卡勒德•胡赛尼（Khaled Hosseini），1965年生于阿富汗喀布尔市，后随父亲迁往美国。毕业于加州大学圣地亚哥医学系，现居加州。著有小说《追风筝的人》(The Kite Runner，2003）、《灿烂千阳》(A Thousand Splendid Suns，2007)、《群山回唱》（And the Mountains Echoed,2013）。作品全球销量超过4000万册。 “立志拂去蒙在阿富汗普通民众面孔的尘灰，将背后灵魂的悸动展示给世人”。2006年，因其作品巨大的国际影响力，胡赛尼获得联合国人道主义奖，并受邀担任联合国难民署亲善大使。他还创立了以自己名字命名的基金会，为阿富汗的难民提供人道主义援助。

The new work, entitled Sea Prayer, is a short, illustrated book which Hosseini wrote in response to the current refugee crisis and the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach in Turkey in September 2015. Sea Prayer is an attempt to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Alan Kurdi's, who have been splintered and...(展开全部)

John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany is the inspiring modern classic that introduced two of the author's most unforgettable characters, boys bonded forever in childhood: the stunted Owen Meany, whose life is touched by God, and the orphaned Johnny Wheelwright, whose life is touched by Owen. From the accident that links them to the mystery that follows them-and the martyrdom th...(展开全部)

John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany is the inspiring modern classic that introduced two of the author's most unforgettable characters, boys bonded forever in childhood: the stunted Owen Meany, whose life is touched by God, and the orphaned Johnny Wheelwright, whose life is touched by Owen. From the accident that links them to the mystery that follows them-and the martyrdom th...(展开全部)

"This book is rich with examples illustrating medical, religious, racial, and gendered discourses about its subject and the impact these have had, and continue to have, in the provision of medical care to the public . . . A fascinating read" --Library Journal "Bourke has done a fine job of detailing the story of pain and the folly it reveals." --Kirkus Reviews "The Story of Pai...(展开全部)

This is a prayer written for one little girl, but it is a prayer for boys and girls all over the world. It is full of the intimate gentleness for familiar things, the love of friends and family, and the kindly protection of God. It carries a universal appeal for all ages and races, and brings to our hearts and minds the deep responsibility of preserving for all times the faith ...(展开全部)

作者:(美)雷切尔·菲尔德 译者:叶赫那拉·薆孛 插图作者:(美)伊丽莎白·奥尔顿·琼斯 雷切尔·菲尔德（Rachel Field，1894-1942）美国著名作家、诗人。她在马萨诸塞州长大，就读于瑞迪克利夫学院。在短暂的一生中，她撰写了许多经典的作品，《木头娃娃百年传奇》是她最为著名的作品，1930年获得了纽伯瑞儿童文学金奖。菲尔德还是一个成功的成人童话作家，她创作了畅销书《很久以前》《锦上添花》《从现在起到明天》，还有诗歌《野雁告诉的》等。她将美国儿童文学界最有分量的几个奖项全部收入囊中，共获得一次纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖、一次纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖、一次美国国家图书奖、两次刘易斯·卡洛书架奖，以及一次凯迪克金奖。 伊丽莎白·奥尔顿·琼斯完美地捕捉到了《孩子的祈祷》传达出的崇高精神内涵。她拥有通往孩子纯真内心的魔法钥匙。她还著有《树枝》《大苏珊》和《太...(展开全部)

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. "Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW "John Irving is an abundantly and...(展开全部)

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) never completed his Doctoral thesis on prayer. Yet his scarcely mentioned introduction (Books I and II) of 176 pages and privately printed in 1909, can be seen as some of his most important work. His argument that much of prayer is a social act will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists and theologians. Here, the first English translatio...(展开全部)

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character. "Roomy, intelligent, exhilarating and darkly comic...Dickensian in scope....Quite stunning and very ambitious." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW "John Irving is an abundantly and...(展开全部)