Introducing a brave, new Arab-American voice, an unflinching debut novel that takes us inside a world where few of us have been before: the lives of conservative Arab women living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mothe...(展开全部)

Introducing a brave, new Arab-American voice, an unflinching debut novel that takes us inside a world where few of us have been before: the lives of conservative Arab women living in America. In Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya is starting to meet with suitors. Though she doesn’t want to get married, her grandparents give her no choice. History is repeating itself: Deya’s mothe...(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)

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)

The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and ...(展开全部)

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

Alice Lindgren出生在1940年，非常喜愛閱讀並擔任圖書管理員的她從沒想過有一天竟然會嫁給總統，成為第一夫人。 在位於美國威斯康辛州小鎮的家鄉裡，她從小被父母灌輸學習女性的美德與禮儀，但17歲那年，一場突如其來的意外改變了日後的生命歷程。十多年後，Alice結識了一位出生於共和黨政治世家的紈褲子弟，最終被他的誠意打動，陷入熱戀，並走入婚姻。 當她的丈夫順利地擔任政府要職，並意外地成為美國總統後，她發現自己嫁給了一個她確實深愛著、卻與自己想法相左的丈夫。不僅如此，還要參加跟自己信仰完全不同的宗教儀式。 她的丈夫即將再度連任，Alice必須正視存在內心裡這多年來所累積的矛盾與面對幾乎不可能有答案的問題。

On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House–and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, “almost in opposition to itself.” A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid pare...(展开全部)

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)

A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times. Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, in her native Yorkshire where her lover is involved in ...(展开全部)