情四溢的青春公路旅行宣言。它引领读者踏上一段跨越美国大陆的心灵之旅，伴随着萨尔与他的朋友们在无垠公路上的狂野奔腾，追寻着自由、爱情与生命意义的无尽探索。书中充满了对生命热情的颂歌，对即时行乐的崇尚，以及对传统束缚的挣脱。这不仅是一个时代的记录，更是对自由灵魂永恒向往的呼唤，让每个渴望逃离日常、追求不凡生活的读者，都能在其中找到共鸣与启迪。

The novel that defined the Beat generation, this exuberant tale of two men traversing America is as fresh and fantastic as ever.

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude , it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku , a spirit child, who in the Yoruba...(展开全部)

Azaro is a spirit child who is born only to live for a short while before returning to the idyllic world of his spirit companions. Now he has chosen to stay in the world of the living. This is his story.