小说描写了四位性格、命运各异的中国女性抛却国难家仇, 移居美国, 以及她们各自在美国出生、成长的女儿的生活经历。

在线阅读本书 Jhumpa Lahiri's debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, took the literary world by storm when it won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. Fans who flocked to her stories will be captivated by her best-selling first novel, now in paperback for the first time. The Namesake is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates this acclaimed author's signature themes: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled ties between generations. The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of an arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Ashoke does his best to adapt while his wife pines for home. When their son, Gogol, is born, the task of naming him betrays their hope of respecting old ways in a new world. And we watch as Gogol stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With empathy and penetrating insight, Lahiri explores the expectations bestowed on us by our parents and the means by which we come to define who we are.

The Joy Luck Club was formed of four Chinese women recently moved to San Francisco who meet to eat dim sum, play mah-jong and to share stories. Forty years on they and their daughters tell wise and witty tales of hope, loss, family and history. Spanning pre-Revolutionary China to 1980s San Francisco, the women talk as secrets are spilled, mothers boast and despair and daughters struggle with tangled truths.

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Toibin's sixth novel, "Brooklyn," is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to sponsor Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.By far Toibin's most instantly engaging and emotionally resonant novel, "Brooklyn" will make readers fall in love with his gorgeous writing and spellbinding characters.

作者以一个渐渐成熟却仍满怀一颗童心的女人的眼光展现移民生活中平凡而不平淡的味道。尽管故事是零碎的，却耐人寻味。书中没有出国人员大悲大喜的人生际遇，有的只是日常生活中的见闻，作者用笔记体把它们编织给读者。这些真实的感受对于站在另一扇门里的人们仅仅是启示,而不是号召。

《不会游泳的鱼》的故事是从一张豆腐干大的广告开始的。这张租房启事把这家人引到这个公寓。它贴在某个墙壁上绽裂着，一家四口仰着头，他们看懂的也就是那个低廉的价格。不幸，这个美国故事就趁着这一家人哑着半启的口的空隙开始了。像许多新移民一样，董家先找个最便宜的区域落脚，从那里起步，开始新大陆的突围。所以他们找到了这里。六十多岁的房东老头坐在公寓门口晒太阳。一份报纸、一瓶啤酒，在太阳下一躺几个小时。老头一看这四口之家的疲惫与兴奋并存的表情，就知道又是一家子的外国人来美安营扎寨，并准备子子孙孙地繁衍下去，突然觉得扫兴，一天的好兴致就这样没了。房东两只混沛的眼球好好地打量了他们，表示他对他们没好感，也不需要他们去喜欢他。他有点痛心和忧心仲仲地问：“你们跑到这个王八蛋才呆的国家干什么？！”