After completing the shooting of Sleeping by the Mississippi in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in the capital city waiting to take their new baby home. “The baby’s birth mother gave the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. I hope that the hardness of...(展开全部)

Moments of humour, surreal fantasy, and the sometimes devastating ways we interact with the people we love the most, are presented in Shaun Tan’s typical thought-provoking style. RULES OF SUMMER, is a deceptively simple story about two boys, one older and one younger, and the kind of ‘rules’ that might govern any relationship between close friends or siblings. Rules that are of...(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)

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)

奥维达（1839～1908），英国维多利亚时代的著名女作家，生于英格兰，在巴黎长大，成年后移居伦敦。在英国，她开始写小说，并获得巨大成功。1871年，奥维达从英国来到佛兰德斯的安特卫普参观，为佛兰德斯画家鲁本斯所震撼，于是在第二年写出了在西方世界脍炙人口的经典故事——《佛兰德斯的狗》。 奥维达非常喜欢动物，总是积极地保护动物权益，她救助过很多动物，曾经喂养过30条狗。假如没有这些经历，她就不会把《佛兰德斯的狗》中的帕奇写得那么真实感人，令无数读者感动落泪。

This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureau...(展开全部)

Summer has come to Krynn, a summer unlike any before. The sun bears down on land and sea, searing the world with relentless light and heat. Clouds and rain are nowhere to be found, and even the darkness of night brings little relief from the strange and oppressive day. Meanwhile, those who commune regularly with their gods are uneasy. Every day, their deities become more dista...(展开全部)

Summer has come to Krynn, a summer unlike any before. The sun bears down on land and sea, searing the world with relentless light and heat. Clouds and rain are nowhere to be found, and even the darkness of night brings little relief from the strange and oppressive day. Meanwhile, those who commune regularly with their gods are uneasy. Every day, their deities become more dista...(展开全部)

Summer has come to Krynn, a summer unlike any before. The sun bears down on land and sea, searing the world with relentless light and heat. Clouds and rain are nowhere to be found, and even the darkness of night brings little relief from the strange and oppressive day. Meanwhile, those who commune regularly with their gods are uneasy. Every day, their deities become more dista...(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。