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"The day when the pursuit is gained is the day when it ends, and the process of searching is also the process of loss." "South of the Border, West of the Sun" tells the story of the thirty-seven-year-old "I" who not only has a successful career, but also has a beautiful wife and a lovely daughter. But "I" always miss my childhood sweetheart Shimamoto. The two missed each other by mistake when they were young. Twenty years later, Shimamoto, who had experienced a failed marriage, appeared in front of "me" again, and the two quickly fell in love. However, just when "I" was ready to risk everything and abandon everything to be with Shimamoto, Shimamoto was nowhere to be found. Fortunately, the already broken marriage was supported and repaired with the forgiveness of his wife. After going round and round, my childhood memories were finally stored somewhere in my heart, and everything returned to normal.

"This artificial satellite, which means 'travel companion', uses people's loneliness as nourishment to maintain its operation." "Sputnik Lovers" is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, which explores the nature of human loneliness. "I" like the girl Sumire who is addicted to writing, but Sumire is in love with her fellow musician, Min, who is 17 years older, and becomes Min's traveling companion in Europe with a heart of love. But after her confession to Min was rejected, Sumire mysteriously disappeared on a Greek island. Because she discovered that the "lover" turned out to be just a body, and the soul had already disappeared in a thrilling night. Girls who are desperate for heterosexual love also cannot pursue same-sex love. In the end, only the young man who had been searching for her in vain was left to mutter the question: "Why do people have to be so lonely?" The young man who had unrequited love for Sumire also muttered to himself, "Isn't it possible that this planet relies on people's loneliness as nourishment to maintain its operation?"

The novel is set in the United States in the 1990s. Because of a specious remark, Coleman, a university professor who is over 70 years old, was accused of being a "racist". After the ensuing forced resignation and the death of his wife, Coleman, who was taking the blame, broke the news of his love affair with the young female cleaner Fonya. All these incidents made Coleman hated by all parties, including Faunia's husband, a disabled Vietnam veteran. Eventually Coleman was cornered by rumors, anonymous letters and stalkers. Race, identity, individual and era, chance and fate, the novel is filled with conflicts and collisions of various elements. In Coleman's continuous "fall", the interspersed fragments intertwined with the main plot reveal that Coleman is not a Jew as he has always claimed, but a light-skinned black man; Faunya is not illiterate... These make the conflicts and collisions in the novel more three-dimensional, and the plot becomes more complicated and confusing.

"The Grass Is Singing" is the famous work of Nobel Prize winner Lessing. Mary is a white woman born and raised in southern Africa. Her married life is not satisfactory, her farm operation is bleak, her family is impoverished, and she has no spiritual sustenance. The intrusion of the black hired man Moses broke her numb and chaotic life and gave her new power to survive. However, the brand of racial discrimination has been deeply stamped on everyone in southern Africa, which is destined to be a tragedy for them.

With a touch of nostalgia, "Mom's Bank Account" reviews the life of a Norwegian family who immigrated to San Francisco, USA. Immigrant life is far from as sweet and beautiful as the family imagined. Making ends meet, taking care of family, and integrating into life in a foreign land... All of this is extremely frustrating. However, under the influence of mother, the family always faces daily setbacks and challenges with wisdom and perseverance. As long as my mother is around, my family will be full of courage to overcome difficulties and tide over difficulties together. When dad needs an operation, mom knows how to deal with the greedy doctor's wife; when the tenant runs away because of rent debt, mom can find a way to compensate; when the withdrawn aunt is in trouble, mom knows how to help her spend her old age; when the "little ladies" at home get into trouble at school, mom comes to resolve the embarrassment... Only mom knows how to use a secret bank account and a beautiful lie to ensure that the children live a worry-free life and grow up happily.

My friend said that Peiping uses the east as a buffer zone and Tanggu has a treaty. Japan will not take any further action for a while. I am afraid that this matter... If we want to fight to the end, the friendly countries will naturally help. Because we really lost, they can't stand it, so they know they will help.

