A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. "Where Europe Begins" presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and f...(展开全部)

A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers. "Where Europe Begins" presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fact and f...(展开全部)

In Thus Bad Begins, prize-winning author Javier Marias examines a household living in the unhappy shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Eduardo Muriel is a famous film director - urbane, discreet, irreproachable - an irresistible idol to a yo...(展开全部)

西蒙•范•布伊 （Simon Van Booy，1975— ） ，英国小说家，出生于伦敦，在威尔士乡村和牛津长大。在美国经由一位英语教授介绍，爱上了惠特曼、爱默生等美国诗人的作品，并在另一位英语教授的鼓励下写诗和创作短篇小说。后来回到英国，辗转几所大学，获得MFA学 位。 已出版三本短篇小说集：出版于 二○○七年的《黑暗中的绽放》是他令人惊艳的处女作；出版于二○○九年的《爱，始于冬季》为他赢得弗兰克•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖；二○一五年，又出版了《偶然天才故事集》。他也创作长篇小说：二○一一年出版了《美，始于怀念》，二○一三年出版了《分离的幻象》。最新的作品是二○一七年出版的《父亲节》。 目前定居纽约布鲁克林。

In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published for the first time in Englis...(展开全部)

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successf...(展开全部)

威尔?杜兰特（Will Durant，1885—1981），美国作家、哲学家、历史学家，普利策奖（1968年）、美国总统自由勋章（1977年）获得者。 早年与胡适均曾师从美国实用主义哲学家杜威，1917年获哥伦比亚大学博士学位，前期著作以《哲学的故事》一书畅销成名。此后著作亦以其鲜明主张的自由和公平，赢得东方读者包括亚洲首位诺贝尔文学奖得主泰戈尔的尊重。后半生更以莫大的毅力和勇气撰写《文明的故事》，超级马拉松般持续近半世纪，曾环球考察实地历史（包括广东、上海等地），*后一段写作行程幸有金婚伴侣杜兰特夫人执笔加入，终于留下这一部传世之作。 杜兰特博士亦可谓20世纪*会讲故事的人，讲完了“哲学的故事”，再讲“文明的故事”。终其一生，他都热情地致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来，化复杂为易懂，我们读者获益良多。 他说，历史的教训，就是我们总也记不住...(展开全部)

On the verge of giving up--anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives--Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.