In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now his wife, Galatea is expected to be obedience and humility personified, but it is not long before she learns to use her beauty as a form of manipulation. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost...
Pygmalion's story has moved millions through the centuries, inspiring George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, and later the beloved musical My Fair Lady. Ecco is proud to publish Orange Prize-winning author Madeline Miller’s E-book original short story Galatea which will appear in the forthcoming anthology xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths to be published in October. This retelling of the Pygmalion myth from the statue’s perspective is a tale that will make readers rethink how they relate to the great myths of our time.

A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
The audacious and elegiac second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home
'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights' Financial Times
Following the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. The Cost of Living reveals a writer in radical flux, considering what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure. This perfectly crafted snapshot of a woman in the process of transformation is as distinctive, wide-ranging and original as Levy's acclaimed novels, an essential read for every Deborah Levy fan.
'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy is a brilliant writer . . . Each sentence is a small masterpiece of clarity and poise' Telegraph
'This short, sensual, embattled memoir is not only about the painful landmarks in her life - the end of a marriage, the death of a mother - it is about what it is to be alive. I can't think of any other writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer

《烦人的爱》（1992）是意大利作家埃莱娜•费兰特的首部作品，描述了一段充满痛楚和阴影的母女关系。

在黛莉亚四十五岁生日当天，本应该坐上火车来罗马给女儿庆祝生日的母亲阿玛利娅被人发现溺亡，身上只穿着一件精致的内衣。

黛莉亚回到故乡那不勒斯，试图查清母亲的死因。身为裁缝的母亲一辈子都被迫掩盖自己的魅力 ，以此逃避好妒的画家丈夫的体罚，却在死前留下了一箱来历不明的高档衣物。

黛莉亚对母亲的挖掘变成了一场令人心碎的记忆的救赎。她越接近母亲晚年的秘密，关于阿玛利娅的真实就如同尖锐的碎片，将黛莉亚多年来精心构建的谎言彻底击溃。她在迷乱中意识到，阿玛利娅承受的暴力，不止来自专制残忍的丈夫和兄长，抑或是在她身边徘徊多年的商人卡塞尔塔，更来自童年的自己、来自自己对母亲无法平息的占有欲望。

黛莉亚最终穿上母亲馈赠给自己的衣物，和四十年前的谎言和解。在母亲离世的海边，她将自己的证件照片涂抹成母亲的样子。对她而言，阿玛利娅从未离开，她就是阿玛利娅。

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.

Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples and calls us to imagine what will persist in the aftermaths.

With lyric and tonal dexterity, these poems spin backwards and forwards in time. They look into the collective psyche of our years in the pandemic and in the throes of anti-racist uprisings, while imagining other vectors, directions, and futures. Stories of survival collide across space and time--from Korean comfort women during World War II to children wandering a museum in the future. These poems explore narrative distances and queer linearity, investigating on microscopic scales before soaring towards the universal. Throughout, Choi grapples with where the individual fits within the strange landscapes of this apocalyptic world, with its violent and many-layered histories. In the process, she imagines what togetherness--between Black and Asian and other marginalized communities, between living organisms, between children of calamity and conquest--could look like. Bringing together Choi's signature speculative imagination with even greater musicality than her previous work, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On ultimately charts new paths toward hope.

