A cleaner tells her neighbour of an overheard conversation in which a bureaucrat is being forced to relocate to the remote site of the new capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Two thieves discuss the easy pickings to be had from homes abandoned by those fleeing the country. Two civil servants gossip enviously about the sexual favours being accorded to a newly arrived government...(展开全部)

A cleaner tells her neighbour of an overheard conversation in which a bureaucrat is being forced to relocate to the remote site of the new capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Two thieves discuss the easy pickings to be had from homes abandoned by those fleeing the country. Two civil servants gossip enviously about the sexual favours being accorded to a newly arrived government...(展开全部)

Edited by Joan New and Melvyn New.

A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will gi...(展开全部)

Edited by Joan New and Melvyn New.

DBC·皮埃尔，1961年出生于澳大利亚一个科学家家庭，后随父亲迁居墨西哥，并在那里长大成人。现居爱尔兰。 年轻时，他染上了一些恶习，曾用欺骗手段出售了好友的住房并携款潜逃。如今他为此事感到愧疚。 他写这部作品是想对过去的行为作出补偿，并取笔名为DBC·皮埃尔。DBC是“Dirty But Clean”的缩写，意为“污秽而纯洁”。

DBC·皮埃尔，1961年出生于澳大利亚一个科学家家庭，后随父亲迁居墨西哥，并在那里长大成人。现居爱尔兰。 年轻时，他染上了一些恶习，曾用欺骗手段出售了好友的住房并携款潜逃。如今他为此事感到愧疚。 他写这部作品是想对过去的行为作出补偿，并取笔名为DBC·皮埃尔。DBC是“Dirty But Clean”的缩写，意为“污秽而纯洁”。