When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural ...(展开全部)

It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it’s all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored—until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgroun...(展开全部)

Written by the great Austrian novelist in 1924, Three Women—consisting of three long stories, "Grigia," "The Portuguese Lady," and "Tonka"—was written just a few years prior to Robert Musil's twentieth-century masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Beloved by writers Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch, Musil was several times nominated for a Nobel Prize before his death in 1942.

It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it’s all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored—until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six times to embed herself with ordinary women from different regions and backgroun...(展开全部)

Written by the great Austrian novelist in 1924, Three Women—consisting of three long stories, "Grigia," "The Portuguese Lady," and "Tonka"—was written just a few years prior to Robert Musil's twentieth-century masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Beloved by writers Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch, Musil was several times nominated for a Nobel Prize before his death in 1942.

作者介绍 彼得·马伦，英国自然作家、记者和自然保护主义者，作品多达二十余部。他的其他著作包括获得自然历史发展学会颁发的撒克里奖章的《新博物学家》（The New Naturalists）、获得英伦诸岛植物学会颁发的主席奖的《英国罕见的花》（Britain’s Rare Flowers），以及柯林斯新博物学家系列当中的《野生森林》（The Wild Woods）。他还是利弗休姆研究奖学金的享有者，并两次荣获自然世界图书奖、一次荣获苏格兰圣安德鲁十字奖。现居住在威尔特郡。 译者介绍 罗心宇，毕业于中国农业大学的不正经昆虫学博士，研究一类叫“木虱”的没人听说过的昆虫。喜欢抓虫、拍花和在大自然里泡着，翻译及写作什么的，完全是靠天赋。

St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on t he western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the s...(展开全部)

Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her skills as a lawyer to get her brother out of prison - and ultimately the trip endangers her marriage and her relationship with her own daughter, and drives her to the very edge of madness. Fanta, on the other hand, leave...(展开全部)

Recovering from the brink of death after venting her frustrations about an unjust world, a ninety-two-year-old woman recounts three stages of her painful life.

Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her skills as a lawyer to get her brother out of prison - and ultimately the trip endangers her marriage and her relationship with her own daughter, and drives her to the very edge of madness. Fanta, on the other hand, leave...(展开全部)