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The masterpiece of an author nominated for 15 Nobel Prizes! 61 Humorous stories! In these days of exhaustion, every dignity is earned by oneself. Read Kecai Tiao Wenku. Taxi drivers, waiters, cleaners, stuntmen, unemployed people... Some people play clowns in cheap restaurants after losing their jobs, some people are driven crazy by work and talk nonsense, some people have to abandon their babies on the street, and some people work as robbers under bridges... Through this collection of short stories, Moravia constantly changes the theme of poverty, crime, love loss, and unemployment, and writes about the struggles and helplessness of small people in big cities in the sinking era.

The less possessive you are, the more love you receive. Moravia's another masterpiece after "Contempt" won the Viareggio Literary Award in Italy! Painter Dino has suffered from depression since he was a child and feels that he lacks connection with everything around him. He tries to establish a connection with the world through possession, such as possessing a cup or a girl. However, he happened to meet a girl who had no intention of establishing a connection with the world and therefore could not be possessed. Physical possession, financial bribery, marriage temptation, death threats... Dino tried all kinds of extreme and crazy methods, but he still couldn't get it, until he realized that he had been trapped in the cage of possessiveness...