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電影《贖罪》原著小說作者伊恩•麥克伊旺全新作品，描寫主人翁羅蘭德，行過從二戰終末直至現今的歷史波瀾，在愛、傷痛、漂泊之中，嘗試解答對自身存在的疑問：我們是否能在不傷害他人的情況下，全然活出自我？The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers.'The supreme novelist of his generation' Sunday Times'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times'A true master' Daily TelegraphWhile the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the real

童年時期因遊戲結緣的Sadie和Sam，長大後再次相遇，攜手投身電玩創作，讓玩家能暫時遠離現實，投向數位虛擬世界的懷抱，兩人合作設計出的遊戲一舉獲得空前成功，但隨之而來的金錢與名利浪潮，是否已準備將兩人沖散？Let the games begin! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry―a glorious and immersive novel about two childhood friends, once estranged, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.On a bitter cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: A legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. They borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo: a game where players can escape the confines of a body and the betrayals of a heart, and where death means nothing more than a chance to resta

Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? The original and propulsive thriller from a massive Japanese bestseller.*SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM*Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura has tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard.Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?'A locked-room crime drama played out at 200mph' The Times'A high-octane thriller...Thoroughly enjoyable' GuardianReaders can't stop reading Bullet Train! 'Original, quirky and highly entertaining''A dark-humoured, twisty thriller that's a l

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** The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller **Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. 'A marvel' MARLON JAMESThis is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born.It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of his family's struggle to forge a new future. And it serves as a doorway into parts of Little Dog's life his mother has never known - episodes of bewilderment, fear and passion - all the while moving closer to an unforgettable revelation. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2020****A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020** 'A masterpiece' MAX PORTER 'Luminous, shattering, urgent, necessary' CELESTE NG 'Deeply moving...Little Dog's story is the story of modern America' Daily Telegraph '

A haunting, heartbreaking tale of female friendship and intimacy that reads like The Handmaid's Tale meets The RoadDiscover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world.Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner.Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE

'Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling... Dive in for just a moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted' Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere It's been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on the canals. But a phone call will soon reunite them, and bring those wild years flooding back: the secret language that Gretel and her mother invented; the strange boy, Marcus, living on the boat that final winter; the creature said to be underwater, swimming ever closer.In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but to wade deeper into their past, where family secrets and aged prophesies will all come tragically alive again. 'As readable as it is dazzling, full of unsettling twists and dark revelations' Observer**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**

Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century''s greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.''Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past'' GuardianWith a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spani

When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea.Iza’s Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life’s companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over a lifetime.

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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Ian McEwan.

In a wonderful world shaped by beauty and poetry, ancient traditions and popular intrigue, a young woman at the centre of the eleventh-century Japanese imperial court observes the exotic world around

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本書《Salt》由知名歷史書作家 Mark Kurlansky 撰寫，從一粒鹽出發，講述這種看似平凡的物質如何塑造人類文明。鹽曾是貨幣、戰略資源與貿易核心，影響國家興衰與戰爭決策。Kurlansky 以輕快筆調串連古今，帶領讀者穿梭於鹽礦、鹽路與廚房之間，看見歷史的味道與世界的連結。Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind.Wars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India. From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is produced to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe, Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of world history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.

"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear..." Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him and what cargo it was found to be carrying the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds.And at the end it will be clear that what night appear to be a children's fable is in fact a wry, witty Philosophical Tale that would not have displeased Voltaire or Swift.

The uncollected writings of the author of "Living", "Loving", "Caught", "Nothing" and "Blindness".

本書由 AI 研究者 Eliezer Yudkowsky 與 Nate Soares 合著，聚焦於一個正在快速成形、卻尚未被充分理解的議題：當人工智慧的能力超越人類，我們是否已準備好與之共存。作者指出，目前全球對 AI 的投入速度，已遠遠超過我們建立安全與治理共識的能力。本書以清楚、有條理的方式說明超智慧 AI 可能帶來的系統性風險，並透過歷史案例與推論，提醒讀者科技發展並非只關乎創新，也涉及選擇、節制與集體責任。書中不以恐懼作為訴求，而是邀請讀者理解問題的結構，思考是否需要在關鍵時刻放慢腳步。本書為 New York Times 暢銷書，並獲《The Guardian》選為年度重點書目，是一部促進公共對話、而非製造恐慌的思考之作。・聚焦 AI 的長期風險與治理・論述清楚，適合非技術讀者・引導理性而必要的討論The founder of the field of AI risk explains why superintelligent AI is a global suicide bomb and we must halt development immediatelyAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important book of the decade' MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY‘The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read’ YISHAN WONG, former Reddit CEOAI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction – but it’s not too late to change course.

