Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow, Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she gambled her heart and lost. As the soldier-chef's love for Napoleon turns t...(展开全部)

Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow, Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she gambled her heart and lost. As the soldier-chef's love for Napoleon turns t...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News', 'Accordion Crimes' spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx's writing. 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more th...(展开全部)

Rarely has a literary novel so captured the hearts and minds of readers across America and the world as E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News, " winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Now we have Proulx's new novel, "Accordion Crimes, " a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. "Accordion Crimes" opens in 1890 in Sicily as an accord...(展开全部)

Accordion Crimes traces the long odyssey of a button accordion, an instrument made by a Sicilian who immigrates to New Orleans in 1891. Imprisoned in a round-up of Italian suspects after the political murder of the chief of police, the accordion maker is lynched, and his accordion falls into the hands of Apollo, a black steamboat screwman. The instrument begins its lon...(展开全部)

Set in an era witness to some of the most avant-garde and scintillating scientific discoveries and artistic creations of the last century, this novel takes readers behind the scenes and into the lives of many of history's most fascinating and revolutionary minds, all while posing the question - could a mathematical discovery be so controversial and threatening as to drive one t...(展开全部)

作者 安妮·埃尔诺，法国当代作家，出生于法国利勒博纳，在诺曼底的伊沃托度过青年时代。持有现代文学国家教师资格证，曾在安纳西、蓬图瓦兹和国家远程教育中心教书。她住在瓦兹谷地区的塞尔吉。2022年获诺贝尔文学奖。 译者 袁筱一，华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院院长、法语文学教授、翻译家。研究方向为法语语言文学专业翻译理论。代表著作有《文字传奇：十一堂法国现代经典文学课》，译有莫迪亚诺的《这样你就不会迷路》（2014 年诺贝尔文学奖作品），《温柔之歌》（获第十届傅雷翻译出版奖）等作品。

作者 安妮·埃尔诺，法国当代作家，出生于法国利勒博纳，在诺曼底的伊沃托度过青年时代。持有现代文学国家教师资格证，曾在安纳西、蓬图瓦兹和国家远程教育中心教书。她住在瓦兹谷地区的塞尔吉。2022年获诺贝尔文学奖。 译者 袁筱一，华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院院长、法语文学教授、翻译家。研究方向为法语语言文学专业翻译理论。代表著作有《文字传奇：十一堂法国现代经典文学课》，译有莫迪亚诺的《这样你就不会迷路》（2014 年诺贝尔文学奖作品），《温柔之歌》（获第十届傅雷翻译出版奖）等作品。

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to h...(展开全部)