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This book is a lyrical, exploratory, semi-autobiographical novel written by "The Byron of Rock and Roll" Cohen. The novel tells the life of Briverman, a wealthy Canadian Jewish man, from his childhood to his twenties. It describes his friendship with his companion Kranz, and his love affair with several women who entered his life from childhood to youth. It expounds his views on war, violence, religion, sex and class equality with a "rogue temperament" that combines delicate emotions and self-deprecation.

"Fire" is the posthumous work of writer, poet, and singer Leonard Cohen. This book is prefaced by Leonard Cohen's son Adam Cohen and translated by writer Ouyang Yu. It includes the lyrics of Cohen's three studio albums at the end of his music career, "Old Ideas", "Popular Questions" and "You Want It Darker", the lyrics written for Anjani's album "Blue Alert", as well as selected prose, paintings and many unpublished poems from Cohen's "Notebook" for creation. ------ "I'm here, I'm here. I'm ready." - "You Want It Darker" Legendary singer Leonard Cohen passed away in November 2016. In an interview with The New Yorker in his later years, Cohen said: "I'm ready to die, I just hope it won't be too uncomfortable. That's it." At the end of Cohen's life, he was only doing one thing: compiling a book of unpublished poems from the "notebook" where he recorded daily inspiration. Fire was an idea and image with which Cohen was intensely preoccupied in the closing years of his life. Cohen's poems are warm, candid and eclectic, and present the strong image of "flame" to the world. We are fortunate to witness the brilliance of Cohen's fire of life. "Leonard didn't mind talking about death at all. ...'Death' has appeared in Leonard's poems and songs from the beginning. As early as decades ago, Leonard had reached some kind of friendly agreement with 'death'." - Sylvie Simmons (author of Leonard Cohen's biography "I'm Your Man")

The poems in "The Book of Longing" were written by Cohen at Bird Mountain Meditation Center in Southern California, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai, more than twenty years after the publication of his last collection of poems. This brilliant and moving collection of poems also features Cohen's playful and provocative paintings, which are paired with meditative, beginningless and darkly humorous poems. The New York Times commented: "The writing scope of "The Book of Desire" is unique, clear yet suffused with moisture, vast yet private, naughty yet profound."