History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

阿比·达蕾： 伦敦大学伯克贝克学院艺术硕士，专职作家。出生成长于尼日利亚拉各斯，18岁前往英国读大学，现居英国埃塞克斯，她的母亲泰茹·索莫林是尼日利亚历史上第一位女性税务学教授。 2018年阿比·达蕾凭借小说《大声说话的女孩》获巴斯小说奖。

这是一个美籍华人与命运抗争，生生不息，执着追过的传记故事。 米雪是出生在美国的第一代华人，从小饱尝“边缘人”的滋味，此后生活颇为周折。她的孩子罹患自闭症，全家无所适从；她的丈夫离开报酬丰厚的工作，家庭失去经济来源；她随丈夫在美国四处迁徙，漂泊不定；在人们纷纷移民美国的时候，他们全家迁往香港；她的事业蓬勃发展之时，却突然重返美国…… 悉心品味这个传记，您可以从平凡中看到不平凡，从许多人的身上看到奇妙的恩典。

I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl! The girl in this book likes to win, she likes to be spontaneous, fast and strong, and because she also likes to dress in t-shirt and shorts, she is forever getting mistaken for a boy. And when she meets a boy who likes wearing pr...(展开全部)

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation ...(展开全部)

Follow the story of Beatrice in Volume One, "Lady Pokingham," where sordid adventures in the sexual underworld are commonplace, and virginal fantasies, flagellation, and Catholic guilt manifest themselves as streams of erotic poetry. In Volume Two, "La Rose d'Amour," a young man is influenced by his lusty young cousins, who invite him to join an illicit club of debauchery and b...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americas greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation ...(展开全部)