"Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. ...(展开全部)

"Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. ...(展开全部)

谭恩美：著名美藉化裔女作家。1952年出生于美国加州奥克兰，曾就读医学院，后取得语言学硕士学位。她因处女作《喜福会》而一举成名，成为当代美国的畅销作家。著有长篇小说《灶神之妻》《灵感女孩》和为儿童创作的《月亮夫人》《中国暹罗猫》等，作品被译成20多种文字在世界上广为流传。

吉本芭娜娜（1964－），本名吉本真秀子，生于东京，日本大学艺术系毕业。毕业后一度在餐厅当服务员。1987年以《厨房》获海燕新人文学奖，次年再度以《厨房》获泉镜花文学奖，后陆续获山本周五郎奖、紫式部奖等文学大奖。 1993年获意大利SCANO奖。作品畅销，被翻译成多种文字，受世界各地读者关注，掀起“芭娜娜热”。

吉本芭娜娜（1964－），本名吉本真秀子，生于东京，日本大学艺术系毕业。毕业后一度在餐厅当服务员。1987年以《厨房》获海燕新人文学奖，次年再度以《厨房》获泉镜花文学奖，后陆续获山本周五郎奖、紫式部奖等文学大奖。 1993年获意大利SCANO奖。作品畅销，被翻译成多种文字，受世界各地读者关注，掀起“芭娜娜热”。

Book Description 'I've been a chef in New York for more than ten years, and, for the decade before that, a dishwasher, a prep drone, a line cook, and a sous-chef. I came into the business when cooks still smoked on the line and wore headbands ' After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. ...(展开全部)

After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris ...(展开全部)

Book Description 'I've been a chef in New York for more than ten years, and, for the decade before that, a dishwasher, a prep drone, a line cook, and a sous-chef. I came into the business when cooks still smoked on the line and wore headbands ' After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. ...(展开全部)

After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris ...(展开全部)

The issue of idolatry has been with the human race for thousands of years; the subtle temptation is always to take what is good and turn it into the ultimate good, elevating it above all other things in the search for security and meaning. In this timely and challenging book, New York pastor Timothy Keller uses classic Bible stories to look at the issue of idolatry - from the w...(展开全部)