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约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

约瑟夫•康拉德，波兰裔英国作家，早年间是一名海员，在二十多岁时仍无法流利地使用英语，然而，他以非母语使用者的身份，为英语文学注入了独特的敏锐情感，其代表作《黑暗的心》《吉姆爷》在英国文学史上有突出的地位，成为影响了老舍、海明威、博尔赫斯、卡尔维诺、马尔克斯、艾略特、伍尔夫、贝娄、奈保尔等大批名家的文体大师。

If you were gonna rob a bank and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around? Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers. At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson sh...(展开全部)

A dark, poetic mystery about the tribal women of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's Confession of the Lioness reveals the enigmatic world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting and killing the women who live there. Mariamar,...(展开全部)

A dark, poetic mystery about the tribal women of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's Confession of the Lioness reveals the enigmatic world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting and killing the women who live there. Mariamar,...(展开全部)

Grushin's stunning debut drew praise that placed her in the top rank of young literary voices. Now she returns with that rarity: a second novel even more dazzling than her first. The line: the universal symbol of scarcity and bureauA-cracy that exists wherever petty officials are let loose to abuse their powers. The line begins to form on the whispered rumor that a famous exi...(展开全部)

Operation Shylock: A Confession is novelist Philip Roth's 19th book and was published in 1993. The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel. There he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk, while at the same time seeking out the impersonator who has appropriated his identity and celebrity in order to spread "Diasporism," a counter-Zionist id...(展开全部)

What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? In this tour de force of fact and fiction, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse of the Jews. Roth decides to stop him - even if that m...(展开全部)