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"No matter how dark and thick the clouds are, there is still silver on the back." A powerful work about trauma, introspection, confrontation, and rebirth, facing irreversible loss and facing unspeakable evil. "I", who came from a major, originally loved abstract painting, and became a professional portrait painter in order to support my family. On the eve of the sixth wedding anniversary, my wife suddenly confessed that she was having an affair and asked for a divorce, so "I" drove away from home alone. Finally, at the invitation of my friend Masahiko Amada, I stayed in his father Tomohiko Amada's old home and studio in the mountains outside Odawara to adjust my body and mind. When "I" was teaching at Yamashita's drawing board, I became lovers with two wives in the class. Through the careful planning of my mysterious neighbor Menshiki, I also established a close relationship with the girl Marie. The homeowner, Tomohiko Amada, was originally a famous painter. "I" accidentally discovered a masterpiece of Tomohiko Amada's work unknown to the world in the attic, called "Assassination Knight Leader", thus opening up a dusty history. After that, "I" was involved in a series of incredible events... The ringtone in the middle of the night and the entrance to the ancient temple, the mysterious neighbor Wataru Menshiki and the female student Mari Akikawa in the painting class, the "Knight Leader" and the "Man with a Face", the real world and the metaphorical world... Haruki Murakami uses his special writing method of peeling off layers to lead readers step by step into a wonderful world. The major Chinese publishers of Haruki Murakami's works and translator Lin Shaohua have joined hands to present a new revised edition of Haruki Murakami's long-running series. In terms of design, we cooperated with the internationally renowned illustrator NomaBar. The three colors of black, white and red depict the subtle blur in Murakami's works between the square and the circle, and the overall presentation is both simple and classic. In terms of content, a lot of revisions have been made around foreign words, restoring the details of the author's intentional emphasis in the original version. Lin Shaohua updated the prefaces of the translations of many works, and made slight adjustments to some of the tone and expressions in the translations. The chronology of Haruki Murakami has been updated to the latest, and a music list is attached at the end of each book.

The masterpiece of Maupassant, the world's master of short stories! Maupassant, the world's master of short stories, raised realist literature to an unprecedented level and opened up a broad path for short story creation. Gide praised him for his excellence, and Turgenev hailed him as a genius in French literature. It contains 29 representative works of Maupassant, including classic works such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules". Classic translation by Liu Mingjiu, a master in French translation. New curriculum standards, recommended readings by the Ministry of Education. The book comes with an interpretation manual: Maupassant's Literary Life. This book contains 29 masterpieces of Maupassant's short stories.

"Don't Lose, Never Forget" is a dystopian science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and the American Book Critics Circle Award. In Hailsham School, deep in the English countryside, three good friends, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, grew up here. They were carefully cared for by their tutors and received a good education in poetry and art. However, Hailsham, which seems like a paradise, hides many secrets. After the three Caseys grew up, they gradually discovered that the beautiful growth process in their memories was full of untraceable confusion and terrifying question marks...

"Pride and Prejudice" is Jane Austen's masterpiece. Describing the emotional entanglements between the arrogant single young man Darcy and the prejudiced second lady Elizabeth, the wealthy single aristocrat Bentley and the virtuous eldest lady Jane, it fully expresses the author's own views on marriage and emphasizes the impact of economic interests on love and marriage. The plot of the novel is full of comedy and the language is witty and humorous. It is one of Austen's most popular novels and has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.

"The Unfinished Legend of Númenor and Middle-earth" brings together various anecdotes of Middle-earth from ancient times to the end of the War of the Ring, spanning thousands of years: the wizard Gandalf's vivid account of the dwarves gathering at Bag End and resurrecting the Lonely Mountain; Isildur's accident and the causes and consequences of the Ring falling into the river; Galadriel's past and the forging of the Ring of Power; Gondor and Rohan Why the two countries formed a life-and-death covenant with the same hatred; the * records left over from the long history of the sunken land of Númenor; and how Tuor, the ancestor of the Dúnedain, saw Ulmo, the god of water, appearing on the seashore of Beleriand before the first generation of the Dark Lord was defeated, and why the legendary hero Tulin lamented that he had "groped in the dark mists of Morgoth since his childhood."

