A hypnotic, disorienting story of parallel lives unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. For two years, twenty-eight-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But now the theatre is shutting down and Ayami's future is uncertain. Her last shift completed and the theatre closed for good, Ayami walks the streets o...(展开全部)

A hypnotic, disorienting story of parallel lives unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. For two years, twenty-eight-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But now the theatre is shutting down and Ayami's future is uncertain. Her last shift completed and the theatre closed for good, Ayami walks the streets o...(展开全部)

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that...(展开全部)

The town of Nowa Ruda and its surrounding countryside is a place of shifting identities. Polish now, it has been German, Czech and Austro-Hungarian among other nationalities in the past.Here, at the hear of Europe, where borders move and languages and their speakers come and go, ordinary ives arenot as simple as they appear. When the narrator and her husband settle in the area,...(展开全部)

Nowa Ruda is a small town in Silesia, a region that has at times been part of Poland, Germany, and the former Czechoslovakia. When the narrator of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night moves into the area, she discovers that everyone - and everything - has a story. With the help of Martha, her enigmatic neighbor, she collects these stories, and what emerges is the messa...(展开全部)

耶胡达·阿米亥（Yehuda Amichai,1924—2000），以色列当代诗人，也是二十世纪最重要的国际诗人之一。生于德国的乌尔兹堡，十二岁时随家迁居以色列，二战期间他在盟军犹太军队中服役，目击了以色列独立战争和西奈战役，战后他当过多年的中学教师，先后出版了诗集《诗：1948-1962》、《现在风暴之中，诗：1963-1968》、《时间》等十余部，在欧美诗坛上具有较大的影响，被译成数十种文字。他曾经多次获得国际国内文学奖，2000年逝世。 阿米亥的诗透明而睿智，善于使用圣经和犹太历史作为诗歌意象，把日常与神圣、爱情与战争、个人与民族等因素糅合起来，因此他的诗多涉人类的生存环境和普遍命运，其想象力丰富得惊人，具有深远的哲学意味和语言渗透力。

The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming--or has come--to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he maintained his privileged place as the master of, or first among, the animals? In "The Open," contemporary Italian philosopher ...(展开全部)