The book market is becoming more and more prosperous, the bindings are becoming more and more exquisite, bookstores are becoming more and more popular, and writers have never been more popular around the world than they are now, but real literature is almost extinct. Dubravka pretends to be an Eastern European who has been neglected by the British and American literary market, and complains about the many chaos in today's literary world: New literary stars appear every once in a while; literature that is repeatedly "redefined"; identity politics writing that shows off its unique abilities; a copyright operation model that puts the cart before the horse; a bookstore that is like a combination of a supermarket and a cafe; a book fair that essentially has nothing to do with books; Internet celebrity editors whose style is indistinguishable from that of writers; think Ivana Trump is more capable than Brodsky of "making penetrating analysis of the political situation in the motherland" media book review... Literature has lost its access mechanism and evaluation standards. Any star can promote their new book anywhere, and any kind of negative evaluation can be used for profit by the cunning market. However, the most bizarre thing is that in this extremely "democratic" global market, its cultural "commodities" and creative requirements always remind people of our old friend "socialist realism"...

Young Cierlan Walker was born into slavery. He lost his mother and all memories of her, and at the same time he was given a mysterious power. Once, Sheeran accidentally fell into a river while driving a carriage. When he was about to drown, a blue light led him out of danger, and Sheeran survived. The experience of escaping death caused him to reexamine his life, the decaying plantation, and the evils of slavery. Eventually, Sheeran decided to run away from his only home. Escape from hell is not easy. By chance, Sheeran joins the secret war against slavery. In this cruel trial, he traveled between the gloomy prison of escaped slaves, the dangerous hinterland of the South, and the crisis-ridden Northern Free State. Sheeran makes real friends, experiences adventures he never imagined, and finally understands what this war means. More importantly, he began to understand what the mysterious power in himself was. However, what Sheeran wants to do most is to return to his hometown to save his remaining relatives. With the wisdom given by war, with the courage to face the darkness, and with the divine power in him, can Sheeran succeed? "The Water Dancer" is the first novel by Thanasis Coates, one of the most famous contemporary American writers. Coates seamlessly interweaves real history with wonderful imagination, leading readers back to the wild America of the slavery era. The characters he writes seem to have come from the depths of history, telling us about a painful memory that has not yet healed.

The masterpiece of the 2023 Nobel Prize winner, a model of "slow prose" novels, a literal translation of the original Norwegian text. With a minimalist and dense narrative, surging and bursting emotions, a couple escapes for survival and wanders on the desolate land. We are all looking for spiritual peace in a world that seems to have many choices and many different ways to live. The novel begins with the young lovers Asle and Alida leaving their hometown and heading to Bjorgven (Bergen): Alida is pregnant, but they have difficulty finding a place to live and have to wander in the cold autumn rain. Later they found a place to live and gave birth to their son Sigvar Jr. One day when Asler was out, someone from his hometown recognized him and pointed out the crimes he had committed in the past... Years later, Alida's daughter Alice also grew old. She saw her dead mother again and recalled her half-brother Sigvar. The life experiences of descendants and ancestors overlap in an inevitable fate.

At the end of the 19th century, British engineer Patterson came to British East Africa and participated in the construction of the railway from Mombasa in the east to Kisumu in the west. This 580-mile-long railway passes through swamps and deserts and spans several wide rivers. It was built entirely by manpower and involved a total of 35,000 people. Just as the project was in full swing in Tsavo, a pair of man-eating lions appeared, severely hampering the progress of the project. Their skills are so cunning that they can escape even if they are trapped in a huge trap surrounded by sleepers and iron bars and faced with a group of well-equipped soldiers only a few feet away. This incredible behavior has earned them the nickname "Night Demons". This human tragedy caused by two man-eating lions lasted for several months, claiming the lives of about a hundred people, and finally ended with Patterson's wit and perseverance.