The original movie "Atonement" was rated 8.4 On Douban, starring James McAvoy, Kate Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, and Benedict Cumberbatch. In the summer of 1935, Briony, a 13-year-old girl from a well-off British family, had just begun to try writing and had a rich imagination. One day, she secretly discovered that there was an affair between the housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner, and her sister, Cecilia. Briony's rich imagination invented all kinds of terrible things and imagined them. When her cousin Lola was raped, Briony arbitrarily determined that he was the criminal and testified against him, and Robbie was imprisoned. But Cecilia, who firmly believed that Robbie was innocent, did not hesitate to sever ties with her family and fell in love with him persistently. "Atonement" is the representative work of British writer Ian McEwan. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Film and the original novel of the same name, and the British Booker Award nomination.

Moore Flanders was a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison. Before she was born, her mother used her to escape hanging. She gradually grew up with the help of a wealthy family, but was deceived and defiled by the young master of the family. Later, she married the second young master of the family and used her beauty to gain opportunities for survival; when her youth passed away, she became a thief. When she was arrested and returned to the place of her birth, Newgate Prison, her life also formed a cycle full of irony.

The famous French writer, thinker, and feminist leader Beauvoir's masterpiece, a work that won the French Goncourt Literary Prize, and a documentary of post-war European society and culture. Based on the writing and social life circle in which she lived, Beauvoir described the activities and ideological processes of a group of intellectuals in Paris from 1944 to 1945, when France was at the end of World War II and about to fall into the Cold War. This novel has a strong documentary color, and the relationship between Dubreuil and his wife corresponds to the mutual attachment, respect and independence between Beauvoir and Sartre. Anna Dubreuil's image of an intellectual woman and Robert Dubreuil's identity as a famous writer involved in politics are very consistent with Beauvoir and Sartre in reality. Henri Perron corresponds to the French writer Camus. Camus met Sartre in 1943, and Sartre became Camus's leader in the literary world. As an active activist, Camus had founded the left-wing underground daily "Combat". He made Sartre, who was hoping to "intervene", truly participate in the resistance movement. In 1952, the magazine "Modern" edited by Sartre published an article criticizing Camus, which eventually led to the breakdown of the relationship between the two. In the novel, the American writer Lewis gave the ring to Anna. In reality, Beauvoir wore it and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

The representative Japanese healing writer Ogawa Ito wrote the sequel to "Camellia Stationery Shop"! Don't wait for "someday," convey your feelings to the people who matter most now. For those unspeakable feelings, Kamakura's Shancha Stationery Store is still here to express them for you. What can be preserved for a long time is, after all, paper letters. All emotions are bonds. Each ghostwritten letter gently soothes the lonely, angry, and helpless moments in life. At the foot of a hill in Kamakura, Hatoko runs a ghostwriting house. Recently, she was busy with housework and childcare, and finally reopened the store. Unexpected ghostwriting commissions appeared in front of her one after another. Among them, there were resignation applications from employees who had been unfairly treated and were forced to resign, letters from a mother who had just died to her daughter who was about to get married, and letters to an elderly father who refused to return his driver's license... These were all things that could not be said directly in person and would become boring in emails, so they could only be conveyed through letters. At this time, she accidentally discovered the secret love letter hidden by her former ghostwriter..."

It selects the wonderful pieces of Edgar Allan Poe's suspense stories, including 5 independent short suspense stories, including The Mystery of Mary Roger, The Black Cat, The Affair, Berenice, and The Man in the City. The novel has a weird and bizarre style, full of horror atmosphere, is short and exquisite, and is easy to carry. It is a convenient book for readers to read when traveling, working, or in their leisure time.

"The Poisonous Sun" is one of Jack London's masterpieces. This book is divided into two parts. The first part tells the story of the protagonist "Poisonous Sun" who pans for gold in the Arctic and fights against the ice and snow. The description of the Arctic scenery is considered a classic in literature. In the second part, the "Poisonous Sun" returns to the city, and civilized society seems to be even more cruel... In the end, the "Poisonous Sun" finds the true meaning of life. Once published, this book became an extremely popular seller. It was Jack London's most popular book during his lifetime and has been adapted into movies many times.

It selects the wonderful pieces of Edgar Allan Poe's suspense stories, including 5 independent short suspense stories, including The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ligeia, The Stolen Letter, A Barrel of Monterey White Wine, and Moreira. The novel has a weird and bizarre style, full of horror atmosphere, is short and exquisite, and is easy to carry. It is a convenient book for readers to read when traveling, working, or in their leisure time.

