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"The Thorn Birds" is a novel written by Australian contemporary writer Colleen McCullough. As soon as it came out, it jumped to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. It not only set a sales record in the United States, but also quickly spread to countries around the world. The work takes the love entanglement between the heroine Meggie and the priest Ralph as the main line, and describes the story of three generations of the Cleary family, spanning more than half a century. Ralph yearns for the power of the church, but falls in love with Meggie, a beautiful girl from the Cleary family. For the "God" he pursued, he abandoned secular love, but he was extremely conflicted and painful in his heart. With this as the center, the joys and sorrows of more than ten members of the Cleary family are also shown. "The Thorn Birds" interprets a peerless love story against the backdrop of Australia's grand history. It has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and is widely hailed as "Australia's Gone with the Wind". Before my country joined the Universal Copyright Convention, "The Thorn Birds" had been deeply loved by Chinese readers, and several translations were popular on the market. In the 1990s, Yilin Publishing House introduced "The Thorn Birds" to meet readers' demands, making it available to readers again. It has been reprinted year after year for more than 20 years and has become very popular.