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The master of espionage fiction offers a memoir of sorts, a series of meticulously crafted, witty and enthralling “stories from my life”. He describes the childhood deceptions and losses that launched him, his schooling in Switzerland, where he made his first “infant steps for British Intelligence, delivering I knew not what to I knew not whom.”

间谍小说大师推出自传体作品，细腻打造“我的生活中”引人入胜的趣事。他描述了童年遭遇的欺骗和随之而来的失落感，讲述了在瑞士的学生时光，正是在那里，他“迈出了成为英国情报人员的第一小步，把我不了解的信息传递给我不认识的人”。


In her brilliant new novel, Patchett, winner of the 2001 Orange Prize for Bel Canto, traces the consequences of one impulsive act on an American family over 50 years. She begins with a christening party for Fix and Beverly Keating’s second daughter, Franny. Bert Cousins, a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, shows up uninvited with a bottle of gin. By the end of the party, he has kissed Beverly. Patchett creates memorable, complex characters in this exploration of the reverberations of betrayal.

在这本绝妙的新小说中，因《美声唱法》获得2001年柑橘文学奖的作者帕奇特追溯了一个美国家庭长达50年的历史变迁，而这一切仅仅源于一次冲动行为。故事开头是费克斯和贝弗利 基廷的二女儿弗兰妮的受礼仪式，一位洛杉矶小律师伯特考辛斯带着一瓶杜松子酒不请自来。宴会结束时，他已经亲吻了女主人贝弗利。帕奇特探究了背叛带来的巨大影响，并在其中塑造了让人印象深刻的复杂人物。


“Kafkaesque” is “synonymous with the nightmarish, the ominous, and the bureaucratically bizarre,” notes Peter Wortsman in the afterword to his lucid and rhythmic translation of a selection of the Prague icon’s short stories, parables, letters and diaries.

“卡夫卡式”就是“噩梦般的、不祥的、充满官僚主义的怪异”，彼得沃茨曼在后记中如此写道。这本书收集了捷克代表作家卡夫卡的短篇故事、寓言、信件和日记，而沃茨曼的译文清晰明了，韵律感十足。


Davies distills 150 years of Chinese-American history in his timely and eloquent new novel. In Gold, the first of its four sections, Ah Ling, 14, the son of a Hong Kong prostitute, seeks his fortune in California. Silver portrays the 30-year career of the LA-born actress Anna May Wong, who co-stars with Douglas Fairbanks at 19.

戴维斯在这本如约而至的新小说中用丰富生动的语言提炼了美籍华人150年的历史。在四章节中的第一章“黄金篇”里，14岁的阿凌（音译），一个香港妓女的儿子，在加利福尼亚开始了追寻财富的生活。“白银篇”讲述了洛杉矶出生的女演员黄柳霜30年的职业生涯，她从19就开始和道格拉斯费尔班克斯同台演出了。

Barcelona-born Vila-Matas has published more than 20 novels, and won the 2014 Prix Formentor. This selection of 19 stories showcases his dark yet whimsical wit and genre-blending tendencies. In the title story, a desperate man with two sharp vampire’s teeth has a sinful eye for an altar boy. The narrator calls him “Saint Nosferatu”. “Like all those in love”, Vila-Matas writes, “he is both vampire and martyr”.

出生于巴塞罗那的维拉－马塔斯已经出版了20多本小说，并于2014年获得了福明托文学奖。本书精选的19个故事展现了他黑暗而古怪的智慧和喜欢把多种体裁混杂到一起的写作倾向。在该书同名故事中，一个绝望的男人长着两颗吸血鬼尖牙，他总是用邪恶的眼光看着助祭男孩，叙述者称其为“圣诺斯菲拉图”。维拉－马塔斯写道：“就像所有恋爱中的人一样，他既是一个吸血鬼，又是一位牺牲者。”


Le Guin is the second living novelist (after Philip Roth) to be included in the Library of America. This first volume, with a new introduction and chronology from the author, gathers her early work, before she turned to science fiction. The Complete Orsinia offers invaluable insights into Le Guin’s genius. “My games are transformation and invention,” she writes.

勒奎恩是继菲利普罗斯之后第二位在有生之年就被收入美国文库的小说家。这本最早的书中加入了作者的新简介和大事记，收录了她在转型为科幻小说家之前的早期作品。《奥西尼亚》一书能让读者以全新的视角欣赏勒奎恩的天才，有极高的价值。她写道：“变形和创造是我的游戏。”


McBride wowed the literary world with her first novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the first Goldsmiths Prize, among others. McBride writes of her narrator’s tentative first roles in student plays, and a year of increasing intimacy with an older actor. As he describes his own childhood, and twisted relationship with his mother, she struggles to tame her own most powerful instincts.

麦克布莱德的第一部小说《女孩是半成品》震惊了整个文学界，她获得了百利女性奖（虚构类）和金匠奖等诸多奖项。麦克布莱描写了主人公在学生戏剧中尝试表演的 最早的角色，还写到她有一年与一位年长的演员越来越亲密。当他描述自己的童年以及与母亲的病态关系时，她尽力压抑着自己最强烈的本能情感。