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The Hunter's Moon [图书] Goodreads
The Hunter's Moon
作者: O.R. Melling Amulet Books 2006 - 5
Canadian Gwen and her Irish cousin, Findabhair, have long planned a summer of backpacking around Ireland, visiting sites out of the old legends of fairy folk. Little do they know that it is the summer of the Hunter's Moon, a dangerous time for mortals who meddle with the kingdom of Faerie. One night, camping out on old ruins, Finn is kidnapped by the Faerie king, who wants her for a bride and possible sacrifice. It is up to Gwen, the more indecisive of the two, to rescue her cousin. Beautifully written, romantic, exciting, and evocative of both modern-day and mystical Ireland, this is a treat for girl fantasy readers.
雨林里的消亡 [图书] 豆瓣
8.9 (12 个评分) 作者: [瑞典] 唐·库里克 译者: 沈河西 生活·读书·新知三联书店 2022 - 1
20世纪九十年代,年轻的人类学家唐·库里克,只身走入巴布亚新几内亚热带雨林中,位于一片沼泽地中央,人口仅两百的小村庄嘉普恩,记录一门濒临消亡的当地语言——泰雅博语。到达后他就深深领悟到,如果不理解说这种话的当地人的日常生活,就不可能真正学会这门语言:你必须要了解他们如何与自己的孩子沟通,如何争吵、八卦和开玩笑。在这段跨越三十年的时光中,他反反复复拜访当地,每次都停留数周到半年多的时间不等,亲眼见证了语言环境日渐稀薄,记录下他所能学习到的一切。与此同时,他也发现自己已经义无反顾地融入了嘉普恩村民的生活与世界,与他们的悲欢和命运产生了交融。
本书英文版出版当年,即入选美国《时代周刊》推荐当季必读书目和《美国国家地理》当季最佳旅行类图书,受到媒体广泛关注和读者好评。
交易泰德·威廉姆斯的贼 [图书] 豆瓣 谷歌图书
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
7.5 (11 个评分) 作者: [美] 劳伦斯·布洛克 译者: 易萃雯 新星出版社 2011 - 9
伯尼销声匿迹了好一阵子,
哦不,应该说是改过从善的他经过一番努力,
终于让二手书店勉强达到收支平衡。
本以为日子会这么惬意的过下去,
然而他也遇到了绝大多数人都很头痛的问题--物价飞涨。
新房东发出通知房租要涨价了,
而且是原来的十多倍。
悔过自新的贼似乎只剩下一个办法,
重操旧业的第一个晚上,
伯尼就遇到了一具尸体……
蛇、日出与莎士比亚 [图书] 豆瓣
Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears
作者: [美]戈登·H.奥利恩斯 译者: 王怡康 2022 - 4
为什么大部分人一看到蛇就害怕,一看到日出就惊叹?为什么有些人对酒的口感非常挑剔,对气味非常敏感?其实人类对许多事物的偏好都是进化中自然选择的结果,从美感和喜好,到情绪中的喜怒哀乐,都能追溯到人类祖先的选择。
本书从进化生物学和认知神经科学的角度出发,分析人类的情绪、美感和对景观、声音、气味、植物与动物的喜好,是怎样与非洲草原上的祖先产生联系的。
她只说“是的” [图书] 豆瓣 Goodreads
All She Said Was Yes
7.6 (19 个评分) 作者: 雪莉·杰克逊 译者: 李文婕 中信出版集团 2022 - 3
恶意不是目的,而是手段;毁灭不是结束,而是开始。
斯蒂芬·金和尼尔·盖曼的灵感缪斯
“欧•亨利短篇小说奖”“爱伦•坡最佳短篇小说奖”得主
心理悬疑女王的暗黑作品集
✿“一个奇怪的念头掠过她的脑海——她突然很想拿起沉重的玻璃烟灰缸,砸向丈夫的头……”
✿“这里面有一栋房子 是她的家,里面住着一个美丽的陌生人,而她却在外面迷路了……”
✿小姑娘珍藏的红色笔记本里到底记录着什么不可示人的秘密?
✿古老的村庄有一个70年来一直坚持的抽奖传统,幸运儿会得到什么“礼物”呢?
