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。

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。

What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Written in a clear and ...(展开全部)

What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Written in a clear and ...(展开全部)

Dr. Gary Chapman has spent his life helping people communicate love more effectively and in turn build more satisfying and lasting relationships. His book The Five Love Languages is a regular on the N

"All of us are creatures of a day,” wrote Marcus Aurelius, “rememberer and remembered alike.” In his long-awaited new collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients’ struggles—as well as his own—to come to terms with the two great challenges of existence: how to have a meaningful life, and how to reckon with its inevitable end. In these pages...(展开全部)

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)