One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own co...(展开全部)

米莉亚姆·泰维兹 Miriam Toews 加拿大作家。1964年生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭。 她出版了八部小说和一部关于父亲的回忆录，获得过多项文学奖，包括加拿大最高文学奖总督奖、麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖（两次）和罗杰斯作家基金会小说奖等。 2019年，长篇小说《女人们的谈话》出版，入围总督文学奖决选和都柏林国际文学奖以及其他多项美国和加拿大全国性文学奖项。同名电影于2022年底搬上大银幕，荣获2023年奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。 卢肖慧|译者 20世纪60年代生于上海，90年代赴美留学，毕业于纽约大学商学院。世纪初年开始从事翻译，译有《漫长的告别》《伤心咖啡馆之歌》《解说疾病的人》《别的声音，别的房间》等。现居纽约。

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future...(展开全部)

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote Mennonite colony, over one hundred girls and women were raped by what many thought were ghosts or demons. Their accounts were dismissed as 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn the truth, they meet secretly to discuss how to protect themselves and their daughters from future...(展开全部)

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own co...(展开全部)

米莉亚姆·泰维兹 Miriam Toews 加拿大作家。1964年生于加拿大马尼托巴省斯坦巴赫小镇的一个门诺教家庭。 她出版了八部小说和一部关于父亲的回忆录，获得过多项文学奖，包括加拿大最高文学奖总督奖、麦克纳利·罗宾逊年度图书奖（两次）和罗杰斯作家基金会小说奖等。 2019年，长篇小说《女人们的谈话》出版，入围总督文学奖决选和都柏林国际文学奖以及其他多项美国和加拿大全国性文学奖项。同名电影于2022年底搬上大银幕，荣获2023年奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。 卢肖慧|译者 20世纪60年代生于上海，90年代赴美留学，毕业于纽约大学商学院。世纪初年开始从事翻译，译有《漫长的告别》《伤心咖啡馆之歌》《解说疾病的人》《别的声音，别的房间》等。现居纽约。

'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the Day Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so h...(展开全部)

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why a...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D.圣·苏西（Robert D. San Souci） 美国著名说书人，毕业于圣玛丽大学。由他改写创作的民间故事作品包括《会说话的蛋》和《忠诚的朋友》（The Faithful Friend），均获得了凯迪克银牌奖。他与杰瑞·平克尼合作的作品还有获得美国《纽约时报》年度最佳绘本奖的《雇佣之手》（The Hired Hand）等。现住在加利福尼亚州的旧金山。 杰瑞·平克尼（Jerry Pinkney） 非裔美籍的著名插画家。1939年出生于费城，4岁开始画画，毕业于费城艺术学院，从1964年起专攻于儿童读物的插图，至今已画了超过100本书，还成功举办了超过30次的个人作品回顾展。他最新的作品是Dial出版社的《三只小猫》（Three Little Kittens）。现为多所大学的艺术教授，住在纽约州。 杰瑞一生所获的荣誉颇多，不胜枚举。其中包括...(展开全部)