Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore were no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil, Ezra, a flawed saint, and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and ...(展开全部)

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." THE BOSTON GLOBE Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to t...(展开全部)

"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read." THE BOSTON GLOBE Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gathered together--with anger, with hope, and with a beautiful, harsh, and dazzling story to t...(展开全部)

"A European Gone Girl ." -- The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal. It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of foo...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Over the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes "The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment" and "Collected Stories," and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown. It is no surprise that his newest work is his most criti...(展开全部)

Elegant entertaining is always in style, and who better to explain the finer points of the art of the table than Arthur Inch, a veteran English butler who served as technical advisor for the film Gosford Park ? With an historian's appreciation for the traditions of fine English homes, he discusses the elements of the table, including flatware and silver, china and glassware, s...(展开全部)

荷曼•柯赫（HERMAN KOCH） 荷兰获奖作家，百万级畅销作家，《纽约时报》畅销书作家。他以独特的现实主义讽刺笔调赢得超高人气，成为全球读者热捧的作家，并取得了令人瞩目的国际文学地位。 《命运晚餐》在荷兰一经出版，便缔造了60万册的惊人销量，成为荷兰当年的年度大书，且被评选为欧洲十大年度畅销书之一，雄踞荷兰CPNB畅销排行榜长达105周，斩获荷兰年度大众选择图书奖、美国图书馆协会年度值得关注图书奖、《纽约时报》值得关注的年度图书奖、《科克斯书评》年度小说奖等数个国际图书奖项。《命运晚餐》目前在全球授出55国版权，三度被搬上大银幕，当之无愧地成为荷兰获奖作家的实力代表作。

作者 | [韩]黄晳暎 1943年出生于中国长春，童年经历战争，颠沛流离，有过流浪、打工、出家、当兵、坐牢、流亡的经历。他的一生可以说是韩国近代历史的缩影。苦难的经历和曲折的命运让黄晳暎和国家、民族保持历史的同步，并以磅礴的文学世界贯穿了韩民族乃至朝鲜半岛的命运，他也由此被认为是韩国文学巨匠和最有可能代表韩国文学摘取诺贝尔文学奖桂冠的作家。 年过八旬的黄晳暎仍在孜孜不倦地创作，他的主要作品有《客地》《去森浦的路》《韩氏年代记》《日暮时分》《熟悉的世界》《铁道员三代》等。曾获万海文学奖、大山文学奖等多项韩国权威文学奖项，其中《日暮时分》获2018爱弥尔·吉美亚洲文学奖，入围2019年国际布克奖，《铁道员三代》入围2024年国际布克奖。其作品被广泛译介到法国、美国、德国、意大利、瑞典等国家和地区，在国际享有盛誉。 上一代的过去变成业报，构成了年青一代的现...(展开全部)

Join Jonathan Silvertown for a multicourse meal of evolutionary gastronomy, a tantalizing tour of human taste that helps us to understand the origins of our diets and the foods that have been central to them for millennia—from spices to spirits. A delectable concoction of coevolution and cookery, Dinner with Darwin reveals that our shopping lists don’t just contain the ingredie...(展开全部)

乔纳森·西尔弗顿，英国爱丁堡大学进化生态学教授，著有多本生态学与进化相关的科普图书，包括《种子的故事》《为什么不是200岁》。