What is it like to be old? Written in her nineties, when she was free from any inhibitions she may have once had, Diana Athill reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age can bring, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Lively, fearless and humorous, Somewhere Towards the End encapsulates the vibrant final decades of Athill's life. F...(展开全部)

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and so...(展开全部)

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of r...(展开全部)

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of r...(展开全部)

When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll date him on three conditions. 1) Don’t talk to her until after school. 2) Keep any communication between them concise. 3) Don’t really fall in love. Unfortunately, he isn’t able to keep the last rule—and when he tells her how he feels, she reveals that she has an illness that prevent...(展开全部)

《明天见》是Pano的首部旅行摄影散文集。全书由三部分组成，一是关于巴黎罗马布拉格等九个浪漫唯美之城的旅行散文，不同于一般游记作品，Pano不但深入浅出地介绍城市风格特色，将其深厚的历史、文化、建筑、风土人情娓娓道来，更是融入自己的个人生活与情感 ，如同一部部浪漫的纸上爱情电影；二是“你好，陌生人”主题的纪实摄影作品，记录着他遇见的陌生人们，萍水相逢，擦肩而过，或安静聆听他们的故事，遇见就是给彼此最好的纪念；三是他在巴黎生活的日记，记录着些细小琐碎的点滴日常、思悟感念，真诚敞开了一个大男孩敏感、善良的幽谧心灵。

Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro). Hailed as “a virtuoso exercise” (Sunday Telegraph ), this book reflects candidly, sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old. Charming readers, writers, a...(展开全部)

An esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace of "Elegy for Iris" and the wry irreverence of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made her reputation for the frank...(展开全部)

《明天见》是Pano的首部旅行摄影散文集。全书由三部分组成，一是关于巴黎罗马布拉格等九个浪漫唯美之城的旅行散文，不同于一般游记作品，Pano不但深入浅出地介绍城市风格特色，将其深厚的历史、文化、建筑、风土人情娓娓道来，更是融入自己的个人生活与情感 ，如同一部部浪漫的纸上爱情电影；二是“你好，陌生人”主题的纪实摄影作品，记录着他遇见的陌生人们，萍水相逢，擦肩而过，或安静聆听他们的故事，遇见就是给彼此最好的纪念；三是他在巴黎生活的日记，记录着些细小琐碎的点滴日常、思悟感念，真诚敞开了一个大男孩敏感、善良的幽谧心灵。

Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and h...(展开全部)