《纽约时报》十大好书
Asymmetry
《不对称》
By Lisa Halliday
丽萨·哈利德著
In “Asymmetry,” two seemingly unrelated sections are connected by a shocking coda. The first, “Folly,” is the story of a love affair. It narrates the relationship between Alice, a book editor and writer in her mid-20s, and Ezra Blazer, a geriatric novelist. The second section — “Madness” — belongs to Amar Jaafari, an Iraqi-American e-c-o-n-o-m-i-st who is being detained at Heathrow.
在《不对称》这部作品中，两个似乎毫不相关的故事被一个令人震惊的结局连接到了一起。第一部《愚蠢》讲述了一个爱情故事，它讲述了一名20几岁的书籍编辑兼作者爱丽丝与一位年迈的小说家以斯拉·布雷泽之间的爱情故事。 第二部《疯狂》则讲述了一位被扣留在希思罗的伊拉克裔美国籍经济学家阿玛尔·加法里的故事。
Halliday’s prose is clean and lean, almost reportorial in the style of W.G. Sebald. This is a first novel that reads like the work of an author who has published many books over many years, and it manages to be a novel of ideas and a politically engaged work of metafiction.
哈利德的这部散文几乎是以温弗里德·格奥尔格·塞巴尔德的风格写下了一篇报道性作品，行文简洁又精练。这是该作者的第一部小说，但它读起来就像一位已在多年里出版过许多书籍的作家的作品。作者努力把它塑造成一部有思想的小说，以及一部融入了政治元素的元虚构作品。
The Great Believers
《伟大的信徒》
By Rebecca Makkai
丽贝卡·玛凯著
set in the Chicago of the mid-80s and Paris at the time of the 2015 terrorist attacks, Makkai’s deeply affecting novel uses the AIDS epidemic and a mother’s search for her estranged daughter to explore the effects of senseless loss and our efforts to overcome it.
玛凯这部感人至深的小说的背景设定在80年代中期的芝加哥以及2015年遭受恐怖袭击之时的巴黎，她利用艾滋病的盛行以及一位母亲寻找她那久未联系的女儿的故事来探讨无意识失去的影响以及为了克服这种结果我们所付出的努力。
Her portrait of a group of friends, most of them gay men, conveys the terrors and tragedies of the epidemic’s early years and follows its repercussions over decades. Empathetic without being sentimental, her novel amply earned its place among the contenders for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award.
她刻画了一群死党，他们多数都是男同性恋者，她通过这部作品讲述了传染病传播早期的恐怖和悲惨，以及其几十年来的影响。她的小说并没有渲染感情但却能令人感同身受，而且足以在英国布克文学奖和美国国家图书奖的众多竞争者中为自己赢得一席之地。
The Perfect Nanny
《完美保姆》
By Leila Slimani
莉拉·斯利马尼著
We know from the outset of this unnerving cautionary tale that a beloved nanny has murdered the two children in her care; but what’s even more remarkable about this unconventional thriller is the author’s intimate analysis of the special relationship between a mother and the person she hires to care for her offspring. In this mesmerizingly twisted novel, only one thing is clear: Loneliness can drive you crazy.
我们从这个令人紧张不安的警戒故事的开端得知，一位深受喜爱的保姆杀害了她照顾的两个孩子。但这部不落俗套的悬疑小说更值得关注的部分是作者对这位母亲以及她雇来照顾她的孩子的这个人之间的特殊关系的细致分析。在这部令人着迷的偏执小说中，唯一明确的一点就是：孤独会把人逼疯。
There There
《好啦好啦》
By Tommy Orange
汤米·奥兰治著
Orange’s debut is an ambitious meditation on identity and its broken alternatives, on myth filtered through the lens of time and poverty and urban life.
奥兰治的处女作是对身份和其破损的替代品的一次有野心的冥想，也是对通过时间、贫穷和城市生活镜头过滤的虚构故事的一次有抱负的沉思。
Its many short chapters are told through a loosely connected group of Native Americans living in Oakland, Calif., as they travel to a powwow.
其许多短章节讲述了生活在加利福尼亚州奥克兰市的一群组织松散的美国原住民前去举行预祝狂欢的故事。
Washington Black
《华盛顿黑人》
By Esi Edugyan
易斯·艾度格言著
This transcendent work of empathy and imagination, the 2018 winner of Canada’s prestigious Giller Prize, opens on a sugar plantation in British Barbados in the waning days of slavery.
这部能令人产生共鸣且充满想象力的杰出作品赢得了2018年加拿大颇有声望的吉勒文学奖，其背景设定在废奴时期英属巴巴多斯的一片蔗糖种植园。
It is a world in which a white slave master’s brother and a young black slave can forge an indelible bond. Edugyan unfolds a wondrous tale of exploration and discovery.
它刻画了一个白人奴隶主兄弟和一个年轻的黑人奴隶能建立起不可磨灭的纽带的世界。艾度格言塑造了一个探索和发现的奇妙故事。
American Prison
《美国监狱》
By Shane Bauer
肖恩·鲍尔著
Bauer moved to rural Louisiana in 2014 to work undercover as a guard at the Winn Correctional Center, a privately run prison. He lasted four months before his deception was discovered, but that turned out to be more than sufficient to write a searing exposé, which earned him a National Magazine Award and an invitation to speak to officials in Washington about problems in for-profit prisons.
鲍尔2014年搬到了路易斯安那州的乡下，在一个私营监狱韦恩惩教中心担任卧底警卫。在他的谎言被识破之前，他在那里担任了四个月的警卫，但他收集到的素材已足够他写一篇尖刻的揭发性文章了，这篇文章也为他赢得了美国国家杂志奖，还使他受邀与华盛顿官员交流了以盈利为目的的监狱的问题。
With this book, Bauer has expanded his article into a comprehensive analysis impossible to ignore. His book is a meticulous catalog of horrors, from the historical precursors to the rampant violence, neglect and incompetence that pervade a multibillion-dollar industry.
在这本书中，鲍尔扩写了他的文章，详细地分析了那些不容忽视的问题。他的作品是一部细致的恐怖名录，书中详细讲述了其历史前身和遍布这个数十亿美元行业的猖獗的暴力、疏忽和不作为。
Educated
《教养》
By Tara Westover
塔拉·韦斯特沃著
Westover’s extraordinary memoir is an act of courage and self-invention.
韦斯特沃这部非凡的自传体现了她的勇气和自我创造。
The youngest of seven children, she grew up in Idaho, in a survivalist family who lived so far off the grid that she lacked even a birth certificate and did not attend school until she went to college. At home, reading meant studying the Bible and the Book of Mormon, and much of her childhood was spent helping her mother and her father.
她在爱达荷的一个接受户外求生培训的家庭长大，她是家里七个孩子中最年幼的一个，她的家庭与外界隔离，以至于她连出生证明都没有，而且她在上大学之前也没有上过学。在家里，读书就是学习圣经和魔门经，而她童年的多数时间都用来帮她的父母。
In recounting her upbringing and her triumph over it, Westover took great risks and alienated family members. The reward is a book that testifies to an irrepressible thirst to learn.
为了讲述她的家教和她的成就，韦斯特沃冒了很大的风险，而且还疏远了家人。但她的回报就是一本证明了她的强烈学习渴望的作品。
Frederick Douglass
《弗雷德里克·道格拉斯》
By David W. Blight
大卫·W·布莱特著
A monumental work about a monumental figure. Douglass wrote three autobiographies himself, describing his rise from slavery to a role as one of the greatest figures of the 19th century, but Blight’s work is fuller than any of those, relating both the public and private life in a way that Douglass either could not or would not undertake.
这是一部关于一个重要人物的巨著。道格拉斯写过三部自传，讲述了他从奴隶成长为19世纪伟大人物之一的历程，但布莱特的作品比他的三部自传都要饱满，他用道格拉斯不能或不会采取的方式讲述了他的公众生活和个人生活。
How to Change Your Mind
《如何改变你的想法》
By Michael Pollan
迈克尔·波伦著
Exploring the history and science of psychedelics, Pollan tells of the rise and fall of our societal interest in these drugs, which are now thought to have many benefits, helping with easing the terror of the terminally ill. The book hits its high point when he examines the mysticism and spirituality of the psychedelic experience.
波伦探讨了致-幻-剂的历史和科学原理，讲述了社会对这些药物的兴趣的兴衰，而如今人们认为这些药物有诸多益处，有助于缓解绝症病人的恐惧。当他检测这种迷幻体验的神秘和灵性的时候，这本书达到了高潮。
Small Fry
《小人物》
By Lisa Brennan-Jobs
丽萨·布伦南-乔布斯著
Brennan-Jobs grew up shuttling between two starkly different worlds: the bohemian, peripatetic world of her mother, an impoverished artist, and the luxurious world of her cruel and increasingly wealthy father, Steve Jobs.
布伦南-乔布斯在两个完全不同的世界里长大：她那位贫穷的艺术家母亲所生活的那个漂泊的、需要到处游走的世界以及她那位残酷的、越来越富有的父亲史蒂夫·乔布斯所生活的那个奢侈的世界。
Brennan-Jobs provides indelible portraits of both parents, recreating the fraught landscape of her childhood in Palo Alto through the careful accretion of exquisitely granular detail.
布伦南-乔布斯为她的父母塑造了不可磨灭的形象，通过对微小细节的细致刻画重现了她童年时在帕洛阿尔托的不愉快的场景。
（翻译：Dlacus）
