米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity "Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent ...(展开全部)

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village-not the East Villag...(展开全部)

米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity "Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent ...(展开全部)

米里娅姆·托尤斯（1964—）生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭，曾获得电影学学士学位和新闻学学士学位，现为加拿大广播公司自由撰稿人。她的第一部小说《幸运的夏日》（1996）获两项大奖，第二部小说《教养不错的孩子》（1998）获麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖。《复杂的善意》为其第三部小说，2004年版后立刻好评如潮，赢得来自大洋彼岸英国的高度赞誉，《渥太华公民》杂志称它是“当前的一部绝妙小说”。

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi tells us at the beginning of A Complicated Kindness . Left alone with her sad, peculiar father, her days are spent piecing together why her mother and sister have disappeared and contemplating her inevitable career at Happy Family Farms, a chicken slaughterhouse on the outskirts of East Village-not the East Villag...(展开全部)

In Difficult Loves, Italy’s master storyteller weaves tales in which cherished deceptions and illusions of love—including self-love—are swept away in magical instants of recognition. A soldier is reduced to quivering fear by the presence of a full-figured woman in his train compartment; a young clerk leaves a lady’s bed at dawn; a young woman is isolated from bathers on a beach...(展开全部)

From amazon.com Abe Ravitz, Cleveland Plain Dealer "An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passionsThe tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminateKundera's world is complex, full of mockeries a...(展开全部)