Illus. in color. A baby bird, fallen from his nest, sets out to find his mother.

With eloquent simplicity, Bear Heart, a full-blooded and traditionally trained healer of the Muskogee Creek tribe, shares a lifetime of training. In sections titled "The Cure Lies Within You" and "Learning How To Live," Bear Heart weaves together anecdotes and philosophy to show how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain mental, spiritual and physical health in to...(展开全部)

With eloquent simplicity, Bear Heart, a full-blooded and traditionally trained healer of the Muskogee Creek tribe, shares a lifetime of training. In sections titled "The Cure Lies Within You" and "Learning How To Live," Bear Heart weaves together anecdotes and philosophy to show how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain mental, spiritual and physical health in to...(展开全部)

牙买加·琴凯德美国著名作家。l7岁时背井离乡到纽约的富人家当女仆，因缘际会之下开始写作。从1976年开始为《纽约客》撰稿长达20年之久。其主要作品有《在河底》、《我母亲的自传》、《我的弟弟》等。 作为当代英语文学界极为重要的作家之一，琴凯德经常被评论界拿来同沃尔·索因卡、德拉克·沃尔科特。托妮·莫里森以及奈保尔等作家相提并论，而这四位作家分别是1986年、l992年、l993年和2001年的诺贝尔文 学奖获得者。美国当代最知名、最有影响力的批评家与作家苏珊·桑塔格曾说：“当代英语作家中，我想读的没几人。只有琴凯德的作品，是我一向最想要读的。

Jamaica Kincaid's new novel is narrated by a seventy-year old West Indian woman looking back on her life and evoking the relationships that have given it meaning. Her themes are sex, human relations, and the interplay of power and powerlessness - and how easy it is to fall from one into the other. Her story, which begins at the height of imperialism and ends in the twilight of ...(展开全部)

First published in France in 2013, My Mother Laughs is the final book written by the legendary and beloved Belgian artist and director Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) before her death. A moving and unforgettable memoir, the book delves deeply into one of the central themes and focuses of Akerman’s often autobiographical films: her mother, who was the direct subject of her final fil...(展开全部)

First published in France in 2013, My Mother Laughs is the final book written by the legendary and beloved Belgian artist and director Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) before her death. A moving and unforgettable memoir, the book delves deeply into one of the central themes and focuses of Akerman’s often autobiographical films: her mother, who was the direct subject of her final fil...(展开全部)

作者 香特尔·阿克曼（Chantal Akerman,1950-2015） 比利时战后最为杰出的女性导演，母亲为自奥斯维辛集中营生还的波兰犹太人。她18岁时已完成了她的第一部短片《我的城市》。她在26岁时拍摄的《让娜·迪尔曼》是二十世纪最优秀的几部女性主义电影之一，于2022年由英国电影杂志《视与听》票选为“影史最伟大电影第一名”。 译者 史烨婷，浙江大学外国语学院法语语言文化研究所副教授，法国波尔多三大文学博士。主要从事法国当代文学、文学与电影、文学的跨媒介研究。出版专著《法国喜剧的电影改编》，学术译著《法国电影新生代》，译有帕特里克·莫迪亚诺《隐形墨水》、《记忆的小路》，马尔科姆·阿迈尔《时间》等。学术论文、文化散文、书评散见于《外国文学研究》、《文艺争鸣》、《书城》、《外国文艺》、《读库》等期刊杂志。 苗海豫，浙江大学法语专业法国文学方向硕士在...(展开全部)

Illus. in color. A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets -- including a dog, a cow, and a plane -- "Are you my mother?" From the Hardcover edition.

Kincaid's new and long-awaited novel is a powerful and unforgettable story of loss, longing, loving, and survival that resonants with the proud insurgence of the human will. The story of Xuela, whose mother dies at the moment she is born, presents "an indeliable portrait of an angry woman" (New York Times) "most comparable, perhaps, to Camus' The Stranger" (Washington Post Book...(展开全部)