A clever and evil black farce, a self-destructive carnival of death, the work of Martin Amis, a representative British contemporary literary writer as famous as McEwan and Julie Barnes. In a humorous and satirical style, the author faithfully presents the radical liberal social storm that arose in the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s to readers. This storm broke through the bottom line of Western moral tradition, caused huge impact and harm to a generation, turned innocent and kind-hearted young people into "civilized savages", and became a countercurrent in the long river of human history.

Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American writer who was recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Lolita", which he wrote in 1955, received great controversy and honors. "The Prototype of Laura" is Nabokov's unfinished work and the last manuscript in his later years. The novel tells the story of Philip Wilde, an extremely bloated scholar who married Flora, a slender, beautiful but promiscuous ballet dancer. On the one hand, he had to endure his wife's lies and betrayal, and on the other hand, he was addicted to the pleasure of self-destruction.

"Crazy Love" is the representative work of Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. It tells the story of a working-class man, Rangji, who falls in love with Naomi, a bartender, and wants to train her to become a noble woman and become his wife. However, Naomi is vain, conceited, romantic, and hides a conspiracy under her innocent appearance. Rangji is seduced by her charming appearance and meets her needs at all costs. In the end, she is trained to become her servant and is at her mercy. The novel shows the exchange of love between men and women during training and counter-training, and is an immortal literary classic that has long been hailed as the "Oriental version of "Lolita"". This book also includes Junichiro Tanizaki's short story "Tattoo" with a demonic style and the novella "Shuncho" that pursues ultimate aestheticism.

The young Wheelers lived in a house on Revolutionary Road in the American suburbs. Her husband, Frank, is a regular office worker, and his wife, April, raises a pair of children at home and is an amateur actress. When they felt that they were about to enter middle age, the two were tired of the empty and boring life atmosphere around them and quarreled endlessly. Aibo proposed to abandon everything now and go to Paris to find new passions and dreams. The gears of fate began to turn at this moment... The boss said to Frank: You are a promising young man, give you a promotion. And his wife, Ai Bo, is pregnant again. Can "going to Paris", a short-lived dream that once changed their lives, bring them a "revolutionary road" in life?

"Geranium" is a collection of short stories. It is the first collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor, winner of the National Book Award and a representative writer of American Southern literature. It collects eight of O'Connor's early works into one volume. "Geraniums", "Barber", "Wild Cat", "Crop" and "Turkey" all show his imaginative, amazing vitality and penetrating creative talent. "Train", "Peeler" and "Heart of the Park" outline the prototype of his full-length masterpiece "Wise Blood". Translator Chen Xiaoli, after translating "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and "Image of the Golden Eye" by McCullers, a female writer of southern American literature, once again presents readers with an absolutely not-to-be-missed work of American southern literature.

"Shuncho" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. This book includes a total of 9 works including "Shuncho", "Tattoo", "Kirin", "Youth", "Gang Xian", "Secret", "Devil", "Demon Continuation" and "Oedipus". Elements such as love and hate, affection and resentment, pain and beauty, virtuality and reality, are used throughout the book, rendering a beautiful world of Japanese aesthetic literature. The perfect fusion of sensual pleasure and Japanese classical taste inspires a strong Japanese aesthetics of things. The beauty of physical sorrow, tracing back to its origin, is the love that is undying in the absurd ups and downs of the human world.

This book selects Mark Twain's representative short stories from various periods, including works that have long been known and loved by readers, such as "Millions of Pounds" and "Running for Governor". Through these masterpieces, you can appreciate the humorous and satirical style of Mark Twain's novels. These novels are rich in unique personal wit and witty remarks, as well as profound social insights and analysis. They are masterpieces of humor and poignancy, but also tragic and serious!

Michael Davenport was a young man who retired from the European battlefields of World War II. He was ambitious and dreamed of becoming a poet and playwright. He is aloof, lives for art, and does not want to get involved with his wife's money, but he still has to write articles for a business magazine to maintain his hobby of writing poetry. His wife Lucy is extremely rich, but she never knows what she wants. She just feels that others seem to be happier than her. As time went by, the couple's anxiety grew as they watched others achieve success while they themselves remained unknown. Their once happy lives are being swallowed up by adultery and isolation, and the monotony they thought they had escaped lingers like a nightmare. In this novel, Yates once again chose the broken American dream, which he is best at, as his theme. He used the heavy hammer of reality to smash the innocence of the dream, bringing an incomparable dull pain, making people feel the sentimentality of the times and personal difficulties when reading.

