This comprehensive survey is published to coincide with an exhibition of the art of the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864â1916). Hammershøiâs subject-matter centred on haunting interiors. Dispensing with anecdotal detail, he transformed his apartment into a series of disturbingly empty spaces. The same strange stillness can be seen in his portraits, landscapes and city ...(展开全部)

Francine Prose's life of Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) evokes the genius of this incomparable artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio's use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged—was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. Revered and successful, Caravag...(展开全部)

Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed—street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged—was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence ...(展开全部)

The setting of this extraordinary novel is an old farmhouse in Portugal - a house far enough from the Atlantic not to hear the breaking waves during a storm but near enough for the walls to be corroded by the salt in the air. With most members of her large family having left the hardship of life in this landscape of sand and stone for jobs in faraway places, a young woman strug...(展开全部)

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light, streaming through the windows, so bright...(展开全部)

津岛佑子（1947—2016），走向世界文坛的日本女性作家代表，文豪太宰治（本名：津岛修治）与津岛美知子的女儿。毕业于白百合女子大学英语文学专业，大学期间开始创作，获得了许多重量级日本文学奖项，如川端康成文学奖、谷崎润一郎奖、大佛次郎奖、紫式部文学奖等，在日本现代文学史上占据重要地位。津岛佑子以男性的“不在场”、人际关系的孤绝及由此带来的生活真相为创作母体，擅长调度女性特有的感受力和视角，熟稔运用幻想与现实交织的手法，来揭示女性命运中难言的困局和独有的生命体验。不少作品被翻译介绍到国外，在国际上享有盛誉。代表作包括《光之领地》《微笑的狼》《火之山：山猿记》《宠儿》等。

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.