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)

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)

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.

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.

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabakov ranges over his life, art, education and politics amoung other subjects.

In this collection of interviews, articles, and editorials, Nabakov ranges over his life, art, education and politics amoung other subjects.

布琳•布朗博士是美国休斯敦大学的研究教授，多年来，她在勇气、脆弱、羞耻和同理心方面进行了深入研究，并著有《脆弱的力量》《活出感性》等畅销书。 2010年，布琳•布朗所做的TED演讲《脆弱的力量》成为TED*受欢迎的演讲之一，其视频点击率目前已超过3000万次。此外，她还是勇敢领导者股份公司（BRAVE LEADERS INC）的创始人兼首席执行官。目前，她的研究成果已得到了广泛应用。