米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity "Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent ...(展开全部)

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village-not the East Villag...(展开全部)

米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity "Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent ...(展开全部)

米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village-not the East Villag...(展开全部)

Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A and E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. We watch Christie with a new mother holding her premature son who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side as she spends many hou...(展开全部)

Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A and E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. We watch Christie with a new mother holding her premature son who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side as she spends many hou...(展开全部)