《The Kite Runner(追风筝的人)》是一个阿富汗作家的处女作，霸占了美国两大权威畅销书排行榜《纽约时报》排行榜、《出版商周刊》排行榜长达80余周，声势超过红透全世界的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》。 这本小说太令人震撼，很长一段时日，让我所读的一切都相形失色。文学与生活中的所有重要主题，都交织在这部惊世之作里：爱、恐惧、愧疚、赎罪……——著名作家伊莎贝拉·阿连德 　　 ★一个阿富汗作家的处女作 　　★一部以史诗般的历史景观和荡气回肠的人性故事，深深地打动全世界各地亿万读者心的文学经典 　　★美国《纽约时报》、《出版商周刊》等九大畅销书排行榜榜首图书 　　★英国《观察家报》2005年度最佳图书 　　★台湾诚品书店、金石堂书店、博客来书店销售冠军 　　★连续80余周雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，声势超过红透全球的丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》 　　“许多年过去了，人们说陈年旧事可以被埋葬，然而我终于明白这是错的，因为往事会自行爬上来。回首前尘，我意识到在过去二十六年里，自己始终在窥视着那荒芜的小径。” 　　《华盛顿邮报》认为：“没有虚矫赘文，没有无病呻吟，只有精炼的篇章，细腻勾勒家庭与友谊，背叛与救赎。作者对祖国的爱显然与对造成它今日沧桑的恨一样深。故事娓娓道来，轻笔淡描，近似川端康成的《千羽鹤》。” 　　12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而，在一场风筝比赛后，发生了一件悲惨不堪的事，阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦，逼走了哈桑，不久，自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。 　　成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪，阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡，希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力，却发现一个惊天谎言，儿时的噩梦再度重演，阿米尔该如何抉择？ 　　小说如此残忍而又美丽，作者以温暖细腻的笔法勾勒人性的本质与救赎，读来令人荡气回肠。 Book Description Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan , the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of their lies. Written against a history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But with the devastation, Khaled Hosseini also gives us hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows for redemption. Amazon.com In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try. The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.") Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Gisele Toueg Amazon.ca The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys. Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling. The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca From Publishers Weekly Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid '90s. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant, is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy named Hassan, who receives a brutal beating from some local bullies. After establishing himself in America, Amir learns that the Taliban have murdered Hassan and his wife, raising questions about the fate of his son, Sohrab. Spurred on by childhood guilt, Amir makes the difficult journey to Kabul, only to learn the boy has been enslaved by a former childhood bully who has become a prominent Taliban official. The price Amir must pay to recover the boy is just one of several brilliant, startling plot twists that make this book memorable both as a political chronicle and a deeply personal tale about how childhood choices affect our adult lives. The character studies alone would make this a noteworthy debut, from the portrait of the sensitive, insecure Amir to the multilayered development of his father, Baba, whose sacrifices and scandalous behavior are fully revealed only when Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns the true nature of his relationship to Hassan. Add an incisive, perceptive examination of recent Afghan history and its ramifications in both America and the Middle East, and the result is a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium. From School Library Journal Adult/High School-This beautifully written first novel presents a glimpse of life in Afghanistan before the Russian invasion and introduces richly drawn, memorable characters. Quiet, intellectual Amir craves the attention of his father, a wealthy Kabul businessman. Kind and self-confident Hassan is the son of Amir's father's servant. The motherless boys play together daily, and when Amir wins the annual kite contest, Hassan offers to track down the opponent's runaway kite as a prize. When he finds it, the neighborhood bullies trap and rape him, as Amir stands by too terrified to help. Their lives and their friendship are forever changed, and the memory of his cowardice haunts Amir as he grows into manhood. Hassan and his father return to the village of their ancestors, and later Amir and his father flee to Los Angeles to avoid political persecution. Amir attends college, marries, and fulfills his dream of becoming a writer. When Amir receives word of his former friend's death under the Taliban, he returns to Kabul to learn the fate of Hassan's son. This gripping story of personal redemption will capture readers' interest. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Penny Stevens, Andover College, Portland, ME From Booklist Hosseini's debut novel opens in Kabul in the mid-1970s. Amir is the son of a wealthy man, but his best friend is Hassan, the son of one of his father's servants. His father encourages the friendship and dotes on Hassan, who worships the ground Amir walks on. But Amir is envious of Hassan and his own father's apparent affection for the boy. Amir is not nearly as loyal to Hassan, and one day, when he comes across a group of local bullies raping Hassan, he does nothing. Shamed by his own inaction, Amir pushes Hassan away, even going so far as to accuse him of stealing. Eventually, Hassan and his father are forced to leave. Years later, Amir, now living in America, receives a visit from an old family friend who gives him an opportunity to make amends for his treatment of Hassan. Current events will garner interest for this novel; the quality of Hosseini's writing and the emotional impact of the story will guarantee its longevity. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Kristine Huntley From AudioFile Amir, a rich man's son, grows up in Kabul as playmate and master of Hassan, an ethnic Hazara, a despised Afghani minority. Amir, who tells the story, has ambivalent feelings about both his father and his ultra-loyal friend as the monarchy falls, the Soviets invade, and Afghanistan is thrown into turmoil. Westerners who engage this novel will learn much about Afghani society of the recent past if they can endure the author's narration. In his inexpert voice, the point of view seems insipid and saccharine. But at least the exotic words and names are pronounced correctly. Y.R. Book Dimension length: (cm)19.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.8 点击链接进入中文版： 追风筝的人

