A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam. A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in "Free Love" are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity, and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the people in them still find connections, words blowing in the street, and love in unexpected places. Ali Smith...(展开全部)

Number 214 in the Cornell East Asia Series I Love Bill and Other Stories showcases the work of Wang Anyi, one of China's most prolific and highly regarded writers, in two novellas and three short stories. A young artist's life spirals out of control when she drops out of school to pursue a series of unfulfilling relationships with foreign men. A performance troupe struggles to ...(展开全部)

A woman builds her lover from carefully scavenged pieces and parts. A young girl is groomed for madness by one who loves her most. A neurodivergent boy organizes his life, and loss, by the ticking of a clock. And love can be the most splendid and destructive force in the entire world. Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales is a collection of seventeen stories that are both bleak...(展开全部)

From exquisite ambiguities to disquieting structures, in this anthology we get an array of themes that Cortázar has known how to turn into great literature. As in all great works, he writes with a persistent and indefinable feeling that goes beyond any formula. In settings ranging from the Buenos Aires subway to a luxurious Martinique resort, these stories by an Argentinean mas...(展开全部)

胡里奥·科塔萨尔（Julio Cortázar, 1914-1984)，阿根廷著名作家，拉丁美洲“文学爆炸”代表人物。1914年出生于比利时，在阿根廷长大，1951年移居法国。著有长篇小说《跳房子》，短篇小说集《游戏的终结》《万火归一》《八面体》《我们如此热爱格伦达》等。1984年在巴黎病逝。

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unset...(展开全部)

From exquisite ambiguities to disquieting structures, in this anthology we get an array of themes that Cortázar has known how to turn into great literature. As in all great works, he writes with a persistent and indefinable feeling that goes beyond any formula. In settings ranging from the Buenos Aires subway to a luxurious Martinique resort, these stories by an Argentinean mas...(展开全部)

胡里奥·科塔萨尔（Julio Cortázar, 1914-1984)，阿根廷著名作家，拉丁美洲“文学爆炸”代表人物。1914年出生于比利时，在阿根廷长大，1951年移居法国。著有长篇小说《跳房子》，短篇小说集《游戏的终结》《万火归一》《八面体》《我们如此热爱格伦达》等。1984年在巴黎病逝。

Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction—tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unset...(展开全部)

Here, Dave Shayler examines the hurdles faced by space crews as they prepare and embark on space missions. Divided into six parts, the text opens with the fateful, tragic mission of the Challenger crew in 1986. This is followed by a review of the risks that accompany every space trip and the unique environment in which the space explorer lives and works. The next four sections ...(展开全部)