A wry, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely—from a captivating new literary voice The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why—she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious te...(展开全部)

From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House—a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was th...(展开全部)

Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that re...(展开全部)

芙洛儿·雅埃吉(Fleur Jaeggy，1940-)，1940年出生于瑞士苏黎士，是一位自我风格极其强烈的小说家。挚友英格博格·巴赫曼评价其“拥有对人对事那令人钦羡的敏锐目光，她身上夹杂着漫不经心的轻浮和真正的智慧”。她的代表作《管教的甜蜜岁月》于1989年首次出版，荣获意大利巴古塔奖等多项文学奖，版权已售至23个国家和地区。

芙洛儿·雅埃吉(Fleur Jaeggy，1940-)，1940年出生于瑞士苏黎士，是一位自我风格极其强烈的小说家。挚友英格博格·巴赫曼评价其“拥有对人对事那令人钦羡的敏锐目光，她身上夹杂着漫不经心的轻浮和真正的智慧”。她的代表作《管教的甜蜜岁月》于1989年首次出版，荣获意大利巴古塔奖等多项文学奖，版权已售至23个国家和地区。

"She is among the greatest Italian authors of recent years."-"Corriere della Sera" "Ferrante dissects the personal microcosm so well, and with awesome lucidity and precision shows us the meanderings of a woman's mind, the suffering that accompanies being abandoned, and the awful rumbling of time passing."-"El Mundo" "Elena Ferrante has given us a startlingly beautiful novel of ...(展开全部)

A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the appa...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 迈克尔·B. 奥伦（Michael B. Oren），以色列历史学家、作家，前以色列议会议员、政府成员，曾任以色列驻联合国代表团顾问、以色列驻美国大使，现为耶路撒冷沙勒姆中心高级研究员。著有《盟友：我跨越美以鸿沟的旅程》（Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide）、《权力、信仰与幻想：美国在中东，1776年至今》（Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present），以及《六日战争》（Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East），三部作品均登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜。奥伦博士还是《新共和》杂志...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 迈克尔·B. 奥伦（Michael B. Oren），以色列历史学家、作家，前以色列议会议员、政府成员，曾任以色列驻联合国代表团顾问、以色列驻美国大使，现为耶路撒冷沙勒姆中心高级研究员。著有《盟友：我跨越美以鸿沟的旅程》（Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide）、《权力、信仰与幻想：美国在中东，1776年至今》（Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present），以及《六日战争》（Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East），三部作品均登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜。奥伦博士还是《新共和》杂志...(展开全部)

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small...(展开全部)