“Lucky for me, Taipei was in the midst of transforming itself into a food lover’s paradise at the exact time I appeared on the scene.” So begins Carolyn Phillips’s journey as a language student in 1970s Taiwan that culminated with her becoming a traditional Chinese family’s eldest daughter- in- law. Through beguiling stories that stretch across four decades, she recalls how she...(展开全部)

Kinfolk magazine—launched to great acclaim and instant buzz in 2011—is a quarterly journal about understated, unfussy entertaining. The journal has captured the imagination of readers nationwide, with content and an aesthetic that reflect a desire to go back to simpler times; to take a break from our busy lives; to build a community around a shared sensibility; and to foster th...(展开全部)

Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramped attic. The details of their day-to-day existence - the endless quest for enou...(展开全部)

At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone , is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and the love of tales well told.Beg...(展开全部)

Part poignant cancer memoir and part humorous reflection on a motherless life, this debut graphic novel is extraordinarily comforting and engaging. From before her mother's first oncology appointment through the stages of her cancer to the funeral, sitting shiva, and afterward, when she must try to make sense of her life as a motherless daughter, Tyler Feder tells her story in ...(展开全部)

提姆•凯乐（Timothy Keller） 1950年出生于美国宾夕法尼亚州，戈登康维尔神学院（Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary）道学硕士，威斯敏斯特神学院（Westminster Theological Seminary）教牧学博士。他和妻子凯西及三个儿子住在纽约市。 提姆•凯乐的著作还包括《为何是他》（The Reason for God）、《诸神的面具》（Counterfeit Gods）等。他的第一本书《为何是他》，在2008年刚出版即荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜非小说类第七名。 《新闻周刊》在介绍提姆•凯乐时，称他为“21世纪的路易斯（C. S. Lewis）”。

诺曼·马内阿，1936年生于罗马尼亚。纳粹集中营的幸存者。1986年因当时的政治社会环境而离开罗马尼亚，先到西柏林，1988年到美国。从此在美国定居，并以执教、写作为生。主要作品有《十月，八点钟》、《论小丑：独裁与艺术家》、《必须幸福》、《黑信封》、《流氓的归来》等。 马内阿在世界各国获得了许多文学大奖，其中有意大利诺尼诺（Nonino）文学奖、西班牙《前卫报》最佳外文著作奖、美国全国犹太图书奖、美国麦克阿瑟天才奖。2006年，《流氓的归来》获得了法国图书的最高奖美第奇奖。

The Hooligan's Return is Norman Manea's long-awaited memoir, a portrait of an artist that ranges freely from his early childhood in prewar Romania to his return there in 1997. In October l941, the entire Jewish population of Manea's native Bukovina was deported to concentration camps. Manea was among them, a child at the time, and his family spent four years there before they ...(展开全部)

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually num...(展开全部)

The Hooligan's Return is Norman Manea's long-awaited memoir, a portrait of an artist that ranges freely from his early childhood in prewar Romania to his return there in 1997. In October l941, the entire Jewish population of Manea's native Bukovina was deported to concentration camps. Manea was among them, a child at the time, and his family spent four years there before they ...(展开全部)