Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American 'boom' and 'postboom' novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

A little boy has a toy boat. He made it out of a can, a cork, a yellow pencil, and some white cloth. The boy and his boat are inseparable, until one day when the wind pushes the toy boat out into the wide lake. Alone now, the little boat must face fierce waves, a grumpy ferry, a sassy schooner, and a growling speed boat. How the little boat misses the boy! But if he is going to...(展开全部)

兰德尔·德·塞弗： 在兰德尔·德·塞弗的书桌上面有一艘玩具船。这是她和她的女儿波林娜用一个罐头瓶、一个软木塞、一根牙签和一些白色的布条做成的。有一天，当她沉浸在幻想中时，这艘玩具船告诉了她关于它的故事。 《玩具船去航行》是兰德尔的第一本书。几年之前，当她在布鲁克林高地的圣安娜学院担任一些小孩子们的老师的时候，她便开始为孩子写故事。现在，她的两个女儿波林娜和菲艾，经常给她带来写作的灵感。 兰德尔和她的丈夫，一位艺术家，还有两个女儿一起居住在布鲁克林。在夏天白勺时候，全家人会去康涅狄格州的一个湖度假，他们会在湖滨玩耍，还会看着一艘又一艘的大船经过。

Faulkner s first novel, Soldiers Pay (1926), is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran s homecoming, it examines the impact of soldiers return from war on the people particularly the women who were left behind.

This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.

The story of a wounded veterans homecoming, it is partly autobiographical, filled with hope, dark laughter, and despair.

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with...(展开全部)

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering...(展开全部)

First published in 1920, The Mad Toy is set in Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighbourhoods, inflicting waves of petty crime, stealing from homes and shops until the police are forced to intervene. Drifting then from one career and subsequent crime to another, Silvio's main difficulty is his own intellig...(展开全部)