Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature.
A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel’s isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too: the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water – a canal thief? – swimming upstream, getting ever closer. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back.
Daisy Johnson’s debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. As daring as it is moving, Everything Under is a story of family and identity, of fate, language, love and belonging that leaves you unsettled and unstrung.

Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.
When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn’t forget, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?
The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan’s greatest writers.
For readers of The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451 and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.
A disturbing, yet beautifully composed narrative told in three parts, The Vegetarian is an allegorical novel about modern day South Korea, but also a story of obsession, choice, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations,
is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter - a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.
The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter. Satirizing the classic Victorian novel,
is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished author.

这是一本“自由女性”安娜的成长纪录，由一个故事、五本笔记构成。
黑、红、黄、蓝四色笔记，一个不安灵魂的四道反光：黑色代表她的作家生活，红色代表政治生活，黄色代表爱情生活，蓝色代表精神生活。而金色笔记，则是一种哲理的表述，一个生活的总结。它的多彩反映着主人公迷乱失重的灵魂。
通过这部“跨国度的百科全书”，莱辛图解了整个表面平平淡淡，骨子里混乱无序的世界。每部分之间依次插入黑、红、黄、蓝四种笔记，涉及殖民主义、种族主义与男女间的爱情，兼具感性与知性。
诺贝尔文学奖颁奖词称《金色笔记》为“一部先锋作品，是二十世纪审视男女关系的巅峰之作”。

Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders.
But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way.
Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry’s life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.

Twins, inseparable as children, ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds: one black and one white.

The Vignes sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything, including their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. Across the country, the other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, although separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen when their own daughters' story lines intersect?

Weaving together multiple strands and generations, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, The Vanishing Half is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of of race, gender, and identity, and the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's desires and expectations.

A riveting, feminist debut about four women navigating contemporary South Korea, a world of strict social hierarchies, extreme plastic surgery and K-pop fan mania.
"Even as a girl, I knew the only chance I had was to change my face. When I looked into the mirror, I knew everything in it had to change, even before a fortune-teller told me so."
This utterly compelling novel follows the interconnected lives of four young women balancing on the edge of survival in contemporary Seoul, Korea.
Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a "room salon," an exclusive bar where she entertains wealthy businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client one evening suddenly threatens her livelihood. Her roomate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in an impossible relationship with the super-wealthy heir to one of Korea's biggest companies. Down the hall from their apartment building lives Ara, a hair stylist whose obsession with a boy-band pop star drives her to desperate extremes. And Wonna, on the floor just below, is a newlywed trying to get pregnant with a child that she and her husband will not be able to afford to raise and educate in the cutthroat economy of Seoul.
Together, they give us a gripping picture of their unfamiliar world of cultural hierarchies, yet unmistakably universal in the ways their tentative friendships will prove their saving grace.

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good--her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamourous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits--all the family has to live on--on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is "no right," a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her--even her beloved Shuggie.
A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of �douard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.

本书共十八讲，内容涉及敦煌的历史及其在中外交流史上的地位、藏金洞的发现及流散、各国敦煌学研究的回顾与发展，各类敦煌文献及其对政治史、社会史、宗教史、考古与艺术、语言文学、中外关系史研究的影响及贡献，以及敦煌学研究的方法论。

《敦煌石窟艺术研究》即为他的成果之一，对敦煌石窟艺术各时代的风格及艺术特色进行了系统的研究，并对壁画中的服饰、飞天以及唐僧取经图等方面进行了深入的探讨。段文杰先生早在1946年就来到敦煌莫高窟，从事敦煌壁画临摹和研究工作，是敦煌研究院的开创者之一。1980年任敦煌文物研究所所长，1984年敦煌文物研究所扩建为敦煌研究院，段文杰就任院长，1998年任敦煌研究院名誉院长。 段文杰先生在长期临摹壁画的同时，从美术史和美学的角度对敦煌艺术进行深入研究，取得了丰硕的成果。

《汉译世界学术名著丛书:西域考古记》是英国考古学家、探险家斯坦因对中国新疆及中亚地区进行四次探险的纪实之作。书中通过记录大量的考古挖掘，首次揭开了诸如楼兰、尼雅等古国的神秘，具有珍贵的史料意义，对于我们了解该地区的历史有重要的参考价值。

