陈希我对存在的书写，在当代作家中首屈一指。在这本书里，他仍然用他尖锐之笔，冒犯了我们的常态世界，拷问了肉身的沉重、灵魂的痛楚，存在的真相。九篇故事，毋宁是打开了九层地狱。作者就像但丁，把读者引进去，步步深入，一层比一层更不堪更恐怖，但一层比一层更切近真相，也一层比一层更接近通往天堂的阶梯。但是通往天堂是需要勇气的，陈希我本人的勇气不等于读者的勇气，所以在每篇开头，陈希我都在询问：你可以选择合上这本书，你确实要打开吗？

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer--a minister's son--hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer--a minister's son--hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

牙买加·琴凯德美国著名作家。l7岁时背井离乡到纽约的富人家当女仆，因缘际会之下开始写作。从1976年开始为《纽约客》撰稿长达20年之久。其主要作品有《在河底》、《我母亲的自传》、《我的弟弟》等。 作为当代英语文学界极为重要的作家之一，琴凯德经常被评论界拿来同沃尔·索因卡、德拉克·沃尔科特。托妮·莫里森以及奈保尔等作家相提并论，而这四位作家分别是1986年、l992年、l993年和2001年的诺贝尔文 学奖获得者。美国当代最知名、最有影响力的批评家与作家苏珊·桑塔格曾说：“当代英语作家中，我想读的没几人。只有琴凯德的作品，是我一向最想要读的。

Jamaica Kincaid's new novel is narrated by a seventy-year old West Indian woman looking back on her life and evoking the relationships that have given it meaning. Her themes are sex, human relations, and the interplay of power and powerlessness - and how easy it is to fall from one into the other. Her story, which begins at the height of imperialism and ends in the twilight of ...(展开全部)

1928. The Mother is an unusual book, both in its story and its setting in a remote Sardinian hill village, half civilized and superstitious. But the chief interest lies in the psychological study of the two chief characters, and the action of the story takes place so rapidly (all within the space of two days) and the actual drama is so interwoven with the mental conflict, and a...(展开全部)

1928. The Mother is an unusual book, both in its story and its setting in a remote Sardinian hill village, half civilized and superstitious. But the chief interest lies in the psychological study of the two chief characters, and the action of the story takes place so rapidly (all within the space of two days) and the actual drama is so interwoven with the mental conflict, and a...(展开全部)

At once provocative and laugh-out-loud funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting. Amy Chua argues thatWestern parenting tries to respect and nurture children’s individuality, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidenc...(展开全部)

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals is that the Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that. Weste...(展开全部)

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals is that the Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that. Weste...(展开全部)