The Time of the Doves, the powerfully written story of a naive shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, is a rare and moving portrait of a simple soul confronting and surviving a convulsive period in history. The book has been widely translated, and was made into a film.

马里奥•巴尔加斯•略萨Mario Vargas Llosa 著名作家，世界小说大师，被誉为“结构现实主义大师”，囊获全球重要文学大奖，包括诺贝尔文学奖：1985年获海明威文学奖，1986年获西班牙阿里图里亚斯王子文学奖，1988年获美洲金质奖章，1994年获西班牙文学的*高荣誉——塞万提斯文学奖，1999年获以色列耶路撒冷文学奖，2000年获梅嫩德斯•佩拉约国际奖，1976年被推选为国际笔会主席，2010年获诺贝尔文学奖。

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa is ‘a work of undeniable power and skill’ (Sunday Telegraph) set in a military academy in Lima, focusing on a group of cadets whose pranks set of a cycle of betrayal, murder and revenge which jeopardizes the entire military hierarchy. The Time of the Hero has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish ...(展开全部)

Sixty-two years after human life on Earth was annihilated by rampaging alien invaders, the enigmatic Messenger O is sent back in time with a mission to unite humanity of past eras - during the Second World War and ancient Japan, and even back to the dawn of the species itself - to defeat the invasion before it begins. However, in a future shredded by war and genocide, love wait...(展开全部)

At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming, riddled with cancer, chose to end his life. His decision was the first step in a journey that would take him to the end of the universe and beyond. His brain was extracted from his body, flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft and launched on a trajectory that will intercept the Trisolarian First Fleet in a few centur...(展开全部)

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A ...(展开全部)

The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited. In The Gap of ...(展开全部)

This very important work offers penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader and the renowned physicist that shed light on the fundamental nature of existence. Krishnamurti and David Bohm probe such questions as ‘why has humanity made thought so important in every aspect of life? How does one cleanse the mind of the ‘accumulation of time’ and break the ‘pattern of e...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philos...(展开全部)