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Can we change our destiny? French national writer Schmitt uses four imaginative and strange stories to try to answer this mysterious problem of life. Each story has an unexpected ending. In a small French town, a woman who poisoned her three husbands refused to plead guilty. But facing the handsome priest, she decided to confess everything to God. When the moment of atonement comes, can she cross that threshold? On the sea, a crew member with four daughters got the news: "Your daughter is dead." He was in a dilemma - which daughter died? Which daughter did he wish was dead? Does he have the right to make such a choice? After an accident at a music summer camp, the perpetrator and the victim reversed the positions of good and evil in human nature. When the "Concerto in Memory of Angels" plays again, is it the devil or the angel who dies? Finally, there is the love affair between the President and the President's wife at the wrong time in the Elysee Palace - they love each other in front of others and kill each other in private. Which one is true? What changes may not be life itself, but the way you look at life...

This book is the first part of the long series "Time Travelers" by French writer Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. This masterpiece, which the writer spent thirty years gestating, tells the history of mankind in the form of a novel: the protagonist goes through evolution and revolution from prehistory to the present, and the past illuminates the present. The protagonist Norm was born in a lakeside village in the Neolithic Age and grew up surrounded by nature. He encountered the tragedy of the tribe, met the charming woman Nora, and was changed by a famous disaster-the great flood: he gained the ability to live forever. It's a gift and a curse. He is free from human fears: disease, aging, and death; but he is also unable to establish ordinary relationships with people. In order not to be discovered, he has to escape every once in a while. He was forced to become an eternal wanderer, constantly traveling through new places, new languages, and new societies to explore what happened to himself and try to grasp the essence and meaning of life. To tell Nome's adventures is to tell the history of mankind. From the time of the Flood to today, Nome has witnessed and even participated in all the transformations that make us who we are: from hunter-gathering to settlement, from villages to cities, the creation of writing, the birth of class, the beginning of the economy, the construction of religion, the survival of political institutions, technological and scientific inventions, the birth and decadence of art and civilization... And the irreversible damage to the environment caused by human existence.

This book is the second part of the long series "Time Travellers" by French writer Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. This masterpiece, which the writer spent thirty years developing, tells the history of mankind in the form of a novel. "Gate to the Sky" is the second part of the series. It tells the story of the protagonist Nomu who gained the ability to live forever due to chance eight thousand years ago. He lived a life of a wanderer in the world and traveled to the Mesopotamian plains to witness the prosperity of the two river basins. In Babel, one of the earliest cities, he battled wits and courage with the monarch Nimrod. As a witch doctor, he treated all kinds of people from monarchs to slaves. He also witnessed the construction and collapse of the Tower of Babel.

Here are eight women of different ages from different walks of life, eight stories about women's love and pursuit. There is a female saleswoman who likes to chew books but is selling cosmetics, and she has infected a decadent best-selling author with her enthusiasm; there is an old woman who has suffered from Alzheimer's, but she always fantasizes about how she was when she was young; there is a money-worshiping girl who once married into a wealthy family. During the journey, I met my former painter lover and reminisced about my past and growth; there were a group of mothers who were in jail, and they used the pencils and paper they risked their lives to preserve, leaving their children with wisdom to pass down from generation to generation; ... Their stories are the life we experience.