The twenty-one stories collected herethe very best stories of one of The New Yorker ’s most celebrated writerstrace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, loses all power of expression and then vanishes forever. The natural love of sister for brother and of mother for son is twisted into the rag...(展开全部)

Women over the age of 40, as they move towards menopause, usually experience an increasing waistline and multiplying fat cells!no matter how much they exercise. Hormonal changes start to affect your weight when your 30 billion fat cells detect a slightly lower oestrogen reading and come to your aid to produce oestrogen for you. And the fat cells in your waist grow the largest ...(展开全部)

A devastating collection of stories from one of the twentieth century’s finest writers. In the stories that compose this collection, Maeve Brennan writes about the daily lives of three Dublin families. Brennan turns her anatomist’s eye to the resentment, rivalry, and hatred that teem beneath the surface of family life – always doing so, however, with an attention to detail that...(展开全部)

爱尔兰知名作家大卫•迪克森（David Dickson）是爱尔兰都柏林三一学院现代史教授。 译者于国宽、巩咏梅，1987年夫妻二人毕业于北京第二外国语学院，英语专业。从事口译、笔译工作近二十年。译作包括《智慧的母亲》《母亲的得释之路》配套光碟字幕、《智慧的父亲》《修复你的心》《施展女人魅力》

爱尔兰知名作家大卫•迪克森（David Dickson）是爱尔兰都柏林三一学院现代史教授。 译者于国宽、巩咏梅，1987年夫妻二人毕业于北京第二外国语学院，英语专业。从事口译、笔译工作近二十年。译作包括《智慧的母亲》《母亲的得释之路》配套光碟字幕、《智慧的父亲》《修复你的心》《施展女人魅力》

Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes? Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys as their pets? Can we be said to abuse a plant when part of our pleasure lies in twisting its stem into the shape of an animal? This is a provocative book about ...(展开全部)

Is it cruelty or playfulness to breed a variety of goldfish with dysfunctional bulging eyes? Was it an urge for dominance or benevolence that led ladies of eighteenth-century England to keep finely dressed black boys as their pets? Can we be said to abuse a plant when part of our pleasure lies in twisting its stem into the shape of an animal? This is a provocative book about ...(展开全部)

The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books of the Year. Sanmao: author, adventurer, pioneer. Born in China in 1943, she moved from Chongqing to Taiwan, Spain to Germany, t...(展开全部)

"That one was the most beautiful machine I had ever laid eyes on." In a world where humans are the minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The stories that Ibis speaks are of the "seven novels...(展开全部)

Tell me three good night stories, please, please, please, says Little Bear. Three!? says her mother. Yes--I said please three times! First, Little Bear hears the story of the Night Guardian, who lives in the woods and makes sure all animals go to bed. But who tells the Night Guardian when it's bedtime? The second story is about the brave girl Zhara who seeks the forest's most d...(展开全部)