An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his...(展开全部)

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his...(展开全部)

石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多，但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项：《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德•霍尔比纪念奖，《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖，《长日将尽》获布克奖，《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章，1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多，但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项：《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德•霍尔比纪念奖，《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖，《长日将尽》获布克奖，《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章，1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation on mortality.

Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation on mortality.

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet – it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunte...(展开全部)

一部关于被指控的女巫们令人震撼的幽灵故事——一本施展巫术的书——出自备受赞誉的《明日雇员停摆事件》(The Employees) 和《我的工作》(My Work) 的作者之手。 在十七世纪的丹麦，贵族女子克里斯坦泽·克鲁考，一位未婚女性，被指控施行巫术。她和其他几名女性被谣传为魔鬼附身——魔鬼以一个高大无头男子的形态出现在她们面前，赋予她们黑暗力量：她们能偷走人们的幸福，她们行过不敬神的邪行，她们能引发瘟疫或死亡。她们都面临着被处以火刑的危险。 《蜡孩》由克里斯坦泽·克鲁考制作的蜡像娃娃讲述，是一部令人不安的恐怖故事，探讨了残酷与权力、自然与巫术，背景设定在前现代欧洲的脆弱社群中。 《蜡孩》基于十七世纪发生在日德兰半岛北部的一系列真实巫术审判案件，研究深入，浸透着令人身临其境、充满氛围感的细节。奥尔加·拉文不仅以其华丽的叙事和令人惊异的丰沛想象力，还...(展开全部)

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glim...(展开全部)