Is it the sound of wind, waves, or tinnitus? But he did hear the sound of the mountains... "Mountain Sound" is the work of Kawabata Yasunari in his later years. Shingo, who is in his sixties, suffers from the burnout and fatigue of his many years of life, and deeply feels the invisible barriers between people, the lack of warmth and love. The sound of the mountain that arouses Shingo's fear of death is the cry of first love that has been buried deep in his heart for decades and has never been satisfied. He always looks for emotional and spiritual solace in his first love and daughter-in-law Juzi, which become a bright rainbow in his spiritual world. Based on his own aesthetic pursuits, Kawabata created these aesthetic images that coexist with reality and reality, surging with the original desire and power of human nature for life. It shows the author's longing for life, desire for love, and pursuit and yearning for beauty. There is an elegant heart hidden in the increasingly aging body, but you can only hear the lonely roar deep in your soul.

Life is gray, but lemons are fresh. A shaky soul counts the days to live, and becomes melancholy, frustrated, out of place, escaping, lonely, sick, and destroyed. However, the joy of life always makes people reluctant to give up. What saves people is the small life in the end, so only a lemon or a glass marble can lead to self-care happiness. Kajii Motojiro used words to record the trivial, seemingly meaningless, subtle changes and consciousness phenomena in social life. He did not use clever words to modify it but was faithful to his inner expression needs. He used clear words to express the true appearance of the unfortunate souls in modern life. Therefore, he was known as the "Classic of the Showa". Writers such as Mishima Yukio have stated that they were influenced by him.

Critics in the book "Old Man Goriot" call Goriot Goriot the modern King Lear. The character in Balzac's works is not just a character, but a typical example of the times. The factors of tragedy are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the promiscuous and corrupt social environment. The struggle of careerists seeking fame and fortune, intertwined with Goriot's desperate fatherly love, make the content of the novel more bizarre and touching. This book is a particularly serious and exciting one among Mr. Fu Lei's translations.

There was once someone who might understand me. But this man was exactly the man I killed. On the opening day of the exhibition, a strange girl stayed in front of my painting for a long time - only she saw the small window in the painting that no one cared about. For the first time in my life, someone glimpsed my hopeless loneliness in the dark tunnel. We became lovers, but her mystery, alienation, and elusiveness made me suspicious, angry, and sleepless. After countless hardships, I put the knife that ended the pain in my hand. But I think there will be someone who understands me: even just one person.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is a representative work of anti-war novels in the world. It tells the story of the protagonist Paul Boymer and his classmates who were incited by chauvinist education and joined the First World War with "patriotic enthusiasm". During the war, he witnessed the horrific casualties and the devastation of war on the human soul, and witnessed the inhumanity of war. The initial "patriotic fervor" was gone, leaving only pain and doubts about German militarism and the purpose of participating in the war. Clichéd slogans were blown away in a brutal barrage. The idealism of young people cannot withstand the hail of bullets and brutal fighting. Their illusions were shattered. Their only motivation is to survive, and their spiritual support is the friendship formed in the common destiny on the front line. The novel reflects the tragic experiences of a generation of German youth on the battlefield and indicts the evils of imperialist war. This book was translated by Qiu Yuanwei, a teacher from the German Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, based on the German classic version. The translation is faithful, smooth, vivid and vivid.

This book is a collection of works by Nobel Prize winner and famous Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari. It is divided into two parts. The first part is a collection of short stories, including four short works, "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Hot Spring Hotel", "Lyric" and "Beasts"; the second part is the novel "Sound of the Mountain". "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is Kawabata Yasunari's famous work and his early masterpiece. In this work, "I", a student, met Kaoru, a pure and kind-hearted little dancer, by chance during a trip to the Izu Peninsula. As they walked through the beautiful scenery, the two gradually got closer and fell in love secretly. But the pure and true emotions have not been expressed in words, the journey has come to an end, and "I" part with Xun in endless melancholy and embark on the return journey. "Mountain Sound" is a turning point in Kawabata Yasunari's late literary career. Shingo, who is over 60 years old, gradually feels his aging as the post-war years pass, and often recalls the emotional journey of his youth. The marriage of son Shuichi and daughter-in-law Kikuko also fell into a quagmire due to Shuichi's war trauma. Behind the structural changes and mental turmoil in a family are the images of grand times and social changes.

