Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Heming...(展开全部)

沙赫尔努希·帕尔西普尔（Shahrnūsh Pārsīpūr 1946—）是伊朗当代享有盛誉的一位女作家，在美国召开的第18届世界女性研究大会上被选为年度女性，其作品被翻译成多种语言。帕尔西普尔曾在法国巴黎索邦大学获中国语言文化系本科文凭，与中国有缘。帕尔西普尔16岁开始在各种刊物上发表作品，1974年出版第一部长篇小说《狗与漫长的冬季》。同年，因参加抗议巴列维政权对作家们的政治迫害而被捕入狱54天。1989年，出版长篇小说《没有男人的女人们》，受到“异端审判委员会”的传唤审判，最终被判监禁，出狱后移居美国。帕尔西普尔出版有小说集《水晶吊坠》（1977）、《自由的体验》（1978），长篇小说《图芭与夜晚的意义》（1988）、《没有男人的女人们》（1989）、《蓝色理智》（1992）、《树灵的简单小奇遇》（1998）、《喜娃》（1999）、《御风而行》...(展开全部)

A dazzling new collection of short stories--the first major new work of fiction from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami since his #1 best-selling Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanish...(展开全部)

Shortly after the 1989 publication of "Women Without Men" in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, "...(展开全部)

希莉·哈斯特维特（Siri Hustvedt, 1955- ），美国作家。她生于明尼苏达州的诺斯菲尔德，1978年搬到纽约，1986年在哥伦比亚大学获得英语文学博士学位。她共著有五部小说，即《一个美国人的悲哀》《着迷的莉莉·达尔》《眼罩》《我所热爱的东西》和《没有男人的夏天》，后两部作品均为国际畅销书。此外，她还出版了三部散文集和一部学术著作。她现在定居布鲁克林，她的丈夫保罗·奥斯特同为美国著名作家。

Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, ...(展开全部)

Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, ...(展开全部)

A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from socia...(展开全部)