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.

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)

Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she received on her third birthday.

[美] 八岛太郎 Taro Yashima 八岛太郎（1908–1994）生于日本鹿儿岛县根占町。本名岩松淳。曾就读于东京美术学校（东京艺术大学前身）。后来为了躲避政治迫害而逃亡美国，并在美国定居，成为美国著名作家，插画家，以精美的儿童图画书作品而闻名于世，1955年创作的《乌鸦太郎》、1958年创作的《雨伞》及1968年创作的Seashore Story，皆获凯迪克银牌奖。

The team is despondent following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor Pogo. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse the team into action. Trouble is, each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White Violin is bedridden due to an unfortunate blow to the head. Rumor has l...(展开全部)