米歇尔•法柏（MICHEL FABER, 1960—） 英国文坛近来最受瞩目的非典型欧系小说家，被誉为“惊悚大师”和狄更斯的接班人，幻想大师罗尔德•达尔与存在主义大师卡夫卡的混合体。他出生于荷兰海牙，后随父母移居澳洲，在澳洲墨尔本大学主修古代，中古世纪和现代英国文学。1993年，他搬到苏格兰高地的一座旧农场定居，那里便是本书的背景。 米歇尔•法柏曾赢得多项文学奖项，其中包括—— 惠特贝瑞奖（Whitbread Award）； 尼尔•刚恩奖（Neil Gunn Prize）； 杨•圣詹姆斯奖（Ian St James Award）； 苏格兰艺术协会奖（Scottish Arts Council Award）； 苏格兰十字年度最佳小说奖（Saltire First Book of the Year Award）。 他的作品中，《绛红与雪白的花瓣》（The...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia Honestly and with overwhelming immediacy, Lessing maps the growth of her consc...(展开全部)

A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America’s future. Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage, having left his classroom in South Bend, Indian...(展开全部)

Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peerin...(展开全部)

A mouse describes the feelings he and his family members experience during the day, including feeling happy, sad, jealous, angry, and scared.

A mouse describes the feelings he and his family members experience during the day, including feeling happy, sad, jealous, angry, and scared.

This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far , which includes statements such as "Worrying solves nothing" and "Trying to look good limits my life." The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easil...(展开全部)

This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far , which includes statements such as "Worrying solves nothing" and "Trying to look good limits my life." The list reveals something that is profoundly true: Although human beings have been pursuing happiness for countless generations, it is not so easil...(展开全部)

Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of his friends, a group that forms part of New York's Lower East Side youth culture. He uses photography to break down barriers between public and private spheres of activity. His subjects are willing collaborators: drawn from skateboard, music, and graffiti subcultures, they perform for the camera and expose themselves with a f...(展开全部)

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them ...(展开全部)