The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography o...(展开全部)

"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison." At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a pot...(展开全部)

The bestselling memoir by a woman who survived terminal illness only to confront the tragedy of being deemed unacceptable in a world that worships physical beauty.

露西·格雷利（Lucy Grealy，1963—2002），出生于爱尔兰，4岁时随家人迁居美国纽约。是一位出色的作家兼诗人，曾获得多个文学奖项，包括美国诗人学会奖（Academy of American Poets Prize）、《泰晤士报文学增刊》诗歌奖（TLS Poetry Prize），以及美国第11届怀丁作家奖（Whiting Award）。另著有《日常托词》（Everyday Alibis）、《电视上所见》（As Seen on TV）等。

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography o...(展开全部)

2002,2003年にかけて写真新世紀、エプソンカラーイメージングコンテストでグランプリを獲得。その才能は、森山大道にして「圧倒的」と言わしめる実力派。東京をはじめとした諸国の首都界隈で窃視的にスナップを繰り返し、累計10万ヒットを記録する自身のホームページに連日掲載。デジタル写真特有の色や質感から立ち上る鮮烈な存在感。満を持したデビュー作。 「僕が感じるデジタル写真のリアリティとは、野蛮で際限なく外部へと向かっていく衝動のようなものだ。」(著者あとがきより)

For the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego, recommends "A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman" by Ida Pruitt, Stanford University Press, 1967: When the editors of China Digit...(展开全部)

This comprehensive survey of African art discusses the art from the perspective of art history, unlike most account that tend to focus on a more anthropological interpretation. A History of Art in Africa shows how African art has developed from beliefs, traditions, and cultural and historical influences. The book challenges current perceptions of African art and presents it as ...(展开全部)

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy. To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman. The Cost of Living explores the ...(展开全部)

玛吉·尼尔森 美国作家、诗人、学者。曾获麦克阿瑟天才奖、美国国家书评人协会奖、安迪·沃霍尔基金会艺术作家奖等奖项。 著有《红》《简》《爱》等作品。