A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a collection of people held there by ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings, while not far off the rich, promiscuou...(展开全部)

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the...(展开全部)

"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the co...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)

三岛由纪夫，日本小说家，剧作家，记者，电影制作人，电影演员，是日本战后文学的大师之一，不仅在日本文坛拥有高度声誉，在西方世界也有崇高的评价，甚至有人誉称他为“日本的海明威”，曾二度入围诺贝尔文学奖，也是著作被翻译成英文等外国语版最多的当代作家。后为极端激进政治目的自杀谏世。

Drawing comparisons to the most eloquent science writing of our day, three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. The result is an original, lucid, at times moving account of the comp...(展开全部)

Drawing comparisons to the most eloquent science writing of our day, three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. The result is an original, lucid, at times moving account of the comp...(展开全部)

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part—and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss. “What a book this is—full of everything that matters . . . gripping, moving, and beautifully told.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion ONE OF THE ...(展开全部)

This powerful memoir by New York Times bestselling author Amy Bloom is an illuminating story of two people whose love leads them to find a courageous way to part—and of a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss. “What a book this is—full of everything that matters . . . gripping, moving, and beautifully told.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion ONE OF THE ...(展开全部)