Amazon.com Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father...(展开全部)

Book Description The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and d...(展开全部)

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople There h...(展开全部)

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmes...(展开全部)

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually num...(展开全部)

诺曼·马内阿，1936年生于罗马尼亚。纳粹集中营的幸存者。1986年因当时的政治社会环境而离开罗马尼亚，先到西柏林，1988年到美国。从此在美国定居，并以执教、写作为生。主要作品有《十月，八点钟》、《论小丑：独裁与艺术家》、《必须幸福》、《黑信封》、《流氓的归来》等。 马内阿在世界各国获得了许多文学大奖，其中有意大利诺尼诺（Nonino）文学奖、西班牙《前卫报》最佳外文著作奖、美国全国犹太图书奖、美国麦克阿瑟天才奖。2006年，《流氓的归来》获得了法国图书的最高奖美第奇奖。

The Hooligan's Return is Norman Manea's long-awaited memoir, a portrait of an artist that ranges freely from his early childhood in prewar Romania to his return there in 1997. In October l941, the entire Jewish population of Manea's native Bukovina was deported to concentration camps. Manea was among them, a child at the time, and his family spent four years there before they ...(展开全部)

The Hooligan's Return is Norman Manea's long-awaited memoir, a portrait of an artist that ranges freely from his early childhood in prewar Romania to his return there in 1997. In October l941, the entire Jewish population of Manea's native Bukovina was deported to concentration camps. Manea was among them, a child at the time, and his family spent four years there before they ...(展开全部)

诺曼·马内阿，1936年生于罗马尼亚。纳粹集中营的幸存者。1986年因当时的政治社会环境而离开罗马尼亚，先到西柏林，1988年到美国。从此在美国定居，并以执教、写作为生。主要作品有《十月，八点钟》、《论小丑：独裁与艺术家》、《必须幸福》、《黑信封》、《流氓的归来》等。 马内阿在世界各国获得了许多文学大奖，其中有意大利诺尼诺（Nonino）文学奖、西班牙《前卫报》最佳外文著作奖、美国全国犹太图书奖、美国麦克阿瑟天才奖。2006年，《流氓的归来》获得了法国图书的最高奖美第奇奖。

When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr’s comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger’s—a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sher...(展开全部)