From Publishers Weekly This fourth effort from British writer Winterson ( Sexing the Cherry ) is a high-concept erotic novelette， a Vox for the postmarital crowd. The narrator， a lifelong philanderer ("I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick")， has fallen in love with Louise， a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholi...(展开全部)

This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jea...(展开全部)

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.

From Publishers Weekly This fourth effort from British writer Winterson ( Sexing the Cherry ) is a high-concept erotic novelette， a Vox for the postmarital crowd. The narrator， a lifelong philanderer ("I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick")， has fallen in love with Louise， a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholi...(展开全部)

This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jea...(展开全部)

著者 卡韦赫·法鲁赫：于不列颠哥伦比亚大学取得博士学位，历史学者，对伊朗历史研究颇有造诣。他出身于伊朗的显赫家族，其家族对近现代伊朗历史具有一定影响。他的祖父马赫迪·法鲁赫曾任驻华大使，受到蒋介石的接见。 译者 高万博：1990出生，研究生毕业，现就职于某研究所。自幼喜爱历史，大学时因偶然的契机涉足翻译，自此将翻译作为个人兴趣。 李达：山东大学在读博士生，史学爱好者，主要方向为古代世界军事史与地中海政治史及制度史，参与翻译的作品逾百万字。

著者 卡韦赫·法鲁赫：于不列颠哥伦比亚大学取得博士学位，历史学者，对伊朗历史研究颇有造诣。他出身于伊朗的显赫家族，其家族对近现代伊朗历史具有一定影响。他的祖父马赫迪·法鲁赫曾任驻华大使，受到蒋介石的接见。 译者 高万博：1990出生，研究生毕业，现就职于某研究所。自幼喜爱历史，大学时因偶然的契机涉足翻译，自此将翻译作为个人兴趣。 李达：山东大学在读博士生，史学爱好者，主要方向为古代世界军事史与地中海政治史及制度史，参与翻译的作品逾百万字。

This bilingual edition of the contemporary master's fifth work, Ce qui fut sans lumi, re, will delight, engage, and stir all lovers of poetry. Included here is an extensive new interview with the poet in English translation. "Included here is a very helpful and touchingly personal interview with the poet. . . . For readers with no prior knowledge of Bonnefoy's work, this volu...(展开全部)

"ONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES" So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898-1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as "The Black Monk," and he faced (and solved) s...(展开全部)