Justin Torres's debut novel centers around three brothers who grow up in a world of imagination, neglect, and pain in an undisclosed upstate New York town. They fancy themselves alternately as the Three Musketeers; the Three Bears; the Three Stooges; Alvin and the Chipmunks; Frankenstein, the bride of Frankenstein, and the baby of Frankenstein; and even the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Children of a Puerto Rican father and white mother in a town populated by poor whites warned to avoid race mixing, these brothers are "half-breeds" with overworked, absent parents who rarely manage to provide the basics of food, safety, or companionship. Early on, the brothers learn to be wary of their father's rage and their mother's confusion, creating their own wild ways to play.

Named one of 5 Writers Under 35 by National Book Foundation, 2019 Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen's debut novel is an experimental work that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hyponemata, or "notes to the self," in the form of observations, reminders and self-exhortations. Taken together, these notes constitute a personal handbook on "how to live"--or perhaps more urgently "why to live," a question the narrator, graduate student Athena Chen, desperately needs answering. When Chen hears news that her brilliant friend from college has committed suicide, she is thrown into a fugue of fear and doubt. Through anecdotes and close readings of moments in the sometimes harrowing world of sports, the novel questions the validity of our current narratives of success. Anelise Chen earned her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her fiction, essays and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Gawker, NPR and elsewhere. She currently teaches writing at Columbia University.

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble.
With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.

邱妙津长篇小说处女作
震动整个台湾的同性爱情物语
开启一个时代的文学经典
蒋勋 骆以军 陈雪 推荐
生命地带的边缘，同性情欲的纠结，在冷冷而又无助的人生旷野，倾听邱妙津——一只寂寞鳄鱼的真挚告白，一曲狂暴热烈的绝望恋歌……
对于这仿佛与生俱来、无法选择更无以更改的同性恋身份，是勇敢面对，还是纠结抗争？直面内心深处的爱和无处放置、无人理解的悲哀到底有多艰难，而再绝望创痛的故事，在人生最灿烂的时刻，都会绽放出令人讶异的温情与美……
“尽管我要再受多大的痛苦与折磨，我还是要述说爱是不灭的。”
《鳄鱼手记》是邱妙津完成的最重要的长篇小说，也是台湾20世纪末大学生迷惘与困顿的心路历程的真实写照。
全书分为八个章节，其中大部分章节以大学生活为背景，叙述了七个男女主人公的同性、双性恋的情感生活和心路历程，通过解放的性及性别观点，描绘了当时大学生全新的精神世界和得不到认同的感情经历给彼此的成长过程带来的痛苦和收获。其他章节则以一只拟人化鳄鱼的独白，另组合成独立于主要情节之外的寓言，讽刺、影射“鳄鱼╱性异常者”在人类社会孤独、受压迫的命运。这些彼此穿插的叙事线索以复调双声的结构牵动出同一主题的心理及政治层面。
如今我已四十五岁，距我和邱妙津相识，或我们那么年轻（而两眼发光、头顶长角），几次争辩但又同侪友好，脚朝上踮想象可以、“应该”写出怎样怎样的小说，已经二十年了。我仍在不同时期，遇见那些小我五岁、十岁、十五岁、二十岁的拉子，仍和我虔诚地谈论邱妙津……我感觉她已成为台湾女同志“拉子共和国”、某张隐秘时光货币上的一幅肖像。 ——骆以军
她的作品被大家传颂、引用、讨论、研究，她的生平、事迹甚至她阅读欣赏的小说、作家、电影导演，所有一切都成为女同志世界里一座无论在何处都可以眺望的高山，成为那一代文艺青年效仿参照的对象，甚至有人直接就说，“邱妙津是我的神。”
——陈雪

在线阅读本书
New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated
Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland.

<b>A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Girls</i>.</b><br /><br />Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome.<br /><br />A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.<br /><br />With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted dunes of a rarified world that is, at first, closed to her. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake.<br /><br />Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away from, Emma Cline's <i>The Guest </i>is a spellbinding literary achievement.

