6. Enrique Vila-Matas, Vampire in Love

　　安立奎·维拉-马塔斯《恋爱中的吸血鬼》

　　Barcelona-born Vila-Matas has published more than 20 novels, and won the 2014 Prix Formentor. This selection of 19 stories showcases his dark yet whimsical wit and genre-blending tendencies. In the title story, a desperate man with two sharp vampire's teeth has a sinful eye for an altar boy. The narrator calls him "Saint Nosferatu". "Like all those in love", Vila-Matas writes, "he is both vampire and martyr".

　　出生于巴塞罗那的维拉-马塔斯已经出版了20多本小说，并于2014年获得了福明托文学奖。本书精选的19个故事展现了他黑暗而古怪的智慧和喜欢把多种体裁混杂到一起的写作倾向。在该书同名故事中，一个绝望的男人长着两颗吸血鬼尖牙，他总是用邪恶的眼光看着助祭男孩，叙述者称其为“圣·诺斯菲拉图”。维拉-马塔斯写道：“就像所有恋爱中的人一样，他既是一个吸血鬼，又是一位牺牲者。”

　　7. Ursula Le Guin, The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena, Stories and Songs　　厄休拉·勒·奎恩《奥西尼亚：马拉芙里那，故事和歌曲》

　　Le Guin is the second living novelist (after Philip Roth) to be included in the Library of America. This first volume, with a new introduction and chronology from the author, gathers her early work, before she turned to science fiction. The Complete Orsinia offers invaluable insights into Le Guin's genius. "My games are transformation and invention," she writes.

　　勒·奎恩是继菲利普·罗斯之后第二位在有生之年就被收入美国文库的小说家。这本最早的书中加入了作者的新简介和大事记，收录了她在转型为科幻小说家之前的早期作品。《奥西尼亚》一书能让读者以全新的视角欣赏勒·奎恩的天才，有极高的价值。她写道：“变形和创造是我的游戏。”

　　8.Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life　　露丝·弗兰克林《雪莉·杰克逊：困扰的人生》

　　Known best for her 1948 story The Lottery, and her novels The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), Shirley Jackson wrote literary suspense in the tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and Henry James. Franklin tracks Jackson's mythmaking life from her girlhood in a northern Californian suburb through her marriage to literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman with whom she had four children.

　　雪莉·杰克逊的悬疑作品沿袭了霍桑、坡和亨利·詹姆斯的风格，她最著名的作品是1948年的故事《彩票》及小说《山宅鬼惊魂》(1959)。弗兰克林追溯了杰克逊神奇的人生经历，从她在加州北部的少女时光，写到她的婚姻，又写到和她一起生育了四个孩子的文学批评家斯坦利·爱德加·海曼。

　　9. Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians　　伊弥尔·麦克布莱德《小波西米亚人》

　　McBride wowed the literary world with her first novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the first Goldsmiths Prize, among others. McBride writes of her narrator's tentative first roles in student plays, and a year of increasing intimacy with an older actor. As he describes his own childhood, and twisted relationship with his mother, she struggles to tame her own most powerful instincts.

　　麦克布莱德的第一部小说《女孩是半成品》震惊了整个文学界，她获得了百利女性奖(虚构类)和金匠奖等诸多奖项。麦克布莱描写了主人公在学生戏剧中尝试表演的最早的角色，还写到她有一年与一位年长的演员越来越亲密。当他描述自己的童年以及与母亲的病态关系时，她尽力压抑着自己最强烈的本能情感。

　　10. Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am　　乔纳森·萨弗兰·福尔《我来了》

　　Foer's energetic third novel is chock-a-block with modern conundrums. Jacob and Julia's marriage, frayed by raising three young sons, threatens to tear apart over his sexting. Serious sadness, cheeky dialogue and cutting-edge relevance keep this novel crackling.

　　福尔的第三部小说热情洋溢，书中充满了现代人的困境。因为要养育三个年幼的儿子，雅各布和朱丽娅的婚姻变得千疮百孔，雅各布的色情短信更让他们的感情汲汲可危。严肃的感伤情绪、大胆的人物对话和时髦的话题让这部小说立刻爆火。