Long regarded as a classic, "The Tourist" is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. It brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel and sightseeing in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class acquired leisur...(展开全部)

作者｜尹高恩 1980年出生于首尔，毕业于东国大学文艺创作系。2003年获得大山大学文学奖，2008年凭借《无重力综合征》获得韩民族文学奖。长篇小说《夜行者》被翻译成英文，并获得2021年英国犯罪作家协会的翻译匕首奖，她是第一位获得此奖项的韩国小说家。除了写作之外，她同时也是电台节目“尹高恩的Book Cafe”的主播。 译者｜陈欣 亚非语言文学硕士，一名热爱语言学习、投身语言教学的自由译者，打卡书展等各类文化活动的口译小哥。深信保持年轻和快乐的三大法宝：一门新语言、一次轻旅行、一部长电影。其他代表译作《验尸官》《独居老人》。

作者｜尹高恩 1980年出生于首尔，毕业于东国大学文艺创作系。2003年获得大山大学文学奖，2008年凭借《无重力综合征》获得韩民族文学奖。长篇小说《夜行者》被翻译成英文，并获得2021年英国犯罪作家协会的翻译匕首奖，她是第一位获得此奖项的韩国小说家。除了写作之外，她同时也是电台节目“尹高恩的Book Cafe”的主播。 译者｜陈欣 亚非语言文学硕士，一名热爱语言学习、投身语言教学的自由译者，打卡书展等各类文化活动的口译小哥。深信保持年轻和快乐的三大法宝：一门新语言、一次轻旅行、一部长电影。其他代表译作《验尸官》《独居老人》。

约翰·厄里，获剑桥大学社会学博士学位，此后于兰开斯特大学任教，曾任该校社会学系主任、社会科学院院长和研究部部长，以及英国皇家艺术协会研究员、社会科学研究院院士、科学研究评估计划社会学小组成员及主席。目前担任兰开斯大学流动现象研究中心主任。

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The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts–parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid–encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to se ...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize! Read by an ensemble cast A chance encounter forever alters a family's understanding of itself. An exhilaratingly inventive, thought-provoking novel from the author of Hotel World.  Barefoot, thirtysomething Amber shows up at the door of a Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. Amber doesn't know them, but ...(展开全部)

Tourism is a characteristically modern phenomenon, yet modern thinkers have tended to deride the tourist as a figure of homogenising globalism. This philosophical study considers the tourist anew, as a subject position that enables us to redraw the map of globalised culture in an era increasingly in revolt against the liberal intellectual world view and its call for the welcome...(展开全部)

Tourism is a characteristically modern phenomenon, yet modern thinkers have tended to deride the tourist as a figure of homogenising globalism. This philosophical study considers the tourist anew, as a subject position that enables us to redraw the map of globalised culture in an era increasingly in revolt against the liberal intellectual world view and its call for the welcome...(展开全部)