As winter approaches, Subei has the same idea as in previous years: to go to his beloved "island", which is Blackwell Prison, to "escape from the cold." Nowadays, the benches in Madison Square are no longer suitable...

"The Last Story" is a novel by Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel is composed of three stories about three generations of women that happened in different time and space: Ida came to a country house due to a car accident, and she was stranded with a dying dog in the place where she spent her childhood; Paraskivia lived in a house on the mountain far away from the dust and smoke all year round, and her husband died on Sunday night; Maya took her son to travel to an island in southern China after her divorce, and met a sick magician. Mother, grandmother, daughter, their paths have long been separated, but their lives are closely connected. Now, they will face the inevitable "death" alone. This is their "last story"...

This book is a novel written by E. M. Forster in 1913. It tells the story of Maurice and his Cambridge lover Clive after they separated. In despair, he met the gamekeeper Alec, broke the taboo and stayed together.

"I will definitely defeat this world!" This is the declaration of the protagonist Serikawa. Young people always have to experience setbacks and hardships to grow, and the most precious things in them are courage and hope. Serikawa's story is a true portrayal of every teenager. Even if he encounters setbacks and experiences frustration, he will not stop moving forward courageously. This is the meaning of youth. "Justice and Smile" has delicate language and bright style, which truly reproduces the psychological changes of a young boy in his youth when faced with life choices. Contrary to the "decadent and depressive" style of previous works, it shows Osamu Dazai's positive side.

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This book is the pure English version of the masterpiece "The Image of the Golden Eye" by the famous American writer Carson McCullers. The book tells the story of the protagonist, Captain Pendant, whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of the lustful and charming Colonel Langton. It expresses the themes of alienation of human emotions and unfeasible love.

In June 1954, 18-year-old Emmett was driven home to Nebraska by the warden after serving 15 months in a juvenile correctional farm. His father had just passed away, and the family farm and residence had been confiscated by the bank due to debts. Emmett and his brother Billy decided to leave their hometown and go to California to find their mother who ran away from home many years ago and start a new life. But the unexpected arrival of two friends, Dutchess and Woolley, disrupted the brothers' plans and led them to the completely opposite destination - New York. Ten days later, the story came to an end: some people had a new beginning and became more determined; others fell into the bitter fate and their own shortcomings.

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This book is a masterpiece created by Hesse after groping in his youth and self-searching in adulthood. The writing style is beautiful and lyrical, and the love is fresh and touching. Through the pursuit of two completely opposite people's experiences, it describes the process of mutual struggle and attraction between the two souls hidden in the human heart - knowledge and love.

It was horrifying when I first read it, but I couldn't help myself when I read it again. This is the charm of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's writing, which is profound and cold, and his writing is sharp. This is a story about ideals and reality. The protagonist Yoshihide's entanglement and obsession on the road of creation also alludes to Akutagawa's own thinking on the pursuit of art. Some people spend their whole lives searching for the balance between ideals and real life, and the balance with human morality; some people do not live a life without being crazy, and just to achieve the ultimate in their own eyes, they will go through fire and water without hesitation. Should one insist on the supremacy of ideals throughout his life? What choice would you make?

"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a story about revenge. The young and handsome captain Dantès, after experiencing a long period of unjust imprisonment, has mastered all the essentials and rules of survival in the darkness with superhuman patience and wisdom, and carries out the prison escape and revenge plan. He took his first breath of free air and let out his first inspiring cry. From that moment on, the name Edmond Dantes was destined to become legendary. For more than a hundred years, this book has had countless readers and ever-increasing editions, and with its unique charm, it still influences the creation of many literary, film and television works.

