A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee is a taut, suspenseful story about love, family, and community, and the secrets we all harbor. It is the story of a proper man, an upstanding citizen who comes to epitomize the decorous values of his New York suburban town.
William March Company K (The Library of Alabama Classics)-K公司(阿拉巴马经典图书馆)
With an Introduction by Philip D. Beidler
This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France durin
This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France durin
Robert Cedric Sherriff Journey's End-旅程的终点
The moving portrayal of life in the trenches in WW1, now a new film from the director of Suite Française, starring Sam Clafin, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham and Asa Butterfield
Set in the First World War, Journey's End is the story of a group of Br
Set in the First World War, Journey's End is the story of a group of Br
Julie Berry Lovely War-迷人的战争
It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. She's a shy and talented pianist; he's a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. When they fall in love,
The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum / Cat and Mouse / Dog Years(Die Danziger Trilogie #1-3)
In 1999, Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Danzig Trilogy contains three of the author's most acclaimed works.
The Tin Drum
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is t
The Tin Drum
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is t
Günter Grass Dog Years(Die Danziger Trilogie #3)-狗年
A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wol
Günter Grass Cat and Mouse(Die Danziger Trilogie #2)-猫和老鼠
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To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple—source of both discomfort and distress—fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and h
To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple—source of both discomfort and distress—fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and h
Günter Grass The Tin Drum(Die Danziger Trilogie #1)-铁皮鼓
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany
Nadia Murad The Last Girl-最后一个女孩
作者:Nadia Murad
书名:The Last Girl《最后一个女孩》
简介:In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultim
书名:The Last Girl《最后一个女孩》
简介:In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Islamic State tells her harrowing and ultim
Mario Vargas Llosa The War of the End of the World-世界末日的战争
The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the unforgettable story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes,
Patrick Modiano Dora Bruder-朵拉的兄弟
Patrick Modiano opens Dora Bruder by telling how in 1988 he stumbled across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir. Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl, Dora Bruder, who had run away from her Cat
Owen Sheers The Two Worlds of Charlie F-查理F的两个世界
Welcome to our war "The Two Worlds of Charlie F" is a soldier's view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, the p
Owen Sheers Resistance-抵抗
Imbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers's debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the Welsh border territories and a portrait of a community under siege.
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Carter Malkasian The American War in Afghanistan: A History-美国阿富汗战争:历史
The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners.
The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is current
The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is current
Illusions of Victory: The Anbar Awakening and the Rise of the Islamic State-胜利的幻象
In the immediate aftermath of the 2007 "Surge" of American troops in Iraq, the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in Anbar Province was widely hailed as one of America's signature victories. US Marines and soldiers fought for years there, in
War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier-加姆瑟之战
If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the frontline. These small places are the heart of the war.
Modeled on the classic Viet
Modeled on the classic Viet
Carter Malkasian Counterinsurgency In Modern Warfare-现代战争中的反叛乱
Through history armies of occupation and civil power have been repeatedly faced with the challenges of insurgency. US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies, sometimes reluctantly, have had to
Carter Malkasian The Korean War-朝鲜战争
The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America
Louise Erdrich The Master Butchers Singing Club-主屠夫歌唱俱乐部
From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet Germ
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet Germ
Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre
Written at a time when violence has many faces and goes by many names, this collection is proof that philosophy can remain a vital partner in the twin tasks of diagnosis and action. Emerging across specters of genocide, racism, oppression, terror, poverty
The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War(Seven Dreams #5)-垂死的草:尼兹佩斯战争小说
In this new installment in his series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn,
An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World-阿富汗画展:或者,我是如何拯救世界的
In 1982 William T. Vollmann, one of our most versatile talents, traveled to see the war in Afghanistan. In An Afghanistan Picture Show, his first book-length work of non-fiction, Vollmann paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a young Americ
Aminatta Forna The Hired Man-雇工
The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.
Aminatta Forna has established herself
Aminatta Forna has established herself
Susan Choi The Foreign Student-外国学生
"This wonderful hybrid of a novel--a love story, a war story, a novel of manners--introduces a writer of enchanting gifts, a beautiful heart wedded to a beautiful imagination. How else does Susan Choi so fully inhabit characters from disparate backgr
Tracy Chevalier A Single Thread-一根线
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herse