A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.
The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator, a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream" and "On a Stone Pillow") are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey" and the title story, "First Person Singular." Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Haruki himself is present, as in "The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection." Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides. The stories touch beautifully on love and loss, childhood and death . . . all with a signature Murakami twist.

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★ 直木赏得主朝井真果 时代小说代表作 首度绝赞引进！日本迷人俳优 宫崎葵 · 松田龙平 联袂主演同名日剧
本作2016年获中山义秀文学奖，2017年NHK改编成日剧，豆瓣8.6高分。
日本时代小说以历史时代为背景，多以传奇卓越人物为主角，耳熟能详的作家有司马辽太郎、藤泽周平、吉川英治等，同时他们也多擅写历史中的男性角色。而本作作者朝井真果堪称“时代小说女王”，从出道起就致力于时代小说的写作，她以独特细腻的视角描写历史中一贯被忽略的女性人物，斩获日本各类文学奖项：“小说现代长篇新人赏奖励赏”“直木赏”“织田作之助赏”“司马辽太郎赏”“舟桥圣一文学赏”“中央公论文艺赏”“大阪文化赏”“本屋选时代小说大赏” “中山义秀文学赏”等。
提到浮世绘，就避不开大名鼎鼎的《神奈川冲浪里》，这正是由江户时代的浮世绘大师葛饰北斋所作。而鲜为人知的是，在这位浮世绘大师盛名光芒的背后，还有一位江户时代的女性浮世绘师的身影。她就是葛饰北斋的三女儿——葛饰应为。她天真倔强，不畏独行，浮生绘梦；她为画痴狂，梦想成为超越父亲葛饰北斋的绘师……
★ “光之浮世绘师”葛饰应为一笔入魂、一生悬命：她是浮世绘巨匠葛饰北斋之女，更是时代困局中以艺术劈开命运的坚韧女性
“我要把人生在世刹那的如火如荼，都托付给光亮与暗影。”
在葛饰应为的绘画生涯中，她留下的个人作品极为有限，却被后世尊称为“光之浮世绘师”。在她的肉笔画（直接在纸或绢上手绘彩图）作品里，融入了强烈明暗对比、细节刻画等西洋技法，对光影的精准把握堪称一绝。
★ 江户风情×浮世艺术×创作者群像：在时代局限中如何造就自我？以生命烈焰燃尽梦想，照亮被历史遮蔽的女性之名
《浮世绘女儿》展现了江户时代女性创作者长期被压抑的处境和为之付出的努力。葛饰应为对画画，从来都是抱着“仅有一次的此生，不如燃烧殆尽。踏上窄至无人能走的道路，绝不回头！”的心情。
因时代小说的特点，本书字里行间充分流露出江户时代的风情风俗，以及当时环境下不同性别、身份、社会阶层的创作者遭遇的不同困境，记录下浮世艺术中的人物浮沉与时代价值。
★ 封面匠心设计：撕开时代束缚的坚韧之手，应为浮世绘作品首次授权
葛饰应为代表作《夜樱美人图》得到日本美术馆首次授权，设计师汐和巧妙设计把葛饰应为的作品与封面结合。正封是劈开时代束缚，一只握着笔的手、一颗只想画画的心；内封则是通过挣扎与努力，在历史长河中留下的最美光影作品《夜樱美人图》。内文使用瑞典轻型纸，手感熨帖、细腻护眼。
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“除了画笔，我什么也不想拿。”
于时代小说的波澜壮阔背景下，刻画女性意识的觉醒，写尽困在时代局限里的女性艺术家的梦想与执着，命运与自我，爱与愁。
本书以赫赫有名的日本浮世绘画家葛饰北斋的三女儿葛饰应为为主角。应为是一位悖离传统、我行我素，对自己理想一往无前的女性。即使经历离婚归家、情人英年早逝、至亲离去、旁人误解等人事艰难，都不曾动摇过她坚定的信心——要成为一位超越父亲的画家，倾其一生追随艺术，寻找绘画中的光影色彩之路。

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.

