Mifuyu is a high school student living with a large collection of books left by her great-grandfather―the vast library known as Mikura Hall. Although her father is the current caretaker, Mifuyu herself doesn’t share her family’s passion for literature. But when several books are stolen from the library, triggering an ancient curse, the town is transformed according to the vario...(展开全部)

作者凡赫尔斯玛是著名的作家和演说家，工作于密歇根州大激流城改革宗圣经学院。

作者凡赫尔斯玛是著名的作家和演说家，工作于密歇根州大激流城改革宗圣经学院。

作者凡赫尔斯玛是著名的作家和演说家，工作于密歇根州大激流城改革宗圣经学院。

作者凡赫尔斯玛是著名的作家和演说家，工作于密歇根州大激流城改革宗圣经学院。

作者凡赫尔斯玛是著名的作家和演说家，工作于密歇根州大激流城改革宗圣经学院。

作者凡赫尔斯玛是著名的作家和演说家，工作于密歇根州大激流城改革宗圣经学院。

'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was - and still is - the Old Chief's Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading: tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very long ago was settled by black tribes, living in complex societies that the white people are only...(展开全部)

多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing），1919年生于伊朗，父母均为英国人。当代英国最重要的作家之一，被誉为继伍尔芙之后英国最伟大的女性作家。作品风格多变，在欧洲各国获得多种文学奖项，2007年获诺贝尔文学奖。主要代表作有《青草低吟》、《金色笔记》、《第五个孩子》、《特别的猫》，以及“五部曲”《暴力的孩子们》等。

This haunting, wildly original novel explores the lives of several characters entwined by The Wizard of Oz--both the novel written by L. Frank Baum and the strangely resonant 1939 film. Was traverses the American landscape to reveal how the human imagination transcends the bleakest circumstance.