⭐李一洋长篇处女作，书写世界原初之时的经验。
⭐现实与神话交叠，建构出一个奇幻世界。
“天地之始不可说，森林草原之始不可说，河流高山之始不可说，四脚生灵之始不可说。我能言者，唯灰耳朵身后之事。”
⭐这是一个关于旅途和探索世界的故事，也是一个父与子相互成长的故事。
一个少年，要经过多少历练才能真正成人？一个父亲，何时会卸下坚硬外壳，展露温柔？
⭐只有知道了自己从何处来，才知道从何处去。寻马之旅，亦是精神还乡。走过雾地、杉林，接受熊赐、献祭，灰耳朵成为了女人，脱落的鹿角化成男人。觉醒的动物，要如何获得人的身份？被放逐的人，要怎么寻回来时的路？
⭐精心绘制地图，体验探索乐趣。东方草原、大流沙、夏牧场……再现游牧民族的地理人文，带你走进灰耳朵的世界。
⭐日本新锐艺术家后藤温子封面插画设计，呈现部落传说的幻象奇潭。
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【推荐语】
《灰耳朵》弥散着朴素而雄健的气象，正如“一盏银杯中应该盛有蜜酒，一座毡房中应该有人酣睡”，世界原初之时的经验，需要被天真地重拾与温故。如此，小说逼近了其自身的源头——开辟鸿蒙般的传说与神示般的寓言。新的经验便是这般发生着，而我们，时刻经历着的，都是创世，都是指认与命名。
——弋舟（小说家）
《灰耳朵》这样的奇幻小说，既有创世的精神又不乏末世的情绪，架空了时代得以一脚凌虚奔赴化外之地。那种开天辟地的气概，一切自我而始的笃信，本就是小说的一大正宗，却一直为琐屑的“现实”“当下”或“日常”所掩蔽。由此，《灰耳朵》于汉语写作的意义，或许就是一个开端，带领我们过关越界，奔赴全新的语境。
——田耳（小说家）
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【内容简介】
在“大寂静”来临的前夕，乌丹游牧部落如期举族南迁。然而，少年铁箭棱因丢失了自己的第一匹马，不得不踏上险峻的羁旅。少年将自己的马命名为“灰耳朵”，这也是《乌丹夏木》中部落祖先的名字——在远古时，她从巨变的迷茫与焦虑中逐渐觉醒，认识并接受了“人”的身份，最终走向杉林外的世界。
在旅途中，铁箭棱宿命般地走入部落起源神话中的杉林，并渐渐与父亲野猪皮从对峙到和解。在暴风雪中的雾地，在黑暗但温暖的山洞中，他终于获悉自己身世的秘密。

女孩周允生长在简朴的工人家庭，母亲精明好强，父亲温和懦弱。从童年起，她就被视作母亲改变命运的“稻草”，一直乖巧懂事地成为着父母眼中有出息的孩子——考上重点中学、重点大学，甚至为了省一笔住校费用，假装自己对鸡蛋过敏。直到遇见特立独行的男孩魏叔昂，她渐渐意识到内心暗藏的那个真正的自我。从十几岁到三十岁，她一次次试图跨过成长的深河，成为想成为的自己，坚持一份不被理解的爱情，但复杂的家庭关系，始终是她的阻碍。终于，周允做出了可能会改变自己一生的决定……
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钱佳楠的书写克制而疏离，即便在最热情的段落里，也依然隐藏着一个冷眼旁观的作者。小说里氤氲着冰冷的空气，任何离别都是合理的，也是必然的。这是一部书写爱的作品：爱意味着接纳加诸在我们身上的限制和约束，使它们成为我们的选择。
——张悦然（著名作家）
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《不吃鸡蛋的人》是一个家族故事，也是一个女孩子的身体历史和内心史。书中的上海市民家庭被困窘所摄，超出自己掌控的社会变迁磨损了他们，鞭子挥向女儿，带着爱的声响。
——淡豹（著名媒体人、作家）
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这不单单是这个时代独有的故事。时代总是骤然断裂，骤然碰撞，旧人挣扎着变成新人，适应着新的装束，新的图景，新人又要面临时代变旧，自己被撇到时代边缘。于是有了挽歌，有了诗，有了画，有了钱佳楠的故事。有了凡俗的人世里，一点点难解的关怀。
——韩松落（著名影评人、作家）

A modern classic, "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ;a great gentleman. ; But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's ;greatness ; and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language
A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.
Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.
Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people’s motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk’s finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.