But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

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◆ 不安的心是无底的洞，幸福只填得满一半！
“眼光不要太高啊”“谈恋爱这么久了，怎么还不提结婚”“结婚有那么可怕吗”
刚过30岁,年龄、婚姻、家庭……甚至你自己,非得把你从自我中拖出来,
提醒着：妻子/丈夫的角色，轮到你了。
◆ 用城市适婚女性的典型困境 ，分解现代人无孔不入的孤独
一段年龄、阶层、家庭背景均有差异的亲密关系，从无到有，到出现裂痕，再到平衡牢固。
离现实很近，比现实深比现实暗，辽京给残酷的内核外面涂了一层奶油。
◆ 在时间的挤迫、社会的框架下，亲密关系中隐秘的苦痛和困惑，直视无碍
阅读辽京笔下的故事，能获得阅读社会调查、纪实报告、心理分析一般的现实感。
◆ 如摄像机镜头下的亲密关系实录
幸福很容易描述，痛苦则在各种拐弯抹角的缝隙里出现，小说就要抓住这种一闪念间的东西。
——辽京
◆ 曾用名《默然记》，豆瓣阅读累计136 966次（截至2020年12月）
【内容提要】
“三十岁之后，她觉得时间陡然加快了，
一切尚未开始，就开始觉得要赶不及，赶不及了。
杨浩来得不早不晚，命中注定，应该是他，只能是他。”
黄婉丝毕业后进入一家外企做人力。她忠诚勤勉，十年之内升了两级，薪水翻了三倍。通勤时会在地铁上记几个单词，搬家时会把优秀员工奖杯小心地往垫了碎纸的箱子里装。家里盖房、妹妹念书，全靠她。
男友杨浩小她四岁，独生子，吃穿用度都不凡。虽然家境好，但并不是娇生惯养长大的。
这一年里，念高中的妹妹意外怀孕，黄婉丝突然被裁员，房东通知要收房子……杨浩都陪着她度过。在心理上，她对杨浩的亲近感，超过了对父母的。
结婚、度蜜月、生孩子，原本顺理成章。然而黄婉丝总有种莫名的紧张感。有一晚，她偷偷摸摸翻了杨浩的手机。她甚至一直在表演假想中的高潮。
黄婉丝问杨浩：是不是因为妈妈生病，才着急求婚？
他答：也不全是。
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在时间的挤迫、社会的框架下，
亲密关系中隐秘的苦痛和困惑，直视无碍。
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辽京有一种特别的能力，她能把生活像剥洋葱一样一层层地掀开，当你被她的过程吸引住的时候，悄然弥漫在四周的洋葱汁却熏下了你的眼泪。也许生活从来就不是美好的，在平静的表层之下，其实暗流涌动，惊险万状。她出色地写下了人的无奈、挣扎和奔突。
——楚尘（著名出版人）
辽京的《晚婚》和格非的《月落荒寺》我都是废寝忘食地看完的，很久没有这样的体验了。《晚婚》读起来是《半生缘》的感觉，一个三十出头的北京女白领的生活。情绪和困境很真，提供的解救不那么现实，但浪漫故事总要让人物有个出口，所以得有解救（解救也是compromised的）。
——淡豹（作家）

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her.
Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

林棹的这部小说是我这些年读到的中文小说里尤为特殊的一部。她有点恍惚的叙述方式和她描写的茂密的内容甚至具有一种互文关系，气候、植物、气温这些都因为人物的行为和感受而具有一种官能性。这种相异于传统的常规的文学叙事的表现，这种异质性的力量，这种放任自己失常的勇气是值得珍视的。 ——孙甘露
林棹的小说值得推荐给阅读文学作品的年轻人。读者不必被她的语言狂欢的迷雾所困扰，《流溪》的写作就像是作者的一场又一场的内观，作者邀请我们进入她内在的丛林，她的写作呈现了诸多层面的现实——用的是迷人的当代汉语，尽管语言一次又一次害了我们。——棉棉
这是一份疑点重重的独白：很难说清叙述者是天真少女、狂人、骗子，抑或三者皆是。她周旋在浪荡的情人、破碎的母亲、暴戾的父亲之间，用泡沫和幻梦高筑起可疑的前半生，最终坠向不可挽回的结局。
这部处女作呈现细密画质地，携带着亚热带岭南独有的滋味、风景与记忆，讲述成长的歧途和可能的代价，纪念那些被随意折断与腐败在地的微弱者，和他们有过的爱与生活。

Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself?
She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape.

