From the award-winning, bestselling author of "Life of Pi" comes a mesmerizing and brilliant exploration of the limitations of language in understanding and describing the horrors of the Holocaust.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of "Life of Pi" comes a mesmerizing and brilliant exploration of the limitations of language in understanding and describing the horrors of the Holocaust.

Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil —and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spi...(展开全部)

Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil —and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spi...(展开全部)

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"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

作者介绍：贝娅特丽丝• 阿勒玛尼娅(Beatrice Alemagna)，1973年出生于意大利博洛尼亚。她在1996年获得法国未来新锐奖，之后移居巴黎。当时年仅二十四岁的阿勒玛尼娅离开家乡，一个人来到巴黎，而这座城市也热情地接纳她。她希望能写一个故事献给这座城市，于是，《一只狮子在巴黎》诞生了。此书出版后，随即获得法国Rueil－Malmaison童书插画奖、意大利博洛尼亚书展最佳童书奖选书推荐，并入围法国巴欧巴童书奖。她的其他作品有《我是谁？我的爱》、《克拉拉的宝藏》等。 译者介绍：许钧，1954年生，浙江龙游人。现任南京大学研究生院常务副院长、教授、博士生导师，中国翻译协会常务副会长。著名法语文化专家、翻译家。其译著《追忆似水年华》（卷四）、《不能承受的生命之轻》、《名士风流》、《邦斯舅舅》、《中国之欧洲》（上下卷）、《诉讼笔录》等均在国内引起...(展开全部)

National Bestseller In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle , Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother—and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. And eating, sleepin...(展开全部)

The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly chur...(展开全部)