ACKNOWLEDGMENTS our years have gone ~?y since I wrote my last book. You d think the second time around would be a piece of cake, but it ~" wasn t. Many people, helped me with the first one. I needed even more help on the second. I d like to acknowle.d, ge ,om~ ~L-,~t~h.,o,,Ai...(展开全部)

Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a cen...(展开全部)

理查德·拉索（Richard Russo，1949— ），美国著名小说家，编剧，普利策奖得主。1949年，出生于普通的蓝领家庭。曾就读于亚利桑那大学，1979 年，获得博士学位。拉索创作过十余部长篇小说，大都以美国“锈带”蓝领阶层和大学学院生活为蓝本创作。小说《帝国瀑布 》获得2002 年普利策小说奖。 拉索最擅长描写美国锈带小镇生活，稀松平常生活在他笔下也有一种史诗般的气质。从容的节奏、精心设计的对话、敏锐的细节、引人入胜的情节刻画、变幻莫测的内心描写，都让看似简单的家庭之爱/之恨，展现出错综复杂的情感张力。在拉索的故事王国里，蓝领阶层既闪烁着马克·吐温式的光辉，又有着约翰·埃文的变幻莫测。他从美国小镇的日常和蓝领阶级的困顿中，写出曲折的同情和怜悯，饱含着势不可挡的人性光辉。拉索的作品被美国顶尖的媒体持续推荐长达近四十年，深受安妮·普鲁、斯蒂芬·金...(展开全部)

At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. As an adult, and interim chair of the English Department, he is careening out of control. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his daughter or come to terms with his father, Hank has a dangerous philosophy that ...(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。

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)