After Han Meow is brutally attacked on the head in the garden of a London pub, his wife and daughter find themselves living with a stranger - an elusive, violent, vengeful man with amnesia: "His condition is like the twenty-first century: one wants to wake up from it." While it may come as a shock to his family, Han Mio's new personality fits perfectly with the city and era in which he lives. Because this is the vicious London of tabloid journalist Clint Smoker, whose daily reports of sexual illicit relationships and outrageous scandals are as false as the noose around his neck. In this world, the King of England keeps a Chinese mistress in Paris and tries to prevent a video of his 15-year-old daughter having an affair in a bathtub from spreading on the Internet. In this world there are killers, pornographers, tycoons and displaced royalty. This is a world where smart people do unspeakable things and bodyguards offer no protection. "Yellow Dog" is Martin Amis's best work: humorous, intense, cunning, and profound. Consistently, Amis explores the entire edifice of patriarchy and masculinity; the violence that engenders between men; the tortuous alliances between men and women; and the vanishing dreams that could protect our future and our descendants.

A surreal understanding of the Holocaust, Reverse Narrative offers an ambitious and playful way to think about Nazi atrocities. The novel uses a "time inversion" technique to tell the life of Nazi war criminal Todd Friendly. He begins his life like a "video rewind" from the moment he is about to die, to his seemingly decent life as a doctor in his later years, to the heinous crimes he committed in Auschwitz in his youth, to his childbirth, marriage, adolescence, and finally his return to his mother's womb... In a seemingly humorous way, he reveals to us that extremely cruel and shocking dark history, completely subverting the reader's reading experience.

Nabokov began writing "Despair" in Russian in Berlin in 1932, and serialized it in a Russian exile publication in Paris, France two years later; at the end of 1936, Nabokov rewrote the novel in English, making it his first English novel created for "artistic purposes." In this novel, Nabokov conducted a fruitful exploration of the psychological operating mechanism of mass society. In Nabokov's view, the crazy pursuit of identity is the source of despair for unique individuals in mass society.

This book is Nabokov's fourth novel, telling the life of spy Smurov. Only at the end does the reader realize that the narrator of the book is Smurov himself. Due to his special identity, he only sees himself and observes others through the eyes of others, and protects his identity from being discovered. He finally committed suicide because he couldn't bear the humiliation of others, but was even more humiliated after his death. "The Eye" focuses on the nature of personal identity, arguing that an individual with a strong sense of self can only be defined by his understanding of what those around him say about him.

"Steppenwolf" is a masterpiece novel by Hermann Hesse, the famous German writer and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature. It was published in 1927. The protagonist of the novel, Harry Haller, is a loner living in the city. He has a good education and lives a reclusive citizen's life, but there is a wild Steppenwolf hidden deep in his soul. This deep division in his soul plunged his life into deep pain. The work uses a surrealist approach to demonstrate the loss of faith in the European and American world after the First World War, the desolation of the spiritual world, and the anxiety and split personality of modern people. It is also an "autobiography" of the author who is deeply troubled by depression. This book was once again welcomed by the younger generation in Europe, America and other countries in the 1960s and 1970s.

This edition is the Yang version of the Khazar Dictionary, which is different from the Yin version in 11 lines (according to paper book layout). It is also accompanied by a geographical map of the Khazar Khanate, a map of the characters of the Khazar Khanate, and six Jewish Halevi poems. "Khazar Dictionary", "the first novel of the 21st century". Khazar is a kingdom that existed in the Byzantine era. The "Khazar Dictionary" has always recorded the history of this kingdom that once existed and then declined. This "Khazar Dictionary" is divided into three parts: the Red Book (Christianity), the Green Book (Islam) and the Judaism (Yellow Book). It synthesizes the historical facts recorded by each of these three religions, and is recorded in the form of a dictionary. It does not use chronological processing, but records in alphabetical order. But after all, it is not a dictionary. Every name and event records the story and history of that name. Judging from the "data" reflected in the dictionary, the three books record events in three periods, forming a 3x3 matrix (3 may be a symbol of the Trinity). The characters in this book are constantly reincarnated, or traveling back and forth through time and space. In a relationship between three people, two people "entrust each other with dreams", and through dreams, these people travel through time and space. Russian critic Savelevoi believes that the Khazar Dictionary enables the author to "join the ranks of contemporary literary masters such as Marquez, Borges, Cortázar and Eco."

