For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress , and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath. It’s 1941. Babe throws like a boy, thinks for herself, and never expects to escape the poor section of her quiet Massachusetts town. Then Worl...(展开全部)

How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even—yourself? People are capable of almost anything. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the tru...(展开全部)

阿梅丽·诺冬，比利时法语小说家，目前法国最畅销的文学作家之一，至今已出版十多本小说，本本畅销，创下法国出版界的奇迹。她曾获法兰西学院小说大奖、法国书商奖、阿兰·富尼埃奖等文学奖，不少作品被改编成电影或戏剧，已有三十多个国家翻译出版其作品。 诺冬一九六七年八月十三日生于日本神户，父亲曾任比利时驻日本大使，后调比利时驻中国大使馆任职，诺冬六岁那年随父亲来到北京，在三里屯住了两年，并根据这段经历写成小说《爱情与破坏》，受到读者欢迎。《午后四点》出版于一九九五年，是诺冬的第三部小说，故事奇特，语言幽默，对话精辟，富有哲理，被视为诺冬的代表作，曾被法国《读书》杂志评为一九九五年度最佳图书。

How well do you know the couple next door? Or your husband? Or even—yourself? People are capable of almost anything. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the tru...(展开全部)

In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renown...(展开全部)

Class Counts combines theoretical discussions of the concept of class with a wide range of comparative empirical investigations of class and its ramifications in developed capitalist societies. What unites the topics is not a preoccupation with a common object of explanation, but rather a common explanatory factor: class. Four broad themes are explored: class structure and its ...(展开全部)

A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina. "Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." ―John Smith, acting coach From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso’s Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together und...(展开全部)

In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He descr...(展开全部)

Class Counts combines theoretical discussions of the concept of class with a wide range of comparative empirical investigations of class and its ramifications in developed capitalist societies. What unites the topics is not a preoccupation with a common object of explanation, but rather a common explanatory factor: class. Four broad themes are explored: class structure and its ...(展开全部)

奥维•洛夫格伦（Orvar Löfgren），瑞典隆德大学（Lund University）欧洲民族学教授，主要关注文化分析这一新研究方法的运用与发展。其研究课题包括中产阶级生活的兴起、文化与经济，以及当下人们日常生活中常常碰到的“超负荷工作”与“劳累过度”问题等。著有On Holiday：A History of Vacationing（1999），Culture, Magic and Economy（2005），Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis（2006）等。 乔纳森•弗雷克曼（Jonas Frykman），瑞典隆德大学欧洲民族学教授，主要研究身体、记忆和近现代欧洲的日常生活。其专题研究十分广泛，包括维多利亚时代的中产阶级生活、日常习惯、欧洲文化的地方化，以及福利国家与地方文化、日常生活...(展开全部)