The story takes place in the London town of Diston. Lionel Asbaugh is a notorious and evil gangster. He cares for his orphaned nephew Desmond Pepperdine in his own unique way, and earnestly warns him: A man must stay on top of his sword. Dating with his girlfriend is not as effective as erotic teasing... Desmond tries his best to cater to his uncle because of his ulterior family secrets. Just when Desmond began to live a healthy life, Lionel in prison accidentally won the lottery and received a prize of 140 million pounds. After he was released from prison, money made Lionel more cruel and ruthless, and the fate of the nephews and uncles also changed dramatically...

Apart from "The Case of Judge Dick of the Tang Dynasty", this is the only detective novel written by Goloupe. He takes off the mask of Judge Dee and returns to the Amsterdam of yesterday. The Chinese version is released for the first time, with a special preface by Thomas Van Gulick, son of Goloupe. "God-Sent Day" is the only detective novel set in Amsterdam besides the "Tang Dynasty Dickon Case" series by Goluope. The story has twists and turns. It not only describes the difficult life of ordinary people during and after World War II, including various practical and psychological dilemmas, but also There is also an investigation of Eastern culture, especially Zen Buddhism. In the collision and confrontation between Eastern and Western cultures, the pursuit of human spiritual salvation and way out reflects an important aspect of the multi-cultural personality of Goloupe himself, that is, the spiritual characteristics of the Dutch.

A collection of short stories by Victoria Hyslop, the author of "Island" that has sold over 1.3 Million copies. The ten wonderful stories that took place on the Mediterranean are enough to touch and nourish every cold heart. In every neighborhood in Athens, whether it is high-end and elegant or slightly shabby, there is always a window full of fairy tales perched in a corner. The tragedy and comedy of love and loyalty, separation and reconciliation are constantly being staged here. Some people live a peaceful life, while others want to break this peaceful life. A blue cafe, a green cafe, what secrets are hidden in them? The dance steps slipped out of the cafe and onto the street. The sunshine flooded in, dispelling all the gloom. It's a place for heartbreak and a place for waking up.

"The Life and Times of Michael K" is a Booker Prize-winning novel, the highest award for English literature. In war-torn South Africa, Michael K embarks on a journey to take his sick mother back to her home in the countryside. Halfway through, his mother died, leaving Michael K alone in this chaotic world, surrounded by brutal and roaming armies. Michael K was imprisoned, but he could not accept the imprisonment and was determined to live with dignity, so he escaped. This life-affirming novel goes to the heart of the human experience: the need for an inner, spiritual life, the need to find connection with the world we live in, and the need to maintain a pure perspective.

Carson McCullers (1917-1967), an American female writer and a representative figure in southern American literature. His works include the short story collection "Songs of the Sad Cafe", the novels "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", "Members of the Wedding", "Image of the Golden Eye", etc. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", first published in 1951, includes the novella of the same name and six short stories published by McCullers in different periods, including her debut novel "The Prodigy" when she was 19 years old. Throughout her life, she has focused on exploring the unequal relationship between love and being loved, the impact of environmental opportunities on talent, and the enlightenment of people's understanding in a limited life. ... The novella "Song of the Sad Cafe" is McCullers' masterpiece. It tells the story of a bizarre love triangle in a wild town in the south of the United States, between the rich, talented but withdrawn Miss Amelia, the hunchback cousin Raymond with unknown origins, and the bad scoundrel ex-husband Marvin Macy, centered on a cafe transformed from a grocery store.

At the beginning of Natsume Soseki's later trilogy, rational life is still full of flaws. "After the Vernal Equinox" is a novel by Natsume Soseki. It was serialized in the "Asahi Shimbun" from January to April 1912, and was later compiled into a book. It describes the newly graduated Keitaro who was running around for a job, and later obtained the position with the help of his friend Suunaga. As a result, he became acquainted with Suunaga, Suunaga's uncle, and his cousin Chiyoko. He watched the love troubles between Suunaga, who was strongly self-aware and regarded himself as a philosopher, and his passionate and naive cousin Chiyoko. It describes the state of Japanese intellectual circles after the Meiji Restoration and the confusion and hesitation of intellectuals.

