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Sophie's Choice
General Fiction苏菲的选择
(us) William Styron
In the Nazi concentration camp, she chose to let her son live and pushed her daughter to the crematorium; in order to survive, she was forced to print reports on the massacre of Jews for the Nazis; she endured molestation, rape, and perverted insults from German doctors, guards, and even housekeepers... After the war, she came to the United States and fell in love with Nathan, a Jew. With a guilty conscience toward the Jews, she silently endured the tyranny of her suspicious and manic lover in order to relieve her heavy spiritual burden. Every time this happened, their minds and bodies, pain and pleasure, intertwined and reached a climax. Ding Ge, a writer who loved her deeply, took her away from Nathan. But after a passionate lovemaking session, she chose to return to the insane Nathan, return to the bed intertwined with pain and joy, and go to death... This book is a milestone in the history of Western novels. It won the National Book Award and was named "One of the 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by Random House.
In the Nazi concentration camp, she chose to let her son live and pushed her daughter to the crematorium; in order to survive, she was forced to print reports on the massacre of Jews for the Nazis; she endured molestation, rape, and perverted insults from German doctors, guards, and even housekeepers... After the war, she came to the United States and fell in love with Nathan, a Jew. With a guilty conscience toward the Jews, she silently endured the tyranny of her suspicious and manic lover in order to relieve her heavy spiritual burden. Every time this happened, their minds and bodies, pain and pleasure, intertwined and reached a climax. Ding Ge, a writer who loved her deeply, took her away from Nathan. But after a passionate lovemaking session, she chose to return to the insane Nathan, return to the bed intertwined with pain and joy, and go to death... This book is a milestone in the history of Western novels. It won the National Book Award and was named "One of the 100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by Random House.

Confessions of Nat Turner
General Fiction纳特·特纳的自白
(us) William Styron
The leader of the black slave uprising sounded the strong voice of freedom in desperate situations! The Pulitzer Prize winner analyzes history with words of blood and tears! This book is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book and has been certified by Time magazine as one of the Top 100 English Novels. Its content subverts the traditional heroic narrative and has a more shocking soul confession than "Braveheart". It witnesses the darkness of human nature at the intersection of violence and compassion. The author uses words to penetrate the fog of history and reconstructs the truth with a seven-thousand-word confession: He is trapped between the slave world and the free world, unable to reach or escape. In 1831, the black prophet Nat Turner launched the only effective and sustained uprising in the history of black slavery in the United States. After this failure Turner was tried, convicted and hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia. William Styron wrote the novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner" based on real historical figures. He used first-person narration to revive the hanged uprising leader in literature. He not only captured the courage of people under oppression, but also captured the hesitation of those who were unable to advance or retreat, and the loneliness of those who had no support. With his profound understanding of complex social reality and complex human nature, Styron gave Nat Turner a rich flesh and blood that was never shown in macro historical narratives. This is not a black-and-white epic of resistance, but a soulful lament that explores the complexity of human nature amid oppression and violence.
The leader of the black slave uprising sounded the strong voice of freedom in desperate situations! The Pulitzer Prize winner analyzes history with words of blood and tears! This book is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book and has been certified by Time magazine as one of the Top 100 English Novels. Its content subverts the traditional heroic narrative and has a more shocking soul confession than "Braveheart". It witnesses the darkness of human nature at the intersection of violence and compassion. The author uses words to penetrate the fog of history and reconstructs the truth with a seven-thousand-word confession: He is trapped between the slave world and the free world, unable to reach or escape. In 1831, the black prophet Nat Turner launched the only effective and sustained uprising in the history of black slavery in the United States. After this failure Turner was tried, convicted and hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia. William Styron wrote the novel "The Confessions of Nat Turner" based on real historical figures. He used first-person narration to revive the hanged uprising leader in literature. He not only captured the courage of people under oppression, but also captured the hesitation of those who were unable to advance or retreat, and the loneliness of those who had no support. With his profound understanding of complex social reality and complex human nature, Styron gave Nat Turner a rich flesh and blood that was never shown in macro historical narratives. This is not a black-and-white epic of resistance, but a soulful lament that explores the complexity of human nature amid oppression and violence.