This is the compelling story of the life of internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso, Yo-Yo Ma, from the cradle to his entering Harvard University at the age of seventeen. It is told by his mother and written by Dr. John A. Rallo.</P> Written in fluent, warm and conversational style, the book highlights the events in the development of this young music talent and is enriched...(展开全部)

The Dice Man is a semi-comedic[citation needed] novel published in 1971 by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart and tells the story of a psychiatrist who begins making life decisions based on the casting of dice. Cockcroft wrote the book based on his own experiences of using dice to make decisions while studying psychology.[1] The novel is noted for its subversivi...(展开全部)

Plot summary The book tells the story of a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart who, feeling bored and unfulfilled in life, starts making decisions about what to do based on a roll of a die. Along the way, there is sex, rape, murder, "dice parties", breakouts by psychiatric patients, and various corporate and governmental machines being put into a spin. There is also a description...(展开全部)

Quando arriva la guerra o l'inondazione, la gente scappa. La gente, non Trina. Caparbia come il paese di confine in cui è cresciuta, sa opporsi ai fascisti che le impediscono di fare la maestra. Non ha paura di fuggire sulle montagne col marito disertore. E quando le acque della diga stanno per sommergere i campi e le case, si difende con ciò che nessuno le potrà mai togliere: ...(展开全部)

Platero and I, the most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the complete edition published in 1917. This is the only dual-language edition of this classic of Spanish literature, with an ...(展开全部)

奥古斯托•罗亚•巴斯托斯，巴拉圭著名小说家，20世纪最重要的拉丁美洲作家之一，拉丁美洲“文学爆炸”时期代表人物，著有多部小说、电影剧本与诗集，代表作有《人子》《至上者》《检察官》等，1989年获西语文学大奖“塞万提斯奖”。巴斯托斯的作品多写于流亡期间，以巴拉圭的政治压迫和社会斗争为背景，尝试捕捉祖国人民内在的脆弱性和悲剧因素。他的作品多使用瓜拉尼语化的西班牙语，其充满幻想的叙述与巴拉圭本土的文化和神话符号相融合，形成了独具特色的魔幻现实主义风格。

Platero and I, the most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the complete edition published in 1917. This is the only dual-language edition of this classic of Spanish literature, with an ...(展开全部)

ABOUT YO EL SUPREMO. EDICIÓN CONMEMORATIVA/ I THE SUPREME. COMMEMORATIVE EDITION Nueva edición conmemorativa de la Real Academia Española y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española de una de las obras cumbre de la literatura contemporánea en español. «Yo el Supremo Dictador de la República: ordeno que al acaecer mi muerte mi cadáver sea decapitado…» Así arranca una de l...(展开全部)