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

★ 在人海中打捞生活的骸骨，用现实的星星点点去注解幻想。
★ 家庭是布洛芬、多巴胺和糖，对有些人也许是水，对有些人是头痛本身。
★ 家，这个陌生人构成的集体，尘世中饱受琢磨的奇迹。
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九个背井离乡的故事
九个家庭中的难民
九个格格不入者
九个在离开中醒来的人
男人疲惫，认为自己在当牛做马，同时相信自己是宇宙的中心，女人劳累，感到不受理解，同时怀有巨大的爱的渴望。
本书是80后写作者淡豹的第一部小说集，收录了九个短篇小说。这里有非常规的家、想得很多的人、焦急的父亲、相互隔离的中年夫妇、生怕怀孕的上班族，他们生活在人海之中，却被说不清的东西隔开。
他们受困于代际和性别关系，他们像如今几乎所有人一样，因为渴望或者压抑、因为不得已的人生际遇四处游走，却总是无法彼此理解。书中有我们当代的生活景观：寺庙、机场、商场、便利店、精神病院、快捷酒店、旅行网站……
这些各式各样的人对家爱恨交织，有逃避远走，也有寄托渴望，围绕着家与幸福，作出或积极或消极的努力。
1. 女儿
情侣平平常常的同居生活里暗藏杀机。你是谁？你在想什么？你为什么着迷？一个犯罪故事。
2. 养生
天涯海角觅知音，家山北望泪沾襟。一个喜剧故事。
3. 山河
女孩对爱情没有好印象，因为她的父亲是个胆小鬼，母亲是位捞尸人。一个独白。
4. 过火
闽南一场净化仪式后，老人决意到更南方去。一次旅程。
5. 父母
孩子没有了，不再有孩子。一次卡在半山腰的旅程。
6. 乱世佳人
费雯丽还是奥黛丽？母亲花一生解谜，女儿只想活在谜面里。一个悬疑故事。
7. 海和海绵体
在发疯前，地质学家抓住自己珍视的东西，还顺带着蔑视了心理学。一轮测试。
8. 你还记得在上州给我变魔术吗？
她问他，“你记不记得以前富二代是歧视性的称呼？” 前恋人分隔两地，一场合唱愈来愈像独奏。
9. 旅行家
中年男人在三个大洲间穿行。算他在内共有三个朋友相互讲述故事。算他在内家庭共有三人彼此好奇又捉摸不定地过一生。

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate.
But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure--both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.

With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters-strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis-survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.

Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.
Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.

Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.

The second book, following 2012’s acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.

My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge, Elena and Lila remain best friends whose respective destinies are reflected and refracted in the other. They are likewise the embodiments of a nation undergoing momentous change. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her protagonists, the unforgettable Elena and Lila. Ferrante is the author of three previous works of critically acclaimed fiction: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter. With this novel, the first in a quartet, she proves herself to be one of Italy’s great storytellers. She has given her readers a masterfully plotted page-turner, abundant and generous in its narrative details and characterizations, that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight her many fans and win new readers to her fiction.

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.
At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.

1． 第二届单向街•书店文学奖年度青年作家——她是现代社会中最敏锐的感受者之一，温柔地经营语言、勇敢地积蓄力量，用自己独特的形式发出面向未来的声音。当代最具潜力青年作家——作品曾被翻译成多国语言发表，作品影视改编权已经授予香港知名导演彭浩翔的制作公司。
2． 继《小城故事》《愿你的道路漫长》《小镇姑娘》《微小的命运》之后，伊萨卡岛的李静睿最新力作——日光之下的精神角落——这是李静睿本人迄今为止最满意的作品。
3． 沉默的时代里，生活照常流淌，个体奋力逆行——全书囊括八个扣人心弦的故事，从不同角度叩问当下年轻人都要做出的选择：与世界妥协，还是保持愤怒？是要自由，还是要安全，纠结和犹疑令人软弱，而软弱的人往往被时代吞没。李静睿的故事层次丰富：从政治到爱情，从世道至人心，但这当中唯一相通的，是人的软弱、挣扎和犹疑。
八个跨越时间、空间，贯穿亲情、爱情的故事。
讲述你、我、他，如何在这个最好的时代，也是最坏的时代里，迎风疾驰、逆流而上。
《北方大道》写一个人，以为自己早已放弃，却意外发现生命中有些东西，永远不可放弃。
《盐井风筝》写一个人，从同类的映照中，看到自己。
《AI》写一个人，在应该对生活下手的时候，却永远懦弱地选择最好下手的那部分。
《柠檬裙子》写一个人，逃脱了人间的惩罚，却也没有上帝的审判，他只是有难得的好运气。
《沙河涨水》写一个人，既不好也不坏，他只是软弱而已。
《椰树长影》写一个人，以为人人都和他一样没有选择，其实我们永远手握选择。
《永生》写一个人，得到的时候不想得到，失去的时候发现不可失去。
《我和你只有这四个夜晚》写一个人，在最后的最后终于明白，即使所有人组成银河系，我们却依然可以自顾自在宇宙外运行，并不遵守天体力学的一切规律。

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.