《索尼娅与桑尼的孤独》——一部关于两个年轻人命运交织与分离的迷人故事。布克奖获奖作品《继承失落的人》作者基兰·德赛，以横跨大陆与年代的恢弘笔触，谱写了一曲关于爱与家庭、印度与美国、传统与现代的史诗。 "这本小说如此美妙，当我翻到最后一页时，立即回到首页重新开始阅读。"—— 桑德拉·西斯内罗斯 "壮阔而动人的爱情故事，以精美散文写就......纯粹的愉悦！"——纳姆瓦利·塞尔佩尔 当索尼娅和桑尼在夜间列车上初次对视，他们即刻被彼此吸引，却又为祖辈曾试图撮合他们的笨拙举动感到尴尬——这场失败的媒妁之谋当年只让两人渐行渐远。 刚从佛蒙特雪山完成学业的索尼娅怀着作家梦回到印度老家。她始终被恐惧缠绕，怀疑自己正遭受某个艺术家的黑暗诅咒——那个她曾为寻求亲密与灵感而委身的男人。桑尼则是辗转落脚纽约的失意记者，试图逃离专横的母亲和家族暴力纷争。面对不确定的未来，这...(展开全部)

《索尼娅与桑尼的孤独》——一部关于两个年轻人命运交织与分离的迷人故事。布克奖获奖作品《继承失落的人》作者基兰·德赛，以横跨大陆与年代的恢弘笔触，谱写了一曲关于爱与家庭、印度与美国、传统与现代的史诗。 "这本小说如此美妙，当我翻到最后一页时，立即回到首页重新开始阅读。"—— 桑德拉·西斯内罗斯 "壮阔而动人的爱情故事，以精美散文写就......纯粹的愉悦！"——纳姆瓦利·塞尔佩尔 当索尼娅和桑尼在夜间列车上初次对视，他们即刻被彼此吸引，却又为祖辈曾试图撮合他们的笨拙举动感到尴尬——这场失败的媒妁之谋当年只让两人渐行渐远。 刚从佛蒙特雪山完成学业的索尼娅怀着作家梦回到印度老家。她始终被恐惧缠绕，怀疑自己正遭受某个艺术家的黑暗诅咒——那个她曾为寻求亲密与灵感而委身的男人。桑尼则是辗转落脚纽约的失意记者，试图逃离专横的母亲和家族暴力纷争。面对不确定的未来，这...(展开全部)

Book Description Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. It was banned for obscenity in 1928....(展开全部)

诺贝特•埃利亚斯（Norbert Elias, 1897—1990），德裔社会学家，20世纪百科全书式人物，被誉为“21世纪的社会学家”。他出生在当时西里西亚地区的布雷斯劳（现称弗罗茨瓦夫，现属波兰）的一个犹太富商家庭，早年曾兼修医学与哲学，取得博士学位后转攻社会学，先后师从韦伯和曼海姆。纳粹上台后，他先是流亡巴黎，后赴英国继续学术研究。1939年，他的名著《文明的进程》首次出版。1940年，他曾由于德国人身份而被关入拘留营八个月时间。战后，他在英国、德国、荷兰等地的院校任教。他是反思性历史社会学家的代表，通过自我反思的追问来理解现代性，致力于细致的经验研究和长时段历史研究，代表作还有《宫廷社会》《个体的社会》《莫扎特的成败》《符号理论》等。 译者：索马里，曾供职于《GQ智族》《彭博商业周刊》，现为99读书人副总编辑，译有《一个自杀者的传说》《记忆之...(展开全部)

A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sen...(展开全部)

Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature...(展开全部)

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotion...(展开全部)

A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? </p> In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time ...(展开全部)

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York ...(展开全部)

A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal’s now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience. Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake in “awful kid stuff,” the experience forms Jim’s ideal of spiritual completion. Defy...(展开全部)