16部精彩短篇,明媚的开头,跳崖式的的结尾。命运会在你意想不到的地方强行逆转,让人不寒而栗……
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【内容简介】
《她只说“是的”》共收录雪莉·杰克逊的16个短篇小说,除经典短篇《摸彩》外,大部分为首次译介的作品。有“超自然恐怖”(涉及鬼怪和异时空),也有日常生活里由于人性的恶意而导致的失控场景。
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【编辑推荐】
✷ 无比敏锐地洞察人性中的恶意,让读者精确止步于恐惧漩涡的边缘。
✷ 角色常常无意识地陷入某种危险的失控状态,然后在失控状态中分裂和“黑化”。
✷将人心的细小缺口撕裂、扩大,静待人物命运急转直下,乃至全盘崩溃。
雪莉·杰克逊的写作有其恐怖、幽暗、残暴的一面,也有哥特小说惯常的冷峻、写实风格,但她并没有沉浸在惊异、怪诞中,她的作品有强烈的隐喻风格,更关注对历史与人性的解读。
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雪莉•杰克逊说:“我一向热衷使用恐惧,抓住并理解它,让它产生效果,强化我害怕的一个画面,全盘接受,以此作为写作的起点。”她的小说一步步将你带到一个惊诧迷幻的境地,思维之殊异与超越变得越来越不可控。置身于生活的碎片中,挖掘其中的哥特元素。正因为她的故事基于生活,当我们的感知被完全唤醒后,莫名的恐惧悄然而至。
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【名人评论】
这些故事唤醒了我童年时代最原始的恐惧。——詹姆斯•希尔顿
雪莉•杰克逊是个令人惊叹的作家,我已经谈论过她好几次了。如果你没读过她的短篇小说,那你等于错过了一些奇妙的东西。——尼尔•盖曼
也许并不是每个人都能记住雪莉•杰克逊的名字,但所有人都会记得《摸彩》。——乔纳森•勒瑟姆
【媒体评论】
雪莉•杰克逊,为文和为人同样的与众不同。她倾听自己的声音,坚持自己的观点,远离知识界和文学界的潮流……她是独一无二的。——《新闻周刊》
雪莉•杰克逊安静而优美的叙述会让你突然之间不由自主地打个激灵。——Esquire
Sleepytown: A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine [图书] Goodreads
作者: Donna Tartt Harper's Magazine 1992 - 7
The ever-mysterious Donna Tartt tells us a little about her childhood in this non-fiction essay for Harper's Magazine, therefore giving us a glimpse into what created her enigma. Published during the media-blitz that surrounded The Secret History, in this essay Tartt reveals intimate details about herself in a way that she would later avoid.
阿勒泰的角落 [图书] 豆瓣
8.8 (102 个评分) 作者: 李娟 新星出版社 2013 - 9
若无意指认那在伤感中徘徊、欲望中沉浮的生命就是我们本来的生命,那么,总还有别样干净明亮的生命,等着人去认领。
这个时代,如果还有一个地方有传说,就是阿勒泰;《阿勒泰的角落》是阿勒泰的一次绝唱。
风里来雨里去的边疆牧人、随家庭不断迁徙的动荡生涯、离春天只有二十公分的雪兔、 风沙肆掠的荒漠里喂养的金鱼……本应厚重、贫瘠、苍凉的生活,在李娟独树 一帜、灵光闪闪的笔触下,却焕发出别样的温暖、丰盈与喜悦。
全新推出典藏版《阿勒泰的角落》: 手绘双封,全景展开,全书纯质纸精致印刷,收录李娟创作的新版自序,新增16幅全面展示阿勒泰之美的摄影作品,并随书附赠四季主题手绘精装书签一套。
每次重读《阿勒泰的角落》,总能真切地看到独自站在荒野中,努力而耐心地体会着种种美感的过去的自己……漫长过程中,一点一滴贯穿其间的那种逐渐成长、逐渐宁静、逐渐睁开眼睛的平衡感,也许正是此时全部希望生活的根基与凭持吧。——李娟
My Evil Mother: A Short Story [图书] Goodreads
My Evil Mother
作者: Margaret Atwood Amazon Original Stories 2022 - 4
Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother’s claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted.
Just Last Night [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Mhairi McFarlane William Morrow Paperbacks 2021 - 5
Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed have been friends since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, the four are as close as ever, Thursday pub trivia night is sacred, and Eve is still secretly in love with Ed. Maybe she should have moved on by now, but she can’t stop thinking about what could have been. And she knows Ed still thinks about it, too.
But then, in an instant, their lives are changed forever.