★2025年 Kirkus Prize 決選名單。故事始於1978年的日本，十歲的女孩 Louisa 和她的父親 Serk 在海邊散步，隔天，Louisa 在海灘上被發現，幾乎喪命，而她的父親卻離奇失蹤了。故事圍繞著這場失蹤事件展開，追溯這個破碎家庭的過去與未來：•Louisa：在父親失蹤後，由母親 Anne 獨自撫養長大。她聰明而叛逆，童年的創傷使她成為一個性格尖銳、難以親近的成年人。•Anne：Louisa 的美國母親，在丈夫消失後，獨自面對生活的挑戰與悲傷，並與女兒維持著既親密又疏離的複雜關係。•Serk：Louisa 的父親，一位在日本出生長大的韓裔學者，他的家庭因父母選擇遷往北韓而分裂。小說透過在 Serk、Anne 和 Louisa 之間切換的多重敘事視角，逐步拼湊出事件的全貌。這不僅是一個關於家庭失落與記憶的故事，更是一部深刻探討身分認同、歷史創傷、跨國政治（如日韓之間的歷史張力與北韓綁架事件）如何影響個人命運的史詩級作品。本書特別推薦給喜愛 慢熱、由角色驅動的文學小說 的讀者。這是一部橫跨數十年、融合家庭劇與歷史懸疑的史詩級故事，深刻探討了失落、記憶與身分認同等主題。若您喜歡閱讀關於不完美、甚至難以讓人喜愛但極其真實的角色，並對非線性敘事與複雜的歷史背景感興趣，這本書將帶給您極具深度與情感衝擊的閱讀體驗。對於欣賞 Susan Choi 前作（如《Trust Exercise》）中那種智慧且毫不畏懼展現人性缺陷的寫作風格的讀者而言，這部格局更為宏大的新作絕對不容錯過。**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**A thrilling, globe-spanning novel that mines questions of memory, language, identity and family.One evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town while her father Serk, a Korean émigré, completes an academic secondment f

★2025年 Booker Prize 入圍名單。★2025年 Kirkus Prize 決選名單。這是一部充滿懸疑氛圍的家庭劇，被形容為「讀起來像心理驚悚片的肥皂劇」。故事圍繞著一個家庭內部的權力鬥爭與秘密展開...主角是一位名叫 Sara 的年輕女子，她受邀回到位於一個偏遠沙漠小鎮的家中，為了與她關係疏遠的父母見面。她的父親是一位國際知名的藝術家，年邁且健康狀況不佳。隨著他的健康惡化，一場關於他龐大藝術遺產的繼承權鬥爭悄然上演。在這個孤立的環境中，Sara 發現自己不僅要應對家人之間緊張的關係，還必須面對過去未解的創傷。小說深入探討了家庭成員之間複雜的親密關係、權力動態，以及在家庭這個舞台上，每個人如何扮演自己的角色、隱藏真實的自我。Kitamura 的寫作風格簡潔而精準，營造出強烈的心理張力，讓讀者跟隨主角的視角，一步步揭開這個家庭光鮮外表下的黑暗秘密。本書特別適合喜愛心理懸疑與文學性家庭劇的讀者，它以緊湊的節奏和充滿張力的氛圍，深刻描繪了家庭內部的權力鬥爭與秘密。對於欣賞簡潔精準、能營造強烈心理張力的文筆，並喜歡探索角色在壓力下的內心世界與行為動機的讀者而言，這部由角色驅動的作品將帶來極具沉浸感的閱讀體驗。**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025'Slick, sharp, strange and singular . . . You’ll gulp this novel down in one in-breath' SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital'A lightning bolt of a novel' FINANCIAL TIMES'I’m not sure there’s anyone better writing in America today' ALEX PRESTON, ObserverOne woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An ex

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In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows.