5.Fates and Furies BY LAUREN GROFF
《命運和暴怒》，作者：羅倫·格羅夫

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The book's first half concocts the blessed life of Lancelot "Lotto" Satterwhite, the adored son of a wealthy family who has great ambitions to be an actor. His wife, Mathilde, so long impoverished and alone, willingly takes on the chore of encouraging Lancelot.
作者在前半部分編造了男主的幸福生活，他是一個富裕家庭的可愛兒子，想要當一個演員。他的妻子瑪蒂爾達長期被貧窮和孤獨折磨，心甘情愿地擔負起鼓勵這個自戀年輕人的苦差事。

And halfway through, Groff turns from "Fates" to "Furies." Here's a woman as determined as Antigone, as ferocious as Medea.
行 文過半，格羅夫從"命運"寫到"暴怒"，在真實中兩人有著不可調和的矛盾。最后，這名女性成了一位像安提戈涅一樣決絕、像美狄亞一樣殘忍的人

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'Fates and Furies' review: A masterful tale of marriage and secrets.
這是一部關于婚姻和秘密的史詩巨著。

6.Future Crimes：Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It BY MARC GOODMAN
《未來犯罪——萬物關聯，人類脆弱，我們怎么辦》，作者：馬克·古德曼

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Welcome to the brave new world of criminal technology, where robbers have been replaced by hackers and victims include all of us on the Web.
歡迎來到犯罪技術的美麗新世界，在這里，劫匪已被黑客替代，包括我們在內的所有上網者都是受害人。

Goodman, a former beat cop who founded the Future Crimes Institute, wrote his book to shed light on the latest in criminal and terrorist tradecraft and to kick off a discussion. He presents myriad cybercrime examples.
前警察、未來犯罪研究所創立者古德曼通過這本書揭示了最新的犯罪行為和恐怖主義間諜情報技術，并進行了討論，他向我們展示了無數令人匪夷所思的網絡犯罪的例子。

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Exploring the real-world effects — and the political ones — of our technological insecurity.
這是一本探索網絡技術所帶來的不安感在現實生活中和政治圈里真實呈現的佳作。

7.A Little Life BY Hanya Yanagihara
《小生活》，作者：漢雅·柳原

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Hanya Yanagihara's novel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction, illuminates human suffering pushed to its limits, drawn in extraordinary, eloquent detail.
漢雅·柳原這部小說是國家圖書獎小說類的入圍作品，她通過非凡的、意味深長的細節，闡釋了人類的極致苦難。

The narrative quickly concentrates on Jude, an orphan with a mysterious past. Jude's desire to maintain a veneer of control, despite being haunted by sexual and psychological abuse, creates the book's major drama.
小說的主人公裘德是一個有著神秘過去的孤兒，盡管裘德深陷性虐待和心理虐待之中，但他努力掩飾這一切——這構成了本書的主要沖突。

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Through her decade-by-decade examination of these people's lives, Yanagihara draws a deeply realized character study that inspires as much as devastates.
通過對數十載生活的考察與審視，漢雅·柳原所深刻呈現的人物角色令人鼓舞又讓人絕望。

8.Negroland：A memoir BY MARGO JEFFERSON
《黑人之地：一部回憶錄》，作者：馬戈·杰弗遜

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Margo Jefferson was an African American girl from a good family that had money, connections and expectations of excellence.
作者馬戈·杰斐遜是一位非裔美國女孩，來自一個有錢、有人脈、追求卓越的好家庭。

She was (mostly) protected from the sting of racism and its pernicious hacking away at self-esteem, opportunity and hope. But her armor was thin, and over the years she has nursed her discomfort with being a child of privilege.
她大部分時候都免受種族主義的刺痛和對于自尊、機遇、希望的險惡攻擊。但她的盔甲依然薄弱，多年來，她一直試圖平復自己作為一個特權階級的小孩在白人上流社會中的不安。

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"Negroland" is not about raw racism or caricatured villains. It is about subtleties and nuances, presumptions and slights that chip away at one's humanity and take a mental toll.
《黑人之地》無關原始的種族主義或被諷刺攻擊的惡棍，它描述了那些微妙而細致的假想和輕蔑，他們削弱了人性，造成了心理的傷害。

9.Purity BY JONATHAN FRANZEN
《純度》，作者：喬納森·弗蘭岑

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The book traces the unlikely rise of a poor, fatherless child named Pip. At least partially to escape her mother's neediness, Pip accepts an internship with a rogue Web site in the jungles of Bolivia that exposes the nasty secrets of corporations and nations.
本書描繪窮苦喪父的皮普希望渺茫的成長過程。 為了能多少逃脫母親的窮困潦倒，皮普接受了一份位于玻利維亞叢林中的流氓網站的短期實習，這個網站暴露了公司和國家的骯臟秘密。

Its leader is an Internet activist whose back story in East Germany reads like a cerebral thriller.
該網站的領導是個網絡活動家，他在東德的經歷讀來就像一部驚悚小說。

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Franzen writes with perfectly balanced fluency. From its tossed-off observations to its thoughtful reflections on nuclear weapons and the moral compromises of journalism, this novel offers a constantly provocative series of insights.
《純度》的寫作完美、平衡而流暢。弗蘭岑對于核武器和新聞業的道德妥協進行了深入的觀察和思考，為我們提供了一系列頗具挑戰性的觀點。

10.Welcome to Braggsville BY T.GERONIMO JOHNSON
《歡迎來到布朗斯維爾》，作者：T. 杰羅尼莫·約翰遜

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D'aron Little May Davenport, a polite white teen from Braggsville, Ga., arrives at University of California at Berkeley as if he's a Southern-fried Candide.
阿隆是個有禮貌的白人青年，來自佐治亞州布朗斯維爾，來到加州大學伯克利分校讀書，貌似是個南方老實人。

The whole novel turns on a moment in one of his history classes . A too clever, incredibly offensive, potentially disastrous plan is born: D'aron and three friends travel back to Braggsville and stage a mock lynching, "a performative intervention."
整個小說由一節歷史課展開。一項聰明至極、充滿冒犯的災難性計劃誕生了：阿隆和三個朋友回到布朗斯維爾，導演了一場虛擬私刑。

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Johnson is a master at stripping away our persistent myths and exposing the subterfuge and displacement necessary to keep pretending that a culture built on kidnapping, rape and torture was the apotheosis of gentility and honor.
作者約翰遜善于去除我們固執的繆見、揭露人們的詭計和錯位，這種錯位假裝把建立在綁架、強奸和酷刑之上的文化當做教養和榮譽典范。

（來源：《華盛頓郵報》，中國日報網雙語新聞微信 編輯：何娜，丁一）