From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, take...(展开全部)

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亚历克西斯·迪肯（AlexisDeacon），备受瞩目的英国新锐插画家，儿童绘本作家。从小就迷恋画画，深深崇拜莫里斯·桑达克、昆廷·布莱克和约翰·伯宁罕等绘本大师。2001年，他以第一名的成绩获得英国布莱顿大学插画系荣誉学位。2003年，以自写自绘的绘本《小小外星人》入围凯特·格林纳威奖，并荣登《纽约时报》年度最佳绘本榜。之后，又陆续创作了《当你睡着的时候》《鳄鱼和小鸟》等大受好评的绘本，并以《懒猴》入围蓝彼得图书奖。2008年，迪肯入选英国十大最佳新锐插画家，《泰晤士报》甚至给出“迪肯很可能成为约翰·伯宁罕接班人”的激赞。目前他以创作故事为主，经常与插画家维维亚娜·施瓦茨合作，代表作有《我是小雀鸟亨利》《你的奶酪》《一个叫做家的地方》。现居住在伦敦。 维维亚娜·施瓦茨（VivianeSchwarz），英国儿童绘本作家和插画家，作品幽默诙谐、用色大胆...(展开全部)

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes—fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong—the heart of Asia—rich in every trade…money, flesh, opium, power.

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

A House Divided , the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons , is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His counsin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sis...(展开全部)

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area,...(展开全部)