Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Young Soviet veterans had returned from the heroic struggle to defeat Hitler only to confront the repression of Stalinist society. The world of the intelligentsia exerted an attraction for them, as it did for many recent uni...(展开全部)

Among the least-chronicled aspects of post - World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. Young Soviet veterans had returned from the heroic struggle to defeat Hitler only to confront the repression of Stalinist society. The world of the intelligentsia exerted an attraction for them, as it did for many recent u...(展开全部)

Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of the many aged-elderly in Japan and he might, he thinks, live forever. Life for Yoshiro isn't as simple as it used to be. Pollution and natural disasters have scarred the face of the Earth, and even common foods are hard to c...(展开全部)

Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of the many aged-elderly in Japan and he might, he thinks, live forever. Life for Yoshiro isn't as simple as it used to be. Pollution and natural disasters have scarred the face of the Earth, and even common foods are hard to c...(展开全部)

This book centres on a powerful and gripping story, the 1922-1923 expulsion from Soviet Russia of some one hundred prominent intellectuals - professors, journalists, philosophers, writers, engineers, agronomists, and others. Stuart Finkel's meticulously researched account of this purge is the first close scholarly examination of this event and the first to set it in the context...(展开全部)

别尔嘉耶夫（1874-1948），具有世界影响的俄罗斯宗教哲学家，思想涉及哲学、宗教、文学、政治、人类学和伦理学等领域，被誉为“二十世纪的黑格尔”，“现代最伟大的哲学家和预言家之一”， 俄国给予世界思想界的“第四件礼物”。著述等身，《自由的哲学》、《历史的意义》、《创造的意义》、《人的使命》、《人的奴役与自由》、《俄罗斯思想》等都是其重要著作；以陀思妥耶夫斯基为主要思想源泉，创造了“自由基督教”哲学。1922年被苏俄当局驱逐，先到柏林，后定居巴黎近郊的克拉玛尔，死后葬于克拉玛尔公墓。

别尔嘉耶夫（1874-1948），具有世界影响的俄罗斯宗教哲学家，思想涉及哲学、宗教、文学、政治、人类学和伦理学等领域，被誉为“二十世纪的黑格尔”，“现代最伟大的哲学家和预言家之一”， 俄国给予世界思想界的“第四件礼物”。著述等身，《自由的哲学》、《历史的意义》、《创造的意义》、《人的使命》、《人的奴役与自由》、《俄罗斯思想》等都是其重要著作；以陀思妥耶夫斯基为主要思想源泉，创造了“自由基督教”哲学。1922年被苏俄当局驱逐，先到柏林，后定居巴黎近郊的克拉玛尔，死后葬于克拉玛尔公墓。

From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City.   ...(展开全部)

Danielle, a junior television producer, is on the hunt for the documentary idea that will make her reputation; Marina, the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist and intellectual, is desperate to prove her worth - while unsure exactly of how this is to be achieved; Julius, a freelance writer of devastating book reviews, is determined to live a fabulous Ma...(展开全部)

The Emperor’s Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not-- in New York City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment.