阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904-1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠。他将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起过巨大的推动作用，被尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。 卡彭铁尔1904年生于瑞士洛桑，在哈瓦那度过童年后，去巴黎读中学，再回到古巴，在哈瓦那大学攻读音乐和建筑学，在文学、历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画方面皆有颇高造诣，是拉丁美洲文学界少有的百科全书式作家。1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对马查多独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间，他开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。出狱后，他被迫流亡法国十载。 1939年，卡彭铁尔回到古巴，执教于哈瓦那大学，后曾旅居于委内瑞拉、海地等国，1959年古巴革命胜利后再次回国，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的长篇小说《消逝的足迹》、《人...(展开全部)

阿莱霍·卡彭铁尔（1904-1980），古巴著名小说家、新闻记者、音乐理论家、文学批评家、外交官，拉丁美洲文坛巨匠。他将超现实主义和本地化融为一体，全面地反映了拉美大陆的现状，对拉美文学的发展起过巨大的推动作用，被尊为拉丁美洲小说的先行者。 卡彭铁尔1904年生于瑞士洛桑，在哈瓦那度过童年后，去巴黎读中学，再回到古巴，在哈瓦那大学攻读音乐和建筑学，在文学、历史、哲学、音乐、建筑、绘画方面皆有颇高造诣，是拉丁美洲文学界少有的百科全书式作家。1927年，卡彭铁尔因反对马查多独裁统治而被捕，在短暂的坐牢期间，他开始写作第一部长篇小说《埃古-扬巴-奥》。出狱后，他被迫流亡法国十载。 1939年，卡彭铁尔回到古巴，执教于哈瓦那大学，后曾旅居于委内瑞拉、海地等国，1959年古巴革命胜利后再次回国，成为古巴文学艺术界的领军人物。他创作的长篇小说《消逝的足迹》、《人...(展开全部)

In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdro...(展开全部)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to i...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” — Sunday Times

The Peace War is a science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge about authoritarianism and technological progress. It was first published as a serial in Analog in 1984, and then appeared in book form shortly afterward. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1985. Its sequels are "The Ungoverned", a novella published in his collection True Names and Other Dangers and the...(展开全部)

The spell of rain, gulls, a foggy morning, the excitement of sailing, the quiet of the night, the sudden terror of a hurricane, and the peace of a Maine island as a family packs up to leave are shown in poetic language and vibrant, evocative pictures.

The spell of rain, gulls, a foggy morning, the excitement of sailing, the quiet of the night, the sudden terror of a hurricane, and the peace of a Maine island as a family packs up to leave are shown in poetic language and vibrant, evocative pictures.