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The structure is clever, and the novel is written in the form of a short story. The 21 characters and 21 chapters are all unfolded in the first person's self-narration, which is equivalent to 21 self-portraits. It can also be called another multi-voice narrative. It can be entered from any story or character or from any location in the book. How can a person who has been abandoned by society, bullied, ridiculed, and beaten see the world from a special perspective? "Spinning Heart" contains 21 characters, while "December Chronicle" unfolds a character's life for 12 months. The former is a group portrait, and the latter is a single portrait; the former is a panorama, and the latter is a close-up. Ryan's collection of experimental short stories, with poetic prose and high-speed writing rhythm, captures the wild beauty of the human heart in frustration, hope and tranquility.

Melody was pregnant, not by her husband, but by her student. With pregnancy as a clue and the fetus as the starting point, the former becomes the amniotic fluid of the latter, and the uterus is like a ghost. The summons brings together all conflicts and feelings, achieving spiritual rumination until redemption. Finally, as soon as the fetus is born, it carries all the past and moves towards the future. The soul entanglements in the novel are multiple, and the writer's female identity writing is also amazing and poetic.

Our existence is just an accident caused by the encounter of the body. The body comes from the encounter of small things, and the small things come from an accidental slanting sun... A thief was taken in by an old man, but his brother was beaten; in the war-torn Middle East, a priest taught young people to play hockey; the driver who caused the accident developed a subtle relationship with the mother of the victim; a group of friends with a rift in their relationship took revenge on their sexual predators... 20 Stories, full of loneliness and displacement, surging with passion and desire. Beneath the surface, these stories are often found in mundane circumstances, sometimes triggered by fateful encounters or sad decisions. Ryan uses prose-like writing to outline the gloomy and earthy Ireland, capturing the wild beauty of the human heart in frustration, hope and tranquility.

The structure is clever, and the novel is written in the form of a short story. The 21 characters and 21 chapters are all unfolded in the first person's self-narration, which is equivalent to 21 self-portraits. It can also be called another multi-voice narrative. It can be entered from any story or character or from any location in the book. In the wind, it will still turn. It crunched, crunched, crunched as I moved away. This mottled, crunching, whirling heart. Ireland's "falling sky", the financial system collapsed, social crises are everywhere, everyone is facing the struggle with their inner desires... Bobby, Josie, Lily, Vasya, Leo Ting... 21 Hearts are crunching and spinning. 21 People, with different experiences and identities, struggle to tell their own truths, and each true and intertwined story gradually unfolds. Ryan uses a unique narrative voice to show the complexity of human nature and express the thoughts of a generation with incredible perception. This novel about Irish rural life is bold in approach and the story is witty, dark, sweet and spicy.

This is what happened in December: it happened in a flash. If you close your eyes, it's over. It's like you never existed. Under the "falling sky" of Ireland's financial crisis, greed has become the norm in the world, and John Cunliffe can only desperately hold on to familiar things. Even if he loses them: the people who have spent his life protecting him from the cruel world... After the death of his parents, Johns inherits the family farm, but he is unable to run it on his own. Village bullies and scheming land grabbers stand in his path... After a brutal beating, a female patient who was hospitalized with him enters his life, but Johns remains alone, trying to keep up with a world that moves faster than he does... In a year of Johns' life, his confusion, humor and bitter self-doubt make for an extremely fulfilling twelve months. The bittersweet story is a reminder that our souls are more insightful and wiser than we realize or even imagine.

Three sad men, with different ages, classes, and nationalities, play different roles in society, and play them very badly... They have to accept the heartbreaking reality. They need to face the dilemma head-on, and still have to live in a world full of love and hate, hope and despair...

This set contains five works by Donal Ryan: "All We Should Know" + "From the Silent Shallow Sea" + "The Whirling Heart" + "December Chronicle" + "The Slanting Sun". 1. "Everything We Should Know": Martin Toby was the son of a famous homeless man and the father of my unborn child. He is seventeen and I am thirty-three. The novel uses Melody's emotions as clues and the fetus as the starting point - the former becomes the amniotic fluid of the latter, and the uterus is like a ghost, summoning and gathering all conflicts and feelings to achieve spiritual rumination, input, and redemption. 2. "From the Quiet Shallow Sea": Farouk, for him family is everything. He tried his best to protect his wife and daughter from the ravages of war and hatred, but ultimately lost his home and took refuge on the other side of the ocean. Lampe, a distraught man who has lived in small-town Ireland for too long. John has a strong desire to control, but his life is overshadowed by the ghost of his brother and the pain of his father, and his life is coming to an end. The fate of the three people gradually became intertwined, composing a sad and touching story. 3. "Spinning Hearts": Bobby, Josie, Lily, Vasya, Leo Ting... 21 Hearts are all spinning. 21 People, with different experiences and identities, struggle to tell their own truths, and each true and intertwined story gradually unfolds. Ryan uses a unique narrative voice to show the complexity of human nature and express the thoughts of a generation with incredible perception. 4. "December Chronicle": This is what happened in December: it happened in a flash. If you close your eyes, it's over. After his parents died, Johns inherited the family farm, but he was unable to run it on his own. Village bullies and scheming land grabbers stand in his path... After suffering a brutal beating, a female patient who was hospitalized with him enters his life, but Johns is still alone, and he is trying to keep up with a world that moves faster than him... 5. "The Sun Slants": Our existence is just an accident caused by the encounter of the body, and the body comes from small things. The encounter, small things originate from an accidental sunbeam... A thief was taken in by an old man, but his brother was beaten; in the war-torn Middle East, a priest taught young people to play hockey; the driver who caused the accident developed a subtle relationship with the victim's mother; a group of friends with a rift in their relationship took revenge on the sexual predator... 20 Stories, written to express loneliness and displacement, surging with passion and desire.