This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

Sindiwe Magona's collection of superb short stories brings a full range of South African women's experience brilliantly to light. From the village mother leaving her children to work; the maid in service to the white medem; the black child raped and murdered, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night is at once tragic, triumphant, humorous, and sharp, but above all forcefully emp...(展开全部)

Short stories exploring the lives and circumstances of African women in South Africa, all told with insight humor and vitality, this collection is a forceful document of injustices. In the opening story, a woman leaves her mud hut--and her five young children--to flee to the misty mountains beyond her village. She had been awake at night, in despair, considering where their nex...(展开全部)

辛迪薇·马戈那(Sindiwe Magona，1943-)，南非著名小说家、诗人、剧作家、女性活动家、励志演说家，早年靠函授完成大学学业，之后到美国哥伦比亚大学深造，获社会工作硕士学位，并在联合国工作长达20年。一直致力南非种族歧视以及南非黑人女性经历的写作，获奖无数。2011年因其在文学和人道主义领域的杰出贡献被授予“天堂乌铜勋章”。作品有自传《致我孩子的孩子》《被迫成长》，短篇小说集《推一推及其他故事》，诗集《请留影吧》，长篇小说《母亲致母亲》《美丽的礼物》等。

Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Sha...(展开全部)

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, a...(展开全部)

Elderly widow Addie Moore pays a visit to her aging widower neighbor, Louis Waters. They were never close, just knew each other peripherally, which makes the reason for this social call all the more intriguing. Addie would like to know if Louis is interested in sleeping with her. Now, now, this scenario was conceived by the late, great Kent Haruf—Our Souls at Night is no 50 Sha...(展开全部)

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, a...(展开全部)

An argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural proposals for alternate approaches to working and living. Despite the increasing numbers of people who now work from home, in the popular imagination the home is still understood as the sanctuary of privacy and intimacy. Living is conceptually and definitively...(展开全部)

When three mean and hungry tigers disrupt Hodges' Cafe and its customers one Friday night, it's Hodges' crazy duck who saves the day.