A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, cultur...(展开全部)

A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel write...(展开全部)

When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to ...(展开全部)

Long-listed for the Booker Prize Named one of The New York Times’s Notable Books of the Year One of The Washington Post’s Best Fiction Books of the Year A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve...(展开全部)

Longlisted for the Booker Prize A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they’ve inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from month...(展开全部)

In Lori Lansens' astonishing second novel, readers come to know and love two of the most remarkable characters in Canadian fiction. Rose and Ruby are twenty-nine-year-old conjoined twins. Born during a tornado to a shocked teenaged mother in the hospital at Leaford, Ontario, they are raised by the nurse who helped usher them into the world. Aunt Lovey and her husband, Uncle Sta...(展开全部)

Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th birthday, they are history's oldest craniopagus twins, joined at the head by as pot...(展开全部)

迈克尔·陶西格（Michael Taussig），1940年出生于澳大利亚，在伦敦经济学院获得人类学博士学位，后在哥伦比亚大学担任人类学教授，以其富有挑战性的民族志研究和非传统的学术风格而闻名。他对马克思和瓦尔特·本雅明的评论，尤其是关于商品拜物教思想的评论最为人称道，此外他在医学人类学领域也作出了重要贡献。代表作有《南美洲的恶魔和商品拜物教》《萨满教、殖民主义与野人》等。

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition....(展开全部)

美国当代著名的作家、翻译家、汉学家。1970进入哥伦比亚大学攻读人类学博士，机缘巧合之下学习中文，从此爱上中国文化。1972年，比尔赴台湾一所寺庙修行，在那里过起暮鼓晨钟的隐居生活；1991年，他又辗转至香港某广播电台工作，并开始长期在中国大陆旅行，撰写了大量介绍中国风土人情的书籍和游记，同时翻译多部佛学经典和诗集，在欧美各国掀起了一股学习中国传统文化的热潮。 比尔关于中国隐者的作品《空谷幽兰》出版后，受到读者的热烈欢迎，一版再版，畅销至今。2010年，他又相继推出了追溯中国禅宗文化与历史的《禅的行囊》，以及追寻黄河源头的《黄河之旅》、追溯中华文明史上最辉煌篇章的《丝绸之路》。这些关于中国文化之旅的游记作品同样受到了读者的喜爱，并得到安妮宝贝、安意如、陈坤等人的鼎力推荐。 多年来比尔一直坚持深入中国偏远地区寻访人文遗迹，并用胶卷和文字记录旅途的艰险与...(展开全部)