"Like an experimentally inclined Annie Proulx, Saterstrom tersely renders the effects of social violence on individual lives . . . the effect is shattering and transcendent."--Modern Times Bookstore newsletter In lyric, diamond-cut prose, Selah Saterstrom revisits the mythic, dead-end Southern town of Beau Repose. This time, the story follows a strung-out American teenager influenced by heavy metal, inspired by Ginger Rogers, hell-bent on self-destruction, and more intelligent than anyone around her realizes. She is forced into rehab and private school, and her life, at least on the surface, changes course, eventually leading to theology studies in Scotland. But as the feverish St. Vitus's dance of her adolescence morphs into slow-motion inertia abroad, an illness brings her home again--to face the legacy of pain she left behind and to find a way to become the lead in a dance of her own creation. An heir to William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Saterstrom soars above the traditional boundaries of the American novel with "exquisite, cut-to-the-quick language" (Raleigh News & Observer) that makes her novels "impossible to put down." Spare, raw, and transcendent, Saterstrom's unflinching examination of modern-day Dixie and contemporary adolescence lights up the dark corners of the American experience. Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Pink Institution, a debut novel praised across the country for "letting gusts of fresh, tart air blow into the old halls of Southern Gothic" (The Believer). A Mississippi native, she is currently on the faculty of the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program. Visit her website at www.selahsaterstrom.com.

<i>Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140449136</i><br /><br /><i>'Crime? What crime?...My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman...and you call that a crime?'</i><br /><br />Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.<br /><br />This vivid translation by David McDuff has been acclaimed as the most accessible version of Dostoyevsky's great novel, rendering its dialogue with a unique force and naturalism. This edition also includes a new chronology of Dostoyevsky's life and work.

2060 年，三位英国牛津大学历史学家决定通过时间旅行回到第二次世界大战，用亲身经历感受历史。迈克尔准备去多佛港调查敦刻尔克大撤退情况，梅洛普化身女仆在一座庄园里看护为躲避德军轰炸，从城市疏散到乡间的儿童，波莉则来到伦敦的百货公司成为一名女店员，每日体验着伦敦大轰炸阴霾下普通人的忧虑与坚强。
随着研究的进行，三名历史学家很快察觉到了异常，先是身边发生的事开始和历史记录出现细微差异，随后返回2060年的传送门也出于不明原因无法开启。三人被困在第二次世界大战时期的英国，成了时间的囚徒，只好努力在战火中寻找一线生机。更可怕的是，可能由于他们不经意间做出的行为，历史本身正在失去控制，战争的结局将被改写……

长篇小说《鱼王》是维克托·阿斯塔菲耶夫最具个性的一部代表作，俄罗斯当代文学的经典。全书由十三个内容相对独立的“叙事短篇小说”组成，全部围绕着人与自然的关系，深入细致地描绘了充满神秘诱惑的西伯利亚以及生活在那里的人们，他们关于生
活的沉思。荒凉苦寒的自然环境，同时又是大自然尽显壮美广袤富饶之地，人类的足迹在其间虽如雪泥鸿爪，却又带着生命不息的尊严。
这些篇章在思想内容和艺术形式上显示了独特的风格，淡化情节，描写细腻鲜活，“集长篇小说、中篇小说、抒情散文、道德议论为一体”（王小波），从不同的角度和方式显露出连贯的内容和意象，犹如
不经意穿成的一串珍珠，每一颗都以其自身的美丽折射出耀眼的光芒。
《鱼王》写作时为十三篇，其中《没心没肺》一
篇在1975年首次出版时未能收入，此后的汉语译本皆因袭此删节版。本次由俄语翻译家张冰将该篇翻译补入，首次呈现这部杰作的全貌，并收入俄罗斯原版精美彩插，满足读者多年期待。

The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as "magical realism."

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.

From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year. Features Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another.
From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year.
Conversations with Friends is about Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another. Twenty-one-year-old Frances is at the heart of it all, bringing us this tale of a complex menage-a-quatre and her affair with Nick, an older married man.
You can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. You can read it as a book about infidelity, about the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, or about how our minds think about our bodies. However you choose to read it, it is an unforgettable novel about the possibility of love.
'Fascinating, ferocious and shrewd. Sally Rooney has the sharpest eye for all of the most delicate cruelties of human interaction.' (Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies)
'Sally Rooney is a writer going all the way to the top. Conversations with Friends features the twenty-first century Irish descendents of Salinger's guileless wiseasses brought to life in prose as taut and coolly poised as early Bret Easton Ellis.' (Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins)
'Written with such precision and perceptiveness, full of arid humour and reckless despair, a novel of spine-tingling salience.' (Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither)
'Forensically smart and pin-sharp witty, this is a book to cherish and a writer to fall in love with.' (Thomas Morris, author of We Don't Know What We're Doing)

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Leda, a middle-aged divorce, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.