This is a wonderful novel that only Puzo could write, full of power and wisdom, pointing directly at the darkness and decadence of America's golden cities - New York, Hollywood and Los Angeles. The writer Merlin is impoverished, the has-been writer Osano has run out of inspiration and has a corrupt life, and Corey is a born gambler... This is a bizarre world. In this world, men abuse their power without scruple, women sell their sexiness, and greed, sex, violence and betrayal are everywhere. Here, only the strongest can survive, while the fools are destined to have no way out.

"No Country for Old Men" is the breakthrough work of literary giant Cormac McCarthy. It tells the story of a Vietnam War veteran and a killer hired by a drug dealer in a volcanic canyon on the U. S.-Mexico border. They start a life-or-death struggle for the ownership of two million four hundred thousand U. S. Dollars. The aging police chief is exhausted mentally and physically while investigating drug crimes and murders. He keeps reminiscing about the past and trying to understand this new world where criminal methods and motives are becoming more and more complicated. "It is not a country of old people. Young people are in each other's arms; birds in the trees - the dying generations - sing their own songs." Cormac McCarthy used Yeats's poem as the title. In that wasteland where the old are homeless, everyone is forced to face the same question: How does a person decide in what order to gradually abandon his life?

A history of young people's personal struggles and a picture of the people and world in old Beijing. A classic of modern literature. Translated into 17 languages, dozens of versions, and best-selling for more than 70 years. This book includes two Beijing-style classics, "Camel Xiangzi" and "Under the Red Flag", which were approved by the Lao She Research Association. A word-for-word "full text" restored based on Lao She's 1936 manuscript. Due to the influence of the times and other factors, some contents of the various domestic versions have been abridged or changed to varying degrees. This book is based on Lao She's manuscript that was accidentally discovered in recent years. It restores the deleted parts and restores the true appearance of the book. "Under the Red Flag" is an autobiographical novel secretly written by Lao She. In the late Qing Dynasty, old dreams are about to be awakened, and the building is about to collapse. The birth of a child brings a strong sense of black humor... This unpublished and unfinished work is recognized as Lao She's masterpiece and a truly great contemporary literary masterpiece.

After the high-ranking Otani Weiichiro retired, he transformed from the powerful chief executive director into an ordinary "lone boat" elderly people. The huge psychological gap, no longer being needed by society, and alienation from his family made him feel lonely and spend his days. As we age, the beautiful visions of old age before retirement turn into the desolate evening scene of being alone... After experiencing various discomforts after retirement, can the marginalized "lone boat" make changes, find themselves, support each other, and set sail again? ...

Hundreds of thousands of readers in Europe appreciate that the best storyteller of our time resists lies and forgetfulness through writing. In a Spanish town from the Franco era to the present, a father wrote a long letter to his daughter, telling his secret identity and love. Mrs. Elisenda Villaburu is the richest man in the Spanish town of Torena. As her memory fades over the past eighty years, her beauty has turned into majesty. All kinds of men surround her and haunt her memory: the rebellious son Marcel, the town mayor Barenti Talga who is both an enemy and a friend, the chauffeur and lawyer who accompany her loyally, Father August who listens to confession... She only has one love in her life, but it has long been buried under the tombstone.

