The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.<br /><br />Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world.<br /><br />The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.<b>
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A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.”
Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as “Manager of the Holocaust,” in 1961 he was able to portray himself, from the defendant’s box in Jerusalem, as an overworked bureaucrat following orders—no more, he said, than “just a small cog in Adolf Hitler’s extermination machine.” How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a central architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And what had he done with his time while in hiding?
Bettina Stangneth, the first to comprehensively analyze more than 1,300 pages of Eichmann’s own recently discovered written notes— as well as seventy-three extensive audio reel recordings of a crowded Nazi salon held weekly during the 1950s in a popular district of Buenos Aires—draws a chilling portrait, not of a reclusive, taciturn war criminal on the run, but of a highly skilled social manipulator with an inexhaustible ability to reinvent himself, an unrepentant murderer eager for acolytes with whom to discuss past glories while vigorously planning future goals with other like-minded fugitives.
A work that continues to garner immense international attention and acclaim, Eichmann Before Jerusalem maps out the astonishing links between innumerable past Nazis—from ace Luftwaffe pilots to SS henchmen—both in exile and in Germany, and reconstructs in detail the postwar life of one of the Holocaust’s principal organizers as no other book has done.

The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters―for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century.
The book draws on a vast range of sources―from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed―and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture.
A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
"Winner of the 2016 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association"
"Winner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University"
"Winner of the 2016 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies"
"Winner of the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute"
"Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in European &amp; World History, Association of American Publishers"
"2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards"
"One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Alison Light"
"One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015"
"One of Flavorwire’s 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015"
"Hardly a sentence in Laqueur's long book is wasted."---John Gray, New York Review of Books
"This passionate and compassionate book is nothing short of a magnum opus. In it one of the most original and daring historians of our time guides the reader on an unexpected journey through churchyards, cemeteries, and crematoriums, challenging common wisdom and offering startling new insights into the meaning of our ways of caring for the dead."--Lynn Hunt, author ofWriting History in the Global Era
"Thomas Laqueur's magnificent book is haunted by the ancient Cynic philosopher Diogenes, who wanted his corpse simply thrown over the walls of the city for wild dogs to eat. Why humans do not dispose of the dead in such a way, why we feel compelled as a species to treat our mortal remains with such an astonishing variety of rituals, is the subject of this deeply learned and richly detailed meditation. Eschewing simple explanations, ranging across centuries and cultures, plunging with unflagging energy into vast archives, Laqueur discloses and explores the work that the dead do for the living. The Work of the Dead is like a vast canvas in which the reader can somehow see at the same moment the tiny buttons on a frock coat and the curvature of the earth. The book is a moving triumph of scholarship and the historical imagination."--Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
"An astonishingly erudite and beautifully written history that is both epic and intimate, The Work of the Dead exhumes subtle and seismic shifts in the vital place that the dead have among the living. Ranging from the earliest burial practices to the modern cemetery and crematorium, Thomas Laqueur reminds us that how we treat the dead is a key to understanding the cultures of the living. Who would have thought the dead could provide so much insight and illumination?"--John Brewer, Caltech
"This is a truly great book--a milestone of scholarship and a joy to read. The brilliance and richness of each chapter are thrilling, and the movement between literary examples, philosophical discussion, and a vast array of historical sources is simply incredible."--Claudio W. Lomnitz, Columbia University
"The Work of the Deadis an enormous, erudite, garrulous, exhausting and brilliant piece of work. And it never forgets that thread of intuition and feeling.' Diogenes will be turning in his grave."--The Economist
"The product of prodigious research and a subtle and sophisticated knowledge of history, anthropology, and philosophy,The Work of the Deadis as magnificent--and mindbogglingas it is monumental."--Glenn Altschuler,Huffington Post

A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world.
We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history.
The Invention of Science goes back five hundred years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently, but came to intersect and create a new worldview. Here are the brilliant iconoclasts—Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe, Newton, and many more curious minds from across Europe—whose studies of the natural world challenged centuries of religious orthodoxy and ingrained superstition.
From gunpowder technology, the discovery of the new world, movable type printing, perspective painting, and the telescope to the practice of conducting experiments, the laws of nature, and the concept of the fact, Wotton shows how these discoveries codified into a social construct and a system of knowledge. Ultimately, he makes clear the link between scientific discovery and the rise of industrialization—and the birth of the modern world we know.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. • From the acclaimed author of Magnificent Rebels. 

"Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten. 

In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism—and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling—mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues—have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future.

An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent—and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon.

The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story.
" Backgrounds and Contexts " provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views of imperialism and racism and include autobiographical writings by Conrad on his life in the Congo. New to the Fourth Edition is an excerpt from Adam Hochschild's recent book, King Leopold's Ghost , as well as writings on race by Hegel, Darwin, and Galton.
" Criticism " includes a wealth of new materials, including nine contemporary reviews and assessments of Conrad and Heart of Darkness and twelve recent essays by Chinua Achebe, Peter Brooks, Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, Edward Said, and Paul B. Armstrong, among others. Also new to this edition is a section of writings on the connections between Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now by Louis K. Greiff, Margot Norris, and Lynda J. Dryden.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.

When Europeans arrived in North America, the average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia and its effects—famine, starvation, desperation, and violence—were stark among colonists unprepared to fend for themselves. This history of the Little Ice Age in North America reminds us of the risks of a changing and unfamiliar climate.

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (
), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise?
tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With
, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.

Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust
How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of one hundred Jewish children out of the ruins of conflict through their adulthood and into old age.
Drawing on archives and interviews, Clifford charts the experiences of these child survivors and those who cared for them—as well as those who studied them, such as Anna Freud. Survivors explores the aftermath of the Holocaust in the long term, and reveals how these children—often branded “the lucky ones”—had to struggle to be able to call themselves “survivors” at all. Challenging our assumptions about trauma, Clifford’s powerful and surprising narrative helps us understand what it was like living after, and living with, childhoods marked by rupture and loss.

An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them―not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history.

The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. For three hundred years, the Horde was no less a force in global development than Rome had been. It left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day.

Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. Its unique political regime―a complex power-sharing arrangement among the khan and the nobility―rewarded skillful administrators and diplomats and fostered an economic order that was mobile, organized, and innovative. From its capital at Sarai on the lower Volga River, the Horde provided a governance model for Russia, influenced social practice and state structure across Islamic cultures, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced novel ideas of religious tolerance.

The Horde is the eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, Favereau makes clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol moment.

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union―showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century.
Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances―and the fragility of authoritarian state power.

20世纪五六十年代，集体化给中国农村带来了巨大变化，后世著作也对此多有研究论述。然而，中国女性，特别是农村女性，却对此鲜有发声。本书开创性地从性别研究和集体记忆的角度切入了中国当代史研究。作者用历时15年收集的口述史资料，向我们描述了陕西省某农村的72位老年妇女在20世纪五六十年代的人生变迁。通过深入分析这些被访者的人生故事，作者从女性视角出发，记载了农村社会变迁对于妇女生活产生的影响。作者让我们看到，在集体化的过程中，中国农村女性突破了小家庭的范畴，*次走向社会，融入社会。不少女性通过扫盲，获得初步知识文化，甚至获得成为农村助产士的工作机会。也有不少农村女性在集体化过程中，突破家务劳动的小圈子，进入集体劳动过程，甚至成为劳动模范，在其中获得自尊与自信的提升。集体化的过程，在某种程度上也是中国社会逐渐走向男女平等，提升妇女家庭地位和社会地位的过程。作者通过性别差异这个权力轴线，切入20世纪五六十年代中国农村的集体化，探讨了社会主义的性质以及性别在社会主义国家的重要作用。著作通过女性视角，丰富了20世纪五六十年代的历史，让我们能够更加深刻、客观地认识那一段历史。

