Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)

Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)

莉泽特•科林厄姆（Lizzie Collingham）在剑桥耶稣学院充任访问学者之前，曾在沃威克大学教授历史。她著有《帝国体制：英国统治印度时期的物质经验，1800-1947年》。现在身为自由学者兼作家的她曾在瑞士、德国、奥地利和法国生活过，但仍在寻觅定居之处。 邵文实，文学博士，现为东南大学中文系副教授。教书研习之余，以翻译为乐，迄今已出版的译著有《女性白皮书》、《非常女人》（北方文艺出版社，2000年）、《赢者之师》、《美国悲剧》（昆仑出版社，2001年）、《日本魅影》（鹭江出版社，2006年）等十余部，共计三百余万字。

Curry serves up a delectable history of Indian cuisine, ranging from the imperial kitchen of the Mughal invader Babur to the smoky cookhouse of the British Raj. In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian dish is the product of a long history of invasion and the fusion of different foo...(展开全部)

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to...(展开全部)

Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence

埃里克·方纳，美国哥伦比亚大学德威特·克林顿历史学荣休教授，当代美国最有影响力的历史学家之一，曾任美国历史学家组织主席（1993）、美国历史学会主席（2000）和美国历史学家协会主席（2006）。方纳在美国内战史、重建史、黑人史和政治文化史等领域中著述甚丰，其著作《美国自由的故事》《给我自由》《烈火中的考验》《自由之路：“地下铁路”秘史》已被译为中文。 杨钊，北京外国语大学历史学院副教授，主要研究方向包括美国19世纪政治史、中国人留学美国史等，著有《纽约州政党政治与美国第二政党体制的起源（1812-1824）》，主持国家社科基金青年项目一项，在《世界历史》《史学理论研究》《史学史研究》《史学月刊》《读书》等刊物发表论文多篇。

Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for American independence. Foner skillfully brings together an account of Paine's remarkable career ...(展开全部)

In this "astounding Borgesian document of clarity and brilliance" (Sebastian Barry), best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn pushes against the boundaries of genre as he explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, fiction, history, and literary criticism, Three Ring...(展开全部)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire. "A...(展开全部)