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...been translated into 36 languages, with 12 million hardcover copies in print. Having spent over three years on the NYT bestseller list, it is now the No. 1 hardcover of all time, outselling "Gone with the Wind" and "Love Story." On April 23, John M. Hardy will publish "A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County." Says his publisher, "For a decade, millions of readers have been eagerly waiting to learn the fate of Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson. This May, reviewers will have the opportunity to fulfill people's expectations by interviewing the man responsible...
...Forty-one thousand...
...Genji was written a thousand years ago, and the name of its author has not come down to us. (It is attributed to Murasaki Shikibu. Murasaki is the name given to a charming character in the book, later attached to the writer as a joke or compliment that stuck. Shikibu is the name of an office the character's father once held.) The English-language equivalent for the general linguistic distance would be something like Beowulf, recently translated by Seamus Heaney, but the very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding...
...demand greater punishment for her daughter's killers; for that, she was detained for "refusing to accept ideological education," according to the warrant. She was arrested again for unfurling a banner in Tiananmen Square denouncing county officials. In the months that followed, she collected signatures and fingerprints from a thousand villagers demanding the police chief's impeachment. "People kept asking me to represent them," she says while thumbing the petition in her sparsely furnished living room, decorated with a poster of Chairman Mao. "I never wanted to be a leader. But by then I didn't fear death...
...slowly realized that her neighbors had begun to refuse to bury their dead. She met Lei Yuanpu; he says some of his 29-year-old son's killers were set free by police after paying a bribe of nearly a thousand dollars. The son's uninterred coffin rests on a flax-covered hillside overlooking Lanshan's valley. She met Liang Fuxiu, who says one of her husband's murderers bribed his way out of jail. The husband's coffin sits aboveground in a field behind the couple's home. Anonymous villagers began slipping notes under Li's door with stories...