阿多诺写道：“本雅明首次在1928年出版的《单行道》一书并不像人们粗粗翻阅时所想象的那样是一本断想集，而是一本意象集。”
书中意象皆来源于日常生活中的真实事物，如加油站、中国古董，甚至梦境等。作者对这些司空见惯的事物的处理并非简单的堆积和罗列，而是推翻固有的概念思维，深入事物的本质，以探求其蕴含的文化意义。书中含有格言、笔记和杂感等各种形式，它的语言晦涩、寓意深邃，往往令人反复咀嚼思之再三仍不得要领。当然，作者有时也幽默得让你捧腹；有时也一目了然，让你兴趣倍增；有时也勾起你的童年回忆，让你感慨不已。

普鲁斯特的《追忆似水年华》以回忆的形式对往事作了回顾，有童年的回忆、家庭生活、初恋与失恋、历史事件的观察、以及对艺术的见解和对时空的认识等等。时间是这部小说的主人公。作者凭着智慧和想象力，使时间变得具体、生动、完美。它就像一首由多种主题构成的交响乐，爱情、嫉妒、死亡、回忆、时光，时而交叉重叠在一起，时而又游离开来，然而在宏观上，整个作品浑然一体，具有蓬勃的生命力。《追忆似水年华》被公认为文学创作的一次新的尝试，开意识流小说之先河。

An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay . . ."
The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.
Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.

一名高大男子躺在國立醫院重症病房，陷入昏迷，據說他掌握著奧斯陸販毒集團的內幕消息，如果他醒來，提供的線索不只能將毒梟一網打盡，甚至能揭穿警界、政界跟販毒集團勾結的黑幕。他的身分不能透露，他的名字諱莫如深，連病房門口全天候看守的警察都無權知道。然而，有人希望他永遠別醒過來。
與此同時，奧斯陸出現了一個「警察殺手」，凶手下手狠毒，被害者死狀殘忍。每一名遇害警察死亡的地點和日期，過去也曾發生過命案，至今未破，而且死者都是當初負責偵辦那些懸案的成員。這顯然不是巧合。隨著警察屍體一具具增加，凶手的殺人手法跟原始命案越來越像，技術也越來越純熟。
這是當年殺人凶手的復出重演，在過去的命案現場殺人？還是有人要懲罰辦案不力的警察？一場接一場的嗜血殺戮，讓警界面臨沉重的破案壓力，也激起警、政高層的血腥政治角力。犯罪特警隊隊長甘納．哈根、鑑識中心主任貝雅特．隆恩、鑑識員畢爾．侯勒姆，曾經和哈利一起偵辦雪人案的卡翠娜．布萊特，以及心理醫師史戴．奧納，組成了一個特別任務小組，誓言要找出神祕的連續殺警犯。只是，他們心裡都很清楚，少了哈利．霍勒的任務小組，再也無法像以前一樣創造奇蹟了。但他們不知道的是，他們之中有人將成為下一個遭殘殺的目標……

A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time.
Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.
Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.

(From the Catalog-Movie)
Los Angeles, 1953: six innocent people gunned down at an all-night diner. Three policemen arrive to investigate: Ed Exley, goaded by his father's success on the force, burning to eclipse him; Bud White, witness to his mother's murder, a time bomb with a badge; and Jack Vincennes, former addict, a shake-down artist who works celebrities. Worse yet, these three see themselves as rivals. Their own rage mirrors that of the killers they seek, all players in a game without rules or survivors.
"James Ellroy is a fictional sculptor who carves a universe without beauty, laughter or remorse. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL is his finest work yet." (People)

Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.

On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.

An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel attempts to ask and answer the question: what is man's role in a rapidly changing environment?

In his best-known book, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, Kazuo Ishiguro advances the butler's story, not by giving, but by withholding both information and emotion. This novel is about a woman who lived in Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped. We don't hear the explosion. We don't even hear the names of the dead. And yet it's very clear that something perfectly wretched has gone on. Is still going on. Roe Kendall dramatizes so well that, after a while, I forgot to wonder why an English woman of breeding would be telling the story. Still, this throws one more curtain between the listener and the tragedy. Couldn't they have found somebody Japanese? B.H.C. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

也许生命只教过你一件事，那就是时光无法倒流。哈利自我放逐到香港之后，以为从此远离警探生涯给他造成的创伤。但令人难以置信的事情发生了——曾与哈利情同父子的少年欧雷克，因涉嫌杀人而被警方逮捕。哈利无法相信欧雷克是杀人凶手，因此返回奥斯陆试图找出真凶，挑战一桩在警方看来已经罪证确凿的毒虫命案。
为了拯救他誓言守护的少年，在律师汉斯和昔日旧友贝雅特的帮助下，哈利只身展开调查。然而他发现自己面对的是一个让人彻底迷失的处境。如幽灵般神秘飘忽的贩毒组织幕后首脑，渴望权力的政客，收受黑钱的警方……没人希望哈利回来，找出真相……

《偶像》内容简介：毫无疑问，这是他（福赛斯）的最佳作品之一。在俄罗斯总统逝世的当晚，一位老清洁工在最有可能成为下届总统的极端右翼党派爱国武装联盟领神科马罗夫的办公室里窃取了一份文件。这份记录了科马罗夫的法西斯疯狂野心份记录了科马罗夫的法西斯疯狂野心的“黑色宣言”最终落入了英国情报人员的手中。二是，一声惊心动魄的国际间谍战拉开了序幕……

西德尼·谢尔顿堪称“世上最会讲故事的人”，作品全球总销量超过3亿册。他的作品多以年轻美丽的坚强女性为主角，细腻地刻画了女性心理情感，深受女性读者的喜爱。《假如明天来临》是这位通俗小说之父的巅峰之作。这是一部励志色彩浓厚的小说，主人公特蕾西是谢尔顿笔下最激动人心的女主角，评论家称她为“绽放在城市最黑暗深处的正义之花”、“女性的基督山伯爵”。

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.
In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.
Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.

雪人一役之后，身心受创的警探哈利·霍勒来到香港疗伤，然而，挪威一桩骇人听闻的连环杀人案和病重父亲的牵绊让他告别香港的颓废生活，重回奥斯陆。两名女性死者被自己的血液溺毙：体内的麻醉剂，牙齿上的钶钽金属，口中24个穿刺伤口……种种证据显示凶手是同一人。罕见的凶器，毫无线索的案情，无法揣测的动机，让查案陷入僵局。作为挪威唯一有追缉连环杀手经验的警探，哈利·霍勒开始与新搭档卡雅，老搭档卡翠娜、侯勒姆一同追查凶手。不久他发现一名失踪女性和三名死者有所关联——她们都曾在某个滑雪小屋度过一晚。哈利追查到当晚也在小屋的一名旅客，却发现他已经遇害；小屋里的住客登记簿，也被人刻意撕去。
当晚在小屋里究竟发生过什么事？是谁一一杀掉这些萍水相逢的旅客？为了深入凶手的内心，哈利决定求助于昔日的宿敌——在医院里日渐衰亡的连环杀手“雪人”。
然而他不知道，这些命案背后，原来是一场暗中策划已久的猎捕游戏……

村上春树最扣人心弦之作！
这部小说中的所有元素都充满隐喻，本书是村上小说世界的入口。
为了弄清奥斯曼土耳其帝国的征税方式，少年决定去图书馆寻找答案。依照指引，少年来到地下的107室。眼前是一扇奇特的门，敲上去令人毛骨悚然。
门开了，一个长相诡异的老人找来三本书，但只能在阅览室里读。少年跟着老人走进漆黑的阅览室，他这才发现，他似乎永生都将囚禁于此……