Following the Nazi occupation of Poland, from the mud of a buried city, Jakob Beer, an orphaned Jewish boy, finds himself rescued by an unlikely saviour, the geologist and humanist Athos Roussos. Athos takes Jakob to his Greek-island home, where Jakob becomes his student. But the trauma of Jakob's early life refuses to leave him. Living forever in the shadow of the Holocaust, h...(展开全部)

FICTION Fugitive Pieces 1996 POETRY Miner's Pond 1991 ; The Weight of Oranges 1986

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction AwardIn 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the o...(展开全部)

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《纽约时报》将罗素·谢尔曼称为“这个国家，乃至任何国家中最棒的钢琴家之一”，但他的职业钢琴家生涯却在上世纪50年代戛然而止——他离开主流音乐圈，脱离那些巨大名声，去音乐学院当了一名教授。 媒体在说起罗素·谢尔曼时，总是连带着“哲学家、教师、作家、棒球爱好者”等等称谓。宁静的学院生活，让他有足够的时间探索钢琴艺术，有时间玩棒球、打高尔夫，也有时间花几年时间写出他的《Piano Pieces》（钢琴小品）——1996年，他的《Piano Pieces》在美国出版时，业内一片惊叹，这本带有哲学思考和批评、具有散文性质的音乐随笔，让音乐爱好者们忽然意识到谢尔曼的存在。美国媒体赞誉这本书“显示了他是我们这个年代最具思想性的钢琴家……而他的演奏比他的书更有思想性”。谢尔曼自己，则把这本书看作“一个顽固不化的老家伙的日记”。

Floral Beach wasn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand fronting the Pacific. It was on that sandy beach seventeen years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found. The people of floral Beach didn't pay a whole lot of mind to past history, especially when Bailey Fowler, the self-confessed killer, had been ...(展开全部)

When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it's hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake--a troubled teen who had a reputation with the boys--was found on the beach. Her boyfriend Bailey Fowler was convicted of her murder and imprisoned, but he escaped. After all thi...(展开全部)

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher is a publishing first. This set couples a book containing the six easiest chapters from Richard P. Feynman’s landmark work, Lectures on Physics specifically designed for the general, non-scientist readerwith the actual recordings of the late, great physicist delivering the lectures on which the cha...(展开全部)

The number-one international best-selling author returns with an electrifying novel of devastating secrets and hidden lives that probes the fraught relationship between daughters and mothers and the lengths we go to protect those we love. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea Cooper knows everything about her mother, ...(展开全部)