El heroe de esta brillante novela del maestro de las letras americanas, E.L. Doctorow, es Joe, un joven que escapa de la Gran Depresion. Huye de su hogar en Patterson, New Jersey, a la ciudad de Nueva York, y aprende la cruda realidad de la vida antes de seguir su ruta con unos feriantes. En una noche de verano esta solo y temblando de frio, intentando dormir al lado de unas vias de ferrocarril en las montanas de Adirondack, cuando por su lado pasa...

"At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...

"White No-Face, Xie Lian's greatest fear and most hated enemy, has arrived...or so it seems. While the ghost with the half-crying, half-smiling mask is somewhere nearby, the creature is elusive as always, taunting Xie Lian from just out of reach and promising the total destruction of everything he holds dear"--

The author uses Kinkaku-ji as the topic of novel. Mizoguchi is a young boy who was very shy and has a stutter problem. Kinkaku has became the ideology of beauty for him. He thinks about it and draws about it all the time. However, His life changed dramatically after college as he met a new friend. What will happen to him? 《金阁寺》是享誉世界的经典小说，两次入围诺贝尔奖的文学大师三岛由纪夫的集大成作品，获第8届读卖文学奖，日本销量超330万册。《金阁寺》是一部穷究美的灵魂之书，展示了一个人走向毁灭的心理独白，读来令人惊心动魄。阎连科推荐阅读《金阁寺》，他说：“三岛由纪夫的《金阁寺》，我看了三遍。一本小说能让人读三次，证明那小说中文学的魅力一定非常丰富。”三岛由纪夫说：“我写《金阁寺》是要探讨罪犯的动机。仅仅靠‘美’这种浅薄愚昧的观念，就足以成为他对国宝纵火的犯罪动机。另一方面，要在现代生活下去，相信一个愚昧浅薄的观念并将其敷衍为生的根本动机，这完全可能。”《泰晤士报》称《金阁寺》“闪耀着的光辉中，美丽与毁灭并存，残酷与牺牲同在，奉献与背叛共生”。...

"Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise may also fall, and fall he does--cast from the heavens and banished to the world below. Eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has ascended to godhood for the third time, angering most of the gods in the process. To repay his debts,...

"Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise may also fall, and fall he does--cast from the heavens and banished to the world below. Eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has ascended to godhood for the third time, angering most of the gods in the process. To repay his debts,...