Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330453660 Author 作者 Sok-Yong Hwang Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 320页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2010年4月2日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 12.8 x 4 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 499 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 Oh Hyun Woo, a political activist, has served nearly twentyyears of a life sentence, but when the Korean government relaxesits stance on such dissidents, he finds himself up for release.While he was growing old on the inside, though, things on theoutside have changed, and he is soon adrift in a world full ofnoise and activity, multi-storey apartment blocks and mobilephones. As he struggles to adjust to the present, and to considerhis future, Mr Oh is also forced to examine the past: familymembers he's lost, one way or another; friends he's no longer intouch with; comrades who have died or moved on
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330455817 Author 作者 Amit Chaudhuri Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 320页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2010年1月1日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 13 x 3 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 499 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 Shyamji has music in his blood, for his father was theacclaimed 'heavenly singer' and guru, Ram Lal. But Shyam Lal is nothis father, and knows he never will be. Mallika Sengupta's voicecould have made her famous, but being the wife of a successfulbusinessman is a full-time occupation in itself. Mallika's son,Nirmalya, believes in suffering for his art, and for him, allcompromise is failure: those with talent should be true to thattalent. No matter what. Written in haunting, melodic prose, TheImmortals tells the story of Shyam, Mallika and Nirmalya: theirrelationships, their lives, their music. 'As s
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330457286 Author 作者 Andrea Camilleri,StephenSartarelli Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 320页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2009年1月16日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 13 x 2.6 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 277 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 Motionless, Montalbano waited for the surf to enter his brainand wash it clean with each breaker. At last the first light wavecame like a caress, swiiissshhh, and carried away, glugluglug,Elena Sclafani and her beauty, while Michela Pardo's tits, belly,arched body and eyes likewise disappeared. Once Montalbano the manwas erased, all that should remain was Inspector Montalbano a kindof abstract function, the person who was supposed to solve the caseand nothing more, with no personal feelings involved. But as he wastelling himself this, he knew perfectly well that he could never
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The Palace of Illusions(Scale Out)
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330458535 Author 作者 Chitra Divakaruni Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 384页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2009年9月4日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.4 x 13 x 3 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 454 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that ishalf-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali,the wife of the five Pandava brothers, we are -- finally -- given awoman's take on the timeless tale that is the Mahabharata TracingPanchaali's life -- from fiery birth and lonely childhood, whereher beloved brother is her only true companion; through hercomplicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna; to marriage,motherhood and Panchaali's secret attraction to the mysterious manwho is her husbands' most dangerous enemy -- The Palace ofIllusions is a deeply human novel about
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330504027 Author 作者 Denis Johnson Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 224页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2010年4月2日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 13 x 1.6 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 159 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 'Think Reservoir Dogs or Cormac McCarthy's No Country for OldMen. Think Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy' LIONEL SHRIVER, DailyTelegraph Jimmy Luntz owes money to a man called Juarez. Troubleis, Juarez isn't the most patient of men. And when he gets bored ofwaiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actuallyplan to shoot the guy, but the way he sees it, it's shoot or beshot. Either way, though, Luntz is out of his league, and he knowsit: nobody messes with Juarez or, at least, nobody messes withJuarez and lives to tell the tale. 'Johnson can't help slatheringthe story's pages in his
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330492706 Author 作者 Daniel Mason Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 200页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2008年2月1日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 340 g Language 语种 英语 Book Description 内容简介 When they spoke of it in town, they called it simply the city, as if it was the only city in the world ...Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, Isabel was born with the gift and curse of seeing farther . When drought and war grip their land, her beloved brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming, labyrinthine city in the south. Soon the fourteen-year-old Isabel follows, forsaking the only home she s ever known, her sole consolation the thought of being with her brother again. But
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The Blaze of Obscurity: Unreliable Memoirs V
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330457378 Author 作者 Clive James Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 288页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2010年8月6日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 13 x 2.4 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 281 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenterfirst and foremost, and a writer second this despite the fact thathis adventures with the written word took place before, during andafter his time on the small screen. Nevertheless, for those whoremember clips of Japanese endurance gameshows and Egyptian soapoperas, Clive James reinventing the news or interviewing Hefner andHepburn, Polanski and Pavarotti, his 'Postcards' from Kenya,Shanghai and Dallas, or Clive James Racing Driver, his rightfulplace does seem to be right there on the box, in our homes, andalmost one of the family. However you
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330458429 Author 作者 Aleksandar Hemon Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 304页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2009年8月7日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 13 x 2.2 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 499 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 On 2 March 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Russian Jewishimmigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the city's Chiefof Police. He was shot dead. After the shooting, it was claimed hewas an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives whowanted to bring the United States to its knees. His sister, Olga,was left alone and bereft in a city seething with tension. Acentury later, two friends become obsessed with the truth aboutLazarus and decide to travel to his birthplace. As the storiesintertwine, a world emerges in which everything and nothing haschanged. 'Prose this powerful could
