Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author’s key themes, such as alienation, friendship and the bizarre amid the mundane.

I called his name...I settled on a bench...I was amazed...I felt really, really happy...Four people enter a park, and through their eyes we see four different visions. There's the bossy woman, the sad man, the lonely boy and the young girl whose warmth touches those she meets. As the story moves from one voice to another, their perspectives are reflected in the shifting landsca...(展开全部)

I called his name...I settled on a bench...I was amazed...I felt really, really happy...Four people enter a park, and through their eyes we see four different visions. There's the bossy woman, the sad man, the lonely boy and the young girl whose warmth touches those she meets. As the story moves from one voice to another, their perspectives are reflected in the shifting landsca...(展开全部)

Kohei Yoshiyuki's night-time photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. "The Park"'s images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurki...(展开全部)

Kohei Yoshiyuki's night-time photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. "The Park"'s images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurki...(展开全部)

A rest, a moment ... a shelter, a refuge ... a crossroads, a meeting place... just a few pieces of wood and steel.

Desert D'Or is the fashionable Californian resort where Hollywood's elite converge when they need a break. It is an incestuous hothouse of a town - a haven for manipulators, film stars, lovers, pimps, producers, whores, gamblers, scriptwriters and cheats. Into this nightmare world of depravity arrives Sergius O'Shaughnessy, recently discharged from the Air Force, traumatised by...(展开全部)

【英】彼得·哈特（Peter Hart） 英国一战史、军事史、口述史专家。自1981年起任职于帝国战争博物馆。20世纪 80年代至90年代，他采访了英国仅存一批一战老兵，将他们的口述历史保存在了帝国战争博物馆。自仅存几位退伍军人去世后，这些录音成为前线真实声音的罕见的来源之一。哈特的历史研究围绕这些口述材料展开，代表作有《索姆河：西线黑暗的日子》《加里波利》《一战中的战斗故事》等。 译者简介： 徐萍，吉林大学文学院世界史系教授，博士生导师，中国世界现代史学会理事。译有《现代英国的形成》、《大英帝国与第一次世界大战》《地址的故事：地址簿里隐藏的身份、种族、财富与权力密码》。

胡达·巴拉卡特（1952— ） 黎巴嫩作家，旅居法国，阿拉伯离散文学代表人物。 以短篇小说集《访客》踏入文坛，凭长篇小说《炼笑石》斩获评论奖最佳长篇首作奖。后出版长篇小说《幻想的人》《耕水者》《这片土地上的王国》《夜间来信》，散文集《陌生女人的来信》，剧本《迪瓦万岁》《夜之将尽》等，先后斩获纳吉布·马哈福兹文学奖、奥瓦斯文学奖、意大利双年展一等奖等，更是以本书荣膺2019年国际阿拉伯小说奖。还曾入围2015年国际布克奖。 译者简介： 陆怡玮 博士，上海外国语大学东方语学院副院长、阿拉伯语系主任、教授、博士生导师，中国外国文学学会阿拉伯文学研究分会副会长，主要研究方向为阿拉伯现当代文学。 马琳瑶 法国索邦大学阿拉伯文学博士在读。

Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is the only place where she ...(展开全部)