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Gustafsson said frankly: "This is a book about pain. It depicts the journey to the end ruled by pain-under the pain, there is nothing else." When the snow and ice began to melt in winter, Lars Lennart Westin, a primary school teacher turned beekeeper, suspected that he had cancer and that he would not have much time left. He threw the unopened diagnosis notice into the fireplace and refused to spend the rest of his time in the hospital. Instead, he chose to live in seclusion in the countryside and start his "self-rescue journey" alone. He recalls a past that was both real and illusory, and illness makes his feelings more acute... The main body of the novel consists of three notebooks left by the protagonist. Opening them, Westin's final life trajectory and mental journey slowly unfold. Through keen yet humorous philosophical thinking, the stubbornness and courage of ordinary people facing the pain of life are presented.