【作者简介】： 迈克尔·约翰逊（Michael Johnson）是伦敦约翰逊库创意咨询公司的创始人兼创意策略总监。他曾学习市场营销和设计，曾就职于沃尔夫·奥林斯公司，并于1992年成立了约翰逊库创意咨询公司。约翰逊和他的公司屡获大奖，声名远扬，已经从黄铅笔奖赛事上获得了七支“黄铅笔”和一支“黑铅笔”。约翰逊是伦敦维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆举办的黄铅笔奖40年回顾展“倒带”（Rewind）的发起人、联合策展人和贡献者。他被《卫报》（Guardian）和《独立报》（Independent）评为英国最著名的设计师之一。他在世界各地进行讲座，三次入选《设计周刊》（Design Week）“坐标50人”设计大师排行榜。

On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.

On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.

Lean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy's stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy's unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with the same remarkable skill and intuition.In "Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976," two couples face a ...(展开全部)

◎作者介绍 麦莉·梅洛 | Maile Meloy，1972 — 美国作家，出生且成长于蒙大拿州的海伦娜；本科就读于哈佛大学，硕士就读于加州大学欧文分校。著有多部作品，包括短篇小说集《似爱而非》《两全其美》，长篇小说《骗子与圣徒》《家里的女儿》《别慌》等。曾获多种奖项，包括美国笔会马拉默德奖、罗森塔尔基金会奖、古根海姆奖，也是权威文学杂志《格兰塔》于2007年评选的21位“美国最佳青年小说家”之一。 ---------- ◎译者介绍 李思璟 毕业于北京第二外国语学院，新闻专业与英语专业双学士。曾就读于比利时鲁汶大学社会与文化人类学专业。译作有《两全其美》《女性、艺术与社会》《邪恶的幸福》《弗朗西斯·培根：肖像习作》等。

Selected for Richard & Judy's Summer Read, Maile Meloy's brilliant novel, Liars and Saints, was acclaimed by readers and reviewers alike. In deceptively straightforward writing, Meloy depicted the story of the Santerre family with remarkable insight and perception, creating 'an emotional resonance that lasts long after the last page' (Daily Mail). This same talent is again on d...(展开全部)

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unset...(展开全部)

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unset...(展开全部)

This provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s. The stories resonate with Hanif Kureishi's dead-on observations of human passion and folly, his brilliant depiction of seedy locales and magical characters, and his original, wicked sense of...(展开全部)