From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories–a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate–we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.

In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments in America of Chinese immigrants and their descendents: building the infrastructure of their adopted country, fighting racist and exclusionary laws, walking the racial tightrope between black and white, contributing to major scientific and technological advances, expanding the literary canon, and influencing the way we think about racial and ethnic groups. Interweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.

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.

《社神之妻》是一部可读性较强的小说。作者以母亲成长的背景为蓝本，讲述了战乱时期一个中国妇女的不幸婚姻故事，揭露了世俗社会对人性的压抑，可与日本电影《人证》媲美。

《蝴蝶君》于1986年10月完成，1988年2月在华盛顿国立剧院首演，3月移师百老汇公演，大受欢迎，获当年托尼奖最佳戏剧奖，之后又获奖无数。1993年，由他亲自改编剧本、大卫·柯南伯格执导、杰瑞米·艾恩斯和尊龙主演的同名电影上映，更使《蝴蝶君》的影响遍及全球。 《蝴蝶君》以冷战背景下一位法国外交官与一位中国京剧旦角演员之间敷演的一出间谍迷案为“本事”，以著名歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》作为颠覆的原型创作而成，着力探索的是民族与种族、东方与西方、性别与政治、身份与认同，乃至殖民与后殖民等等重大文化命题。可以说兼具了学院与民间、精英与大众的审美趣味和关注热点。 “黄哲伦有可能成为自阿瑟·米勒后在美国的公众生活中第一个重要的剧作家，而且，很有可能，他还是最好的剧作家。” ——《时代》周刊 “《蝴蝶君》有时会被认为是一部反美国的戏剧，是对西方支配东方，男人支配女人的模式化观念的一种谴责和反对。恰恰相反，我把它看成是对各方的一个请求，希望它能穿透我们各自的层层累积的文化的和性的误识，为了我们相互的利益，从我们作为人的共同的和平等的立场出发，来相互真诚地面对对方。” ——黄哲伦 “希望这个剧本能够帮助更多的中国人认识到我们是谁，同时也认识到把我们变成我们的‘他们’是谁。” ——张生