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》

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)

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)

Where does the wind go when it stops? When a little boy asks this question at the end of a happy day, his mother explains that the wind does not stop-it blows away to make the trees dance somewhere else. Reassuringly, she tells him that nothing ever ends, it simply begins in another place or in another way. Rain goes back into the clouds to create new storms, waves fold back...(展开全部)

At the end of a happy day, a little boy asks, Why does the day have to end? His mother points to the pale sliver of moon high in the darkening sky and tells him that the day must end so the night can begin. But where does the sun go when the day ends? the little boy asks. The day doesn't end, explains his mother, it begins somewhere else.