An international sensation, Sofi Oksanen’s award-winning novel Purge is a breathtakingly suspenseful tale of two women dogged by their own shameful pasts and the dark, unspoken history that binds them. When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her she...(展开全部)

索菲·奥克萨宁（Sofi Oksanen），1977年出生于芬兰，母亲是爱沙尼亚裔，父亲是芬兰人。2003年出版第一部小说《斯大林的乳牛》（Stalin’s Cows），内容充满争议，受到各界讨论。两年后，出版第二部小说《宝贝雅内》（Baby Jane）。2007年，剧本《清洗》（Puhdistus）登上芬兰国家戏剧院，成为芬兰国家戏剧院的常备剧目。2008年，同名小说《清洗》出版，一炮而红，迅速成为芬兰头号畅销书，包揽了芬兰最重要的两个文学大奖——芬兰国家文学奖和鲁内贝格奖，从而创纪录地成为第一部同时获得这两项大奖的作品。2010年，此书又获得了北欧地区的最高文学奖——北欧理事会文学奖，以及法国的费米娜外国小说奖，2013年，更是荣获素有“小诺奖”之称的瑞典学院北欧文学奖——奥克萨宁成为该奖有史以来最年轻的获奖者，也是第一位芬兰女得主。《清洗》在全...(展开全部)

This is the year you change your life. If you’re in a pivot period—if you’re still bridging the space between where you are and where you want to be—remember that the person you’re becoming is already within you. The journey is convincing your mind to act consistently on what your heart already knows it wants to do. The Pivot Year is a book of 365 daily meditations on finding t...(展开全部)

In this beginner's guide to amateur gardening, Geoffrey Newsome-the highly acclaimed translator of Capek's witty Letters from England-has captured the grace and irony of the original Czech to produce a volume that will be treasured equally by those who love gardening as a relaxation, those who loathe it as a chore, and those who have no interest in it whatsoever. For behind the...(展开全部)

In the year 1000 the world was one of mystery and magicians, monks, warriors and wandering merchants - people who feared an apocalypse and who had no idea what year it was or what lay beyond the nearest valley. It was a world of dark forests and Viking adventures in which fear was real and death a constant companion. People felt they walked hand-in-hand with God, and envisaged ...(展开全部)

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A Finnish journalist and a photographer out on assignment one June evening suddenly hit a young hare on a country road. The photographer, ultimately unsympathetic, abandons his journalist companion Vatanen, who sets off to find the wounded hare. Vatanen develops a close bond with the hare and in their adventures together, they witness people's avarice, inhumaneness, hypocrisy, ...(展开全部)

A journalist and a photographer set out on an assignment on lovely sunny evening. As they drive through the country they hit a young hare. Vatanen, the journalist, leaves the car and goes in search of the injured creature. The grateful animal adopts Vatanen and together the two scamper through farcical adventures and political scandal.

The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough tim...(展开全部)