【编辑推荐】
◆世间的真相无非两种：一种让你获得自由，一种将你永远埋葬在黑暗中。
◆美国犯罪小说教父迈克尔·康奈利经典“博斯系列”重磅新作。两起案件相互缠绕，险象环生，维护正义不是仅靠同情心就足够。比找到真相更难的，是让真相从各种利益相关的链条中突出重围。
◆康奈利是美国前总统克林顿、滚石乐队主唱米克·贾格尔、斯蒂芬·金共同推崇的小说家，被《GQ》杂志誉为“世界上最好的悬疑小说家”。 “博斯系列” 是康奈利大师级的悬疑系列，蝉联《纽约时报》畅销榜27年，被翻译成40种语言，全球销量突破7400万册，改编电视剧《博斯》豆瓣均分9.0+。
◆《时代周刊》、美国国家公共电台（NPR）、巴诺书店等多家媒体评选年度好书。
【内容简介】
离开洛杉矶后，博斯警探来到圣费尔南多警察局。一家药店的两名药剂师被杀，当地所有警力都被召集过来。博斯协助当地警察展开调查。他顺藤摸瓜，不料却触碰到了一个危险、庞大的药物滥用交易网。博斯潜入组织内部，试图挖掘这个黑色王国的骇人真相。
与此同时，博斯多年前抓获的一名杀人犯， 突然在监狱中声称自己当年是被博斯陷害入狱的，他提供了令人震惊的确凿证据。博斯百口莫辩，以前和睦相处的同事突然形同陌路，无人愿意站出来维护他的声誉。而一旦他的权威受到质疑，他之前所办的其他案件也会显得疑窦丛生。博斯必须为自己而战，既要自证清白，又要确保那位聪明的杀手继续待在监狱。
两个案子像铁丝网一样缠绕在一起。一路走来，博斯发现世界上有两种真相：一种让你自由，一种将你永远埋葬在黑暗中。
【媒体评论】
《两种真相》是一部构思精妙、逻辑缜密的悬疑小说，揭示了药品作坊和非法处方药地下交易的犯罪真相。
—— 《华盛顿时报》
康奈利笔下的博斯警探向来是个硬汉，但这部小说展现出的是他富有同情心的一面。
——《纽约时报》
再一次证明了康奈利作为故事讲述者的高超技巧。
——《每日快报》
《两种真相》情节紧凑、激动人心，是康奈利最出色、最有影响力的作品之一。
——《福斯特》
他将两条平行的叙事线拼接成一个险象环生的悬疑故事，这也为他笔下的角色增添了深度和复杂性。博斯就像他少年时代的偶像利文斯通博士一样，认为维护正义仅靠同情心是不够的，更需要行动。他的事迹在一个“黑暗而恐怖的世界”中熠熠生辉。
——《伦敦标准晚报》

那天，我开车带母亲上了高速公路。
行驶了一段时间后，我把车停在路旁，将她连同轮椅一起搬出来，推到马路中间，把她留在那儿。
不远处，一辆白色卡车正朝我们驶来。
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《热牛奶》是一部奇异、梦幻、令人不安的小说。它讲述了一个二十多岁的年轻女孩的故事，她为自己平庸的生活感到羞愧，感到绝望。
她见证了母亲的期许与梦想是如何在这个对她不利的世界中随风消散的。她想要挣脱那种命运，那种确定的，可预知的生活，编织另外的故事，属于她自己的故事。
她决定为自己渴望的生活奋力一搏。
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★ 布克奖决选作品，《纽约时报》年度好书
★ “当代英语小说领域最激动人心的声音之一”德博拉·利维长篇代表作
★正如加热过头的牛奶会烫口，伤害往往也以爱的名义进行。
★一本深刻探讨亲密关系、原生家庭和个体困境的共鸣之书，大胆炙热，才华横溢
★ 真实再现当代母女关系的幽微复杂之处，无数女儿和无数母亲的共同故事
★ 对于渴望离家的女儿来说，有时母亲比海里的毒水母更令人窒息
★ 悬浮在希望和绝望之间的那样东西，我们称之为生活
★ 精美双封设计，随书附赠“悬浮生活”双色主题杯垫
★《橘子不是唯一的水果》作者珍妮特·温特森盛赞： “利维的魅力在于她的思想和表达的独特性。”
★ 只有《我的天才女友》的作者才能以同等的洞察力记录家庭中的疾病渗透和女性身份认同。——英国作家莉萨·阿皮涅西
★ 德博拉·利维探索了母亲身份这一奇异而可怕的特质，她考验了父母与孩子之间的联结，并使我们看到其行将断裂的一面。——布克奖评审委员会
★ 利维出色的想象力，她诗歌般的语言，她每天发现奇迹的方式，使这本书如此迷人。 ——《纽约时报》
★ 利维的书是一幅达利式超现实主义风景画。它以一种看似现实主义的叙事方式讲述了一对母女前往西班牙，为自己、为对方寻求治愈之道的故事。但覆盖在“现实”之上的是一部心理剧，它通过利维散文中那不可归类的、催眠般的怪异感，将小说中的人物、场景带入了表现主义、象征主义和神话的领域。 ——英国作家乔安娜·沃尔什
★ 这不是一部篇幅很长的小说，但其语言的密度不亚于诗歌语言，简单的文字中交织着丰富的意蕴。关于内心活动的一部有力的小说，利维生动的创作使人想起弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫……令人着迷。——《卫报》

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here - is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy,
questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world.
Selected from more than 1,500 entries,
won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions (US) and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form.

