Uncertain Acrobats evokes the feeling of unraveling. The central concern of this narrative is the death of a parent and the fumbling for balance a dying father and his adult daughter share. Rebecca Hart Olander’s intimate collection doesn’t shy away from darkness, but it also strives for light, which resides in music and open-hearted humanity. These poems arc across the terrain of divorce, family, childhood, coming of age, mortality, and deep, abiding love, always landing with a foothold in the genuine. A manifestation of what endures after grief has unraveled our closest bonds, Uncertain Acrobats reaches beyond the author’s personal experience of grief. This collection speaks to all whose lives have been upended by terminal illness or the loss of a beloved person.

This extraordinary catalogue accompanies a major traveling exhibition of 128 works of bronze, jade, and clay dating from the thirteenth century B.C. to the second century A.D. The majority of these stunningly sophisticated works of art--among the most unusual and spectacular produced anywhere in the ancient world--all come from a startling archaeological discovery made just fourteen years ago at the previously unknown site of Sanxingdui in Sichuan province. The discovery of this Bronze Age civilization fundamentally changes our understanding of Chinese history. Representing fifteen hundred years of cultural production, these striking objects are extraordinarily varied, ranging from a monumental standing figure and an almost life-size bronze horse to ritual vessels, masks, and bronze heads of fantastic-looking supernatural beings, finely honed jade knives and ritual blades, and marvelous clay statuettes. Most have never before been seen in the United States. The exhibition and catalogue represent a unique international effort to continue the study of ancient Sichuan. Under the leadership of Robert Bagley, an international team of scholars contributes eight essays on the archaeological discoveries at Sanxingdui, the art historical importance of these objects, and the new history of ancient China they tell. Contributors are Michle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, Jessica Rawson, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Alain Thote, Jenny F. So, Michael Nylan, and the Seattle Art Museum's Curator of Chinese Art, Jay Xu. In addition to the essays, there are individual entries for each object, nearly all of which have been newly photographed for this publication. Ancient Sichuan contributes to a revolutionary change in perceptions of ancient Chinese civilization, providing an unprecedented opportunity to explore the art, material culture, and spiritual life of ancient China. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle May-August 2001 Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth September 2001-January 2002 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York March-June 2002 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto August-November 2002

Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes of Wrath" is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.

In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder the infamous blood-libel charge that has haunted Jews for centuries. In an absorbing narrative, Helmut Walser Smith reconstructs the murder and the ensuing storm of anti-Semitism that engulfed this otherwise peaceful town. Offering an instructive examination of hatred, bigotry, and mass hysteria, The Butcher's Tale is a modern parable that will be a classic for years to come. Winner of the Fraenkel Award. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2002.

在线阅读本书 This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is LewisÂs reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

豆瓣2017年度读书榜单·外国文学（小说类） 第1名！ ★《百年孤独》之后，你为这样一部小说等了多久？ ★既是饱满细腻的家庭史诗，又是磅礴锐利的历史寓言。发生在某时某地，却包罗万象。 ★我们都很无知，但并非真正无辜，人人都是共犯。 ★希拉里、奥普拉力荐，一部陪你一起呼吸、共同成长的“人生之书”：无论生活给予我什么，我必按我的 心意去生活。 ★全球销量超过400万册；盘踞《今日美国》畅销榜137周，创下惊人纪录！ ★美国高中生“必读的26部经典”；美国公共图书馆“25部最有价值图书”；美国亚马逊“一生中必看的10 0部图书”；《纽约时报》《洛杉矶时报》“年度最佳图书” =================== 普莱斯牧师带着妻子和四个女儿从美国来到比属刚果，把种子、蛋糕粉和圣经带进了遍布毒木的丛林。牧师眼里，这里是一片蛮荒之地，满是需要救赎的灵魂。然而，他不但没能拯救那些“无知”的土著，反而将一家人拖入了危机四伏的动荡人生。一场惨剧悄然而至。他们要在生命的丛林里兜转挣扎多久，才能继续向前，步入光亮之中？ 《毒木圣经》以五位性格迥异的女性作为叙述者，将历史的洪流与人性的幽微交织，犹如一片绚烂神秘的森林，美丽凄切，令人震撼。 =================== ★罕有一部作品能如此野心勃勃、富有魅力且大获成功。我们何其幸运，见证了《毒木圣经》的问世。——《华盛顿邮报》 ★一部震撼人心的史诗，作者用极其沉稳的笔触，抵达了极致的美丽。——《洛杉矶时报书评》

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender’s place as “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language” ( San Francisco Chronicle ).

The novel that defined the Beat generation, this exuberant tale of two men traversing America is as fresh and fantastic as ever.

在线阅读本书 Book Description In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. About Author Edward P. Jones, the New York Times bestselling author, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of short stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short-listed for the National Book Award. He has taught fiction writing at a range of universities, including Princeton. He lives in Washington, D.C. Book Dimension: length: (cm)20.5 　　　 　　　　　 　 width:(cm)13.5

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now a movie directed by Hector Babenco ( Kiss of the Spider Woman) starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, a man trying to make peace with the ghosts of his past and present. 8 pages of photos.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."

吴念真累积多年、珍藏心底的体会与感动。 他写的每个故事，都蕴藏了我们无法预知的生命能量与心灵启发。 跟他一起回望人生种种，您将学会包容、豁达与感恩…… 本书是吴念真导演经历过人生的风风雨雨和最大低潮后，所完成的生命记事。 他用文字写下心底最挂念的家人、日夜惦记的家乡、一辈子搏真情的朋友，以及台湾各个角落里最真实的感动。这些人和事，透过他真情挚意的笔，如此跃然的活在你我眼前，笑泪交织的同时，也无可取代的成为烙印在你我心底、这一个时代的美好缩影…… 特别收录 吴念真近年唯一小说创作《遗书》，写下对胞弟离开人间的真情告白 特别邀请 作家雷骧绘制插画，看两位大师以图文激荡出精采火花 生命里某些当时充满怨怼的曲折，在后来好像都成了一种能量和养分……这些人、那些事在经过时间的筛滤之后，几乎都只剩下笑与泪与感动和温暖。——《这些人，那些事》

生于北京，长于北京的作者，阔别家乡十三年后重回北京，发现他在自己的故乡成了异乡人，仿佛到了一座陌生的城市。于是他便要“重建我的北京”——用他文字召回北京消失的气味儿、声音和光影，恢复被拆除的四合院、胡同和庙宇的原貌，让瓦顶排浪般涌向低低天际线的景象重现，让鸽哨响彻蓝天的清脆回到人们耳边……同时，作者也把我们带回到他儿时的游戏中，带回到他的读书生活中，带回到他的母校，带回的“大串联”的旅途……他重建了这座“孩子们熟知四季变化，居民们胸有方向感”的城池，打开城门，欢迎四海漂泊的游子，欢迎无家可归的孤魂，欢迎所有好奇的客人们。