One woman's journey for self-discovery and turns into a harrowing tale of survival.

2002年，风骚律师索尔在遇见毒师“老白”之前的故事。那时他的名字叫詹姆斯·摩根·麦吉尔，人称吉米，他只是一个无名小律师。本剧将描述本性善良的律师“吉米”转变为游走在法律边缘的无良律师“索尔”的过程。

她想要的，不過是最平凡的幸福， 如此微小的願望，卻成為她無法擺脫地獄的原因…… 鈴木陽子死了，死在獨居的公寓裡。 正確說來，是鈴木陽子幾個月前死了。因為發現她時，遺體不但遭到屋內的十一隻貓啃食殆盡，連貓也全數餓死了。 鈴木陽子顯然是「孤獨死」的最佳範例，但這名女子為何落到這步田地？她的親人朋友同事在哪裡？她的人生軌跡又是如何？ 另一方面，非營利組織「Kind Net」代表理事神代武遭人刺殺身亡，一名據稱是神代情婦的女子下落不明。聽說「Kind Net」是個假公益真斂財的不法組織，利用遊民騙取生活補助金，專門從事讓貧困者更貧困的「救援」活動。 是情婦痛下殺手嗎？兩人到底有什麼深仇大恨？那名情婦是誰，現在到底在哪裡？ 鈴木陽子和神代武，看似完全無關的兩起死亡事件，背後所牽連的，卻是無數身處社會夾縫中人的無聲吶喊！ 而隱身故事中，始終注視著「妳」的人，究竟是誰？ 一開始，絕對是毫無惡意的。 她只是被動地、毫無自覺地，走一步算一步地， 竟然就這樣落到了地獄的最深處。 有誰願意從天降下一根蛛絲，救她脫離泥沼？ 或者……？

村上龍的成名小說，24歲即奠定其大師地位的代表作 30年來台灣首度完整翻譯版，終於上市！！ 你到底是什麼人？你到底在懼怕什麼？ 你是如何變成一具任人玩弄的人偶的呢？…… 濃烈的感官體驗，狂亂了青春； 脫序的生活，譜成了迷幻的歌； 基地裡那年輕失落的靈魂， 麻痺自己只因不想再感傷， 戲謔人生是為了反抗對他嗤之以鼻的社會。 他其實想化作那出現在黎明時，近乎透明的光暈。 那彷彿能反射出真實的他，無限透明的藍光。 如同詩句韻律般優美起伏的， 接近無限透明的藍……

三个女人一台戏，对于来自异国他乡前往瑞士生活的露莎（蜜儿珍娜·卡瑞诺维克 Mirjana Karanovic 饰）、米拉（卢蓓卡·乔菲Ljubica Jovic 饰）和安娜（玛莉嘉·斯卡里琪Marija Skaricic 饰）来说，各人的心中都有着自己的生存目标和生活隐痛。露莎经营一家餐厅已经很多年，她不再年轻，孤身一人，餐厅的事业就是她立身之本。米拉已经六十岁了，她在露莎餐馆里安分地打工，梦想着可以和丈夫回到家乡，买一栋安家的房子。 安娜的到来很快打破了露莎平静单调的生活。她青春逼人，热爱及时行乐，带着自己深埋的一个秘密游走在城市之间，寻找避风的港湾。安娜前来餐厅打工，鲜明的个性和生活态度渐渐打动了露莎。她开始打开生活的另一扇窗，品尝人生的另一番滋味；而米拉也豁然领悟了如何抓住当下的幸福。

4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner: Best Lettering, Best Publication, Best Writer/Artist and Best Graphic Album New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Books of the Year Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews, Top 10 Fiction of 2012 Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+ Washington Post, Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2012 Minneapolis Star Tribune, Best Books of the Year Cleveland Plain Dealer, Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year Amazon, Best Books of the Year/Comics Boing Boing, Best Graphic Novel of the Year Time Out New York, Best of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Best Fiction of 2012 Everything you need to read the new graphic novel Building Stories: 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuring—perhaps even necessary—to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity—while discovering a protagonist wondering if she’ll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you’re feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). A pictographic listing of all 14 items (260 pages total) appears on the back, with suggestions made as to appropriate places to set down, forget or completely lose any number of its contents within the walls of an average well-appointed home. As seen in the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Building Stories collects a decade’s worth of work, with dozens of “never-before-published” pages (i.e., those deemed too obtuse, filthy or just plain incoherent to offer to a respectable periodical). Winner of the 2013 Eisner Awards for Best Graphic Album-New, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Chris Ware is the winner of 2013 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist for Building Stories. One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2012

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

一个名为“远大歌舞团”的大棚演出团。这个大棚来自河南农村，大棚老板老刘带着他的两个儿子、两个儿子的女朋友和一群家乡村子附近的爱唱歌跳舞的青年男女在路上巡回演出。他们“上路”的目的只是一个：离开没有什么机会的老家，出门挣钱。他们所到之处都要在当地政府各种部门办好关系；演出节目是唱目前最走红的流行歌和通俗舞蹈；演出地点多半选择在大城市的郊区和附近的小镇。 老刘和大儿子小刘有了矛盾，在老刘回家后，大儿子接他的班管理这个团，但生意仍不见好转，一些人因为拿不到钱想要离开。小刘的一个好朋友从别的大棚跑来，说要帮助小刘，但他欺骗了小刘，带走了大棚的一个女孩。大风把帐篷吹塌，演出停止了，以后生意一直不好，两个月的工资发不出来，有的离开了。大棚的几个主要演员密谋向小刘要钱，不给钱就走人。小刘发了部分工资给他们，稳住了他的大棚。他们继续巡回下去，但挣钱的前景依然黯淡。

2015 film directed by Todd Haynes

1988 film by Martin Scorsese

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

28歲，沒有性經驗的我，十年間最羞於見人的赤裸告白。 因為憂鬱與進食障礙，不但從大學退學，打工也被辭退。回到家中，父母無法接受我精神上生病的事實，於是我被雙親全‧盤‧否‧定。就算鼓起勇氣去面試，還是被否決。投稿的漫畫好不容易得到了新人獎，不過沒有獎金，也無法出道。 就這樣陷入絕望的我，因某個契機得以正視自己「希望被擁抱」的願望。在絕望的深淵，在去死之前，再掙扎一次。為此，需要一個能突破自我極限的轉機，我採取的行動是──上網預約蕾絲邊應召。 在pixiv刊登後，不但網友迴響熱烈，點閱率更突破百萬。深陷於他人評價中的自己、得不到別人認同的自己、活到現在仍無法正視自己欲望、只能依靠自殘來取得認同的，原來不只有我一個。一個真實到令人不忍卒睹的故事，成了讓所有讀者得到溫暖救贖的一本書。

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

1993 film directed by Lasse Hallström

A bittersweet portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights, in this very modern mix of fatalism and hedonism, sustaining a merry-go-round of broken dreamers. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the thoroughly disarming confessional of a woman so totally detached, she’s utterly lost, and ultimately wondering what the hell she ought to be doing in life. Much like the rest of us.

A depressed widower, a bored housewife, and a gay lawyer all intersect in this triptych of love lost.

2011 Hong Kong film by Johnnie To

Musashino, Tokyo. An elementary schooler repeatedly attacks people in the streets. Known only to the public as "Lil Slugger", none of the victims can recall the young boy's face and only three distinct details are left in their memories: golden inline skates, a baseball cap, and the weapon: a bent golden baseball bat. Detectives Ikari and Maniwa set out to track down the perpetrator and put an end to his crimes.