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330447751 Author 作者 Fan Wu Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 368页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2010年3月5日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.2 x 13 x 2.6 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 263 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 'A delicate and brilliant novel on the arguments, triumphs,loves and differences of a Chinese family in America' Xinran,author of Good Women of China Mary and Ingrid are sisters, born andbrought up in China, now living in the US. Mary is the older of thetwo; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, churchgoer, and with awell-paid job. But she is tormented by adultery, her grudge towardher parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid,meanwhile, has never settled to anything, and is haunted by hercollege boyfriend's tragic death. When their widowed mother travelsto the US for the first time, they
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The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330457392 Author 作者 Clive James Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 320页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2010年6月4日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.8 x 13 x 2 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 281 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 Illuminating, insightful, informed, inspired, intelligent.These are words that could and do apply equally to book or author;in fact, The Revolt of the Pendulum, Clive James's latest essaycollection, shows James at his most dazzling and versatile bestyet. From the rules of grammar to the fundamentals of religion,from the culture of fandom to the cult of the critic, it's allthere: his customary wit, learning and understanding; his preciseway with words and pointed comments; his ear for language and eyefor detail; his ability to focus on the finer points and the biggerpicture simultaneously not to mention
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330452014 Author 作者 Philip Gourevitch Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 286页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2009年1月2日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.2 x 13 x 2.4 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 499 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 "Standard Operating Procedure" is the story of the infamousAbu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse, as seen through the eyesand told through the voices of the soldiers who took them andappeared in them. It is the story of how those soldiers were atonce the instruments and victims of a great injustice. Drawing onmore than two hundred hours of Errol Morris' startlingly frank andintimate interviews with the soldier-photographers who gave us whathave become iconic images of the Iraq War. 'A compelling meditationon a descent into cruelty' - "Daily Telegraph". 'An extraordinarybook ...Although Goure
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330442497 Author 作者 Amin Maalouf Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 416页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2009年9月4日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 13.2 x 3 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 499 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 'We are, and always will be, wanderers who have lost their way...' When a trunk of family letters gives Amin Maalouf theopportunity to trace his past, he finds himself having never beforeasked questions transfixed by the stories of his ancestors.Starting in the mountains of Lebanon and taking him across the seato Havana, his history is one of restlessness and exile: of thesearch for identity, of dramatic emigrations, and of revolutionsespoused in the dying years of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Theresult is an exquisite memoir, a book that finds drama in the mostpersonal of tales, pathos in the gra
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Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border
Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330373586 Author 作者 Colm Toibin Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 180页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks; Newedition Publication Date 出版日期 2001年5月4日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 13 x 1.3 x 19.7 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 141 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tensionwas high in Northern Ireland, Colm Toibin walked along the borderfrom Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account ofthis journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary lifeand the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape. Toibindescribes the rituals the marches, the funerals, the demonstrationsobserved by both communities along the border, and listens to thestories which haunt both sides. With sympathy and insight Bad Bloodcaptures the intimacy of life along one of the most contestedstrips of l
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330449212 Author 作者 Denis Johnson Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 617页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2008年8月1日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.4 x 13 x 4 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 422 g Language 语种 英语 Editorial Reviews 编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly If this novel, Johnson's first in nearly a decade, is-as the promocopy says-about Skip Sands, it's also about his uncle, a legendaryCIA operative; Kathy Jones, a widowed, saintly Canadian nurse;Trung, a North Vietnamese spy; and the Houston brothers, Bill andJames, misguided GIs who haunt the story's periphery. And it's alsoabout Sgt. Jimmy Storm, whose existence seems to be one long visionquest. As with all of Johnson's work-the stories in Jesus' Son,novels like Resuscitation of a Hanged Man and Fiskadoro-the realpoint is the possibility of grace in a world of total myste
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330389860 Author 作者 Colm Toibin Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 272页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2000年4月14日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 13 x 1.7 x 19.7 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 191 g Language 语种 英语 Book Contents 内容简介 'This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in itsemotion and spare in its construction ...Toibin has crafted anunmissable read' Sunday Herald In Blackwater in the early 1990s,three women Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughterHelen have come together after years of strife and reached anuneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friendsjoin him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, wherethe six of them, from different generations and with differentbeliefs, must listen and come to terms with one another. 'It is inhis emotional choreography that T
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Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780330465151 Author 作者 Alison Wong Format 版本 平装 Pages Number 页数 288页 Publisher 出版社 Picador Paperbacks Publication Date 出版日期 2010年9月3日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 19.6 x 13 x 2 cm Shipping Weight 商品重量 299 g Language 语种 英语 Book Description 内容简介 It is New Zealand, and the first decade of the twentieth century. Katherine McKechnie is struggling to raise two children following the death of her husband, when a chance encounter with a Chinese shopkeeper blossoms into friendship and, eventually, love. Racial tension and prejudice mean the two must keep their relationship secret, but Katherine s son, Robbie, learns the truth and, on the eve of World War I as young men everywhere are swept up on a tide of macho patriotism, takes his family s hono
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