An old woman is dying of cancer in Cape Town. A classics professor, Mrs Curren has always been opposed to the brutality of apartheid, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs Curren rec...(展开全部)

In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face-to-face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby b...(展开全部)

作者珍妮·贝克，澳大利亚著名拼贴创作艺术家，著有多部绘本。她创作的《镜像》一书也已在国内出版。

作者珍妮·贝克，澳大利亚著名拼贴创作艺术家，著有多部绘本。她创作的《镜像》一书也已在国内出版。

From the dynamic, dream team of Jon Klassen and Mac Barnett comes the final instalment in the hilarious shape trilogy. “Simple shapes and succinct story express big ideas. Makes us consider fear of strangers, the power of the imagination, being brave and standing by friends” Sunday Times Triangle and Square are visiting Circle, who lives at the waterfall. When they play hide-an...(展开全部)

Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen deliver the final wry and resonant tale about Triangle, Square, and Circle. This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle's friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes, and how she has to rescue Triangle when he breaks that rule. With their usual pitch-perfec...(展开全部)

Square and Triangle have had their turns. Now, in the final volume of Barnett and Klassen’s shapes trilogy, Circle’s the hero...Circle’s story offers a moment of genuine fright; watching Circle consider other possibilities reminds readers that calm analysis can master fear.

作者珍妮·贝克，澳大利亚著名拼贴创作艺术家，著有多部绘本。她创作的《镜像》一书也已在国内出版。

作者珍妮·贝克，澳大利亚著名拼贴创作艺术家，著有多部绘本。她创作的《镜像》一书也已在国内出版。

Square and Triangle have had their turns. Now, in the final volume of Barnett and Klassen’s shapes trilogy, Circle’s the hero...Circle’s story offers a moment of genuine fright; watching Circle consider other possibilities reminds readers that calm analysis can master fear.