After the death of the great writer Driffield, his wife asked someone to write a biography of him. Ashenden, the narrator of the novel, was invited by the biographer to recall his interactions with the writer, and the story unfolds from there. Deep in Ashenden's memory we discover the writer's ex-wife, the charming Rosie. She is romantic by nature, always merciful, yet still kind, frank, elegant and lively. In this book, Maugham changed the prejudice against women in his previous works and recalled the life of a beautiful woman as an admirer, embellished with many anecdotes from the literary and artistic circles. The layout of the entire novel is well-proportioned, reality and memories are interspersed with each other, and the writing is clean, sharp and profound, creating the most vivid, vivid and radiant female image in all Maugham's novels.

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After reading "Goodbye, My Love", I discovered that there are some people you just can't quit, and there are some things you just can't compromise on! Haruki Murakami's literary idol, author of "The Long Goodbye", and Chandler, a master of American literature, is another masterpiece! Haruki Murakami once personally translated "Goodbye, My Love", setting off a reading frenzy! Murakami: "Chandler is my idol!" In addition to Murakami, great masters such as Camus, Maugham, Eliot, O'Neill, Auden, Qian Zhongshu, etc. Also regard Chandler as their literary idol. The "Chandler-style" writing style has influenced countless writers in later generations! Reader's Classic Library "Goodbye, My Love" is an exclusive and must-read reason: 1. A young translator and die-hard Chandler fan has created a brand new translation to restore the "tough guy" refined writing style. 2. Brand new hand-drawn comic-style illustrations, vividly showing the charm of Chandler's writing. 3. Specially comes with an original [Illustrated Book of Marlowe's personal belongings], which displays wine, clothes, cars and other items in an illustrated way - take the illustrated book to the pub and order a glass of wine that Marlowe drank. 4. Special bonus: [Marlowe's Map of Los Angeles], original map and landmark illustrations, taking you through Chandler's Sin City. The desperado who had just been released from prison was looking around for his lover's whereabouts. He didn't care that his lover had never visited the prison or written a letter in eight years. The day he was released from prison, he bought new clothes and looked for her everywhere. He just wanted to see her, he just loved her, but his lover... "Hello, honey, long time no see."

From 1843 to 1848 (except 1847), Dickens published a novella every Christmas, a total of five novels, which were published together under the name "Christmas Stories". These novels are by no means purely episodic works; they focus on the author's dream of reconciling social contradictions and his emotions of sadness and disappointment. Just take the most famous "A Christmas Carol" as an example. The story describes a stingy old businessman who is led by three ghosts on Christmas Eve to see the kindness of the poor and the fate of the cruel people, and then becomes a generous and kind person. ..."A Christmas Story" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the British people, and the characters in it are almost household names. Many critics believe that its publication marked a period of prosperity for Dickens's creation.

Bob Slocum's life exemplifies the American Dream. He is a middle-level manager in a large company, a husband and father of three children in a middle-class family, living a prosperous life and having a steady stream of lovers. His life is stable and orderly, he follows the rules, and society demands that he be happy-or at least pretend to be. But the pretense is getting harder and harder. Slocum's heart was filled with unhappiness, which gradually deteriorated into desolation and fear, until one day, something happened.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - In the winter of 1501, the cold sun climbed into the gray sky, and the beautiful Spanish princess Catherine married the English prince Arthur. Is this a happy ritual or the beginning of a curse? Firm faith and true love eventually turn into heavy shackles on a sad soul. From an innocent girl to a political victim, see how Catherine, the mother of "Bloody Mary", fell into the quagmire of royal battles step by step... The translation has been significantly revised in all aspects to improve accuracy and fluency. The overall unified translation has improved the deficiencies of the old translation. The reprinted character relationship diagram and additional annotations make it easier for readers to read without any threshold.

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Two-time Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel's epic masterpiece and the opening chapter of the "Tudor Trilogy" writes about the legendary life of the "godfather-like" hero Thomas Cromwell and reveals the bloody and dark palace secrets of the Tudor dynasty. The original work of the 2015 BBC six-episode miniseries "Wolf Hall" set a BBC ratings record and won the 73rd Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries and Television Movie in the United States. In this dark historical stage, everyone is in danger, and one step could lead to death. However, the protagonist Thomas Cromwell is an exception - he is cold and rational, thoughtful, and can maneuver among the monarch, the church, and the nobility with ease; he is considerate and affectionate, and treats his lovers, relatives, and friends with meticulous care and meticulous care. "Wolf Hall" takes the divorce case of Henry VIII and Queen Catherine as the entry point. With the loss of the Cardinal Archbishop, Queen Catherine is deposed, Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn and a series of other events... There are turmoils inside and outside the palace, which finally ends with the death of Thomas More; Cromwell carefully planned and worked step by step, and finally became the most popular minister. The novel takes Cromwell's life and the court of Henry VIII as the main thread, weaving a huge web that reflects the political, religious and economic landscape of England in the early 16th century.

