★ 短篇小说是一瞥的艺术。——威廉•特雷弗 ★ 威廉•特雷弗，“爱尔兰契诃夫”，被《纽约客》誉为“当代英语世界最好的短篇小说作者”，也是迄今在《纽约客》上发表短篇小说最多的作家 —————— 威廉•特雷弗擅长用简约的文笔和微妙的情节来叙述令人心碎的故事。《山区光棍》是其出版于二〇〇〇年的短篇小说集，用十二个故事聚焦男女关系和错失的情缘，令人感慨：三个人在沉默中密谋阻止一场爱恋；九岁的女孩梦想参演一部电影能够弥补她破碎的家庭生活；一个山区的青年光棍陷入两难境地，要么娶妻生子，要么只能在家族农庄中孤独地度过余生……《山区光棍》中的故事向读者展现了一位处于巅峰状态的短篇小说大师的写作功力。 —————— 如同他的榜样契诃夫，威廉•特雷弗简洁、耐心而真诚地展现生活真相，不加任何道义说教；他是高妙的大师，将困扰人心的想象力、我们的激情和人潜意识中的微妙波动展露无遗。 ——V.S.普里切特（英国短篇小说大师） 特雷弗既是一位语言大师，也是一位讲故事的大师。 ——希拉里•曼特尔（两届布克奖得主） 如果没有发现他的作品，我根本不会成为一名作家。 ——李翊云（弗兰克•奥康纳国际短篇小说奖、欧•亨利奖得主） 他是一位多么了不起的作家啊 ；他可以轻轻地翻转一个句子，并在一瞬间展现出人性的底色。他的作品总是不动声色，且富有同情心。 ——伊丽莎白•斯特劳特（美国普利策文学奖得主） 作为一名作家，他很谨慎，不感情用事，对人性的脆弱和恶意保持警惕。他是一位文学巨匠。 ——安•恩莱特（布克奖得主） 他这些紧凑、完美的短篇小说，借助敏锐的心理洞察力，每一篇都能把人的境况转变成经典戏剧的悲喜剧，使得他成为当代英语世界最伟大的作家。 ——《旗帜周刊》

◆“日本恐怖小说大奖”获奖作家力作 致敬《咒怨》《午夜凶铃》 一篇名为“丧眼人偶”的血稿， 杀死了每一位翻阅它的读者 其中埋藏的 究竟是邪恶的诅咒，还是恐怖的人心 ◆编辑推荐 ◎惨死的作家留下一份带血的遗稿。谁知这份遗稿竟暗藏玄机。 随着阅读的深入，编辑惊恐地发现如果不能及时找出故事里的真相，那死亡已迫在眉睫…… ◎作者结合当代日本优秀恐怖作品，重新探讨恐怖创作的本源 作者致敬咒怨、午夜凶铃、残秽等日本当代经典恐怖故事。在带领读者探寻与“丧眼人偶”有关的都市传说起源、发展、变形的过程中，详细分析了各种类型的都市传说，以及孕育出恐怖传说的社会环境。 ◎作者斩获 “日本恐怖小说大奖”首奖出道，在恐怖、科幻、推理等类型文学创作上均有建树。 绫辻行人、贵志祐介、宫部美雪推荐！ ◎本作为泽村伊智“比嘉姐妹”系列小说的第二部。第一部《来了》已出版，其改编电影由中岛哲也执导，冈田准一、黒木华、小松菜奈、松隆子、妻夫木聪主演。 ◆内容简介 死状异常的作家留下了一份带血的遗稿。 编辑被稿件中记叙的都市传说——“丧眼人偶”勾起了兴趣。 然而，随着阅读的深入，编辑惊恐地发现，“丧眼人偶”离自己越来越近。 在死期到来之前，编辑能否分辨出传说的真伪，找出怪谈的关键，破解死亡的诅咒？ ◆名人推荐 令人意犹未尽，披着“惊悚”外皮的文学佳作，期待读到作者的其他作品。 ——有川浩 《图书馆战争》 ◆获奖情况 作者曾获得第22届“日本恐怖小说大奖”首奖 本书入围“山本周五郎奖”

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.

World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working valet Antonio accidentally appears in the same photo and is enlisted to pose as Olivia’s new boyfriend as a cover-up. This ruse with Olivia thrusts Antonio into the spotlight and unexpected chaos.

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

Jen and Judy are not OK. Not even a little. With their lives spinning out of control, they're clinging to each other — and their secrets.

