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The founder of "Doctors Without Borders" and an academician of the French Academy embarked on a 900-kilometer walking pilgrimage. It is not about religious piety, but about forgetfulness, the spiritual "pilgrimage" of forgetting the constraints of daily life, forgetting the fatigue and bad weather of long distances, forgetting industrialization and material scarcity. Santiago de Compostela (Spanish: Santiago de Compostela; meaning "Santiago of the Starry Fields") is the capital of the Galician Autonomous Region in Spain, with a population of less than 100,000. According to legend, James, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, is buried here and is one of the Catholic pilgrimage destinations. Since the Middle Ages, pilgrims have come here in an endless stream, and even formed a famous pilgrimage road, the Way of St. James. In 2011, after leaving his post as ambassador, Jean-Christophe Luffin decided to embark on a journey to Santiago. "Immortal Journey" is a true record of Lu Fen's pilgrimage. The humorous, self-deprecating and emotional writing style shows not only the basic common sense of pilgrimage, but also the magnificent scenery, interesting things along the way, portraits of unexpected characters, and even the boundless thoughts of a lonely walker between heaven and earth.

"The Red Collar" is a novella by Jean-Christophe Lufen, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize. It was published in 2014 and won the Maurice Genava Literary Prize that year. A movie based on it will be released in 2018. The story takes place at the end of World War I. French soldier Morrac was awarded the Legion of Honor during the Battle of Salonika, but openly awarded the medal to a dog during a military parade in July 1919. Is he crazy? Is this a provocation against militarism? Regardless, he went to jail for it. Driven by curiosity, the young military judge kept digging into the case, vowing to find out the real motive for this ridiculous behavior: What is the relationship between Morlak and the dog? Has his love been betrayed? What did this farmer-turned-soldier see about war? Loyalty is a quality shared by humans and animals, but human loyalty is more complex. In this novel, Lu Fen uses fascinating narrative techniques to present us a story beyond loyalty and within human nature.