一个家族希腊悲剧级的苦难
如何让家庭成员走上不同的人生旅途
被摧毁，被改变，被修复……
又如何为医学研究提供绝佳的机遇
为所有病患家庭点亮希望的微光
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一段激荡人心的医学探索
一个家庭与命运抗争的感人故事
——奥普拉•温弗瑞
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【内容简介】
在外人看来，美国科罗拉多州斯普林斯市的加尔文一家是一个完美的中产家庭：丈夫多恩热情洋溢，是一名自信满满的空军学院军官，妻子咪咪则是来自得克萨斯州一个上层家庭的大家闺秀，他们还有12个可爱的孩子。
但在这种表明的光鲜下，一股这对夫妇无法理解的力量正在涌动。短短十年间，12个孩子中的6个先后罹患严重的精神分裂症，另6个孩子则在恐惧中等待，等待自己成为下一个，等待更多痛苦和伤害的降临。在超过半个世纪的时间里，癫狂、屈辱和暴力从未饶恕过这个家庭，笼罩在这个家庭之上的也远不止自残和谋杀。基于对所有健在当事人的采访和大量医学档案资料，作者罗伯特·科尔克以饱含同情和悲悯的笔触讲述了精神分裂症吞噬这个家庭的全过程。
在承受无尽苦难的同时，这个特殊的家庭也为探寻精神分裂症的病因和治疗方法带来了一丝希望。以加尔文一家的故事为脉络，科尔克在书中梳理并穿插了过去一个世纪医学界有关精神分裂症病因的观点和争论、这种疾病治疗方法的演变、社会对精神分裂症病人及其家人的偏见和歧视。从弗洛伊德与荣格的分歧与决裂，到整整一代治疗师将病因归咎于“精神分裂症妈妈”，从理论家们抛弃疾病的概念执着于对其进行颠覆，到医学研究者抽丝剥茧寻找这种疾病的生物学原因，本书都一一做了介绍。《隐谷路》最终把注意力聚焦在几名医学研究者上，讲述了他们以这个特殊的家庭为样本，在过去数十年间为解开精神分裂症之谜做出的不懈努力，以及发现精神分裂症易感基因的曲折和突破。
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【编辑推荐】
★ 横扫几乎所有欧美著名媒体2020年度好书书单：《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《华尔街日报》《波士顿环球报》《时代》《泰晤士报》……
★ 力压美国前总统奥巴马回忆录《应许之地》，位居《纽约时报》2020年度十佳图书非虚构类榜首
★ 美国前总统奥巴马2020年度最爱图书
★ 美国亚马逊2020年度最佳非虚构类图书
★ 奥普拉读书俱乐部创立25年来迄今唯一入选的非虚构类叙事作品（不含回忆录）
★ 2021年度美国笔会非虚构文学奖决选作品，2021年度安德鲁·卡内基优秀图书奖入围作品
★ 中国科学院院士、北京大学第六医院院长陆林作序推荐
★ 中南大学湘雅二医院教授、中华医学会精神医学分会主任委员李凌江，科普作家、《心外传奇》作者李清晨，中国科学院脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心高级研究员、神经科学国家重点实验室副主任仇子龙倾力推荐
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【媒体、学者推荐】
一部叙事新闻的杰作，也是对同理心的研究。作者罗伯特·科尔克以饱含同情的笔触讲述了加尔文一家的故事，同时也梳理了医学界在诊治精神分裂症方面的科学进展。——《纽约时报》
必将成为非虚构叙事写作的经典之作。——《明尼阿波利斯明星论坛报》
一项杰出的病例研究，一部调查报道的力作。——西尔维娅·娜萨，《美丽心灵：纳什传》作者，普利策奖、美国书评人协会奖获得者
从当代科学的眼光来看，精神分裂症是遗传的易感素质与个体成长过程中各种不良经历磨合的结果。然而，要找到帮助患者解脱“心魔”的路径并消除疾病带给患者的各种折磨，从正常人的角度艰难地去感悟和理解患者那种“疯狂”的感受，有时比努力寻找致病基因更有意义。《隐谷路》对一个高发精神分裂症家庭经历的细致描述也许就是这样的一剂良药，我相信它在这方面能达到的效果会远远超出了解这种疾病本身。——李凌江，中南大学湘雅二医院教授，中华医学会精神医学分会主任委员
我在儿童医院的工作中接触过与《隐谷路》中故事类似的家庭，但这本书揭示的苦难比我既往了解到的还要深重许多倍。人类的幸福有上限，但苦难深渊的下限深不可测，永远有更惨烈的痛苦让人目不忍视。但直视这样的痛苦是征服它们的必要前提，感谢那些以无与伦比的勇气去直面和征服这些苦难的科学家和医生。那些不幸罹患如此隐疾的人不应该是被社会隔绝、被人类抛弃的怪物，而是亟待拯救的正在忍受大不幸的人。——李清晨，外科医生、科普作家，《心外传奇》作者
精神分裂症是人类现代医学史上第一种被发现与遗传因素有关的脑疾病。这本书的时代背景二十世纪也是人类社会对遗传与基因爱恨交加的世纪。从一开始对基因的无比崇拜，到纳粹灭亡后所有人都对导致疾病的遗传因素讳莫如深，现代医学对精神分裂症的研究就是在这种背景下展开的。《隐谷路》提供了一份研究精神分裂症的绝佳资料，一个被疾病困扰的大家族。在逐渐揭开精神分裂症神秘面纱的同时，医生也发现了各种药物，可以逐渐减轻精神分裂症病人的痛苦。人类也许暂时还无法治愈精神分裂症，但无数医生和科学家的孜孜探索终将使人类摆脱精神疾病的困扰。——仇子龙，中国科学院脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心高级研究员，神经科学国家重点实验室副主任