London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'. But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

《在人间》是高尔基自传体小说三部曲中的第二部。主人公阿瘳沙十一岁时不得不到社会上谋生，他先后在鞋店、圣像作坊当过学徒，也在绘图师家、轮船上做过杂工，历经坎坷，饱尝了世间的痛苦。在轮船上当洗碗工时，阿廖沙结识了正直的厨师斯穆雷，并在他的帮助下开始读书，激发了对正义和真理的追求。五年后，阿廖沙怀着进大学的希望准备到喀山去。

本书收集了的小说抛充了许多外在的细节真实，把注意力集中到人物的内心世界，人物的性格，隐蔽的内在激情。读者注意到作者把一切在他看来可有可无之物悉数删去，无论马来狂人，还是陌生女人，全都无堍无姓。只有能够反映人物内心激情的细节，衬托小说气氛的场景才得到着力渲染：骄阳下使人发疯的热带丛林，黑夜中鬼气森森的甲板一隅，干渴龟裂的大地，灯火昏暗的小巷，受虐狂狗样哀求的眼睛，怀春少女渴求雨露的嘴唇。这些小说中的描绘比现实更鲜明、更突出，读者心里留下的不是繁复的情节、瑰丽的画面，而是鲜活的人物，炽烈的激情，你会感到他们灵魂的颤拦，发自内心的呻吟。

喜马拉雅山脚下，有一座孤零零的破败房子，一生受尽苦难的印度老法官就住在那里，退休之后他只想与爱犬安度晚年。然而他失去双亲的十六岁的外孙女赛伊突然闯入他死寂的生活。赛伊是个纯洁无暇的少女，痴情地爱上了自己的数学老师——尼泊尔青年基恩。基恩是一名贫穷的青年知识分子，最终卷入尼泊尔的动乱，与赛伊的恋情处在风雨飘摇中。法官还有一个厨子，厨子的儿子比居历尽艰辛来到纽约，成了一个非法移民，，在纽约的餐馆里打黑工，过着暗无天日的生活。比居最后决定返回祖国，但一踏上国土，他就重新陷入绝望的处境。

