A story about difference, exclusion, and ultimately self-acceptance, Child of Glass explores the interplay between inner and outer and the journey we have to go on to become ourselves. Child of Glass is about Gisele, a fragile, strong, transparent girl who denounces the meanness that can mark life in the world. In sparse, poetic language that all of us, however young or old, ca...(展开全部)

With "House of Glass", the fourth volume in the Buru Quartet, Indonesian writer and dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer concludes his epic of Indonesian nationhood. Here, the story of Minke, the talented, bold, and imaginative native leader, told in the preceding books--"This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations", and "Footsteps"--takes a dramatic new form.

关于作者 科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy，1933 - ） 美国当代小说家，剧作家，已著有10部长篇小说及其他短篇作品和剧作。 先后斩获普利策奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖等美国文学界主流奖项，多部作品被改编为影视剧。 科恩兄弟根据麦卡锡小说改编的同名电影《老无所依》，获得包括最佳影片、最佳导演和最佳改编剧本在内的四项奥斯卡大奖。 关于译者 杨逸，女，生于1985年，南京大学英语系博士，麦卡锡爱好者和研究者，任职于常州大学英语系。

关于作者 科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy，1933 - ） 美国当代小说家，剧作家，已著有10部长篇小说及其他短篇作品和剧作。 先后斩获普利策奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖等美国文学界主流奖项，多部作品被改编为影视剧。 科恩兄弟根据麦卡锡小说改编的同名电影《老无所依》，获得包括最佳影片、最佳导演和最佳改编剧本在内的四项奥斯卡大奖。 关于译者 杨逸，女，生于1985年，南京大学英语系博士，麦卡锡爱好者和研究者，任职于常州大学英语系。

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

By the author of the critically acclaimed "Border Trilogy", "Child of God" is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts...(展开全部)