《敦煌石窟美术简史》一书，由敦煌研究院研究员赵声良撰写。全书约15万余字，插图200余幅，共分六章，按照时代顺序介绍并论述了敦煌石窟美术发展的概况。
敦煌艺术享誉世界，敦煌学备受国内外学术界的关注，而敦煌美术研究是敦煌学的重要分枝领域。本书对敦煌石窟美术进行系统的梳理和研究，集合了最新的材料与研究成果，具有很高的学术价值。在强调学术性的同时兼具可读性，精选了大量紧密配合各章节内容的插图，注重了图文互证，在语言和叙述方式上更偏重青年读者的阅读习惯。

日本文坛巨匠、芥川龙之介奖得主——井上靖代表作之一，荣获每日艺术大奖，令无数人拿着这本书从世界各地奔赴敦煌。宋仁宗天圣年间，书生赵行德进京赶考，却因瞌睡错过了考试，前往刀兵四起、黄沙漫天的敦煌，命运由此发生了剧烈的转折……

《跳房子》是当代拉美文学的经典之作，被誉为“拉丁美洲的《尤利西斯》”、“二战后关于情感和观点的最为强劲的百科全书”。
小说叙述的是一位任性不羁的拉美知识分子——奥利维拉，为了追求人生的真谛来到西方文明的“天堂”——巴黎，却发现自己与其格格不入，与周围的人和整个社会无法沟通。失望之余，他不得不舍弃爱情与友谊，回到“人间”——布谊诺斯艾利斯。然而，在这时他同样找不到自己形而上的追求。他执著地寻找理想中的精神天堂，但无论巴黎，还是阿根廷，苦苦的求索，只是使他一次次跌入失望的绝境。
《跳房子》是一部充满阅读挑战的巨著，它甚至包含着现代主义、后现代主义的一切写作技法。它为读者安排了两种以上的读法：传统的、现代的、以及科塔萨尔向读者发出的“合谋者”阅读方法，即读者自己挖掘出的第三种、第四种乃至无穷的讲法。作者为此把不要问题只等答案、喜欢不劳心智地被动阅读的享乐主义读者叫做“雌性读者”（后来作者曾为此向全世界的女性公开道歉）。

从印刷术到互联网，媒介作为人器官与意识的延伸，长久以来与人类互相塑造，共同进化。我们如何获取知识、协同工作、连接彼此，皆深受媒介影响。
今天，麦克卢汉的理论在每个人的生活中被反复证实。未来，技术的发展又将带来哪些新媒介？人的延伸又会被拓展至何方？在这本书中，麦克卢汉本质上探讨的是技术、人类与社会的命题。理解媒介，终究是为了理解我们所处的社会生态，在震荡与革新中找寻自身的生存之道。

很难简单概括《平面国》这本书。
它可以是：首次解释"维度"概念的科普读物、脑洞大开的科幻小说、煞有介事的数学童话、剑走偏锋的精神启蒙、辛辣讽喻英国维多利亚时代的社会寓言。
这本一百年前横空出世的小书，通篇在一本正经地胡说八道，散发着浓浓英式幽默，有趣、迷人，令人捧腹 。
它启发过无数大师，深刻影响了现当代科学。“平面国”已然成为全球范围内的超级文化符号。
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作者在平面宇宙设定基础上，展开细节详实的“平面国”生活画卷。平面国的各形状居民操心自己的国家社会，就像我们操心自己的日常生活。他们住在平面房子里，通过雾气和光线识别他人，靠彼此触摸识别“角度”区分地位。平面国史上还发生通过染色消除阶级而引发的大事件，比起空间世界的人类历史也不遑多让。
故事的主角，一位体面的正方形先生突然遇到了从三维国前来平面国传福音的“球”。他决定跟随这位导师向平面国传播立体空间的真理，却无法用平面国居民能理解的语言去解释高度和上（而不是北）。被人当做疯子后，他写出了这部传世的《平面国》。
作为读者的我们，将在这个故事中获得上帝视角，得以审视自身，以科学的态度，理解“科学的谦卑”
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*** 题 献 ***
写给所有空间中的居民
特别献给H·C
本书的作者是一位谦卑的平面国居民
他一开始只知道两二维的世界
后来才有幸被引入三维的空间
作者把这本书献给天空之国的臣民们
希望本书能激励你们不断立下更高的志向
去探索四维、五维、甚至六维的秘密
立体人，你们是比作者更高级的物种
愿探索能拓宽你们的想象
并孕育出最少见、最卓越的美德——谦虚
—— 本书作者正方形