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.

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)

A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain ...(展开全部)

For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possible – and how human life today would cea...(展开全部)

作者简介 盖尔·琼斯（Gail Jones,1955—— ）:澳大利亚当代著名作家，到目前为止，出版两部短篇小说集和七部长篇小说。长篇小说《黑镜子》（Black Mirror）、《六十盏灯》(Sixty Lights)、《梦语》(Dream of Speaking)等入围或者获得多项澳大利亚文学奖项。《抱歉》(Sorry),《五次钟声》(Five Bells)亦在西方文坛引起广泛关注。最新力作《诺亚·格拉斯之死》（The Death of Noah Glass）入围2019年迈尔斯·富兰克林文学奖，获2019年澳大利亚总理文学奖。盖尔•琼斯目前就职于西悉尼大学社会与写作研究中心。 译者简介 李尧（1946—— ）：资深翻译家，悉尼大学荣誉文学博士、西悉尼大学荣誉文学博士、北京外国语大学澳大利亚研究中心客座教授、西悉尼大学人文与交流艺术学院兼职教授、中...(展开全部)

"The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land" A young Native American, Abel has come home from a foreign war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world -- moder...(展开全部)