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)

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。

This revealing memoir by Aldo Rossi (1937--1997), one of the most visible and controversial figures ever on the international architecture scene, intermingles discussions of Rossi's architectural projects--including the major literary and artistic influences on his work--with his personal history. Drawn from notebooks Rossi kept beginning in 1971, these ruminations and reflecti...(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。

作者简介 彼得・梅达沃爵士是他那一时代最伟大的科学 家之一，他是1960年诺贝尔生理学医学奖得主和 1981年荣誉勋章获得者，也是一位杰出的向公众推 介科学的作家。他尤以随笔集《普路托的共和国》、 《给年轻科学家的忠告》和《科学的限度》等著作闻名 于世。

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。