19世纪中国发生了巨大变革。这本书从分析中国社会的内部结构及其制度入手，强调了中国地方名流的作用，论述了在其影响下的地方组建武装活动的形成和发展，并就此对中国近代史的分期问题提出了新的看法。

结束十六国纷乱局面的拓跋鲜卑，是怎样从落后状态乘时崛起，担当了开启北朝，从而孕育隋唐的历史任务？
本书作者对这个问题作了回答。但他不是在传统北魏史的框架内，而是以北魏建国之前的代北时期为焦点、包括北魏时期的框架内，去探求拓跋部所体现的历史意义。他以敏锐深邃的史学眼光，论证了拓跋在与代北乌桓共生的百余年中发育成长，并从此积累了经验和力量。拓跋珪用野蛮手段建立残酷悖伦的子贵母死制度，暴力离散母族、妻族部落组织，巩固了拓跋君权和北魏政权，把拓跋部落联盟带进文明社会，完成这一历史任务。
拓跋珪的野蛮手段使拓跋部承受了巨大的精神痛苦，也留下了后遗症，以致后人不知道把拓跋史诗中充满野性的历史素材如何裁剪成皇帝认可的体面的国史。北魏国史大狱之兴以及北魏史学不振，根源盖出于此。
书中发表“猗卢之碑”残石版资料，亦将引起研究者的关注。
作者执着于历史新知的获取需要学界长远积累的愿望，修订本对原书有较多改动，订正了一些使用和认知史料的不足，也有若干见解上的变动。仍然意在提供一种研究的思路，奉献给同好读者，共做进一步的考索。

本书以丰富的史料和周密的考证分析，对中国中古历史中的门阀政治问题作了再探索，认为中外学者习称的魏晋南北朝门阀政治，实际上只存在于东晋一朝；门阀政治是皇权政治在特定历史条件下出现的变态，具有暂时性和过渡性，其存在形式是门阀士族与皇权的共治。本书不落以婚宦论门阀士族的窠臼，对中国中古政治史中的这一重要问题提供了精辟的见解，具有很高的学术价值。

（薛爱华是）以往四十年美国中古中国研究的同义词。
——柯睿（Paul W. Kroll），美国科罗拉多大学教授
本书是关于中古中国的热带地区，它以朱雀为其象征。……我要考察其对于中古中国人的知识构成有何贡献，同时考察其对于中国人的感觉、情感以及想象力的影响——或者反过来说，考察中国精神这个大熔炉如何改变了这一片土地。
本书的目的不是让过去“观念化”，而是以一种生动活泼而且感性的方式，去了解过去，而且不必牺牲其精确性。这意味着要尝试将唐代人的中世纪世界，既看作是一个实有的境界，又看作是一种想象的诠释。
——薛爱华
内容简介：
今天富饶的岭南（包括广东、广西、海南岛）和毗邻的安南（大部分北越及红河三角洲）地区，在唐代还是一片边远地区的“蛮荒化外”之地，旧称“南越”。本书即是关于这片神秘而燠热之地的历史文化研究，作者“遵循了上帝造物及从诺亚方舟登岸时的顺序”，逐一描述了中古南越引人注目的自然风物与山川地貌：从天空到海洋、岩石、河流、植物、野兽与鸟类，当然还有历史地理、区域分布、语言、人种、宗教、气候等等。
作者卓越的历史语言文献的功底与人类学、民族学与民俗学的广阔视野，使得本书集历史研究、文化人类学研究与名物研究于一体；而唐代诗文与笔记史料中所呈现的中原唐人对南方土著的人文、宗教、风土、名物的认知与想象，使得本书不是在展示“博物馆抽屉中的一些标本”，也不是把历史“观念化”，而是要真正地“复苏”并“认识”那段历史，在千变万化的气、味、音、色中，试图探究这种南方的气味和感觉——以朱雀为象征——如何激发了在南越的唐人的想象力。

一位难以解读的小说家
一部台湾文学史上不可忽视的经典
联合报文学小说大奖得主，童伟格作品首次引进
◎ 编辑推荐
★ 童伟格是台湾六年级小说家中最具代表性的一位，曾获台湾省文学奖、联合报文学奖、台湾文学金典奖等认可，被认为是袁哲生、骆以军之后“内向世代的集大成者”。
★ 魔幻写实、乡土主义、现代主义、内向世代……我们能从童伟格的书写轮廓中瞥见许多风格，却无法用某一个特定的形容词去概括他。如同骆以军所说：“童伟格的可怕，在于他可以解释其他全部人，而竟无人能解释他。”
★ 作为童伟格首次引进的作品，《王考》有着不可忽视的地位。它是童伟格25岁出版的首部作品，一出版便惊艳台湾文坛，在其中他将种种小说的技艺操练到相当的高度，如黄锦树曾言：“童伟格的小说写作，几乎是一开始就很成熟了，好似直接跳过了学徒的阶段，第一部小说集《王考》里的多个短篇就几乎是杰作。”
★ “我问祖父，爱情是什么？我问他，人怎么这么愚蠢？我问，我们活着为什么？”在《王考》中，童伟格用锐利的冷调文字捕捉生命中的神秘瞬间，讲述老灵魂不欢的童年故事。他拆解具体情节、冻结叙事时光，让人物直接和命运对话。故事仓皇流转，却始终覆盖在死亡的阴影之下。
◎ 内容简介
在这部短篇小说集中，童伟格运用乡土、魔幻写实，甚至是历史与神话的嫁接等各种自由的叙事，拓展出九篇面貌繁复的作品，并在这些篇章以滨海山村为原点，反复书写来去其中的人。他们跨过山，越过海，穿行公路，去往城市，最终又回返山村。不断徘徊的人们，重复出现的场景，让小说展示出一幅幅时间冻结的画面，并且在一次次静止的瞬间之中，直面命运。
◎ 名人推荐
★ 我确实为童伟格这些篇优美纯粹的小说迷惑吸引。“怎么可能那么好？”那是一个比我的小说启蒙时刻上跳了几十年的，宽阔而完整的“人直接与命运对话”“叙事尚未被污染之前”的地貌。
——台湾小说家 骆以军
★ 《王考》彻底的抒情风格，也道出童伟格与抒情主义的亲缘性。在这一点上，他的写作可说是位于其他两个早夭的同代人袁哲生（强烈的抒情性）和黄国峻（标准的现代主义）的延长线上，企图更远地朝向其消失点——那永远不可能趋近的可能性的尽头。
——马华文学作家 黄锦树
★ 老灵魂不欢的童年，这是我对童伟格的小说看法。他几乎用小孩“我”的口吻说故事，锐利而冷静，情节流畅，难得之处是他擅用人物的动作描摹内心状态，纯然带着说故事的本色。读他的小说，我想到的画面是：“乡村杂货店前的老人，讲着童年故事。”
——台湾小说家 甘耀明
★ 在《王考》这本小说中，处处充满了死亡与失落的阴影，仿佛是不可抗拒地陷入到一个时间与时间的夹缝之中，指针卡住，故人物仓皇流转在梦境与现实的边际，而生与死俨然成为一体之两面，记忆斑驳成为拼凑的残缺碎片。
——台湾作家 郝誉翔
◎获奖记录
★《我》荣获1999年“台北文学奖”短篇小说评审奖
★《暗影》荣获2000年“大专学生文学奖”短篇小说叁奖
★《躲》荣获2000年“台湾省文学奖”短篇小说优选
★《王考》荣获2002年“联合报文学奖”短篇小说首奖
★ 作者以长篇小说《西北雨》成为2010年“台湾文学奖”图书类长篇小说金典奖得主