From the day Hitler entered Vienna, what fate has befallen the civilization of civil society? Why did Hungary lose its mind and go to the edge of the knife? Based on extensive and detailed observations, Malloy Sandor meticulously records and analyzes a series of key events related to the fate of Hungary: the Anschluss Day, the establishment and subversion of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany, the siege of Budapest, and two important treaties that had a profound impact on the European political situation: the Treaty of Trianon and the Vienna Arbitration Award. Through writing that penetrates the back of the paper, he reproduces the secret struggle between domestic and foreign forces on the Hungarian political stage, and then examines the Hungarian nation at the center of the whirlpool. He questions the national and social missions that citizen class intellectuals should bear, and interprets the full weight of the word responsibility. He also gained a profound insight into the inevitable demise of citizenism through the tragic lives of three government prime ministers - Bertrand István, Telej Pal, and Baldosz Laszlo. He wanted to be silent, but in the end he couldn't. He wants to leave a testimony and let history become a mirror for the future.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the summer of 1431, Joan of Arc stood on the stake. Tongues of fire climbed up the girl's back, but there was no miracle to save her. The "Wheel of Fortune" gives people the power to command the king, and it can also push people into the abyss of painful death at the next moment. Yageta, who was on the side of the execution ground, witnessed all this and predicted all this. Having inherited the blood of the river goddess, can she break free from the chains of fate and survive the cruel palace battles? The translation has been significantly revised in all aspects to improve accuracy and fluency. The overall unified translation has improved the deficiencies of the old translation. The reprinted character relationship diagram and supplementary annotations make it easier for readers to read without any threshold.

"Sen no Rikyu: The Posthumous Writings of Honkakubo" is one of the representative works of the late Japanese writer Yasu Inoue. The novel is based on a famous event at the end of the Warring States Period in Japan: Sen no Rikyu, a tea sage, was killed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As Toyotomi Hideyoshi's tea head, Sen no Rikyu's death has always been a mystery. How Rikyu angered Hideyoshi and was actually ordered to commit seppuku by the person he had been serving for so long has been a topic of discussion among historians and history buffs for hundreds of years, as well as a source of inspiration for novelists. Most novelists explain Rikyu's seppuku incident from various aspects such as historical background, interpersonal relationships, conspiracies and intrigues. There has never been a shortage of discussions on major life issues such as life and death in Japanese literature. In this book, Rikyu does not use the tea ceremony to understand life and death, but uses life and death to understand the tea ceremony, so that the "silent tea" he has pursued throughout his life can truly be realized.

Philip Roth's late masterpiece, winner of the 2005 Association of American Historians "Outstanding American Historical Fiction Award". "The Plot Against America" ​​is a shocking "counterfactual novel" that presents a semi-fictional alternative history of the United States. Philip Roth uses real details, reasonable situations, and a child's perspective to tell the story of Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous flying hero and fanatical isolationist, who overwhelmingly defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. From then on, every Jewish American family lived in the shadow of fear. During the anti-Semitic government of Lindbergh, ordinary Jewish families living in Newark experienced years of horrific violence, and millions of Jewish families were torn apart... This post-9/11 work recreates a dark period that has been gradually forgotten by the United States, dramatically showing the lingering fear that envelopes the United States.

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At the end of the world last time, a wood beetle got into Noah's ark. What it saw Noah doing was very different from what was recorded in the book. The Ark reappears repeatedly in human history, whether it is a robbed cruise ship, a Titanic, or a lone boat on the sea in a nuclear panic... This stowaway has not left. It looks coldly at how history is distorted, and how the distortion can become "real" history; it possesses Barnes's wonderful writing, teaching him to collage a seemingly absurd but enlightening world history with pieces of wonderful articles.

History keeps repeating itself, "the first time is a tragedy, the second time is a farce." At the end of the world last time, a wood beetle got into Noah's ark. What it saw Noah doing was very different from what was recorded in the book. The Ark reappears repeatedly in human history, whether it is a robbed cruise ship, a Titanic, or a lone boat on the sea in a nuclear panic... This stowaway has not left. It looks coldly at how history is distorted, and how the distortion can become "real" history; it possesses Barnes's wonderful writing, teaching him to collage a seemingly absurd but enlightening world history with pieces of wonderful articles.

