死の床にある父親から、僕は三十五年前に別れた元恋人を捜すように頼まれた。手がかりは若かりし頃の彼女の画。僕は大学に通う傍ら、彼らが一緒に住んでいたアパートへ向かった。だが、そこにいたのは画と同じ美しい彼女と、若き日の父だった…(「イエスタデイズ」より)。異例のロングセラーとなり、新世代の圧倒的共感を呼んだ著者初の恋愛小説、待望の文庫化。

罗欣顿·米斯特里（Rohinton Mistry） 加拿大籍印度裔作家。1952年出生于印度孟买，1974年毕业于圣泽维尔大学数学与经济学专业。1975年移居加拿大，后毕业于多伦多大学乌兹沃斯学院英语与哲学专业。主要作品有长篇小说《长路漫漫》（Such A Long Journey）、《大地之上》（A Fine Balance）、《家事》（Family Matters），短篇小说集《费罗莎·巴格故事集》（Tales From Firozsha Baag）等。 其作品包揽过吉勒奖、总督奖等加拿大重要文学奖项，并三次入围布克奖短名单。2012年荣膺有“美国的诺贝尔奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖。2015年因其在文学上的突出贡献，被加拿大政府授予荣誉勋章。 ———————— 张亦琦 吉林省作家协会会员，德国海德堡大学汉学专业研究生，长期从事英语、德语文学翻译...(展开全部)

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted fro...(展开全部)

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably link...(展开全部)

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted fro...(展开全部)

罗欣顿·米斯特里（Rohinton Mistry） 加拿大籍印度裔作家。1952年出生于印度孟买，1974年毕业于圣泽维尔大学数学与经济学专业。1975年移居加拿大，后毕业于多伦多大学乌兹沃斯学院英语与哲学专业。主要作品有长篇小说《长路漫漫》（Such A Long Journey）、《大地之上》（A Fine Balance）、《家事》（Family Matters），短篇小说集《费罗莎·巴格故事集》（Tales From Firozsha Baag）等。 其作品包揽过吉勒奖、总督奖等加拿大重要文学奖项，并三次入围布克奖短名单。2012年荣膺有“美国的诺贝尔奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖。2015年因其在文学上的突出贡献，被加拿大政府授予荣誉勋章。 ———————— 张亦琦 吉林省作家协会会员，德国海德堡大学汉学专业研究生，长期从事英语、德语文学翻译...(展开全部)

A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably link...(展开全部)

This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in diff...(展开全部)

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers ...(展开全部)

"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex...(展开全部)