A middle grade contemporary fantasy that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unpre A m...(展开全部)

翻阅《老南京》这些落满尘埃的老照片，仿佛已经用手触摸到了南京的历史，感觉着它的呼吸。人们会怎么看这本书，是不满意，还是会喜欢？这本书提供了三百多张老照片，用不同的方式重现和再生了南京的历史，对于今天的人来说，许多图像是真实，更多的却是陌生，不管真实或者陌生，都成了南京魅力的一部分。

翻阅《老南京》这些落满尘埃的老照片，仿佛已经用手触摸到了南京的历史，感觉着它的呼吸。人们会怎么看这本书，是不满意，还是会喜欢？这本书提供了三百多张老照片，用不同的方式重现和再生了南京的历史，对于今天的人来说，许多图像是真实，更多的却是陌生，不管真实或者陌生，都成了南京魅力的一部分。

Quatrième de couverture C'est l'histoire d'un amour, vécu aux Indes, dans les années 30, dans une ville surpeuplée des bords du Gange. Deux jours de cette histoire sont ici évoqués. La saison est celle de la mousson d'été. Quatre voix sans visage parlent de cette histoire. L'histoire de cet amour, les voix l'ont sue, ou lue, il y a longtemps. Certaines s'en souviennent mieux qu...(展开全部)

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.

On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries. Salmonberry, Cloudberry, Blueberry, Nagoonberry. Huckleberry, Snowberry, Strawberry, Crowberry. Through the seasons, they sing to the land as the land sings to them. Brimming with joy an...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023 A Book of the Year for 2023 according to the Guardian, FT...(展开全部)

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is fa...(展开全部)

'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023' A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-wi...(展开全部)

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is fa...(展开全部)