Home Fire: A Novel

Kamila Shamsie
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WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences

Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother’s death, she’s accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can’t stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma’s worst fears are confirmed.

Then Eamonn enters the sisters’ lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families’ fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

愛的進化論 (The Course of Love)

艾倫‧狄波頓 (Alain de Botton)
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◎一本誠實的愛情奮鬥史，探索長長久久的關係，以及背後的酸甜苦辣。狄波頓將試圖回答史上最難的兩性問題：愛了，然後呢？

愛，才不是什麼一頭栽進去的「熱情」，而是緩慢地、苦痛地學會的「生存技能」。

愛丁堡的拉畢與柯絲汀相愛了。他們結婚生子，但絕對不是那種「從此過著幸福快樂的生活」的簡單結局。然而所有的愛情故事，只會停在這裡，之後的彆扭、包尿布、外遇、婚姻諮詢，一概省略。

當愛情誕生，經歷一連串的驚喜與無聊之後，要如何保持浪漫的鮮度？在生存的壓力之下，愛的面貌會如何幻化（請注意：不是幻滅）？從哲學與心理學的細膩洞察，狄波頓告訴我們，浪漫主義總是幫倒忙，現實裡極少有任何事物能夠達到完美。度過人生需要極大的勇氣，即使再平庸的人生也不例外，這時身邊若有個人，是否就能給予我們足夠力量面對人生的種種要求？

等了20年的續集，繼全球2百萬暢銷《我談的那場戀愛》，艾倫‧狄波頓全新力作！當年的英倫才子，華麗轉身變人夫人父，一樣的犀利風趣，不一樣的人生體悟。

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)


由香港貿易發展局主辦的第 29 屆香港書展將於7月18至 24日於香港會議展覽中心舉行，年度主題為"愛情文學"。

Less : A Novel

Andrew Sean Greer
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A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (New York Times Book Review).

WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE--Fiction

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world...

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

微塵記

張婉雯
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榮獲第十一屆「香港書獎」

本書十二個短篇小說以香港為背景，以寫實的風格，反映市民日常生活，還原他們立體的面貌，從中折射社會變遷。〈陌路〉、〈拘捕〉、〈周年誌〉以雨傘運動為題材；〈明叔的一天〉、〈老貓〉、〈打死一頭野豬〉、〈離島戀曲〉、〈鳥〉、〈禮芳街的月光〉呈現基層的悲歡；〈使徒行傳〉由宗教角度探討複雜的人性；〈玫瑰誄〉、〈回家的路上〉則重塑一代精神貴族的形象與消逝。全書立足於本土生活，以「小敘事」刻劃香港人的情與愛。

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The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life

Michael J. Puett, Christine Gross-Loh
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For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas—like the fallacy of the authentic self—can guide you on the path to a good life today.

Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to flourish.

Astonishing teachings emerged two thousand years ago through the work of a succession of Chinese scholars exploring how humans can improve themselves and their society. And what are these counterintuitive ideas? Transformation comes not from looking within for a true self, but from creating conditions that produce new possibilities. Good relationships come not from being sincere and authentic, but from the rituals we perform within them. A good life emerges not from planning it out, but through training ourselves to respond well to small moments. Influence comes not from wielding power but from holding back. Excellence comes from what we choose to do, not our natural abilities.

In other words, The Path “opens the mind” (Huffington Post) and upends everything we are told about how to lead a good life. Its most radical idea is that there is no path to follow in the first place—just a journey we create anew at every moment by seeing and doing things differently. “With its…spirited, convincing vision, revolutionary new insights can be gleaned from this book on how to approach life’s multifarious situations with both heart and head” (Kirkus Reviews).

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20世紀中國知識分子精神史三部曲

錢理群
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榮獲第十一屆「香港書獎」

「20世紀中國知識分子精神史」三部曲，是錢理群教授橫跨二十年歲月寫成的當代知識分子精神歷史，分別寫共和國建立前、毛澤東時代及之後知識分子的命運與選擇，呈現「起承轉合」結構，將知識分子的個體命運與中華人民共和國的整體歷史交錯在一起，是首部無刪減作品。

一九四八年，正是兩個中國—所謂「新中國」與「舊中國」生死大決戰的時刻，同時，也是中國知識分子必須在歷史的大轉折中作出決定自己命運的關鍵時刻。

《1948：天地玄黃》就是記錄了一九四八年，圍繞各類知識分子的不同選擇而發生的極其複雜也極其豐富的社會、思想、文化、心理現像。

「改造」與「堅守」，這是建國後中國知識分子命運的兩個關鍵詞，也構成了本書的歷史敍述的兩個中心詞，寫成中國知識分子精神史上最沉重的一頁。是屈從抑或抵抗、要低頭抑或昂首？毛澤東時代的中國知識分子如何在黑夜裏前行，盡錄在《1949－1976：歲月滄桑》。

毛澤東逝世後，知識分子從絕地對裏重生。錢理群教授肩負起知識分子之名，用自身的經歷和反思，為整代中國知識分子精神史作一個總合，冀歷經滄桑後也守望著知識分子的本分。《1977－2005：絕地守望》，是錢教授留給年輕一代和後人的思想結晶和祝福。

(摘錄自香港城市大學出版社網站)