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《決斷2秒間》作者
麥爾坎．葛拉威爾新作
暢銷冠軍作家麥爾坎‧葛拉威爾2019年最受矚目全新大作
更勝《引爆趨勢》、《決斷2秒間》、《異數》、《大開眼界》及《以小勝大》
如何與陌生人交談與相處？思想奇才麥爾坎‧葛拉威爾分享關鍵訣竅
2015年，有名黑人女子因為交通違規被警察攔下，隨後遭到逮捕並送入監獄。三天後，她選擇在牢中自殺身亡。這之間到底發生了什麼事？思想奇才麥爾坎‧葛拉威爾的新作品正在探討當人們遇到陌生人時，你對對方的了解又有多少把握？為何與陌生人交談或共處時會經常出現誤會與錯誤？
我們該如何理解陌生人？為何在面對陌生人時總是錯得一蹋糊塗？作者葛拉威爾透過書中許多親身經歷，包括鮮為人知的故事到轟動社會的法律案例中，探索一場與陌生人相遇所發展出難以想像的意外及奇人軼事。潛伏在五角大廈最高層級機密處的間諜為何從未被人揭穿？造成華爾街癱瘓的史上最大醜聞馬多夫騙局是如何成功？自白詩人普拉絲為何選擇自殺結束生命？天使臉孔殺手阿曼達‧諾克斯的謀殺真相又是什麼？陌生人永遠不如你想得如此單純。
麥爾坎‧葛拉威爾以嶄新的視角帶領讀者重新發現世界運作的潛規則，透過精彩的真實案例，結合心理學、法律案例和歷史，引領讀者思考人類行為，學習更精準與陌生人共處。
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?
Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland---throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