In the aftermath, Eve’s world is upended. As stunning secrets are revealed, she begins to wonder if she really knew her friends as well as she thought. And when someone from the past comes back into her life, Eve’s future veers in a surprising new direction...
They say every love story starts with a single moment. What if it was just last night?
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays [图书]
Girls Can Kiss Now
作者: Jill Gutowitz Atria Books 2022 - 3
Jill Gutowitz’s life—for better and worse—has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There’s the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about
. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when
hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill’s own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values—always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us.
is a fresh and intoxicating blend of personal stories, sharp observations, and laugh-out-loud humor. This timely collection of essays helps us make sense of our collective pop-culture past even as it points the way toward a joyous, uproarious, near—and very queer—future.
The Dry Heart [图书] 豆瓣 Goodreads
È stato così
作者: Natalia Ginzburg 译者: Frances Frenaye New Directions 2019 - 6
Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale―a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness―proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?
One Bullet Away [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Nathaniel C. Fick Mariner Books 2006 - 9
If the Marines are the few, the proud, Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Ficks career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacleRecon two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines, leading twenty-two Marines into the deadliest conflict since Vietnam. He vows to bring all his men home safely, and to do so hell need more than his top-flight education. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between military ideals and military practice, which can mock those ideals. In this deeply thoughtful account of what its like to fight on todays front lines, Fick reveals the crushing pressure on young leaders in combat. Split-second decisions might have national consequences or horrible immediate repercussions, but hesitation isnt an option. One Bullet Away never shrinks from blunt truths, but ultimately it is an inspiring account of mastering the art of war.
Bones & All: A Novel [图书] 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Camille DeAngelis St. Martin's Press 2015 - 3
2015 Alex Award Recipient!Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her--how they judge her. She didn't choose to be this way. Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car. But when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself. Camille DeAngelis' Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue [图书] 豆瓣 Goodreads
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
作者: Maggie Stiefvater Scholastic Press 2014 - 10
The third book in the mesmerizing RAVEN CYCLE quartet from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. Fans of the SHIVER trilogy will love this new quartet. For the first time in her life, Blue Sargent has found a place where she feels at home. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own and she is sure that this is where she belongs. But certainties can unravel. Visions can mislead. And friends can betray. The trick with found things is how easily they can be lost...
Heartstopper Volume One [图书] 豆瓣
8.8 (36 个评分) 作者: Alice Oseman Hodder Children's Books 2019 - 2
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between - for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.
Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.
But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.
Heartstopper is about love, friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us.
This is the first volume of Heartstopper, with more to come.
Giovanni's Room [图书] 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: James Baldwin Vintage 2013 - 9
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
强盗新娘 [图书] 豆瓣
The robber bride
7.4 (7 个评分) 作者: [加拿大] 玛格丽特·阿特伍德 译者: 刘国香 上海译文出版社 2016 - 9
泽尼亚漂亮、聪明、贪婪;时而强势时而柔弱,时而无助时而无情;她是男人的梦想,女人的梦魇。她死了。为了百分之百确定这点,托妮、洛兹和查丽丝去参加了她的葬礼。泽尼亚曾夺走她们的丈夫,拐走她们的情人。五年后,当这三个情同姐妹的女人共享午餐时,不可能的事情发生了:“恶意之波像宇宙射线一样从身体里流淌出来”,泽尼亚回来了……
不对称 [图书] 豆瓣
Asymmetry
6.8 (21 个评分) 作者: [美] 莉萨·哈利迪 译者: 陈晓菲 河南文艺出版社 2021 - 11
1988年,一个大学刚毕业的男孩站在祖母家的屋顶上抽着烟,望着远处的底格里斯河,对身旁第一次回老家的十二岁弟弟讲起了自己的十二岁,讲起七十年代里那些酷热的夏夜,父母把床垫搬上屋顶,一家三口在河面吹来的凉风中好眠。
他就躺在月光下,说等着瞧吧弟弟,要不了多久,我们的国家就会再次强盛起来。道路平坦宽阔,吊桥闪闪发光,遍地都是五星级酒店;情侣们一窝蜂地飞到巴士拉去度蜜月,小学生在乌尔的神庙前面摆拍,背包客把阿斯卡里的明信片寄回家,夕阳红旅客会把一罐罐的尤苏菲耶蜂蜜塞进行李箱;巴格达将会成为奥运会主办城市,美索不达米亚雄狮队将会赢得世界杯;战争会彻底结束,巴比伦哈特拉尼尼微的遗迹都将免费开放,连安保都不需要。人们将从四面八方涌来,亲眼见证伊拉克的古老与美丽。
十几年后,哥哥失去了音讯,急着去找他的弟弟困在机场,被入境检查员反复盘问:你哥哥是什么人?你要去伊拉克做什么?
