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。

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.

"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)

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。

杨步伟（1889—1981），出身南京望族，自幼性格果敢，勇于任事，是中国最早的现代新女性之一。她先后在南京旅宁学堂、上海中西女塾读书。二十岁时，应安徽督军柏文蔚之邀，任崇实女子学校校长。二次革命失败后，到日本东京帝国大学攻读医学，回国后开办“森仁医院”。1920年，与赵元任相识，次年结婚。1938年，全家赴美，此后一直定居美国。著有《一个女人的自传》（Autobiography of a Chinese Woman）、《杂记赵家》（The Family of Chaos）、《中国食谱》（How to Cook and Eat in Chinese）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)