The retreat at health and wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages. Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. These nine perfect str...(展开全部)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? In Liane Moriarty’s latest page-turner, nine perfect strangers are about to find out... Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to ...(展开全部)

Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are g...(展开全部)

A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker Lydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overh...(展开全部)

路易斯·迪恩（Louise Dean）生于1970年，自剑桥大学历史系毕业之后，先后从事过销售及广告工作，1999年开始了全职写作生涯。《形同陌路》是她的处女作，获2004年贝蒂·特拉斯克（Betty Trask）处女作特别奖。

After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking the last in their tumultuous union. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the habits of domestic life. Then the couples paths cross, and a series of surprises ensuesa disappearance and an ass...(展开全部)

A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis 'A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker Lydia Davis is a virtuoso at detecting the seemingly casual, inconsequential surprises of daily life and pinning them for inspection. In Our Strangers, conversations are overh...(展开全部)

After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking the last in their tumultuous union. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the habits of domestic life. Then the couples paths cross, and a series of surprises ensuesa disappearance and an ass...(展开全部)

路易斯·迪恩（Louise Dean）生于1970年，自剑桥大学历史系毕业之后，先后从事过销售及广告工作，1999年开始了全职写作生涯。《形同陌路》是她的处女作，获2004年贝蒂·特拉斯克（Betty Trask）处女作特别奖。

This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion of strangeness within the self -a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by examining world literature and philos...(展开全部)