他想起最后一次见到哥哥时的样子,他像个巨人一样靠坐在塑料花园椅上,把肱二头肌上看不见的尘屑掸掉,然后抬起脸,目光扫过向西飞驰的云彩,像是在看一出穿越库尔德天空的出埃及记。他看起来更像一个向世界施加力量的生灵,而不是相反。原来,这样的一个人也会消失。
在所有的大地上,人们正在四面八方地涌来和死去。
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其他人也会决心在新的一年里多吃蔬菜、跑步和阅读,而从不担心下个月会破产、宵禁或断电吗?
其他人也会在电视上无声地看棒球赛吗,看到运动员长时间悬停在空中时也会想到尼金斯基吗?
其他人也会向别人隐瞒爱人吗,因为这要比向自己隐瞒自己容易得多?
其他人也会想上帝有没有在下周为自 己安排一场巴士车祸吗,在面对无可名状的命运时?
其他人也曾见过一个名叫热纳维耶芙的女孩吗,一条白金色的马尾沿着她的脊背垂到腰际?
其他人也会暗自写作吗,在被世界抹除之前把自己的存在用白纸黑字记下来?
其他人也以为自己是真实的人吗,经受着真实的生活,以及音乐会中真实的一声枪响?
一个正陷于和著名作家的忘年恋并逐渐成长为有抱负小说家的年轻白人女性助理编辑有可能理解一位想转机去库尔德寻找失联哥哥却被英国移民官扣留在机场的中年伊拉克裔男性经济学家吗?
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《不对称》由三个看似相互独立的部分组成,探讨了激发并持续影响人际关系的诸多不对称:性别、年龄、权力、才华、财富、声明、地域、种族、宗教……与正义。
第一部分名为“愚蠢”,以第三人称讲述了一位二十出头的美国助理编辑爱丽丝与比她年长四十五岁的著名作家埃兹拉·布雷泽的“爱情”故事。
第二部分名为“疯狂”,以第一人称回忆了伊拉克裔美国经济学家阿马尔的生平。他此行飞往伦敦,是为了转机去库尔德斯坦,寻找失联的哥哥,却意外地被移民官员扣留,在希思罗机场的一间拘留室里度过了2008年的最后一个周末。
第三部分是布莱泽的访谈,我们将从中领会整本书最核心的秘密,角色之间的关系也将袒露出前所未有的含义——“一场坠入兔子洞的未知之旅。翻过全书的最后一页,读者会忍不住回到开头,反复体会哈利迪是怎样一次又一次地颠覆整个故事的。”(《华盛顿邮报》)
“哈利迪几乎同时写下了一部匿名的纪实小说,一部思想小说和一部关于政治参与的元小说。”(《纽约时报书评》)同时,《不对称》也是一个人蒙着面纱的肖像——一个决心超越她的出身、她的特权、她的天真的人。
“在她的笔下,‘不对称’不只存在于野心与成就之间、年轻女性与年长男性之间,更存在于西方与其他地区,以及国家与个人之间,由此提出了关于想象力和共情能力的局限性的问题:我们能否跨越性别、种族、国籍和权力的界限来理解彼此;一个人愿意为理解素不相识的人付出多少努力,以及可以在多大程度上做到和做不到这一点。”(《纽约客》)
2018年,《不对称》英文版的出版被媒体形容为一场“文学事件”,风靡一时,有心的读者会发现,它的知名很大程度上还是因为metoo运动的热潮,以及知名老作家和女文青之间的八卦。然而,从阅读中我们很容易便能意识到:书中人与人的关系远非简单的权力关系可以概括,而是息息相关、休戚与共;自传性也并非噱头,而是以整个现实世界与这部小说互文,从而拓宽了叙事的景深;而且,莉萨·哈利迪也志不在此——
“你在写这个吗,我们的事?”
“没有。”
“那你在写什么?”
“其他的人。”
……
无论如何,《不对称》都迫使我们成为一个更好的读者,一个更积极的观察者。
创建日期: 2022年8月5日