What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of American
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Zikora-齐科拉
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling, award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists
When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her eq
When Zikora, a DC lawyer from Nigeria, tells her eq
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions-亲爱的艾杰威尔
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhoo
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhoo
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah-美国史迹
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first tim
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus-紫色木槿
A previously published edition of ISBN 9781616202415 can be found here.
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missiona
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missiona
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Thing Around Your Neck-你脖子上的东西
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
Chimamanda Ng
Chimamanda Ng
J.M. Coetzee Scenes from Provincial Life(Scenes from Provincial Life #1-3)-乡土生活的场景
Here, for the first time in one volume, is J. M. Coetzee's majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime.
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at hom
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at hom
J.M. Coetzee Summertime(Scenes from Provincial Life #3)-夏季
Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.
J.M. Coetzee Youth(Scenes from Provincial Life #2)-青年
The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifli
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life(Scenes from Provincial Life #1)-少年时代
Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life—the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at home,
J.M. Coetzee Slow Man-迟钝的人
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.
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He hires a nurse named Marijana, wi
Mario Vargas Llosa The Dream of the Celt-凯尔特人的梦想
A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa
In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary lif
In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary lif
Owen Sheers The Dust Diaries-尘埃日记
When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sheers
Tayari Jones The Untelling-不结盟运动
Aria Jackson lived through the car crash that killed her father and baby sister when she was nine. At 25 she begins to unearth secrets about family, friends, her past, and her altered reality in this journey through truth and forgiveness.
Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta-离开亚特兰大
An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black children set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979.
Aminatta Forna The Memory of Love-爱的记忆
In contemporary Sierra Leone, a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with secrets to keep. In the capital hospital, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood. Elsewhere in the hospital lies a dy
Aminatta Forna The Devil that Danced on the Water-在水上跳舞的魔鬼
Praised as “a shining example of what autobiography can be: harrowing, illuminating and thoughtful” (USA Today), Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood which became the stuff of nightmare. As
Aminatta Forna Happiness-幸福
London. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide--Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter,
Aminatta Forna Ancestor Stones-祖先石
A powerful, sensuously written novel that, through the lives of women, beautifully captures Africa’s past and present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live.
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From the author of The Devil That Danced on the Water - a timele
Paul Theroux The Lower River-较低的河流
Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to tak
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari-最后一趟去佛得的火车:我的终极非洲之旅
Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar, The Last Train to Zona Verde is an ode to the last African journey of the world's most celebrated travel writer.
“Happy again, back in the kingdom
“Happy again, back in the kingdom
Paul Theroux My Secret History-我的秘密历史
Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveller, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead.
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Paul Theroux My Other Life-我的其他生命
In the Washington Post Book World, Sven Birkerts called this exuberant novel "a complex and gripping work of invention and confession . . . I understood again how the prose of a true writer can bring us to a world beyond." The book spans almost
Paul Theroux Jungle Lovers-丛林爱好者
Calvin Mullett of Homemakers' Mutual Insurance is taken prisoner by Marais, a messianic white revolutionary in a tiny Central African republic. Unable to sell a policy to Marais, Calvin joins Marais' merry band of mercenaries--until a fictious d
The Pillars of Hercules:a grand tour of the Mediterranean-大力神之柱:地中海之旅
At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other – but taking the long way round.
His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and tak
His grand tour of the Mediterranean begins in Gibraltar and tak