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本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

April is a cruel time， Even though the sun may shine， And world will turns to the shapes As it slowly crumbs away， Still...

April is a cruel time， Even though the sun may shine， And world will turns to the shapes As it slowly crumbs away， Still...

Two destinies intersect in Broken April. The first is that of Gjor, a young mountaineer who (much against his will) has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the provisions of the Code that regulates life in the highlands. The second is that of a young couple on their honeymoon who have come to ...(展开全部)

From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fug...(展开全部)

When a deep-seated memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy. Driven to investigate, Elizabeth discovers a thirty-five-year-old newspaper article revealing the details that had been hidden from her as a child - shocking revelations about April's mother, Adele. Elizabeth, now herself a mother,...(展开全部)

作者简介： 迈克尔·波伦（Michael Pollan），美国著名作家，从事写作三十余年，聚焦于人类和自然世界相交的领域：餐桌、农场和花园，以及思想。已出版《植物的欲望》《杂食者的两难》《吃的法则》等多部图书，全部登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜。现任教于哈佛大学英语系和加州伯克利大学新闻学研究生院。2010年被《时代》周刊评为“全球百位影响力人物”。《杂草、玫瑰与土拨鼠》是他的第一本书。 译者简介： 林庆新，北京大学英语系教授，博士生导师。北京大学学士、硕士，香港大学博士，美国康奈尔大学富布莱特访问学者，国际比较文学协会会员。研究领域包括美国文学、比较文学及翻译研究。 马月，青年译者，毕业于北京大学，信奉“翻译的意义在于传递原生的美”。

Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne Anlin Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within large...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.