好书推荐：二月不容错过的好书

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　　George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
        　　George Saunders《巴尔多的林肯》
        　　

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            Saunders, a masterful short story writer, takes a well-known
tragedy in the life of one of the most honoured US presidents as the jumping-off
point for his first novel.Saunders renders their eloquent voices, and delicately
reveals a connection between a father’s grief and Lincoln’s strategic decision
to “be brave and resolve the thing.”
        　　Saunders是一位短篇小说大师，他曾在处女作中以美国最受人尊敬的总统的生活为蓝本，创作出家喻户晓的悲剧故事。Saybders运用这一深长而有说服力的故事，巧妙地揭示了林肯的这段悲痛经历与其曾经的战略决策“勇敢去解决问题”之间千丝万缕的联系。
            
            

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        　　Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
        　　Ludmilla Petrushevskaya《来自大都会酒店的女孩》
        　　Petrushevskaya, a celebrated author in Russian. Translated from the Russian
by Anna Summers, this is a gritty, surprisingly disarming portrait of the grim
Stalinist era.
        　　Petrushevskaya是俄罗斯著名作家。小说由Anna
Summers翻译为英文，向读者呈现出一个政治强硬，人民生活却又无比落魄消沉的斯大林时代。
        　　Katie Kitamura, A Separation
        　　Katie Kitamura《一次别离》
        　　Christopher and his wife, the narrator, have kept their six-month marital
separation a secret. Now he has disappeared. And his lies and betrayals are
coming undone. A Separation is an atmospheric and emotionally sophisticated
novel that reads like a taut Patricia Highsmith thriller
        　　克里斯托弗和他的作家妻子六个月来一直保守着离婚的秘密，如今他却突然消失，所有的谎言和背叛都成了谜。《一次别离》完美地营造了小说气氛，感情处理也细腻复杂，读来就像Patricia
Highsmith的小说般扣人心弦。
        　　Steve Erickson, Shadowbahn
        　　Steven Erickson《阴影火车》
        　　In this audacious futuristic novel, Erickson takes on American myth and
history, scrambling mobile phone signals and playlists, pushing our imaginative
borders along ever more shadowy faultlines.
        　　在这部大胆而对未来充满幻想的小说里，艾瑞克森一改美国神话和历史，搅乱手机信号和播放列表，无限拓展读者的想象空间。
            
            

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        　　Glenn Frankel, High Noon
        　　Glenn Frankel《正午》
        　　Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, describes the consequences of the
blacklist on the film industry, including its effect on the film’s writer.
Frankel makes the climate of suspicion and fear in Hollywood palpable.
        　　弗兰科曾是普利策奖获得者，他在本书中讲述了美国在电影产业中建立黑名单的后果，以及为电影剧作家带来的影响，向读者揭露了一个不为人知的好莱坞。
        　　Anders Rydell, The Book Thieves
        　　Rydell《盗书者》
        　　Rydell, a Swedish editor and journalist, crosses Europe to investigate “the
most extensive book theft in the history of the world” and reports on ongoing
restitution efforts. Translated from the Swedish by Henning Koch, this is a
chilling reminder of Hitler’s twisted power.
        　　Rydell是一名瑞典编辑兼记者，他走遍欧洲去大量调查收集历史上曾被盗的书，并且一直努力将这些书物归原主。本书记载了一段希特勒暴政统治下一段令人心寒的历史，由亨宁·科赫译为英文。
        　　Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar
        　　Vivek Shanbhag 《Ghachar Ghochar》
        　　The first of Shanbhag’s eight novels to be translated into English follows
one tight-knit family – the narrator, his parents, uncle, sister and wife –
through an economic rise that causes surprising disruptions. Shanbhag’s concise
novel gives “one story, many sides.
        　　在Shanbhag八部被翻译成英文的小说中，第一本讲述了一个的家庭——主人公，主人公的父母、叔叔、姐妹们和他的妻子——在金融危机后被意外瓦解的生活。作者以简明的语言向读者展示了“一个故事，多个视角”。
            
            

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        　　Stephen O’Shea, The Alps
        　　Stephen O’Shea《阿尔卑斯》
        　　Breezy and informative, it a reminder of the ever-shifting attitudes toward
mountains that have inspired poets and writers for centuries.
        　　作为一本浅显易懂且信息量丰厚的游记，它对那些令无数诗人作家向往了几个世纪的阿尔卑斯山峰有着形形色色的独到见解。
        　　Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
        　　Christina Baker Kline《一片世界》
        　　Kline’s new novel is inspired by Christina Olson, the woman in Andrew
Wyeth’s best-known painting, Christina’s World. Christina, who lives in the
house built by her ancestors in Cushing in the Us state of MaineOne day Wyeth,
who spends his summers nearby, asks to use their house as a studio to paint. He
and Christina have an instant bond.
        　　Kline的新小说灵感来自Andrew
Wyeth的名画《克里斯蒂娜的世界》里的女人像。克里斯蒂娜住在坐落于美国缅因州库欣的一个祖先留下来的房子里。有一天，Wyeth正在附近过暑假，想借房子作为自己的绘画工作室。从此他与克里斯蒂娜便有了密不可分的关系。
        　　Ethel Rohan, The Weight of Him
        　　Ethel Rohan《他的重量》
        　　In heart-rending passages, Rohan captures the ways in which parents blame
each other and themselves for the loss of a child, and the courage it takes to
change.
        　　在一段心碎悲痛的故事中，Rohan描绘了失去孩子后父母不断相互指责和自责的形象，以及改变生活需要的勇气。