16世纪末，离家12年的青年黑终于回到他的故乡——伊斯坦布尔，迎接他回家的除了爱情，还有接踵而来的谋杀案。一位细密画家失踪了，奉命为苏丹绘制抄本的长者也惨遭杀害。遇害的画家究竟是死于画师间的夙仇、爱情的纠葛，还是与苏丹的秘密委托有关？苏丹要求在三天内查出结果，而线索，很可能……就藏在书中未完成的图画某处。 “我是一个死人，是井底的一具尸体。”无疑，这是今年最受关注的小说开头。小说以谋杀推理故事的外衣，叙写了16世纪伊斯兰细密画在透视画法的冲击下的没落灭亡，这并不仅仅是一桩艺术史上事件：从一个单向度、充满虔信的中世纪伊斯兰艺术观转向一个讲究多向度、多元化的西方艺术观，意味着割断一整个民族传统，这种艺术上的碰撞乃是社会动荡的一个侧面，人的观念为此受到的冲击，足以达致惨烈无比的程度。诺贝尔文学奖发给帕慕克，可以让更多的人了解到这位作家的苦心：两种文化的冲突不是一场必有一伤的斗争，而是衡量整个人类进步程度的试金石。小说的写作技巧亦为人所称道，一只狗、一棵树、一枚金币、红色、两具尸体，各种匪夷所思的事物都仿若有生命般，在书中担任了叙述者的角色。 这本易读、优美、充满智慧的作品，将能吸引广大的读者。

宇宙，人类最后的疆界。 无畏号，星际联盟的旗舰，赫赫有名的英雄舰艇。它在宇宙中执行着一项项伟大的任务，探索新世界，寻找新文明，勇敢地航向前人所未至的宇宙洪荒。 对于这一切，刚被调去舰上的低级军官达尔感到既光荣又兴奋……直到他发现： （1）每一次看似寻常的外勤任务，都免不了要遇到匪夷所思的危险； （2）飞船的舰长、首席科学官还有帅气的领航员总能戏剧化地幸存下来； （3）但很不幸，毫无例外，至少有一名军衔较低的船员会在任务中死去。 为了拯救自己，为了不让下一次外勤任务成为自己的人生谢幕，达尔和他的伙伴们展开了一场疯狂又惊心动魄的冒险。

我喜欢的女孩，洁西卡，因为父亲去世而伤心哭了。我想安慰她，但是她说，她不想再当小孩，所以我们做了那件事。因为这样，他们说我伤害洁西卡，害她住进医院，就把我送进托管中心关起来。 在禁闭室里，没有窗，没有床，没有玩具，只有四面白色的墙壁。我只能用这枝偷偷捡来的笔，在墙上写下我的故事：五岁时，我杀我了自己…… 这是作家霍华德．布登营销世界30年的畅销之作。他藉由男孩波登，描绘出一个不被理解的孤独心灵，是如何在一个与他格格不入的世界中生存。这其中，波登的单纯与大人世界的复杂形成强烈的对比，他无力摆脱身边那些讨厌的大人的处境，很容易让人联想到法国经典名著《小王子》；而波登被视为超越常规、不被理解的困顿，以及对成人世界的不知所措，亦常被引比为《麦田守望者》的霍尔顿。 这部小说在法国出版时，立即引起惊人的回响，除了被法国读者拿来与《小王子》相提并论，更推崇它是法语版的《麦田守望者》。30年来，它吸引了各个年龄层的读者，甚至拥有"每十个法国人，就有一人读过"的美誉，这一轰动现象，是法语书籍中少有能及。 有评论说，这本书能有既畅销又长销的成绩，是波登这个男孩太让人心疼难忘，作者的说故事手法太特别。但我们或许可以说，这是因为波登让人想起了那个仍旧躲藏在童年里、曾经不被理解和接纳的自己，也发现我们想要的，其实只是在这世界里，找到一个属于自己的地方。

父亲死后，郁郁寡欢的玛格丽特·拜尔来到梅尔监狱担任志愿探访者，她和女囚犯们交谈，引导她们“重塑新生”。 很快，玛格丽特·拜尔在囚徒中发现了一个谜样的存在，那就是萨琳娜·多丝，因“欺诈和袭击”罪名入狱，可她坚称自己的清白，她表示自己是沟通现世和彼世的灵媒，不幸的是，在一次通灵现场，她的监护灵失控，才使得无辜的人丧命。萨琳娜·多丝的楚楚可怜样使玛格丽特产生了怜悯之意，而萨琳娜·多丝竟能看透自己内心深处对弟妹那难以启齿的感情，并通过灵界朋友送来花朵和头发更让玛格丽特对其超能力深信不疑。 在萨琳娜·多丝的导引下，玛格丽特·拜尔开始领略到生活的真谛，爱的真谛，她再也不能坐看萨琳娜·多丝身陷囹圄，不想一幕悲剧就此上演…… BBC热门影集《灵契》精彩原著，2000年获“毛姆文学奖”。

长井代助是一个没有固定职业的“多余人”，靠着向父母或兄弟伸手要钱度日。大学毕业后，三十岁了还没安家，也不谋职工作。年轻时他对一切态度消极，曾把相爱的三千代让给朋友平冈。可是三千代嫁给平冈后并不幸福，生下的一个孩子不久也夭折了。平冈在事业上失败后从大阪返回东京，三千代登门求情借钱。代助对三千代的爱并未消失。他决心挽回自己的过失，把落难的三千代娶为妻，将她从窘境中解救出来，开始新的生活。由于代助的决定违背了父亲的意志，拒绝父兄安排的婚事，与家庭决裂了，生活费也没了着落．然而他并没改变主意。当他把一切向平冈和盘托出时，平冈愤然提出绝交。尽管如此，代助和三千代热烈而真心地相爱着。不久，三千代病倒了。为了生活，代助头顶着骄阳四处奔走，寻找着工作。

二战后，年轻的英国电子工程师伦纳德被派往德国参与英美合作的情报工程。战后的柏林，满目疮痍，善良单纯的伦纳德却在这里邂逅了美丽温柔的德国女子玛丽亚，从而卷入了一个充满爱与性的狂乱世界，色授魂与，不可自拔。正当两人难舍难分之际，一次意外谋杀，终使两人擦肩而过，抱憾终生。 这是一段冷战时期的罗曼史，一场二战之后的间谍战，一部惊悚的犯罪心理小说……一如既往，麦克尤恩把爱情、战争、悬疑、犯罪、性，以及黑色幽默等种种元素糅合得天衣无缝，他的笔下展现的是一个萧索绝望的柏林城，在这里，纯洁无辜之人无处容身，恐惧寒冷处处笼罩着他们，直至走向无尽的黑夜。 “非常有趣！” ——《华尔街日报》 “写作技巧纯熟、悬念迭起的小说……许多英语作家都经常被错误地拿来与伊夫林·沃作比较，但这本书却足以和那位大师的经典平起平坐。” ——《时代周刊》 “这本书如此扣人心弦，简直让人一气读完，不忍释卷……麦克尤恩将间谍小说的情节与脆弱如亚当和夏娃的神话糅合在一起。” ——《新闻周刊》 “（这本书）具有卡罗尔·里德电影的那种感觉：毛骨悚然，充满扭曲，处处危机四伏。它让我想起电影《第三者》，这不是一般的作品。” ——乔纳森·卡罗尔，《华盛顿邮报》读书世界版 “充满力量又令人不安……又一部力作。” ——《纽约时报》

《海狼》描写范·魏登因海难而为猎海豹船主海狼拉尔森所控，九死一生逃出险境的经历。海狼拉尔森“是一个返祖现象的极好例子，一个纯粹原始的人，是那种在人类演化出道德天性之前便来到人世的人”。这部小说反映19世纪末20世纪初误把达尔文进化论简单运用于人类社会的思潮。 《野性的呼唤》以一只狗的经历表现文明世界的狗在主人的逼迫下回到野蛮，写的是狗，也反映人的世界。

《茶花女》是法国作家小仲马的代表作，也是一部法国文学名著。1848年一经问世就产生了强烈的社会反响，几年以后作者本人将它改写成五幕话剧，获得了巨大的成功，轰动了整个巴黎，随后又被谱曲成歌剧。一个多世纪以来，小说《茶花女》被译成数十种文字，风靡世界；话剧、歌剧的演出经久不衰，现在仍然是一些著名剧团的保留节目。茶花女玛格丽特的悲惨命运，一直深深地感动着世界各地的读者和观众。 《茶花女》描写一个妓女的爱情悲剧，取材于当时巴黎一名妓的真实故事。据考证，这个妓女名叫阿尔丰西娜·普莱西。因家境贫困，十五岁出走巴黎，由于她天资聪颖美貌，便开始出入巴黎名大舞场，成了有钱的阔佬、公子哥们猎艳的口肉，以后便靠容貌和肉体换取奢侈的生活享受。终因过度的暴饮、狂欢和不分昼夜的肉欲纵横而身染肺痨，吐血而死，二十三岁就过早地离开了人世。

《三岛由纪夫作品系列:禁色》是作者创作于1951年的一部长篇小说，标志着作家开始迈进创作的新阶段。老作家桧俊辅藐视道德和凡俗，崇尚极端的唯美主义。因生来貌丑，为先后三个妻子不爱，他遇到英俊的同性恋青年悠一后，决定将悠一塑造成艺术品，向他得不到的女人展开报复……

诺贝尔文学奖得主J.M.库切的又一部自传体小说，同《男孩》、《青春》一起构成了完整的自传三部曲。在《夏日》中，库切将那种虚实相间、微妙迷离的回忆录风格更推进一步：著名作家库切已死；一位年轻的英国作家为了给这位已故作家撰写传记，像个侦探一样寻找着库切幽灵般的中年。这是一部奇特的作品，一部从他人视角出发的“自传”。

在传世爱情经典《爱情故事》里，名门之后奥利弗撞上他的“刁蛮女友”詹尼，两人一见钟情，口角不断却又愈爱愈深，但这深情的爱，却因詹尼魂归天国而陷入无限凄凉……小说谱写了一曲纯如秋水的爱情，有如一棵清嫩的小草，触动了人心底最柔软的地方，拨动了埋藏最深的心弦，令人刻骨铭心。图书甫一出版，立刻被千百万美国人争相传诵，连时任美国总统尼克松也感动得向全国人民倾情推荐。该书雄踞《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首长达41周，精装本在一年内重印21次；以30种文字在全球出版，累计销量超过3000万册，被《时代周刊》评为“美国20世纪10大经典爱情”之一。改编的同名电影，荣获美国全球奖和奥斯卡大奖，亦成为家喻户晓的经典。

洛杉矶私家侦探多克上次见到他的前女友莎斯塔似乎已经是很久以前的事了。倏忽间，她出现在他眼前，带来一个无从佐证的故事，一桩离奇绑架案，受害者——她现在的情人——是一个“腰缠亿贯”的房地产商。多克明知道“爱情”是个含混不清、随时会惹出一串麻烦的词儿，还是鬼使神差地撞进了莎斯塔的故事，而且愈卷愈深，江湖各色人在眼前时隐时现，其中包括冲浪手、皮条客、贩毒者、摇滚乐手、犯了命案的高利贷者等。 简单地沿着情节或者类型小说的思路（尽管《性本恶》确实有一个类似钱德勒侦探小说的外壳）来分析当今世界最神秘的后现代小说家托马斯•品钦的作品，显然是不够的；然而，对这本特殊的小说，如果仅仅做冷冰冰的技术分析，也未必就是正途。事实上，阅读《性本恶》，虽然你看到的仍旧是“百科全书式”的炫目风景，但你无需准备登山鞋；它可能更像是暮年品钦的一次私人化写作，充满了一个老人对六十年代洛杉矶那个曼哈顿海滩的乡愁记忆——不仅仅因为他是一个亲历者，更因为他隐秘地怀念着那些嬉皮青年们的天真浪漫和革命理想。他们并不只是为了享受片刻致幻的颓废高潮，他们背靠着一套完整的哲学。 “《性本恶》是品钦写过的最好玩的书。它囊括了所有亦庄亦谐的元素，正是这些使得他成为美国独特的伟大声音。这本书从一开始就燃烧着道德的暴怒——他对美利坚和那些游荡在这里的弃民怀有一种无以复加的强烈悲悯。” ——《滚石》杂志 “一本伟大的美国图书。它是对加州黑色小说绝佳的仿作，从始到终都令人捧腹（但很难在家庭报纸上引用这些笑话，因为它们用的常常都是五彩缤纷的口头语）。它对六十年代最后的喧哗进行了辛辣的再现，而那个时代的一切很快就将不复留存，湮没在记忆和传说里。” ——《华盛顿邮报》 “品钦的口语化文字非常随性，带着厚重的美国风韵，以至于你会忘记它是刻意编造出来的。《性本恶》读起来感觉是那么的不事雕琢，就像是在语言的即兴重复段周围安排了一系列的爵士独奏、场景和谈话。” ——《新闻周刊》

