This stunning first novel, set in colonial Rhodesia during the 1960s, centers on the coming of age of a teenage girl, Tambu, and her relationship with her British-educated cousin Nyasha. Tambu, who yearns to be free of the constraints of her rural village, especially the circumscribed lives of the women, thinks her dreams have come true when her wealthy uncle offers to sponsor ...(展开全部)

著者： 齐西·丹加伦芭（Tsitsi Dangarembga），出生于津巴布韦，布克奖提名作家，电影制片人，在成为职业作家之前，曾在剑桥大学学医，于津巴布韦大学学习心理学。她创作的第一部小说《不安的处境》是津巴布韦黑人女性第一本用英文出版的小说，荣获英联邦作家奖，被BBC评为影响世界的100本书之一，《纽约时报》称其为“20世纪以来当代非洲文学不容忽视的杰作之一”。 译者： 戴从容，南京大学全球人文研究院长聘教授、上海市外国文学学会常务理事、上海市翻译家协会理事，曾任复旦大学中文系副系主任、复旦大学翻译研究中心主任。出版译著6部，包括乔伊斯的《芬尼根的守灵夜》（第一卷）、班维尔的《蓝色吉他》等。

著者： 齐西·丹加伦芭（Tsitsi Dangarembga），出生于津巴布韦，布克奖提名作家，电影制片人，在成为职业作家之前，曾在剑桥大学学医，于津巴布韦大学学习心理学。她创作的第一部小说《不安的处境》是津巴布韦黑人女性第一本用英文出版的小说，荣获英联邦作家奖，被BBC评为影响世界的100本书之一，《纽约时报》称其为“20世纪以来当代非洲文学不容忽视的杰作之一”。 译者： 戴从容，南京大学全球人文研究院长聘教授、上海市外国文学学会常务理事、上海市翻译家协会理事，曾任复旦大学中文系副系主任、复旦大学翻译研究中心主任。出版译著6部，包括乔伊斯的《芬尼根的守灵夜》（第一卷）、班维尔的《蓝色吉他》等。

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 'UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker 'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing 'A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.' Booklist 'AN ABSORBING PAGE-TURNER' Bloomsbury Review 'A MASTERPIECE' Madeleine Thien 'ARRESTING' Kwame Anthony Appiah Two decades before Zimbabwe would win indepen...(展开全部)

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a "crisis in God'...(展开全部)

The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How...(展开全部)

The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about everything from world politics to our body mass index. - How can we stay sane on a planet that makes us mad? - How do we stay human in a technological world? - How...(展开全部)

In Business @ The Speed Of Thought, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run business better in the near future. Success, he tells readers, will come to those who create a world-class digital nervous system so that information can easily flow through their companies for maximum and constant learning. He stresses the need for managers to view t...(展开全部)

So where do you want to go tomorrow? That's the question Bill Gates tries to answer in Business @ the Speed of Thought. Gates offers a 12-step program for companies wanting to do business in the next millennium. The book's premise: Thanks to technology, the speed of business is accelerating at an ever-increasing rate, and to survive, it must develop an infrastructure--a "digita...(展开全部)

理查德·鲍威尔斯(Richard Powers)是美国后现代派小说家的后起之秀，他的信息小说(Infofiction)反映了这样一个现实：当代科技给人类带来日新月异变革的同时也招致了毁灭性的灾难。小说以其超大的信息容量、非凡的想象力和独特的后现代主义表现手法赢得了广大读者的喜爱和评论家的赞赏。 《葛拉蒂2.2》讲述了一个现代版的皮格马利翁故事，认知神经学教授菲利普·兰茨与年轻的小说家理查德·鲍威尔斯合作，试图运用计算机解读经典文学作品。