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"In 1970, Ross Macdonald wrote a letter to Eudora Welty, beginning a thirteen-year correspondence between fellow writers and kindred spirits. Though separated by background, geography, genre, and his marriage, the two authors shared their lives in witty, wry, tender, and at time…
Shah travels to Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and the Nazca Lines in search of the truth behind the legendary birdmen.
The author, a Canadian journalist, reports on the most recent wave in the global sex trade, sparked by the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. According to the U.S. State Department, about 900.000 young women, many of them orphans, from Eastern and Central Europe, are lured wit…
"On the worldwide black market, the third most profitable commodity after illegal weapons and drugs is human flesh: women and girls from all over Eastern Europe, sold for sex by the networks of organized crime that became entrenched in the aftermath of the fall of communism. "Na…
Chronicles the experiences of women reporters during World War II, discussing the discrimination they faced from the military and male colleagues, and looking at the adverse physical conditions they suffered in their efforts to bring the story of the war home to America.
Plagued by persistent reports of cannibalism in a province known as the Republic of Wine, the Chinese government sends a special investigator to substantiate the disturbing rumors
Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king o…
1. januar 1950, to år etter Mao Tse Tungs landreformer snudde opp ned på hele landsbygda i Kina, befinner vi oss i helvete. Kongen i underverdenen, Lord Yama, har torturert Ximen Nao, en fredelig jordeier for å få han til innrømme alt det som førte til at han ble henrettet. Den …
Ximen Nao is a landowner known for his generosity and kindness and benevolence to his peasants. However, during Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, he is executed. Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has him tortured endlessly in order to force a confession of guilt from him, bef…
Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king o…
Mo Yan's new novel opens in hell on January 1, 1950, nearly two years after Mao Zedong's Land Reform Movement overturned the traditional order of rural China. For those two years, Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has submitted Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his uncommon kind…