"The Part of My Heart That Has Not yet Broken" is a representative novel by the popular Japanese writer Kazufumi Shiraishi. This book is narrated from the perspective of the male protagonist. It is a heterosexual novel that keenly explores issues such as love and desire, life and death, and is both erotic and philosophical. Matsubara Naoto, who lacked parental care since childhood and came from a poor family, was almost abandoned by his mother when he was young and learned to rely only on himself. He is strong but cold. As an adult, he lived a luxurious and drunken urban life, while dealing with three women: one was Mrs. Onishi, who came from a wealthy family but couldn't satisfy her desires, the other was Tomomi, a single mother who ran a bar, and the other was a beautiful and gentle young woman Ediriko. There are all kinds of tenderness in this kind of dealing, but it is also lonely to the core, making Naoto unable to stop asking, "What is life? What is death? Why do people live? Is it for the people they like or to pursue an ordinary happy life? How can people continue to exist in this cold and alien world?..." This is a never-ending painful questioning, and it is also a gentle redemption that is soothing...

In the book, Anderson depicts characters in a small town, a group of people he calls freaks. The "freakness" of the freaks is not reflected in their appearance, but in their personalities. They all have "strange and beautiful personalities" and have a certain behavior or a certain firm belief that ordinary people do not have. Therefore, their actions or beliefs are incredible and strange in the eyes of ordinary people, and they are regarded as abnormal. What the book embodies is not optimism filled with praise for life and nature, but various difficulties and helpless emotions in life. This work consists of twenty-five short stories that are both independent and related to each other. The young journalist George Willard writes throughout the book. As one of the first American writers to write the subconscious into his novels, Anderson successfully combined the two techniques of realism and stream of consciousness in this book. It was with this work that he established his status as "one of the pioneers of modern American literature".

This book is a blockbuster new work written by the author of "One Man's Pilgrimage", a word-of-mouth book that has sold 5 million copies worldwide and moved 38 countries. There's a record store here. A bright little record store. There is no store name on the door and no display in the window, but the store is filled with various vinyl records of classical music, rock music, jazz, pop music, etc. It is often open late into the night. Lonely, insomniac, sad or with nowhere to go... All kinds of people come here to look for records, or to find answers to their own lives. The boss, Frank, is forty years old, a tall and gentle man like a bear. Just tell him how you are feeling at the moment, or tell your story, and he will always find the most suitable record for you. The music begins in silence and returns to silence, like a journey. Until one day, a woman wearing a pea-green windbreaker collapsed at the door of the record store. Frank's sweetness and pain could no longer be buried, and the record store and the entire street changed forever.

Hit the nail on the head, hit the nail on the head, expose the ridiculous things in the world! The representative work of the great Japanese writer Natsume Soseki was praised by Lu Xun as "unparalleled in the world"! A model of critical realism literature that profoundly influenced literary masters such as Lu Xun and Ryunosuke Akutagawa! Natsume Soseki, a great national writer, was voted "the most popular writer in a thousand years" by the Japanese! A stone statue of Natsume Soso was once printed on the thousand-yen yen coin to commemorate his great contribution to Japanese literature. Recommended books for the new curriculum standards, must-read for primary and secondary school students! A must-select chapter in Japanese textbooks! Must-read reasons (1) The new translation vividly reproduces the humorous language style of "I am a Cat" and restores the charm of Natsume Soseki's writing. (2) Includes the preface written by Natsume Soseki to fully understand the background of the creation of this book. (3) Includes Natsume Soseki's "Memories of His Debut" to trace the origin of the author's creation. I am an unnamed cat who lives in a teacher's house. I enjoy observing the conversations between the owner and the guests every day. I can't help but complain about the ridiculous behavior of humans. No matter how rampant human beings are, it is impossible for them to remain so prosperous. Let us wait patiently for the arrival of the "Cat Era"!