核战后，放射尘让地球上的动物濒临灭绝，地球已不再适合人类居住。为了鼓励残存的人口移民，政府承诺，只要 移民到外 星球，就可以为每个人自动配备一个仿生人帮助其生活。仿生人不满足于被人类奴役的现状，想方设法逃回地球。 主人公里克•德卡德是一名专门追捕逃亡仿生人的赏金猎人。在一次 追捕行动中，里克遭遇了新型仿生人前所未有的挑战。九死之后，能否一生？在与仿生人的接触和较量中，里克发现自己对仿生人的看法和态度有了很大的改变。这种改变究竟是福还是祸？

《巴别塔之犬》作者卡罗琳·帕克丝特带着勾人心弦的谋杀谜案回来了！ 就如在《巴别塔之犬》中试图让男主角要从狗身上得到真相一样，卡罗琳再一次证明她可以用不动声色的细致描写让全球读者如痴如醉。——《纽约时报》 死亡面前，是否还有真相？ ------------------- 三十岁左右的一段时间，她每年的愿望都能实现，只有一个夏天例外 奥克塔维亚是一个畅销书作家，有能力虚构细腻的情感，却无力在现实中传达母子亲情。就在她找到症结前去与儿子和解的路上，获知儿子涉嫌杀害女友被捕。 一切始自那个什么愿望都没实现的夏天。

【我们讲给自己的那些故事远比我们眼目所见的世界要真实。】 25岁的蒂亚，以写作者的诚意，荣耀“说故事”的古老艺术。 美国全国图书奖得主科伦·麦凯恩、《纽约时报》书评掌门人角谷美智子、《时代》杂志最看好的文坛新人 【台湾作家骆以军热情推介】 “这个故事美得让人晕眩。博尔赫斯最爱的老虎的神秘，流动，班斓金黄，像梦游般穿过，轻轻抚摆所有创痛，其实是整个人类被现代性伤害而对峙静止的“往昔”时光枯叶堆。聚落、失踪的老人尸体、死不了的男人、老虎的妻子、崩解的历史，这是福克纳的《熊》之后，我读过最棒的，以“动物神”为人类无言、却启动穿天入地，骗过时间刻度或死神眼皮，找寻失落之精神象征的美丽小说。” “要理解我外公这个人，必须知道两个故事：一个关于老虎的妻子，另一个关于不死人。这两个故事犹如秘密的河流贯穿外公的一生…… 第一个故事是他去世后我才得知的，关于外公如何成为一个男人；第二个故事是他亲口告诉我的，关于他如何变回一个孩子。 ” 在一个正在修复战争创伤的巴尔干国 家，年轻的女医生纳塔利娅和好友佐拉结伴去敌国一所海边孤儿院，为当地孤儿慈善接种疫苗。当到达目的地时，她感觉到一种神秘的气息笼罩着她，迷信、秘密弥漫在海边的小村里。 而纳塔利娅自己也有隐秘的故事。外公离家，在不知名的小村里过世，三天后家人才得知消息。带着伤痛，纳塔利娅开始从现实与回忆中追索真相，试图了解外公的最后心愿，解开谜题。 蒂亚凭借短篇小说就入选 《纽约客》“40岁以下最优秀的20名作家”、 美国全国图书基金会“35岁以下最优秀的5名作家” ★ 25岁获英语女性文学至高奖奥兰治奖，成为史上最年轻的获奖者 ★2011年唯一获得《纽约时报》两篇传略报道的女作家 她的首部小说震撼文坛 ★ 美国全国图书奖决选五部最优小说之一 ★ 《纽约时报》、亚马逊网络书店十大好书 ★《出版人周刊》、《华尔街日报》、《奥普拉杂志》、《经济学人》、《VOGUE》、《Slate》、《芝加哥论坛报》、《西雅图时报》、《代顿每日新闻报》、NPR“包罗万象”节目年度最佳文学类选书 ★iTunes年度小说NO.1 、奥普拉年度选书NO.1