First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan’s pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence he presents moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan’s own writings and other memo...(展开全部)

First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan’s pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence he presents moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan’s own writings and other memo...(展开全部)

Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh's Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father's dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a jour...(展开全部)

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had drink taken. Then, in 1818, Laidlaw left the parish of 'no advantages', of banked Presbyterian emotions and uncanny tales - where, like his more famous cousin James Hogg, he was born and bred - and sailed to the new world with...(展开全部)

艾丽丝·门罗（1931——），加拿大女作家，2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主。一生专注于中短篇小说创作，讲述小地方普通人特别是女性隐含悲剧的平常生活，以细腻透彻又波澜不惊的话语，洞见人性的幽微处。

It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed, and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, their wives, mistresses, flunkies, and Nazi protectors including Celine, his wife, their cat, and an actor friend attempt to...(展开全部)

路易-费迪南•塞利纳（Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1894－1961），法国天才小说家和医生， 20世纪最有影响的作家之一，代表作有《茫茫黑夜漫游》《死缓》《一座城堡到另一座城堡》《北方》等。他通过运用新的写作手法，使得法国乃至整个世界文学走向现代。 法国当代著名文学评论家菲利普•索莱尔斯认为20世纪法国虽有不少优秀的作家,但真正的大师却只有两位，那就是普鲁斯特和塞利纳，他认为，“塞利纳凭借着自己炉火纯青的技艺留下了许多部杰作，譬如《一座城堡到另一座城堡》和《北方》，在我看来，这两本书超过了《茫茫黑夜漫游》和《死缓》。”。塞利纳对杰克•凯鲁亚克、让-保罗•萨特、雷蒙•格诺、让•热内以及众多当代作家都产生过深刻影响，罗兰•巴特、阿兰•罗伯-格里耶、昆德拉，以及索尔•贝娄、略萨、萨缪尔•贝克特、克洛德•西蒙、让-马里•古斯塔夫•勒克莱齐...(展开全部)

-A new edition of a Barefoot bestseller with sales to date of over 13,000 copies. -This action-packed book is ideal for teaching different colours and types of transport and for developing map-reading skills. -AR Level: 3.9 -This splendid sing-along book is wonderful for pre-school and Early Years children for listening, dancing, then singing and acting out the story' - Boo...(展开全部)

-A new edition of a Barefoot bestseller with sales to date of over 13,000 copies. -This action-packed book is ideal for teaching different colours and types of transport and for developing map-reading skills. -AR Level: 3.9 -This splendid sing-along book is wonderful for pre-school and Early Years children for listening, dancing, then singing and acting out the story' - Boo...(展开全部)