When the boy was four, he asked his father why people needed sleep. His father said, ‘So God could unfuck all the things people fuck up.’ As America recovers from the Second World War, two families’ journeys begin. James Vincent, born in 1942 to an Irish-American family, escapes his parents’ turbulent marriage and attends law school in New York, where he moves up the social lad...(展开全部)

When the boy was four, he asked his father why people needed sleep. His father said, ‘So God could unfuck all the things people fuck up.’ As America recovers from the Second World War, two families’ journeys begin. James Vincent, born in 1942 to an Irish-American family, escapes his parents’ turbulent marriage and attends law school in New York, where he moves up the social lad...(展开全部)

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, ...(展开全部)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)

A gripping new novel with a distinctly American edge, THE TRAVELERS highlights the lives of two families—meet James Samuel Vincent—an affluent New York attorney who shirks his modest Irish American upbringing but hews to his father’s wily nilly ways; and Agnes Miller Christie—a beautiful African American woman who encounters tragedy on a Georgia road that propels her to a new ...(展开全部)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)

A gripping new novel with a distinctly American edge, THE TRAVELERS highlights the lives of two families—meet James Samuel Vincent—an affluent New York attorney who shirks his modest Irish American upbringing but hews to his father’s wily nilly ways; and Agnes Miller Christie—a beautiful African American woman who encounters tragedy on a Georgia road that propels her to a new ...(展开全部)

伊安•莫蒂默，英国著名畅销书作家，著有《漫游中世纪的英格兰》，在各大学学术报刊发表多篇以14-18世纪英格兰历史为主题的学术文章。1998年，获选为英国皇家历史学会资深会员。2004年，获英国皇家历史学会颁发的亚历山大奖。2011年，埃克塞特大学授予其高级博士学位。 成一农，北京大学历史系博士。曾在中国社会科学院历史研究所工作。现任云南大学历史与档案学院研究员、历史地理研究所所长。主要从事历史地理、中国传统舆图、城市史以及史学理论的研究。曾主持国家社科基金项目2项，现主持国家社科基金重大招标项目1项。著有《古代城市形态研究方法新探》《空间与形态――三至七世纪中国历史城市地理研究》《“非科学”的中国传统舆图》和《中国古代舆地图研究》等专著6部。译有《帝国晚期的江南城市》《所有可能的世界—地理学思想史(第四版）》《城市形态史—工业革命之前》《近代中国的条...(展开全部)

This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices―even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett―into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon. Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were drama...(展开全部)