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米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个

Known as an ‘anthropologist of everyday life,’ Margaret Visserhas, in five award-winning books, uncovered and illuminated theintriguing and unexpected meanings of everyday objects and habits.Now she turns her keen eye to another custom so frequentlyencountered that it often escapes notice: saying ‘Thank you.’ Whatdo we really mean by these two simple words? This fascinating inquiry into all aspects of gratitude ranges fromthe unusual determination with which parents teach their childrento thank, to the difference between speaking the words and feelingthem, to the ways different cultures handle the complex matters ofgiving, receiving, and returning favors and presents. Visserilluminates the fundamental opposition in our own culture betweengift-giving and commodity exchange, and the similarities betweengratitude and its opposite, vengefulness. The Gift of Thanksconsiders cultural history, including the modern battle of socialscientists to pin down the notion of thankfulness and account forit, and the

Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age ofninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In hisfirst book, The Invisible Wall , he told a haunting story offorbidden love in World War I-era England. Then Bernstein wrote The Dream , the touching tale of his family’s immigrantexperience in Depression-era Chicago and New York. Now Bernsteincompletes the saga with The Golden Willow , a heart-liftingmemoir of his life with Ruby, a romance that lasted nearly seventyyears. They met at a dance at New York’s legendary Webster Hall, fellinstantly and madly in love, and embarked on a rich and rewardinglife together. From their first tiny rented room on the Upper WestSide to their years in Greenwich Village, immersed in the artscene, surrounded by dancers, musicians, and writers, to their lifein the newly burgeoning suburbs, Harry and Ruby pursued theAmerican dream with gusto, much as Harry’s late mother would havewanted. Together, through a depression, a world war, and the McCarthy era

时间流动消逝的速度总比人原来预想的要快许多。好像只是前不久才写完了《古船》，而关于它的那些热烈争论，也像是刚刚消停。 可惜一晃就是十年，那一切的确是十年前的事情了。 一个人的旺盛写作期，到底有多少个“十年”呢？ 今天再来回顾《古船》一书的写作、关于它的争执，已无太多必要。因为该说的都在这部书的两个发言记录、在一次答记者问和一篇海外版后记中说过了。余在今天的，仅是一些怀念和感慨。

Spanning a period of almost 50 years, the stories of Henry Jamesrepresent one of the most remarkable feats of sustained literarycreation in modern times -- a body of work that, for sheerrichness, variety, and intensity, is unsurpassed in its genre. Thiscollection includes all the major stories as well as many that areunfamiliar but equally fascinating and memorable.Volume II includesthe magnificent works of James's maturity -- "The Figure in theCarpet", "The Turn of the Screw", "The Beast in the Jungle", amongmany others -- in which the deepening darkness of the author's ownlife casts a tragic but heroic shadow on the themes of hisyouth.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Franz Kafka's imagination so faroutstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition heinherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out inorder to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulouslynaturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these storiesrepresent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift ofmaking our problematic spiritual life palpable and real. Thisedition of his stories includes all his available shorter fictionin a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by GabrielJosipovici in ways that bring out the writer's extraordinary rangeand intensity of vision. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir

With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? Reuters correspondent Connie Burns is no stranger to the world's troublespots, including the vicious civil unrest in Sierra Leone and the war in Iraq. But as she begins to suspect that a foreigner is using the chaos of war to act out sadistic fantasies against women, her efforts to bring him to justice leave her devastated. Degraded and terrified, she goes into hiding in England and strikes up a friendship with Jess Derbyshire, a loner whose reclusive nature may well be masking secrets of her own. Connie draws from the other woman's strength and makes the hazardous decision to attempt a third unmasking of a serial killer . . . Knowing he will come looking for her . . .

米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个能

Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and thesubject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream ofDing Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke's most important novelto date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeplymoving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling scandalin contemporary China. As the book opens, the town directors,looking for a way to lift their village from poverty, decide toopen a dozen blood-plasma collection stations, with the hope ofdraining the townspeople of their blood and selling it to villagesnear and far. Although the citizens prosper in the short run, therampant blood-selling leads to an outbreak of AIDS and huge loss oflife. Narrated by the dead grandson of the village head and writtenin finely crafted, affecting prose, the novel presents a powerfulabsurdist allegory of the moral vacuum at the heart ofcommunist-capitalist China as it traces the life and death of anentire community. Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal ine

“Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characterswith a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrativenon-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devilin the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set duringHitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomesAmerica’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year thatproved to be a turning point in history. A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along hiswife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha isentranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men ofthe Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoringGermany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the “NewGermany,” she has one affair after another, including with thesuprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. Butas evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, co