A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. "Where Europe Begins" presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and f...(展开全部)

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. "Where Europe Begins" presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and f...(展开全部)

西蒙•范•布伊 （Simon Van Booy，1975— ） ，英国小说家，出生于伦敦，在威尔士乡村和牛津长大。在美国经由一位英语教授介绍，爱上了惠特曼、爱默生等美国诗人的作品，并在另一位英语教授的鼓励下写诗和创作短篇小说。后来回到英国，辗转几所大学，获得MFA学 位。 已出版三本短篇小说集：出版于 二○○七年的《黑暗中的绽放》是他令人惊艳的处女作；出版于二○○九年的《爱，始于冬季》为他赢得弗兰克•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖；二○一五年，又出版了《偶然天才故事集》。他也创作长篇小说：二○一一年出版了《美，始于怀念》，二○一三年出版了《分离的幻象》。最新的作品是二○一七年出版的《父亲节》。 目前定居纽约布鲁克林。

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and colou...(展开全部)

On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.

On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.

There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but a...(展开全部)

简介：        青梅竹马的萧泽和柳晓音不知道是在什么时候互相产生了感情。　　萧泽以优异的成绩去了华夏顶尖高中，本来以为缘分就此错过了，没有想到的却是造化弄人。　　两人竟然会在蓝城高中再次相遇，将会留下什么足迹呢？

考门夫人，原名丽蒂·伯德，1870年3月3日出生在美国伊利诺州一个乐观善良的家庭。1901年，她与丈夫理查·考门一同，在没有基金支持的情况下，开始了在远东地区长达25年的传教工作。足迹遍及韩国、日本和中国，并发起创建了远东传教会。在此期间，考门先生因心脏病而倍受煎熬，他们不得不回到美国，并一直相互支撑，凭借虔诚的信含和巨大的毅力一次次渡过生命难关。《荒漠甘泉》与《黑门山路》记录的便是他们在这个艰难时期的心灵感悟和真实体验。《黑门山路》一经出版，迅速在世界各地得以传诵，继《荒漠甘泉》、《黑门山路》后，考门夫人又陆续出版了7本著作。1960年在一个复活节的星期天，90岁高龄的考门夫人与世长辞。