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This book is set in the suburbs of Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, and uses the writer's trip to Nanquan as the axis. It shows a picture of the customs of eastern Sichuan. Civil servants, teachers, and intellectuals who make a living by selling literature live in poverty, while wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials live in luxury and corruption.

"Bashan Night Rain" was written in 1946 after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and began to be serialized in 1946. It took more than three years to complete at the end of 1948. It is Zhang Henshui's "painful lesson" work. With a cold and rational writing style, the author takes the lead in exploring the national psychology while accusing the war atrocities of the Japanese invaders. The novel takes the protagonist Li Nanquan as the axis and shows readers a picture of all living beings in the mountain village of eastern Shu. The characters are lifelike, the language is humorous and sharp, and the novel's descriptive skills have reached a level of proficiency.

This book is set in the suburbs of Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War, and uses the writer's trip to Nanquan as the axis. It shows a picture of the customs of eastern Sichuan. Civil servants, teachers, and intellectuals who make a living by selling literature live in poverty, while wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials live in luxury and corruption.

Nabokov's most autobiographical and witty classic. Originally serialized in four chapters intermittently in The New Yorker magazine from 1953 to 1957, it was Nabokov's first novel to attract widespread attention and popularity among American readers. Describes the life of an exiled old Russian professor teaching in an American university. Nabokov cleverly blended Russian culture and modern American civilization, and humorously and intelligently portrayed a distressed man who had lost his homeland, severed ties with his motherland's culture, and lost his love.

Such a cute Keigo Higashino is really rare to see! Raising cats × skiing × writing × complaining, this book is an autobiographical novel by Keigo Higashino, a work that breaks through the dimensional wall! This is Higashino's "Wonderful Cat Story"! Lazy\u002F Poisonous tongue\u002F Stubborn\u002F Cuteness\u002F Tsundere\u002F Timid... "Cat Detective" Monkichi, the character that Higashino has put the most effort into, appears! A strange dream that makes people laugh! When he woke up, Dongye's pet cat suddenly turned into a young man. One person and one cat embarked on a "wonderful journey" that made people laugh: In order to get the cat to participate in the ski competition, Higashino used all means: seducing beautiful team members, seducing with Olympic gold medals, and pouring out all the grievances of being a senior ski fan... Talking about this autobiographical novel, Keigo Higashino complained that it is easy to write novels, but it is difficult to thank yourself, so he could only write about himself in novels, and vowed never to write about himself again. Do those weird dreams have such a big impact on our lives?

The innocent Ifemelu and Obinze met in a school in Lagos and had similar visions for the future. Like all Nigerian young people, their hometown seemed more like a transit point for their pursuit of the West. The beautiful and confident Ifemelu followed her aunt's footsteps and came to the United States, but experienced for the first time what it meant to be a "black". As she became increasingly poor and unable to continue her studies, she had to betray her love with Obinze in order to survive in this country. After 9/11, opportunities to study in the United States were repeatedly blocked. Obinze, who was not favored by fate, took advantage of his mother's study tour in the UK and came to the UK with her, but he had to face his status as an illegal immigrant. Obinze tried various menial and insecure jobs, but the indifference of British society and the snobbery of his fellow countrymen made him feel inexplicably disappointed with the West he originally imagined. After many years, Obinze has achieved success in a "Nigerian-style" way, and Ifemelu has also achieved great success with his pungent, sharp, and critical blog on American racism. I am eye-opening the bblog. When she feels that returning to Nigeria and starting a new life that is real and full of excitement and contrast with life in the United States, she and Obinze have to face the most difficult choice in their lives.

"Through this cat's eye marble, I saw my entire life." The painter Elaine never thought that she would return to her hometown again after so many years. What awaits her is not the joy of revisiting her old place, but the lingering "ghost of childhood" - Cordelia, her best friend and enemy, the creator of her endless pain. Isolation, hostility, and mental violence once made Elaine's life worse than death; and it only takes one compromise for the violence to escalate step by step. As an adult, Elaine still cannot get out of the shadow of her childhood and can only keep running away from those darkest years. In fact, as long as you fight back ruthlessly once, you can break away from the false friendship.