【The alley】市内公认最好的侦探事务所，当你走进去的时候，会看见一位身穿白衬衫套着黑马甲的长发少女坐在办公桌的后面看着漫画。她旁边还会有一位戴着贝雷帽穿着黑衬衫的少年背着手站着微笑地看着你。让人不禁怀疑，他们这个年纪真的能做侦探吗…...

【The alley】市内公认最好的侦探事务所，当你走进去的时候，会看见一位身穿白衬衫套着黑马甲的长发少女坐在办公桌的后面看着漫画。她旁边还会有一位戴着贝雷帽穿着黑衬衫的少年背着手站着微笑地看着你。让人不禁怀疑，他们这个年纪真的能做侦探吗…...

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. ...(展开全部)

★作者简介 纳吉布·马哈福兹，埃及作家和当代阿拉伯世界最负盛名的小说家。1988年他被授予诺贝尔文学奖，是第一位获诺贝尔文学奖的阿拉伯语作家。获奖理由：“他通过大量刻画入微的作品、洞察一切的现实主义，唤起人们树立雄心，形成了全人类所欣赏的阿拉伯语言艺术。”最初发表的三部历史小说《命运的嘲弄》《拉杜比斯》（一译《名妓与法老》）《埃伊拜之战》都是表现爱国主义的。20世纪四五十年代是马哈福兹现实主义创作阶段，发表了四部揭露社会黑暗、呼吁社会变革的小说《新开罗》《赫利勒市场》《梅达格胡同》《始与末》。标志着他小说创作巅峰的三部曲《宫间街》《思宫街》《甘露街》被公认为阿拉伯小说史上的里程碑。此外还发表了《小偷与狗》《道路》《乞丐》《尼罗河上的絮语》《我们街区的孩子们》《平民史诗》《千夜之夜》等作品。 ★译者简介 郅溥浩，笔名亚尼、沙联。中国社科院外国文学研究所...(展开全部)

This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young woman whose ambition to escape the confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a pageant of other vivid characters, from the caf? owner who likes boys to the man who creates maimed beggars and from the young man wi...(展开全部)

The second novel in David Gemmell’s bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, and high adventure, this is epic storytelling at its very best. War is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery come three travellers: Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terri...(展开全部)

The second novel in David Gemmell’s bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, and high adventure, this is epic storytelling at its very best. War is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery come three travellers: Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terri...(展开全部)

In one of the most important novels of his long and illustrious career, Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz tells the story of a delightful Egyptian family, but also reveals a second, hidden, and daring narrative: the spiritual history of mankind. "An ambitious fable that attempts to embrace within it pages not merely the world of the Middle East but that of the world itself".--T...(展开全部)

THE MILLION-COPY AWARD-WINNING JAPANESE BESTSELLER "Onda's rich descriptions capture often elusive topics—music and longing—and bring the classical repertoire to vivid life." —People, BEST NEW BOOK Tender and intense, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry as three young people come to understand what it means to truly be a friend. I...(展开全部)

From the first outbreak of hostilities in northern China in 1937 to the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in 1945, this book re-creates the decade of upheaval when China was caught in the grip of revolution and war and torn from its feudal past. The authors Time-Life correspondents during the war years, report firsthand on the rise and fall of the Kuomintang nati...(展开全部)