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一部橫跨文學、人類學、語言學的感官史經典之作吻是不朽的。它在嘴唇與嘴唇之間旅行，從一個世紀到另一個世紀，從一個時代到另一個時代。男人和女人搜集這些吻，將它們奉獻給其他人，然後一個個死去。──莫泊桑在一個吻中，您將明白所有被隱藏的事。──聶魯達每一個人都渴求著愛，親吻則是表達愛最直接且原始的方式。那麼，親吻為何物，一個吻說明了什麼？它是怎麼產生的？發出了怎樣的聲響，乃至於溫度、氣味、意義……親吻，在不同國度的民謠詩句中有著各式各樣的意涵。例如在法語中，有二十多種關於親吻的不同詞彙，在德語中則有三十多種；齊克果曾以揮動蒼蠅拍來形容戀人雙唇的接觸，而對馬克吐溫而言，則像是牛蹄與泥濘。本書從歷史的角度作出全面的研究，探討親吻在文化、時空之中的起源與發展。作者由親吻的象徵及意義出發，探討它是如何被用來傳達熱情、慾望與愛；及其社會及文化意涵，看它是如何形塑人類社會關於親密與情慾的規範。本書於一九〇〇年代完成，甫出版即被視為經典，被翻譯為多種語言，書中引用大量的詩歌與文學段落，對於語言學、感官史等領域，皆有深遠的影響。

A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness, in this fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki The light goes out suddenly. And in this absence of light, a pair of teenagers bare their souls. Into the warm silence of the night, they share a conversation filled with their stories and dreams . . . and maybe even a first kiss. Set against the backdrop of the civil war that ravaged Angola in the 1990s, this book weaves the country's history with a teenage boy's family stories. But when a power outage shrouds the neighborhood in darkness, everyday realities fade away . . . As the boy and a girl sit talking in the backyard, memory gives way to imagination and vulnerability, and the space between them becomes charged with emotional electricity. Their resulting conversation is both a meditation on the storytelling impulse and a gripping narrative of first love that, through its particulars, ascends to the u