aFully lives up to expectations . . . Story collections arenat always high on readersa to-do lists these days. This one should be.aa"San Francisco Chronicle" In "When the Nines Roll Over," David Benioff uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic emotional lives of a diverse set of characters. Over the course of eight stories, w...(展开全部)

David Benioff burst onto the literary scene with The 25th Hour， a debut praised by Janet Maslin of The New York Times for its “pungent， funny urban tableau full of shrewd operators and unfulfilled desires.” Now， with When the Nines Roll Over， Benioff uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling， sometimes pathetic state of the American urban male. O...(展开全部)

Over the course of eight tales, often with an appealing touch of the surreal, we are introduced to a record comany exec searching for a rock star, an inexperienced Russian soldier trapped between his murderous colleagues and a clever old woman, a faded football star recalling his lost chance at love, an acress who has a shot at a role that will free her from a lifetime of waitr...(展开全部)

Manga meets Pop meets Zen in Over the Rainbow, the first combined presentation of Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito--close friends and stars of the Japanese contemporary art scene. Nara, born in 1959, is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly conceivable for European artists to reach. His signature...(展开全部)

Manga meets Pop meets Zen in Over the Rainbow, the first combined presentation of Yoshitomo Nara and Hiroshi Sugito--close friends and stars of the Japanese contemporary art scene. Nara, born in 1959, is regarded as one of Japan's foremost contemporary artists, and has attained a cult status in his homeland that is hardly conceivable for European artists to reach. His signature...(展开全部)

静水边，擅长温情动人的写作风格，作品贴近生活，弘扬正能量，抒写温柔与美丽，编织无数少年少女的浪漫与美好。 代表作：《岁月间》《年花》《经久》

The astonishing tale of the first sea voyage to circumnavigate the entire globe. Magellan's dramatic maritime expedition in 1519 discovered the straits that enabled Europe to trade with the Eastern spice islands and changed the course of history. In an era of intense commercial rivalry between Spain and Portugal, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator sailed to explore the...(展开全部)

In the years before the Second World War, a man throws a statue of the crucified Christ over a waterfall. Later, in Hitler's trenches, he loses his arms to an enemy grenade. The blasphemer, screaming in agony, presided over by Satan, who pours a cup of gall into his open mouth, is portrayed amid the flames of Hell in a painting by the parish priest that is mounted on a calvary ...(展开全部)

Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky. But her greatest joy is to descend from her little spit of land to the sea, where the whales gather each morning, gaily spouting rainbows. Then, one day, she finds a man in the mist where a whale should be: Reu, who has tak...(展开全部)

When the moon disappears from the sky, the world is turned upside down, and artificial moons only help for a little while. In the meantime, one boy has found the real moon, and slowly helps him heal. They become inseparable companions, but when the world needs the moon to return home, the boy (reluctantly at first) helps the moon remember how to find his way back into the night...(展开全部)