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?

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 flâneuse is, in Lauren Elkin’s words, “a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “streethaunting,” Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1960s New York.
Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own life―a journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and London―including the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film women’s sometimes liberating, sometimes fraught relationship to the metropolis.

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.

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.

罗辑思维“得到”APP明星讲书人黄昱宁，用自己的小说解读当下都市生活
————————————————————
一部中国式的“黑镜”故事集：每个故事都起于一个诡诈的、疯狂的念头，都在捕捉人们在幻觉、执念和伤痛中编织的那张亮晶晶的生活和意义之网。
作者被誉为一个“年轻的阿特伍德”，一位“女麦克尤恩”。
著名评论家、作家李敬泽作序推荐；李敬泽、陈村、孙甘露、毛尖、徐则臣、小白、黄德海联名推荐。
————————————————————
《八部半》是著名翻译家、出版人黄昱宁的第一部个人小说集，收录了八篇虚构作品《呼叫转移》《三岔口》《水》《你或植物》《幸福触手可及》《水星很忙》《千里走单骑》《文学病人》和一篇非虚构作品《海外关系》。“八部半”这个书名，既代表了本书收录的作品数量，也暗合著名导演费里尼的同题名作。电影《八部半》把现代都市人的生活现状和心理困境打碎，重组成影像奇观，而这也是小说集《八部半》追求的目标。本书所收录的八篇小说中，六篇是现实题材，两篇是带有科幻意味的现代寓言；而它们真正的主题，都指向人们日常生活中面临的问题，并带有对人类未来的思索。最后一篇非虚构作品《海外关系》，以小说家的视角和叙述方式，追溯了作者亲历的一段亲人从海外归来的往事；同时，又根据历史材料虚构了亲人漂泊海外的坎坷经历，力求以家族故事来折射上海乃至中国近百年历史的大开大合。
————————————————————
以“媒介”为中心，揭示互联网时代的新型人际关系和欲望结构
本书所收录的八个虚构故事，大部分围绕某个“媒介”展开：《呼叫转移》中的短信和微信，《三岔口》中的微博专栏和微信，《水》中的楼板，《你或植物》中的诗，《幸福触手可及》中的微信群和朋友圈，《水星很忙》中的网络专栏和电子邮件，《千里走单骑》中的真人快递和全息虚拟墙，《文学病人》中的机器人和打分系统。这些“媒介”，有些是现代媒介，有些是前现代媒介（比如楼板），但它们都展现出媒介一致的本质：传递，同时隔绝；理解，同时误解。作者从“媒介”入手，深入挖掘现代互联网发展带来的新型人际关系和欲望结构，并在现实和科幻的交错中，以高度浓缩的戏剧性展现出来。从这个角度看，本书可以看作一部中国式的“黑镜”故事集。
立足都市，关注现实，刻画各阶层人物，剖析中产和准中产的困境
本书所收录的九个故事，其发生的主要舞台都是都市——无论是当下五光十色的超级都市，还是几十年前的旧日都市。不同于淳朴而带有诗意的乡村，都市热闹、繁华，都市也嘈杂、冷漠，而这样复杂的都市环境，正是现在的读者最为熟悉的生活场景。通过本书的九个故事，我们可以看到都市中生活的人们，无论身处哪个阶层，他们既相互窥视，也相互隔阂，既相互羡慕，也相互猜忌。《八部半》在刻画不同阶层的人物上皆有所突破，而其中格外关注的是中产和准中产阶层男女的生活和心理困境——他们所面临的各种压力，他们自身的虚弱和困扰，以及他们处境的复杂性等等。
不拘一格的写作技巧，强烈的戏剧性和画面感，变幻多姿的文本体验
本书作者是一位有着很好的世界文学素养的资深翻译家，因此本书中的每篇作品，也都在写作技巧上有着出色的表现。这些作品，有的采用多人物第一人称接力叙事的方式，有的融入意识流的写作手法，有的在现实主义的框架中穿插超现实的想象场景，有的将虚构的叙述手法与非虚构的叙述内容无缝对接，有的则以科幻形式针砭现实问题……除了长期浸淫世界文学习得的写作技巧外，这些作品还反映出作者对戏剧冲突的热爱，并处处透露出她所受到的影像文化的影响。这些小说的节奏和意象，戏剧感和画面感，对于喜爱影视作品和戏剧性故事的读者来说精彩不容错过。

☆《碗》是金宇澄继《回望》之后的另一部非虚构力作。一老友在聚会上追忆三十年前的岁月，引发了一场千里赴约的温故之旅。在历史的斑驳印记中，辨认早已碎裂消失的苍凉青春。
☆非虚构的记录与三十年前的小说相互映照，小说笔法与真实事件相互渗透，展现文学技艺的世故与讲究。
☆附作者手绘插图，展示文字与图像错落交叠的多重叙述。
------------------------
“姑娘，你长得多像你妈妈。”
三十年前，在农场，上海青年小英死于井中。三十年后，一名女孩忽然出现，原来，她就是小英的女儿——小英生前，从东北赶回上海，秘密生下了一名女婴。
面对年轻的生命，这些历史的幸存者们才终于面对不愿追述的往事，并且承认：曾经至为重要的东西都已经纷纷碎裂、消失。
只有青春的回忆，和早逝的同伴一起，无法平静，不能安息。
------------------------
金宇澄的非虚构里，充溢着小说家笔法，这是一种文体的自觉和清醒，透着精心和讲究。但更重要的，是其中思想的力量。他对知青年代的反思，对那段生存的展现和认知，让我觉得超出了我所读过的同题材的作品。
——钟红明
《碗》中记叙知青生活人物命运走向，几种时空闪回，荒芜峥嵘。金宇澄近年作品，开始体现一种直插历史路径的自由清明，还原语言之魅。
——《明报》
金宇澄《金宇澄作品选辑：轻寒、方岛、碗》写的是大时代的小人物故事，苍凉中见人性温暖，长篇运镜迷离整个像一部电影，短篇则充满金宇澄特殊的南方的忧愁以及对“屈辱”的反思。
——台北书展评审团

这部书就像一场完美的旅程，教我们如何好奇、思考和观察，让我们重新对生命充满热情。旅行是什么，德波顿并不想急于提供答案，旅行为什么，德波顿似乎也不热心去考求。但释卷之后，相信每个读者都会得到一种答案——这答案，既是思辩的，也是感性的，既酣畅淋漓，又难以言说，因为，它更像是一种情绪 ，令人沉醉而不自知翻开这本书，你踏上的将是一次异乎寻常的阅读旅程。深信德波顿无处不在的智慧和机智将影响甚至改变你对旅行的看法，并有可能改变你日后的旅行心态和旅行方式。德波顿是一个知识渊厚且富有逻辑思辨能力的作者。他曾经是大学的哲学讲师，有着深厚的哲学素养，从苏格拉底、洪堡，到爱默生、尼采，他都有过系统的阅读。此外，对西方文学和艺术作品，他也有广泛的涉猎。因此，在论及“旅行”这一近平陈词滥调的题材时，他不仅时时表现出理性的悟觉，而且还能结合福楼拜、波德莱尔等文学家的创作，参照凡·高等画家的作品，多方位地观照“旅行”、剖析“旅行”。

“我母亲说，只在某一封没写完的信里，才见到你爸爸充满情感的回顾：’天寒刮起西北风，让我想起满目萧条的，我的青春年月……’”
这本书讲的是金宇澄父母的故事，也是他们那个时代人们的故事。

红豆生南国
此物最相思
《长恨歌》后十年
王安忆再写都市人间绵绵情缘
他的恩欠，他的愧受，他的困囚，他的原罪，他的蛊，忽得一个名字，这名字就叫相思。
——王安忆
《红豆生南国》是著名作家王安忆2017年zui新中篇小说集，收入《红豆生南国》《向西，向西，向南》《乡关处处》三部中篇小说。三部小说的故事分别发生于中国香港、纽约和上海，讲述了生活在这三个城市的“都市移民”的故事，他们的青春，爱与孤寂。

《红楼梦》是一部中国末期封建社会的百科全书。小说以上层贵族社会为中心图画，真实、生动地描写了十八世纪上半叶中国末期封建社会的全部生活，是这段历史生活的一面镜子和缩影，是中国古老封建社会已经无可挽回地走向崩溃的真实写照。《红楼梦》之所以成为“中国小说文学难以征服的顶峰”，不仅仅是因为它具有很高的思想价值，还在于它非凡的艺术成就。全书规模宏伟，结构严谨，人物生动，语言优美。此外还有一些明显的艺术特点值得后人品味、鉴赏。《红楼梦》一书，通过对“贾、史、王、薛”四大家族荣衰的描写，展示了广阔的社会生活视野，森罗万象，囊括了多姿多彩的世俗人情。人称《红楼梦》内蕴着一个时代的历史容量，是封建末世的百科全书。