亚马逊公布2017年度书单：还不知道读什么书，就看这里！

4. "Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid
《离开西部》（莫欣•哈米德）

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet— sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.
在一个摇摇欲坠的国家，内战一触即发时，两个年轻人相遇了。感性而异常独立的纳迪娅与温和拘谨的赛义德开始偷偷相爱。不久后，整个城市陷入混乱，两个感情还不够成熟的恋人被困。战争爆发，曾经熟悉的街道支离破碎，四处散落着关卡和弹片，这对情侣听到人们私下议论一种任意门，它能瞬间将人送去往远方，但也可能遇到不可预知的危脸，并且付出一定代价。随着暴力冲突愈演愈烈，纳迪娅和赛义德觉得他们走投无路了。他们找到那扇任意门，迈出了第一步，从此离开了自己的祖国，告别了过去的生活。

3. "Beartown" by Fredrik Backman
《贝尔镇》（弗雷德里克•巴克曼）

People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. "Beartown" explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain.
人们说，贝尔镇要完了。这个微不足道的小镇坐落在森林里，它的领土正在慢慢被树林蚕食。但在湖边有一个老旧的溜冰场，是几代以前，当初建立贝尔镇的工人们建造的。这个溜冰场承载了镇上居民对美好明天的信念。贝尔镇的少年冰球队要参加全国冰球半决赛，他们原本抱着试一试的打算。而现在，镇上的所有人把希望和梦想都寄托在这几个青少年的肩上。《贝尔镇》探讨了把一个小群体团结起来的愿景，使他们的关系破裂的秘密，以及要违背集体的意愿，个体需要付出的勇气。