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.

Published in 1916, James Joyce's semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel. 'Joyce dissolved mechanism in literature as effectively as Einstein destroyed it in physics,' wrote Alfred Kazin. 'He showed that the material of fiction could rest upon as tense a distribution and as delicate a balance of its parts as any poem. Joyce's passion for form, in fact, is the secret of his progress as a novelist. He sought to bring the largest possible quantity of human life under the discipline of the observing mind, and the mark of his success is that he gave an epic form to what remains invisible to most novelists.... Joyce means many things to different people; for me his importance has always been primarily a moral one. He was, perhaps, the last man in Europe who wrote as if art were worth a human life.... By living for his art he may yet have given others a belief in art worth living for.'

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.

羅斯摩爾小鎮後方的那片山楂林裡，有個傳說中非常靈驗的聖安娜井，是民眾儉樸生活的心靈慰藉與寄托。但卻有傳言說，新開發的公路將穿越這片山楂林，也會毀壞這口井，引起鎮上民眾一片嘩然。 山楂林裡有著鎮民共同的溫馨記憶，以及難以替代的感情。木訥的內迪在這裡遇到真愛；美發師亞薇則祈求聖安娜井，讓變心的丈夫回心轉意；貴婦海倫想要一個嬰兒；麗莉卻只希望她失蹤多年的女兒安然無恙……

《红丝带》是一部新历史主义小说，背景为18世纪的伦敦，一个穷苦人家的女孩为了一根红丝带，出卖肉体，沦为妓女，阴差阳错被人追杀，后来又为一件漂亮衣服杀死了自己的恩人。这个故事把人性的冷漠、自私、无情写得淋漓尽致，世界是残酷的，女孩最终面临绝望，但是它并不让人窒息，反而让人读得很痛快，因为年轻的女主人公是一个十足的叛逆，她的目标虚无缥缈，她的武器是她的肉体，她的追求注定落空，但她实实在在地用生命和世界进行了一场战争，捍卫了自己“爱的权利”。

二十世纪六十年代末，在爱尔兰东南部小镇恩尼斯科西，家庭妇女诺拉•韦伯斯特中年丧夫，要独自抚养四个孩子，手头拮据。 诺拉沉浸在失去挚爱的悲痛中，她期待能出现任何机会摆脱困境和烦恼，又害怕自己要回到结婚前的那种单调、压抑的工作生活中。另一方面，小镇居民的生活距离很近，似乎人人都知道彼此的秘密。敏感的诺拉变得自我、固执，有时会失去耐心，她要捍卫自己的家庭隐私，却也忽略了两个年幼的儿子失去父亲后的伤心和变化。 渐渐地，凭借歌唱天赋和友谊的力量，诺拉看见了新生活的一线希望。 托宾历时十年完成的这部最新小说，塑造了诺拉•韦伯斯特这个当代文学中令人难忘的女性形象。 —————————————————— 历时十年，爱尔兰文学大师托宾创作时间最长的长篇小说 托宾以母亲为原型，塑造了当代文学中最令人难忘的女性形象之一 入选奥巴马圣诞购书书目引起轰动 2015年英国霍桑顿文学奖获奖作品 荣膺《每日电讯报》、《星期天泰晤士报》、《旁观者》杂志、《金融时报》、《观察者报》年度选书 —————————————————— 主人公与读者的情感距离如此之远，使得诺拉•韦伯斯特有时几乎像是幽灵。但正是托宾极度的节制，把原本可能是常见的悲痛与生存的故事，提升到心灵探索的高度。其结果便是这部闪闪发光的、简约的小说，在书中的某些瞬间，日常生活近乎神秘。 ——珍妮弗•伊根，《纽约时报•书评周刊》 这部小说理当像诺拉倾听贝多芬音乐一样细读。它让你陷入沉思……我们与韦伯斯特一家的关联使我们想象他们在那里，生活着，渴望着，炉上的火劈啪作响。 ——《卫报》 托宾精确的散文和对情感细微之处的关注，都在这本书中得以最佳呈现。 ——《旁观者》