Fifteen year old Graham Iddesleigh dreams of a past life, where he frolicked in a garden with a young Greek god. However, his dreams threaten to come to an abrupt end when his father decides to send him away to school. But what is Graham's surprise when he meets a fellow schoolboy, Harold Brocklehurst, who is the very image of the Greek god of his dreams!
Graham falls deeply in love with his new friend, and the two boys spend an unforgettable summer together -- until a heartbreaking tragedy occurs, a tragedy that will change Graham's life forever.
"The Garden God" was first published in 1905, in the wake of the Oscar Wilde trial and other scandals, and risked controversy with its undercurrents of pederastic desire. Forrest Reid dedicated the novel to his idol, Henry James, who was outraged and never spoke to Reid again. This first ever scholarly edition of the novel includes a new introduction and notes by Michael Matthew Kaylor, who dismisses the traditional view of Reid as merely a provincial novelist and argues for his inclusion among the major Uranian writers such as Pater, Wilde, and Frederick Rolfe.

A love affair between a thirteen-year-old schoolboy (Tony Sandel) and a nineteen-year-old undergraduate (David), written and published at time before moral panic set in and the false dogma was established that all such relationships damaged the younger partner for life. Sandel is an evocative portrait of boarding-school and Oxbridge life and the intense, often romantic friendships that flourish there. It is also a novel of sexual awakening, whose light touch disguises the profound emotions that such friendships generate; the relationship portrayed is partly of equals and partly, as often happens, one where it is the younger partner who decides whether and how it should persist.

Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief—all while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American history—about who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight.
In “Boys Go to Jupiter,” a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral. In “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain,” a photojournalist is forced to confront her own losses while attending an old friend’s unexpectedly dramatic wedding. And in the eye-opening title novella, a black scholar from Washington, DC, is drawn into a complex historical mystery that spans generations and puts her job, her love life, and her oldest friendship at risk.

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……

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.

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

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.

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?

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?

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.