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故事紧接上季结尾，阿布奎基（Albuquerque）律师Jimmy McGill遭到哥哥Chuck的背叛，于是回到伊利诺伊州的家乡西塞罗（Cicero）与童年死党Marco（Mel Rodriguez）一起策划一系列诈骗诡计。他们成功了，但Marco在他们最后一次干脏活时突发心脏病。Marco死后，Jimmy回到了新墨西哥州，他的人生似乎有了新的意义。他拒绝了圣达菲（Santa Fe）一家大型律师事务所的工作邀请，朝着刑事辩护律师「Saul Goodman」的方向迈出了一大步，他「清白正直」的日子一去不返。他的转型……已然开始。但是制片人反复强调，你不会在本季看到一个完整的Saul Goodman，「Jimmy McGill才是该剧的灵魂人物」，「我们要描述的是他的故事」，「我们不会这么快和他道别」。 Jimmy本季有许多事情要做，包括修复与哥哥Chuck（Michael McKean）的关系。Chuck始终不相信Jimmy是一个合法的律师，并且阻止自己的Hamlin Hamlin & McGill律师事务所雇用Jimmy协助调查一起大案。Chuck是个荣誉感很强的人，他爱弟弟，但他不容许他破坏自己的事业和生活——即便有时他不得不承认自己的做法对Jimmy来说有点太过分。 观众将进一步了解Mike Ehrmantraut（Jonathan Banks）的个人生活。当费城侦探跑来向他质询一起双重谋杀案时，他被迫雇用Jimmy做自己的法律顾问。这起谋杀案是真实的，Mike当年为了复仇在费城杀死了两名警察，但他绝不是恶意杀人。Mike将发生一些显著的变化，但那些变化起源于小事情。 Jimmy和Mike都在朝着《Breaking Bad》中的标志性角色发展，这期间少不了许多「彩蛋」。本季还会有不少闪进情节，观众将看到「Saul在《Breaking Bad》结束后的生活」（准确地说，Cinnabon的Gene），还有「到目前为止最年轻的Jimmy」。一些观众在《Breaking Bad》首季中见过（但是之后再也未见到）的角色将在本季亮相。当然，还有观众熟悉的一些人。此外，Jimmy是个天生的「问题解决者」，他将帮助许多新角色摆脱困境。他还将遇到一个大人物Clifford（六届艾美奖提名获得者Ed Begley Jr.），他手中掌握的权力能让Jimmy诸多梦想变为现实……只要Jimmy付得起他的价钱。Clifford表面上看起来慈祥和蔼，让人很乐意和他待在一起。可一旦任何人触犯了他的利益，必将遭遇灭顶之灾。除了继续与Chuck关系紧张之外，Jimmy与Kim的矛盾也日渐升级（但是Jimmy与Kim的私人关系也变得更加纠缠不清）。你还应该特别留意Jimmy与Davis和Main的关系、Jimmy与Mike的关系。 转自天涯小筑

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Hung Ping is a vampire buster in early 20th century China. He shares his home with his fortune teller wife, his dim-witted son, his beautiful daughter Fa and their ghost servant. We follow Hung on his exploits as he tries to capture the copper vampire, a bloodthirsty demon that brings misfortune to whomever controls him.

阿四（叶德娴 饰）少时结识了一表人才的中医药师家明（关海山 饰），与其坠入情网，生死相依。跟随着家明，阿四孤身一人来到了香港，在这里，家明有一位正房太太阿香。痴情的阿四不求名分，只希望能够陪伴在家明的身旁，帮助家明完成他开中药店的愿望。 爱莲是家明和阿香的女儿，她嫁给了富商志超，然而，志超亦有着妻室，阿四眼看着爱莲即将走上同自己一样的道路。深知其中苦楚的阿四对爱莲苦苦相劝，但爱莲并不领情，阿四只得帮着爱莲将此事同家明和阿香隐瞒。然而，纸终究包不住火，当家明得知一切的真相，愤怒的他错怪了阿四，带着阿香远走高飞。

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Payton is a young Black man with a chance to marry into the upper echelons of Black society. But first he must abandon a secret, an unborn child with an ex-girlfriend. He is in desperate need of money and time away from his fiancé, who knows nothing about the baby. He finds a solution in wealthy and stubborn Gregory Devereaux (Keith David), an elderly regular from his favorite late-night diner. Hired by Devereaux's estranged daughter as his caretaker, Payton quickly becomes Gregory's confidant, and Payton's problems seem to disappear. But as Devereaux nears death - with the wedding and the baby's birth fast approaching - Gregory's past sins force Payton to reckon with his own decisions as a man. He must finally choose: marry rich, or do what's right.by:2kyb.com

平凡的婚姻，可爱的姑娘，无忧无虑的过日子的村主塔子(夏帆 饰)。某天与相别十年的前男友鞍田秋彦（妻夫木聪 饰）重逢。像恶魔一样进入塔子的心灵缝隙中的鞍田，将她的命运带往意想不到的方向。

On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. Naomi, the daughter of a wealthy British art collector who has owned a villa in the exclusive hills for decades, convinces Sam, a younger American girl on vacation with her family, to help this stranger. As the two women learn more about the man, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean Sea, their own burgeoning friendship intensifies. But when their seemingly simple plan to help Faoud unravels all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion. In this brilliant psychological study of manipulation and greed, Lawrence Osborne explores the dark heart of friendship, and shows just how often the road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.

Larry David is still himself—much to the chagrin of everyone around him. From cutting a doll's hair to answering the door on Halloween to tripping a basketball legend, for every action of Larry's, there's an opposite and disproportionately outraged reaction.

2021 film directed by Tom McCarthy