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)

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)

It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys are said to own half the town: he has only come to Rathmoye to photograph the scorched remains of its burnt- out cinema. A few mil...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)

Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.

We all know the headiness and excitement of the early days of love. But what comes after? In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children—but no long-term relationship is as simple as “happily ever after.” The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happe...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined Midsummer Night's Dream, men and women speak of an...(展开全部)

Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.