In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirl...(展开全部)

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirl...(展开全部)

威尔弗雷德·塞西杰（Wilfred Thesiger，1910—2003） 英国著名探险家和旅行文学作家。作为“最后一位古典探险家”，塞西杰以其对远离西方世界的遥远地区及其传统生活方式的探索而闻名。他的民族志式写作更新了英国游记文学传统：通过与当地人长时间地生活在一起并充分融入当地文化，深刻地描绘他所观察并参与的社会、民族、历史与文化传统。代表作《沼地阿拉伯人》与《阿拉伯之沙》，分别记录了他在伊拉克南部的沼泽地区和阿拉伯半岛沙漠中的生活，被公认为20世纪旅行文学的经典，对包括保罗·索鲁在内的一代旅行作家产生了深远影响。 +++ 【译者简介】 蔡飞 主业为心理咨询师，除了文字还大量“翻译”潜意识，书写心灵世界的游记。其他译作包括《超越愤怒》等。

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick. In this account of a nearly lost ...(展开全部)

威尔弗雷德·塞西杰（Wilfred Thesiger，1910—2003） 英国著名探险家和旅行文学作家。作为“最后一位古典探险家”，塞西杰以其对远离西方世界的遥远地区及其传统生活方式的探索而闻名。他的民族志式写作更新了英国游记文学传统：通过与当地人长时间地生活在一起并充分融入当地文化，深刻地描绘他所观察并参与的社会、民族、历史与文化传统。代表作《沼地阿拉伯人》与《阿拉伯之沙》，分别记录了他在伊拉克南部的沼泽地区和阿拉伯半岛沙漠中的生活，被公认为20世纪旅行文学的经典，对包括保罗·索鲁在内的一代旅行作家产生了深远影响。 +++ 【译者简介】 蔡飞 主业为心理咨询师，除了文字还大量“翻译”潜意识，书写心灵世界的游记。其他译作包括《超越愤怒》等。

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick. In this account of a nearly lost ...(展开全部)

Ke Peng, who was born in Hunan Province and grew up in Shenzhen in China, set her creation in the rapidly developing urban space to awaken other people's perception by projecting her personal experience onto the fragile and sensitive parts of the big city. Essentially The Salt Pond is more like an ecosystem that may be slightly out of balance due to being involved, where the si...(展开全部)

Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World , here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as curr...(展开全部)

Trapped in a boring, dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters--and falls in love with--Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the midst of a divorce, as they set out on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a private investigator who forces Carol into choosing between her daughter and her love...(展开全部)

Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies…and war. As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. Yet not all promises can be kept. Inspired b...(展开全部)