短篇小说集《九故事》是美国当代著名作家J.D.塞林格继《麦田里的守望者》之后出版的第二本书，初版于一九五三年，其中除《下到小船里》《德·杜米埃-史密斯的蓝色时期》外，其余七篇均发表于《纽约客》杂志。 《九故事》是J.D.塞林格的代表作，也是世界公认的当代经典短篇小说集。

2020 film directed by Kornél Mundruczó

September 11 2001 was a day of many incredible and shocking stories: stories of survivors, stories of heroes. But there was one story that people didn't want to face. The story of the people who began to jump from the World Trade Center just minutes after the first plane hit. Their images were caught on videotape and in photographs, but soon they were never seen again, as if they had never existed. Among those pictures is one of the most unforgettable images from 9/11 - a photograph of a falling man, frozen in mid air, his body perfectly parallel with the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

《象棋的故事》是奥地利作家斯蒂芬•茨威格生前一本最受关注的中篇小说。故事描述了第二次世界大战期间，在一艘自美国开往阿根廷的轮船上，一个神秘的陌生人因偶然机会与国际象棋世界冠军琴多维奇对弈，居然轻易地赢了他。可就在续弈之时，陌生人遇到了意外情况……这是他下的最后一盘棋。他从哪里来?有过怎样的遭遇?他的故事，让人惊奇，又让人心酸。 大卫·萨拉被高度评价为著名抽象和装饰画家克里姆特的当代演绎者。这部充满怀旧 1940 年代的色彩，集装饰设计，抽象和现代艺术，文字不多，揉合现代连环图的多媒表达手法，令每个版面以图载千言万语，弥漫下棋的宁静气氛与精神错乱；时序的交错，棋局中有棋，富微妙的象征技巧。

世界狂销300万册的烧脑悬疑神作！ 多少看似完美的夫妻，都在等待杀死对方的契机。 —————— 杀死丈夫时，艾丽西亚33岁。 她往丈夫脸上连开五枪，从此不再说一个字。她被精神诊所收容，成为臭名昭著的“沉默的病人”，唯一留给外界的，只有一副诡异的自画像。 我，心理治疗师西 奥，被她的故事所吸引，希望能通过心理 治疗，帮助她走出沉默的死局。我确信，只有她能述说真相，只有我能使她开口。 哪怕艾丽西亚的沉默背后，是远超我想象的黑暗深渊，正引诱我步步深入，直到万劫不复…… 当她真的开始述说真相，我又真的有胆量倾听吗？ —————— 多少看似完美的夫妻，都在等待杀死对方的契机。 一起残酷的谋杀，一则诡异的希腊神话；一段漫长的沉默，一场致命的心理治疗！ - ◆霸占《纽约时报》畅销榜整整392天！ ◆出版1年来，发行102个版本，热销45国，世界范围内销量突破300万册！ ◆2019年美国亚马逊年度图书、年度悬疑佳作； ◆2019年《出版人周刊》年度悬疑佳作； ◆2019年Goodreads读者票选年度悬疑佳作，12万册书评疯狂推荐！ ◆伏线千里◆细思极恐◆极限反转 翻开本书，直面300万读者口中的“烧脑神作”！ —————— 【媒体评价】 ◆这本独特、布局精致的心理悬疑小说，建立了麦克利兹的一线地位。──《出版人周刊》 ◆藉由向希腊神话、艺术以及爱情的致敬，成功模糊了精神变态与理智之间的界线。──《书讯》 【名家评价】 ◆亚历克斯·麦克利兹的《沉默的病人》是我有史以来看过的所有心理悬疑小说中的佼佼者。这部小说拥有绝对出人意料的结局，它是一场压力沉重的偏执梦魇。——布莱克·克劳奇（《人生复本》作者） ◆实在太诡谲独特，应该自成一个类型才是。我花了两个晚上就看完了，所有优美的文字、恐怖的相会、惊奇的转折，都让我回味不已。指尖急速翻阅的摩擦力，将会让你的书着火！──大卫·鲍尔达奇（《纽约时报》畅销书作者）

Set in battle-scarred Europe during and immediately after World War II, this intriguing first novel deals with a man's obsession with a younger woman. While convalescing in a French hospital, British soldier Jamie Lovecraft meets Ania Malina, a hospitalized Polish girl. Letters to his sister mention Ania only briefly at first, but later dwell obsessively on the girl and her physican, Dr. Kessler. As the story shifts seamlessly into first-person narrativefirst by Jamie, later by AniaJamie is discharged and moves to Paris. Re-introduced to Ania by Kessler, he finds that the young woman's existence now centers on dancing and drinking. The more shabbily she treats Jamie, the stronger his preoccupation grows. The sensual imagery (which occasionally verges on the grotesque), pervasive sense of doom and lacings of French may limit the novel's appeal somewhat, but its polished prose and fine characterizations merit attention.

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

美國作家沙林傑，因叛逆的成長小說《麥田捕手》（1951年）享譽世界文壇，之後，仍有新作發表與出版，但已添加東方禪學思想。本書九篇故事是五十年前的作品，儘管各自獨立，卻有一種隱約的聯繫；二次大戰雖然已經結束，但是人性所受到的傷害才開始慢慢顯現。這九篇也可以說是《麥田捕手》的延續，童稚的純真心靈繼續與成年人的虛偽世界展開拉鋸戰，作者認為童稚的純真心靈既是受害者，也是最後的勝利者，為成年人帶來救贖的希望。

In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him.The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grownups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed."

2019 film directed by Dome Karukoski

2016 film directed by François Ozon

一名在澳洲以农为业的的占水师康纳（罗素·克劳 Russell Crowe 饰）在第一次世界大战加里波利战役后前往土耳其伊斯坦堡，试图寻找他三个参战阵亡儿子的遗骸。即使一开始遭到军方的百般阻挠，他也不屈不挠，更遇到于伊斯坦堡入住旅馆女主人爱莎（欧嘉·柯瑞兰寇 Olga Kurylenko 饰）及一名曾与他儿子对战的土耳其军官出手协助。康纳抓住一丝希望，为查出真相，穿越饱受战火蹂躏的土地，九死一生，只为寻回儿子阵亡的真相，了结自己及妻子的心愿……

《青衣》(雨天的棉花糖)是毕飞宇于2000年精心打磨而成的重要作品。毕飞宇丝毫也不掩饰对它的喜爱与看重，在创作谈里，他不无自得地谈到了这部小说与过去作品的变化："这种变化是自然而然的。我并没有刻意做什么。活到哪儿，你就必然写到哪儿。前提是你不能回避你自己。一个人的作品肯定得像一个什么东西，弄来弄去只能是像自己。" 九元丛书，顾名思义，单本定价九元。 以低廉价位推出丛书，惠及读者，始终是出版业推广好作品的一种手段，也是人民文学出版社的传统之一。 编辑出版九元丛书，意在承继优良传统，使优秀的文学作品得到更好的普及，在更广大的范围内共享当代文学的精神食粮。 九元丛书第一辑，凡二十种，均为近三十年时间里涌现的优秀中篇小说，故定名“中篇金曲”。此后还将有第二辑、第三辑……其他门类的文学作品小辑亦将进入九元丛书的视野。 需要说明的是，还有一些本该纳入丛书第一辑的优秀中篇佳作，因其版权等技术性问题未能解决，而不得不忍痛割爱。对此，我们深表遗憾，并请广大读者见谅。 人民文学出版社编辑部 2005年12月

2019 film directed by James Kent

When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

A psychological thriller set in 1896 about the hunt for a serial killer responsible for the gruesome murders of boy prostitutes that have gripped New York City.

Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.