Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man. (from Wikipedia)

First published in 1919,
was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of
, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of
to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann’s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention—Albertine, “a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.”
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of
(the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

In this luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel among the finest we have had from this masterful writer."

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Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of
returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.
But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.
is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as
and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including
,
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t, and
.

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.
Woven into the novel are the following short stories: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last--the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town's Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming.

In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter’s depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.

与诺贝尔文学奖得主海因里希•伯尔、君特•格拉斯齐名
“战后德语文学三大家”之一 | 德意志民族的“心灵守护者”
西格弗里德•伦茨成熟时期长篇小说代表作，首次在大陆翻译出版
被列入德国中学生必读书目
热爱大海的少年一去不返，心底藏着比海更深的秘密。
“它是我们那个时代的民族缩影。谁想要了解德国，就应该读他的书。”—— 德国前总理赫尔穆特•施密特
格拉斯和伦茨，他们对我的吸引力比德国这个国家对我的吸引力还要巨大，如果能见到他们，我想这会成为我的隆重的节日。——莫言
西格弗里德•伦茨首次在大陆翻译出版的长篇小说代表作，长期被列入德国中学生必读书目。
十二岁的少年阿纳是家族悲剧中唯一的幸存者，他在一个阴冷的冬日来到养父母家，开始与这个家中的三个孩子一同生活。敏感而忧郁的少年与父亲一样深爱着大海，但历经惊涛骇浪的父亲却并不是死于海难，他为何又如何带着一家人走向死亡，这是阿纳心中永远的创痛，也是深藏在少年心底最大的秘密。
往事如梦魇纠缠着阿纳，他反复挣扎着走出痛苦，却在真挚的友情与青涩的爱情中不断遭受着误解与失败。两代人的命运转动到同一个关口，阿纳在暴风雨中独自走上小船……

is an uncompromising account of Gregor von Rezzori's aristocratic childhood in Romania in the days before World War II.
He was born in Czernowitz, a one-time provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I and the collapse of the empire, Rezzori lived in a twilit world suspended between the formalities of the old nineteenth-century order which had shaped his aristocratic parents, and the innovations, uncertainties, and raw terror of the new century. The haunted atmosphere of this dying world is beautifully rendered in the pages of The Snows of Yesteryear.
The book is a series of portraits—amused, fond, sometimes appalling—of Rezzori’s family: his hysterical and histrionic mother, disappointed by marriage, destructively obsessed with her children’s health and breeding; his father, a flinty reactionary, whose only real love was hunting; his haughty older sister, fated to die before thirty; his earthy nursemaid, who introduced Rezzori to the power of storytelling and the inevitability of death; and a beloved governess, Bunchy. Telling their stories, Rezzori tells his own, holding his early life to the light like a crystal until it shines for us with a prismatic brilliance

During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef Czapski brought Marcel Proust’s
to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described the arc and import of Proust’s masterpiece, sketched major and minor characters in striking detail, and movingly evoked the work’s originality, depth, and beauty. Eric Karpeles has translated this brilliant and ­altogether unparalleled feat of the critical imagination into English for the first time, and in a thoughtful introduction he brings out how, in reckoning with Proust’s great meditation on memory, Czapski helped his fellow officers to remember that there was a world apart from the world of the camp. Proust had staked the art of the novelist against the losses of a lifetime and the imminence of death. Recalling that triumphant wager, unfolding, like Sheherazade, the intricacies of Proust’s world night after night, Czapski showed to men at the end of their tether that the past remained present and there was a future in which to hope.

'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.'
A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. While 'Decadence' was a European movement, its epicentre was the French capital. On the eve of Freud's early discoveries, writers such as Gourmont, Lorrain, Maupassant, Mirbeau, Richepin, Schwob, and
Villiers engaged in a species of wild analysis of their own, perfecting the art of short fiction as they did so. Death and Eros haunt these pages, and a polymorphous perversity by turns hilarious and horrifying. Their stories teem with addicts, maniacs, and murderers as they strive to outdo each other.
This newly translated selection brings together the very best writing of the period, from lesser known figures as well as famous names. Provocative and unsettling, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales continue to cast a cold eye on the modern world.
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"Quel che si racconta in questo libro è già accaduto e lontano, richiamato come un'epifania dalla ricorrenza di una data che appare nelle ultime pagine 13 febbraio 1883 (morte di Wagner) e 13 febbraio 1900 (chiusura del manoscritto) - e che intreccia romanzo e vita. Così la storia d'amore e il progetto d'arte, entrambi mancati, appartengono alla sfera del rimpianto che inevitabilmente rende languidi i fallimenti e seducenti le illusioni." (Filippo Tuena)
Gabriele d'Annunzio, born Gaetano Rapagnetta (1863-1938) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, womanizer and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as figure-head of the Italian Fascist movement and mentor of Benito Mussolini. His literary works included: "The Child of Pleasure," "The Intruder," "The MAidens of the Rocks," and "The Flame of Life" ("Il Fuoco").

In
, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding place" where nuclear waste will be stored for 100,000 years to come—
takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.
Global in its geography and written with great lyricism,
speaks powerfully to our present moment. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.

这真是一部让人期待已久的南方叙事，一座早该由广东人吐露成型的海市蜃楼。我需要再三重读，好看清林棹如何放荡她那肆无忌惮的想象力，从珠江江底泥层疍艇的尸身，打捞出十九世纪海洋帝国那水彩般的残影。
——梁文道
幻象中蕴含着自然饱满的躯体，方言里埋藏着民族丰盈的神识，以缜密的虚构技艺，林棹描画出一个特殊时空的异样风姿。
——黄德海
一八二〇年代，身世成谜的苏格兰博物学者H游历世界，登陆广州，在当地芦竹林中遭遇一只雌性巨蛙，成功将其诱捕，豢养在澳门好景花园。由此，奇异的笼禽困兽、寰宇新知并四海众生相，悲喜相侵地进入蛙的生命。鸦片战争前夕，H破产自杀，好景花园如大梦般消失，而蛙也将经历生与死的考验。
这个根植于岭南风土的魔幻故事，从珠江水上人家，到广州十三行，在澳门奇珍园略作停留，又探向万物有灵的江河重洋。中西在此相逢，大大小小的乌托邦相互碰撞，是一次穿越近代世界的迷人宴游。

“丰饶之海”四部曲——绝笔之作
【编辑推荐】
四部曲分别写了“和魂” “荒魂” “奇魂”和“幸魂”，这“四魂”通过生与死的轮回演绎了四重人生，构成一个螺旋的循环世界。
这部被日本人称作“大河小说”的作品，对人生中的根本问题一一拷问，诸如生存、爱恋、战争、死亡和佛缘等，最后演绎出“世事皆幻象，人生即虚无”的主题。三岛由纪夫自己认为，这个世界表面上看起来是轰轰烈烈的“丰饶之海”，其实是既无水又无空气的月之海，虽名为“丰饶”，其实是匮乏。
“书中的这种窒息是因为作者与自己内心的虚无进行了惨烈的格斗。”——涩泽龙彦
【内容简介】
“丰饶之海”首部曲——三岛文学艺术美的绽放与升华
“真正的优雅是不会害怕任何淫乱的。”
它描写了大正元年（1912）的贵族社会中，松枝清显与聪子的恋爱悲剧。清显在对聪子的爱慕中始终孕育着一种不安的情绪，在聪子被天皇敕许给治典亲王后，清显通过友人本多繁邦与聪子保持联系、偷偷幽会，聪子在惶惑中与情显发生关系，并怀了孕。聪子堕胎之后，削发为尼，而心力交瘁的清显最终忧郁死去。
川端康成把《春雪》誉为现代的《源氏物语》，是作者“绚丽才华的升华”。三岛本人曾总结“《春雪》是王朝式的恋爱小说，即写所谓‘柔弱纤细’或‘和魂’”。