英文原版 Jerusalem: The Biography
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Product Details
Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Phoenix; Mass Market Paperback edition (1 Mar 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1780220251
ISBN-13: 978-1780220253
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 5 cm
Book Description
Publication Date: 1 Mar 2012
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.
How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women - kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores - who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem.
Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth.
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If you want to understand the Middle East, read this. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )
...astoundingly ambitious and triumphantly epic history of the city. (The Daily Telegraph )
Full of faith, power, slaughter and fanaticism; this is a unique chronicle, balanced and critical and wonderfully entertaining. (Chris Burgess The Examiner (Ireland) )
This is a city that has survived Hell, and Montefiore takes you to the heart of it. (James Cleary The Northern Echo )
Magnificent. (Stephen Lewis The York Press )
...never a dull moment (David Bradbury Daily Mail )
...as entertaining as it is elucidating. It's a history that is sharply paced as a novel and fairly brims over with sparkling writing. (Sunday Businesss Post )
...heterogenous, sprawling, erudite and touched by genius (Catholic Herald )
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The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. (20120224)
是一本好书,值得推荐。
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评分质量确实好,设计相当精美
评分非常好,很喜欢,印刷精美,快递速度也很快,非常满意!
评分质量确实好,设计相当精美
评分很厚实的书,英文的要慢慢啃了。纸张很上乘,大小适中。
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评分很厚实的书,英文的要慢慢啃了。纸张很上乘,大小适中。
评分拿回来了,感觉比想像的还好。印刷精良,值得购买。就是可惜这段时间太忙,刚读了开头就停了。
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