This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is he...(展开全部)

Ware's hero is a doughy, middle-aged loser who retreats into fantasies that he is "The Smartest Kid on Earth." The minimal plot involves Jimmy's tragicomic reunion with the father who abandoned him in childhood. In abruptly juxtaposed flashbacks, Ware depicts previous generations of Corrigan males, revealing how their similar histories of rejection and abandonment culminated in...(展开全部)

作者克里斯•韦尔是《纽约客》杂志的御用封面画家，《纽约客》的多期经典封面出自其手。 从最初连载到最终成书，英文原版《吉米•科瑞根》跨越了七年。在整个出版流程中，作者克里斯•韦尔事必躬亲，自脚本至绘制、自设计至印刷，均由其一手操刀。 本书每幅精准细致的画面，均未使用电脑矢量软件作为辅助工具，而是全部徒手完成。准确的线条，规矩的分格，乃至每个精细的字符，都是采用先打线格再手绘的手工模式，工程浩大繁复，极度耗费时间心力，但其极致效果亦无人企及。

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, th...(展开全部)

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, th...(展开全部)

As we look back to the beginnings of the space race, 2009 is also the year for looking forward to humankind’s next step toward the stars. In the spirit of books that once imagined colonies on the moon, Patrick O’Brien has created a unique look at your first trip to Mars. Using the most upto- date designs and theories of what it will take to establish a base on Mars, you are of...(展开全部)

Gabrielle van Zuylen 出生法国，曾在美国求学。与Anita Péreire合著《法国的私人花园》（Arthaud，1984），由R.佩奇撰写前言，并荣获法兰西学院奖勉。她的第二本著作《R.佩奇的庭园》（Flammarion，1992），在1991年荣获美国庭园作家协会颁予“最佳庭园书籍”奖项。她同时也是国际树木研究协会及庭园爱好者组织成员，曾荣获国家农业功绩骑士勋章。她自己也是个经验十足的园丁。

作者 | 夏尔·费迪南·拉缪（Charles ferdinand Ramuz,1878—1947） 瑞士著名作家和诗人。一生创作了22部长篇小说、3部短篇小说集以及多部诗集和随笔集。1997年，瑞士国家银行将拉缪的头像及其作品元素作为国家文化象征印在了第八套面额为200瑞士法郎的纸币上。2005年，他的全部小说人选法国伽利玛出版社的“七星文库”丛书，同一年瑞士的斯拉特金出版社也推出了29卷本的《拉缪全集》，他的作品从此进入经典文学的殿堂。2019年，他的《莱芒湖畔的少女》等三部小说人选瑞士《时报》评选的“20世纪以来最优秀的50部法语作品”。 ———————————————————————————— 译者 | 金龙格 法语文学翻译家，桂林旅游学院教授、译审。1987年毕业于复旦大学外文系，曾任职于漓江出版社。2011年、2019年凭借《青春咖啡馆》和...(展开全部)

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. During the Holocaust, Eddie Jaku faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdo...(展开全部)

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. During the Holocaust, Eddie Jaku faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on a Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdo...(展开全部)