Terrorist
John Updike
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The terrorist of John Updike’s title is eighteen-year-old Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three. Devoted to Allah and to
Funny in Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas
评分 7.6分
This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner .” In 1972, when she w
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布(Nassim Nicholas Taleb) 曾是经营避险基金的安皮里卡资本公司(Empirica Capital)的创办人,也是纽约大学库朗数学研究所的研究员。曾在纽约和伦敦交易多种衍生型金融商品,也曾在芝加哥当过营业厅的独立交易员。2001年2月正式成为衍生性金融商品交易战略名人(Derivatives Strategy Hall
Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimis
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
评分 9.3分
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they pr
Grimus
Salman Rushdie
Book Description After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing, a
The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh
评分 8.4分
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to creat
Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik
评分 8.7分
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagi