An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system
More than twenty years after teaching English to China’s first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler and his wife enrolled their twin daughters in a local state-run elementary school, where they were the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand. Over the years, Hessler had kept in close contact with more than a hundred of his former students, who were now in their forties. By reconnecting with these individuals—members of China’s “Reform generation” —while teaching current undergrads, Hessler was able to gain a unique perspective on China's incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.
In the late 1990s, almost all of Hessler's students were the first member of their extended families to become educated. Their parents were subsistence farmers who could offer little guidance as their children entered a brand-new world. By 2019, when Hessler arrived at Sichuan University, he found a very different China and a new kind of student—an only child whose schooling was the object of intense focus from a much more ambitious and sophisticated cohort of parents. Hessler’s new students have a sense of irony about the regime but mostly navigate its restrictions with equanimity, and embrace the astonishing new opportunities China’s boom affords. But the pressures of this system of extreme “meritocracy” at scale can be gruesome, even for much younger children, including his own daughters, who give him and his wife an intimate view into the experience at their local school.
In Peter Hessler’s hands, China’s education system is the perfect vehicle for examining what’s happened to the country, where it’s going, and what we can learn from it, for good and ill. At a time when anti-Chinese rhetoric in America has grown blunter and uglier, Other Rivers is a tremendous, indeed an essential gift, a work of enormous human empathy that rejects cheap stereotypes and shows us China from the inside out and the bottom up, using as a measuring stick this most universally relatable set of experiences. As both a window onto China and a distant mirror onto America and its own education system, Other Rivers is a classic, a book of tremendous value and compelling human interest.
这是一本关于中国心脏地带两代学生的亲密而揭示性记录，由一位观察了过去二十五年中中国剧变的作者何伟所撰写。

在中国经济腾飞的初期教授英语二十多年后，何伟回到四川省，教导下一代的学生。他的这段经历也在他的书《江城》中有所记录。同时，何伟和妻子将双胞胎女儿送入了当地一所国立小学，她们是唯一的西方学生。多年来，何伟与许多他在上世纪90年代教过的人保持密切联系。这些人如今已是四十多岁的中国“改革一代”。通过与这些人重聚，同时教导当代的大学生，何伟获得了一个独特的视角，目睹了中国令人难以置信的变化。

1996年何伟抵达中国时，他班上的几乎所有人都是第一代大学生。他们通常来自大型农村家庭，父母多为维持生计的农民，对孩子踏入全新世界几乎无法提供指导。到2019年，何伟来到四川大学，他见到的是一个截然不同的中国以及一种新的学生类型——独生子女，他们的教育是一个更加雄心勃勃的家长群体的重中之重。在四川大学，许多年轻人对体制抱有一种讽刺的态度，但大多数人平静地适应着体制的限制，并拥抱中国崛起带来的机会。然而，极度竞争的压力依然让人精疲力尽，甚至影响到更年幼的孩子——包括何伟的女儿们，她们的学校经历让他得以深入了解当地教育环境。

在何伟的笔下，中国的教育体系成了审视这个国家的过去、现在和未来的完美媒介，让我们从中汲取正面和负面的经验。在美国反华言论愈加尖锐和丑陋之际，《Other Rivers》是一本不可或缺的巨著，饱含深厚的同理心，摒弃了廉价的刻板印象，从内而外、从下至上地展示了中国。这本书既是对中国的窗口，也是对美国的镜子，堪称这位大师级作者的经典之作。

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.

In The Namesake , Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.

The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.

Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant. She is an important and powerful new voice.

《骏马山庄》是黑塞的长篇小说，描写隐居山林、潜心创作的画家约翰·维拉古的婚姻悲剧，提出了“艺术家的婚姻”这个难题。

编辑推荐◆ 对受害者的恶意揣测，是一场更卑劣的犯罪！
◆ 被囚禁的少女×被偷窥的房间×被揣测的真相！
◆ 成为他人想象的对象，一定让你感到屈辱。--《残虐记》第189页
◆ 读到一半，我因为精神崩溃被救护车送进了医院。--日本读者评价
◆ 江户川乱步奖作家桐野夏生暗黑风格惊艳之作！
◆ 日本推理作家协会奖、"这本推理小说了不起！"得主代表作！
◆ "爱伦-坡"年度小说提名，开创日本作家入围此奖项的先河！
◆ 这本书现实到没有救赎，只有残虐；没有人们希望看见的真相，但能让你更接近事实本身。
◆ 翻开本书，见证被恶意揣测有多可怕。
内容简介成为他人想象的对象，一定令你感到屈辱。

景子的十岁，是被陌生男人囚禁的一年。
白天，男人充满欲望，粗暴下流；夜晚，却变成和景子写交换日记的腼腆小学生。
密不透光的房间、榻榻米的霉味、楼下工厂机器的轰鸣，则是景子野兽般生活的全部。

景子得救时，却遭受了新的屈辱：
囚禁屋里，有一个为邻居提供的宛如表演舞台的小小偷窥孔。
囚禁屋外，被发现的一具年轻女尸，引发了人们对景子遭遇的无数想象。

父母、同学、检察官、偷窥者--
就连景子自己，都在揣测囚禁案背后的真相。
景子预感到，这场犯罪远没有结束。

对受害者的恶意揣测，是一场更卑劣的犯罪！

How do you clothe a book?
In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from the perspectives of both reader and writer. Probing the complex relationships between text and image, author and designer, and art and commerce, Lahiri delves into the role of the uniform; explains what book jackets and design have come to mean to her; and how, sometimes, “the covers become a part of me.”

“在这个庇护所里，新的世界出现了。它永远在那儿，永远与我相关。”
《罗马日记》是美国著名小说家裘帕·拉希莉用意大利语书写的最新随笔集，一共二十三篇文章，记录了她学习用另一种语言进行表达、寻找一种“新的声音”的漫长过程。
这不是一本枯燥的语言学习笔记，而是一位小说家开拓新领域的心灵启示录—语言的、文化的、自我意识的。创作者在某个时刻感到有必要改变路径：这是一种疯狂的冲动，它可能意味着放弃自己作为表达者原有的特性与标志；这也是大胆的纵身一跃，收获的是创作与人生更丰富的可能性。

“现在我知道了，我们许多年从一个人身旁走过，却不知道这人是谁。
现在我知道了，数十年我曾从一个人身旁走过，而不知道他是谁。”
作为伯恩哈德作品系列的第一卷，本书包含了三个关于死亡的故事。
《波斯女人》：关于爱情、报复和死亡的故事
《维特根斯坦的侄子—— 一场友谊》：关于友谊、理解与死亡的故事
《制帽匠》：关于亲情、尊重与死亡的故事
伯恩哈德说：“想到死亡一切都是可笑的。”他以极富音乐性的文字，犀利的夸张、重复和幽默，将人类境遇中种种愚钝与疾病，痛苦与冷漠，习惯与禁忌推向极端，展现了人与人之间沟通的艰难。

八年前，日本著名IT企业首次开启校招，六名大学生从五千人中脱颖而出。然而一封神秘“告发信”的出现，揭穿了六人面具之下的“谎言”与“罪恶”。完美光鲜的名校生人设一夕崩塌，若要成为最终赢家，必须洗脱罪名……
八年后，“告发信”的策划者生病去世，却给当年成功入职的人再次留下信息，新的信息促使成功入职者重新走访曾经的当事人，找出隐藏多年的另一重真相……

等待啊，一心地等待，那人不再来。
盼夜幕的宵待草，不安地等待。
不要想，我不愿再想，不由地泪洒两腮。
今晚的月亮，似乎也不愿出来。
宵待草，又名月见草，当女性将其赠于男性时，就代表“默默的爱”。那颗等待着爱的心啊，若得不到回应，会变成怎样的面貌？哪个女人甘愿丑陋地枯萎， 归为尘埃？
能乐歌者篠，妇人杉乃，清纯卖笑女铃子，戏剧名角鸨子，酒馆老板叶子，五个女人，都在奋力为爱挣扎。她们的感情可能畸形，可能变态，甚至可能是犯罪，但不能否认的是，那些都是爱的形态。

Gur spins an intriguing mystery with international flavor and an attractive and likeable hero. When a revered senior analyst is found dead at the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society headquarters, Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon penetrates the elite, mysterious world of the institute to find the killer.

这是多么愚蠢而浅薄的犯罪，隐藏的真相却震撼人心！
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这家人看上去再平常不过：前原和妻子人到中年，上有痴呆的老母亲，下有未成年的儿子。
平静在一个下午被彻底打破：儿子在家中勒死了一个小女孩。前原夫妇决心移走尸体，掩盖罪行。
前原的供述合情合理，无懈可击，警方完全可以结案，但刑警加贺看到前原的母亲涂红的手指时，明白了事实真相。
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周刊文春推理小说榜第4名 “这本推理了不起！”第9名
我姐姐读完《红手指》，流着泪给我打来了电话。——东野圭吾
《红手指》是加贺系列中我最喜欢的故事，敏锐描绘了养老和家庭矛盾等每个家庭都会遇到的问题。——阿部宽

我有一个愿望，想写一写妈妈或祖母，很久以前生活在这片土地上的女性的故事。
一部女性版的《活着》，四代女性的友谊、抗争、泪水与欢笑
韩国最大网络书店22万读者票选“2021年度之书”
第29届大山文学奖获奖作，天才作家崔恩荣首部长篇小说！
女人们不再是仅供同情、怜悯的角色，也不再是装饰男人壮丽生活的配角。
她们是自己，生如草芥，彼此搀扶，尽全身之力对抗荒诞的时代。
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和丈夫离婚后，三十一岁的我独自来到海边小城熙岭，却在那里邂逅多年未见的祖母。尴尬和沉默之后，孤独的心一点点靠近，我和祖母成为相互倾吐心声的朋友。在祖母家老屋的旧相册里，我发现一位和我长相非常相似的女子，依偎在少女时代的祖母身旁。
一个个鲜活的面孔逐渐从一张张黑白相片中，从一封封感人至深的书信中，从久远的回忆里，穿过女人生如飘萍、命如草芥的时代，走到我面前。
经过曾祖母、祖母和母亲，来到我身边的故事，
她们的人生在我的眼前重现。
现在的我能够触及她们吗?
正如过去无数的我组成了现在的我，
现在的我也能见到过去的无数个我吗？

'I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting myself in danger.'
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family. Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything.
In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents both sides: the woman’s notes and the life of Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling, page-turning and wickedly humorous meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.

A classic of American literature, now with a new introduction by iconic author and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. “My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight,” H.D. writes in Tribute to Freud, her moving memoir. Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.D. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933–34, as the streets of Vienna were littered with tokens dropped like confetti on the city stating “Hitler gives work,” “Hitler gives bread.” Having endured World War I, she was now gathering her resources to face the cataclysm she knew was approaching. The first part of the book, “Writing on the Wall,” was composed some ten years after H.D.’s stay in Vienna; the second part, “Advent,” is a journal she kept during her analysis. Revealed here in the poet’s crystal shard-like words and in Freud’s own letters (which comprise an appendix) is a remarkably tender and human portrait of the legendary Doctor in the twilight of his life. Time double backs on itself, mingling past, present, and future in a visionary weave of dream, memory, and reflections.

★“命运如雪的诗人”罗伯特·瓦尔泽，死后被追封为现代德语文学奠基人
当过职员，做过仆人，服过兵役，进过疯人院，最后死于雪地；
却受到卡夫卡钦佩，黑塞盛赞，本雅明推崇。
瑞士德语作家罗伯特·瓦尔泽，被誉为现代德语文学的奠基人。
卡夫卡只是瓦尔泽类型的一个特例。
——穆齐尔
瓦尔泽躲进病院，从此不问世事，是有道理的。他要么自救于疯人院，要么被瑞士的教授和电台经理活活饿死。这些人虽然有好差事，却写不出半句瓦尔泽那样漂亮的文章。
——黑塞
恰恰是在罗伯特·瓦尔泽的作品中，我们第一次注意到一种非同寻常的、难以描述的荒疏。这种虚无就是重量，这种混乱就是毅力——这是读者在阅读瓦尔泽作品时最后所能想到的事实。
——本雅明
★瓦尔泽生命最后二十年的唯一实录， “错过了时间的散步者”与挚友长达二十年的散步日记
1929年他躲进精神病院，此后余生，不问世事。
自1936年起，卡尔·泽利希与瓦尔泽一起散步，并写下日记，记录下大师的珍贵语录，成为瓦尔泽生命最后二十年的唯一实录。
★设计师山川操刀，用淡雅色彩还原往日时光的质感
德式方脊精装口袋本，随身携带随手翻，契合日记体的短章式阅读；内含多幅历史照片插图，还原伟大作家的平凡人生，如何用散步抵御人生的落寞。
【名人推荐】
今天，瓦尔泽没有成为被遗忘的作家，主要归功于卡尔·泽利希为他的事业所做的努力。如果没有泽利希对他与瓦尔泽散步的描述，如果没有他在传记方面的初步工作，如果没有他出版的作品选集和他对瓦尔泽手稿的解码——瓦尔泽就不可能康复，他的记忆很可能会被淡忘。
——W.G.塞巴尔德
[卡尔·泽利希]的私人一手资料是我们所能看到的最接近瓦尔泽回忆录的资料。他向瓦尔泽提出的问题，有的关于他的个人和职业历史，有的关于他的文学和政治观点，像是一个口述历史学家会提出的问题，而瓦尔泽信任他的同伴，心平气和地回答，用他特有的幽默和不寻常的观察为对话增添色彩。
——萨拉·考恩，《书坛》（Bookforum）
《与瓦尔泽一起散步》充分展现了瓦尔泽的哲学，即过着谦逊的生活，在平凡的事物中发现美，并用更少的钱过日子。
——莫伊拉·戴维
【内容简介】
1929年，瑞士德语作家罗伯特·瓦尔泽躲进精神病院，此后余生，不问世事。
1933年，瓦尔泽封笔。他说，他不是来写作的，是来发疯的，要写就不来了。他转而练习另一项最喜欢的活动：徒步旅行。
1936年起，卡尔·泽利希定期来访，与瓦尔泽一起散步，并写下日记，成为瓦尔泽生命最后二十年的唯一实录。
在漫长的散步途中，泽利希走入了沉默已久的诗人内心，瓦尔泽开始重新倾吐对人生和文学的真知灼见。
1956年圣诞节，瓦尔泽死于阿尔卑斯山的雪地，先是被一只猎狗发觉，接着是附近的农民，然后是整个世界。

"I cannot write any sort of story," said Tennessee to Gore Vidal] "unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire." These transgressive Tales of Desire, including "One Arm," "Desire and the Black Masseur," "Hard Candy," and "The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen," show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best.

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The scene is set in an English country house â" Hunstanton (Lady Hunstanton's property). The curtains open to the terrace where we are introduced to Lady Caroline who is engaging in conversation with Lady Huntstanton's American Puritan guest Hester Worsley. Other characters are introduced, including the flirtatious Mrs Allonby, the meek Lady Stutfield and Lady Caroline's submissive husband Sir John. They discuss frivolous matters and are later joined by the powerful, charming and charismatic gentleman, Lord Illingworth who has offered the post of secretary to the fortunate Gerald Arbuthnot. Gerald's mother is invited to join the party, and when she arrives she realises that Lord Illingworth is Gerald's father. She had an affair with him twenty years ago, became pregnant and he refused to marry her, making her a "fallen woman." She is reluctant to let Gerald become Illingworth's secretary, but doesn't tell Gerald her reasons behind her reluctance...

<em>The Tanners</em>, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and Hedwig: their wanderings, meetings, separations, quarrels, romances, employment and lack of employment over the course of a year or two are the threads from which Walser weaves his airy, strange and brightly gorgeous fabric. “Walser’s lightness is lighter than light,” as Tom Whalen said in Bookforum: “buoyant up to and beyond belief, terrifyingly light.”<br /><br /><br />Robert Walser—admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin—is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” (J.M. Coetzee), “a bewitched genius” (Newsweek), and “a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer” (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser’s “perfect and serene oddity,” Michael Hofmann in <em>The London Review of Books</em> remarked on the “Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing.” <em>The Los Angeles Times</em> called him “the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century....The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten’s.”<br /><br /><br />“A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.

Walser's alternative, preferred version of his most famous tale. <br /><br />A pseudo-biographical "stroll" through town and countryside rife with philosophic musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, "I would be dead," Walser explains, "and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country are revealed, charming and graceful, to the sense and eyes of the observant walker." The Walk was the first piece of Walser's work to appear in English, and the only one translated before his death. However, Walser heavily revised his most famous novella, altering nearly every sentence, rendering the baroque tone of his tale into something more spare. An introduction by translator Susan Bernofsky explains the history of The Walk, and the difference between its two versions.