From Publishers Weekly For some, the pain of exile is too great even to be named. So it is for Irene, the 35-year-old protagonist of this slender but intense novel. In the 1980s, Irene has emigrated to West Germany from an unnamed Eastern bloc country to escape political persecution. Adrift in Berlin, living first in a refugee hostel and then in an anonymous apartment complex, ...(展开全部)

One year before his dead Frank Kafka had an extraordinary experience. Having a walk through Steglitz Park, in Berlin, he found a little girl crying heartbroken. She had lost her doll. To calm her down Frank introduced himself as the Dolls's Postman, and told the little girl that the doll was away on a trip. But had send a letter for her that will be delivered by himself the fol...(展开全部)

カナダとメキシコを渡る蝶、オオカバマダラの旅を美しい絵で表現。著者の２度に渡るメキシコ取材により生まれた絵本。生命の神秘と力強さを鮮やかな色彩で描きます。

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike p...(展开全部)

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the firs...(展开全部)

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the firs...(展开全部)

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredible, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike p...(展开全部)

<br />"This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."-Mahmoud Darwish <br /><br />"Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."-<em>Scotland on Sunday</em><br /><br />"His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."-<em>The Toronto Star</em><br /><br />Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou...(展开全部)

<br />"This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."-Mahmoud Darwish <br /><br />"Alberto Manguel is to reading what Casanova was to sex."-<em>Scotland on Sunday</em><br /><br />"His stories about Borges . . . [are] wrapped in luminous poetry."-<em>The Toronto Star</em><br /><br />Winner of the 2003 Prix du livre en Poitou...(展开全部)