From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Ca...(展开全部)

Bastard Out of Carolina was the first novel published by author Dorothy Allison. The book, which is semi-autobiographical in nature, is set in Allison's hometown of Greenville, South Carolina. Narrated by Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, the primary conflict occurs between Bone and her mother's husband, Glen. The novel examines the expectations of gender and mother–child relationsh...(展开全部)

Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, South Carolina, home, her notorious, hard-living family, and the unwanted attentions of her abusive stepfather, Daddy Glen. A first novel. Reprint. National Book Award finalist. NYT.

A modern literary classic, now available in a twentieth anniversary keepsake edition with a new afterword by the author. The publication of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event. The novel's profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have...(展开全部)

作者簡介 湯瑪士．麥登Thomas F. Madden 美國聖路易大學歷史系教授暨中古世紀與文藝復興研究中心主任，古根漢基金會研究員、美國學術團體聯合會ACLS及美國中世紀研究中心成員。個人網站：thomasmadden.org 譯者簡介 林玉菁 紐約市立大學政治學博士班，劍橋大學印度研究碩士，政大新聞系。曾任職IFRC國際紅十字與紅星月會聯合會美洲辦公室，雲門基金會，北藝大傳統藝術研究中心及國內外NGO組織。現為專職口譯、筆譯。

作者簡介 湯瑪士．麥登Thomas F. Madden 美國聖路易大學歷史系教授暨中古世紀與文藝復興研究中心主任，古根漢基金會研究員、美國學術團體聯合會ACLS及美國中世紀研究中心成員。個人網站：thomasmadden.org 譯者簡介 林玉菁 紐約市立大學政治學博士班，劍橋大學印度研究碩士，政大新聞系。曾任職IFRC國際紅十字與紅星月會聯合會美洲辦公室，雲門基金會，北藝大傳統藝術研究中心及國內外NGO組織。現為專職口譯、筆譯。

“Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.” Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners—Demirtay the student, the doctor, Kamo the barber, and Uncle Küheylan—sit, awaiting their turn at the hands of their wardens. When they are not subject to unimaginable violence, the condemned tell one another stories about the city, shaded wi...(展开全部)

阿拉•古勒（Ara Güler，1928—2018），亚美尼亚裔土耳其摄影师、记者和作家，被誉为“伊斯坦布尔之眼”，是土耳其少数几位享有国际声誉的摄影师之一。他曾是土耳其阅读量最大的新闻周刊《生活》首席摄影师，并经著名摄影师布列松及马克•吕布推荐加入了玛格南图片社。他拍摄的足迹遍布世界各地，还曾为毕加索、甘地、丘吉尔等名人做过摄影采访。古勒的档案馆坐落在土耳其的加拉塔萨雷，收藏了约80万张照片。玛格南图片社如此评价他的成就：“一代代土耳其摄影师都是看着他那充满怀旧和梦幻的伊斯坦布尔照片成长起来的。他的激情与献身精神永不枯竭，启发了我们所有人。” 奥尔罕·帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk，1952— ），诺贝尔文学奖得主，当代最杰出的小说家之一。生于伊斯坦布尔，自幼学画，大学主修建筑，后从文。2006年获诺贝尔文学奖，授奖词称：“在探索他故乡忧郁的灵魂时...(展开全部)

Istanbul is a vivid photographic record of daily life in Turkey?s cultural capital from the 1940s to the 1980s. Captured through the unerring lens of award-winning lensmaster Ara Gler, the ?Eye of Istanbul?, it reflects the melancholic aesthetic of the city as it oscillates between tradition and modernity. The striking black-and-white photographs in this book are accompanied ...(展开全部)

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the Sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence shaken regularly by natural disasters and by the turmoil of sultanic politics and violent revolt. Its inhabit...(展开全部)