本文选自白先勇小说集《纽约客》。八十年代的纽约曼哈顿，一家名为“Tea for Two”的同志酒吧，是许多漂泊灵魂的“欢乐天堂”。华人青年“罗”在这里与中美混血少年安弟相遇，酒吧老板大伟与东尼更是相守半生的爱侣。他们相濡以沫，在异国构建了一个温暖的小世界。 然而，艾滋病的阴影悄然降临。这场突如其来的瘟疫，无情地击碎了他们的乐园。面对死亡与离散，这群边缘人用最后的生命，守护着爱与尊严，谱写了一曲悲壮而深情的时代挽歌。

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories, including a novella featuring one of his most beloved characters. Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age...(展开全部)

旅美学人夏志清教授曾赞誉白氏为“当代中国短篇小说家中的奇才，五四以来，艺术成就上能与他匹敌的，从鲁迅到张爱玲，五六人而已。”也因如此，白先勇2008年获聘北京师范大学（珠海分校）文学院荣誉院长职务。　　欧阳子认为，“白先勇才气纵横，不甘受拘；他尝试过各种不同样式的小说，处理过各种不同类式的题材。而难得的是，他不仅尝试写，而且写出来的作品，差不多都非常成功。白先勇讲述故事的方式很多。他的小说情节，有从人物对话中引出的《我们看菊花去》，有以传统直叙法讲述的《玉卿嫂》，有以简单的倒叙法 (flashback)叙说的《寂寞的十七岁》，有用复杂的「意识流」(stream of consciousness )表白的《香港——一九六0》，更有用「直叙」与「意识流」两法交插并用以显示给读者的《游园惊梦》。他的人物对话，一如日常讲话，非常自然。除此之外，他也能用色调浓...(展开全部)

Cherry blossom, hinoki, ezo spruce. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees of Japan are wondrous emblems of beauty that cast a spell on those who venture to its unique landscape. As a child, Aya Koda realized they were more than mere objects of beauty. Gifted a sapling by her father, she discovered that we depend on trees as much as they do on us. Markers of time passing, they cl...(展开全部)

安德烈·德昂，1935年出生于阿尔及利亚，日后到巴黎留学，从国立巴黎艺大学毕业后，在巴黎装饰美术学校教书，目前与妻子及女儿居住在巴黎。德昂已发表二十多部作品，被译为十几种语言。

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black...(展开全部)

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the 20th century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, but the most popular of them all will be, without doubt, the play with which he first ma...(展开全部)

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black...(展开全部)

Iyengar developed a form of yoga that focuses on developing strength, endurance, correct body alignment, as well as flexibility and relaxation. The Iyengar method integrates philosophy, spirituality, and the practice of yoga into everyday living. In The Tree of Yoga, Iyengar offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects including family life, love and sexua...(展开全部)

"I'll swap you my dad," I said. "Oh-oh," said my little sister. What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father? What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done? "The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish "is a hilarious adventure and was the first book for younger readers from the acclaimed author an...(展开全部)