In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news r...(展开全部)

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news r...(展开全部)

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE is an eloquent

In "At the Will of the Body", Arthur Frank told the story of his own illnesses, heart attack and cancer. That book ended by describing the existence of a "remission society", whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. "The Wounded Storyteller" is their collective portrait. Frank suggests that ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medici...(展开全部)

In "At the Will of the Body", Arthur Frank told the story of his own illnesses, heart attack and cancer. That book ended by describing the existence of a "remission society", whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. "The Wounded Storyteller" is their collective portrait. Frank suggests that ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medici...(展开全部)

这一次的探访，奈保尔对印度和印度文化投入了更为复杂的理性和情感。尖俏的讽刺让位于沉郁乃至悲怆的分析与描述。千年古国的难题一一揭示，现实中的国度却未找到再生的原点。奈保尔的困境是印度的困境，也是我们的困境。本书颇为激越，但也证明像奈保尔这样的小说家，可更快速也更有效地指出问题所在，比之世界银行经济学家小组和各式专家有过之而不无及。

这一次的探访，奈保尔对印度和印度文化投入了更为复杂的理性和情感。尖俏的讽刺让位于沉郁乃至悲怆的分析与描述。千年古国的难题一一揭示，现实中的国度却未找到再生的原点。奈保尔的困境是印度的困境，也是我们的困境。本书颇为激越，但也证明像奈保尔这样的小说家，可更快速也更有效地指出问题所在，比之世界银行经济学家小组和各式专家有过之而不无及。

A father wounded in his psychological development, Linda Leonard believes, cannot often give his daughter the care and guidance she needs. Using examples from her own life and her work with clients, as well as dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Leonard charts paths toward psychological transformation and a fruitful, caring relationship between men and women, fat...(展开全部)