"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal ...(展开全部)

One snowy New Year’s Eve, nine-year-old Massimo wakes up to a long, anguished cry and the disconcerting image of his father being supported by two strangers. Inexplicably, his mother has disappeared, leaving only a vague trail of perfume in his room and her dressing gown bundled up at the foot of his bed. Where has she gone? Will she ever come back? And will Massimo be able to ...(展开全部)

Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century--an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shock...(展开全部)

"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal ...(展开全部)

S·温伯格 1933年出生，1954年毕业于康奈尔大学。1979年因弱电统一理论与格拉肖和萨拉姆分享当年诺贝尔物理学奖。他是美国科学院院士、文学和科学院士，英国皇家学会外籍会员，国际天文学会会员，美国哲学和科学史学会会员，美国中世纪学会会员。曾任美国军备控制和裁军机构顾问，美国防御分析研究所顾问等职。他的《广义相对论与引力论》、《最初三分钟》等书曾风行世界。

S·温伯格 1933年出生，1954年毕业于康奈尔大学。1979年因弱电统一理论与格拉肖和萨拉姆分享当年诺贝尔物理学奖。他是美国科学院院士、文学和科学院士，英国皇家学会外籍会员，国际天文学会会员，美国哲学和科学史学会会员，美国中世纪学会会员。曾任美国军备控制和裁军机构顾问，美国防御分析研究所顾问等职。他的《广义相对论与引力论》、《最初三分钟》等书曾风行世界。

Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business? Are you ready to turbocharge your chances of professional and personal success? During his more than four decades as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Brad Jacobs has created seven flagship companies across different industries, delivering tens of billions of dollars of value to shareholders. In How to Make a Few Bi...(展开全部)

In his latest book, Burroughs pushes into new territory, once again committing the unspeakable crime of questioning the reality structure. Dreams, always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' works, here become a direct and powerful force. My Education, direct, honest, humorous and subversive, is a truly original work.

In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdro...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong Kong, young Joan and Emma Lew escape with their family to spend the war years in Macao. When they return home, Emma develops a deep interest in travel and sets her sights on an artistic life in San Francisco, while Joan turns to movies and thoughts of romance to escape the pressures of her real life. As the girls ...(展开全部)