"Jenny" tells the story of Jenny, the eldest daughter of the German poor Gerhardt, who works as a domestic servant and falls in love with Senator Blanche. Soon, Bronte died of illness unexpectedly, leaving behind a posthumous daughter. Afterwards, Rest, a rich man, fell in love with Jenny and lived with her, but he could not make up his mind about marriage. Later, he was troubled by the obstruction and opposition from his brothers and sisters. He broke up with Jenny under the pressure of his family, returned to the upper class, and finally married Lottie Bess. The two were in love but their work separated, and Jenny spent her middle age alone. After Rest confided his true feelings to her before his death, he died painfully in her arms. Through Jenny's experience, the novel reveals the miserable life of working people under the capitalist system. At the same time, it praises the excellent qualities of hard work, integrity and self-sacrifice of working people, and lashes out at the various evil realities in a society where material desires prevail and money is omnipotent. Since its publication, this work has been translated into many languages ​​and has had a profound impact on contemporary readers.

The full name is "The Biography of Gil Blas de Santiana", which is a famous French picaresque novel. The novel was published in three installments (1715, 1724, 1735). In 1715, when the first part was published, King Louis XIV, the longest reigning king in French history, passed away, which was the dividing line between the two eras. The novel narrates the rough life experience of Gil Blas. Through the image of Gil Blas, the writer tries to illustrate that in a feudal society full of caste prejudice, if a person comes from a humble background, even if he has skills, he will not be valued and can only be at the bottom of society.

In such a world, there are no individuals, only collectives, and individual personalities are completely suppressed. Then the protagonist Equality 7-2521 is classified as an alien by society because of some of his own ideas. In front of him, an adventure is beginning with no end... The book describes the consequences of dystopia, a virtual scene after the victory of collectivism in the future. "Carol" found no publisher willing to publish it in the United States, so it was first published in England.

In the novel, Ayn Rand fictionalized a society in which people did not have their own names and were only distinguished by a slogan and a string of numbers. People did not even know the word "I". Whenever the concept of "I" was meant to be expressed, the plural "we" was used instead. A man named "Equality 7-2521" always had a strong vision of pursuing the truth, but was assigned to be a "scavenger" throughout his life; but still, with his keen awareness of the unknown, he finally found the unspeakable word of the unmentionable era - "I". He used this word to say "I love you" to the name "Freedom 5-3000" that made him tremble. Ayn Rand used the novel "One Person" to pay tribute to a sacred word-self, and every glorious individual who practices his own spirit throughout his life!

After the storm, a young man with a big bear tattoo on his arm and a young woman with guitar and shotgun tattoos will return to their long-lost hometown of Bear Town to attend the funeral of a winner. The man's name is Benji. He is the hero of this small town and the traitor who is called a sissy by all the fans. He looks like a teenager who has climbed to the tallest tree and carries the biggest secret on his shoulders. He is the most dangerous man on the ice and the loneliest man on the face of the earth. The tone in which people spoke about coming out seemed to imply that it only had to be done once, but Benji knew that with someone there, it would never be over. You just have to keep coming out and coming out again until you're knocked down. The woman's name is Maya, and it has been two and a half years since she was raped by Kevin, the star of hope in the town. That event started everything, and her story changed two hockey clubs, impacted politics, and shook an entire town and half a forest to its foundations. The rape lasted only a few minutes for Kevin, but it was endless for her. Most people can never pinpoint the exact moment when they stopped being a child, but Maya could. All the hidden and ignored stories will be rediscovered; traps, problems, and malicious jokes will reappear; the standards of justice, the price of friendship, and the choices of life will all come to the fore, and violence, blood, and love will appear one after another, a pistol, a storm, a person rushing to the fire, a game that can never be started; a first love, a second chance, and a last farewell. In a dark forest, young men wearing different colored clothes will engage in a life-or-death fight. The people we love deeply will eventually die.

"First Man" is a collection of literary works by Nobel Prize winner Camus, which includes two works. One is the autobiographical novel "The First Man", and the other is the monologue novel "The Fall". "The First Man" tells the story of Jacques Cormery, who grew up in a slum and embarked on a journey to find his roots after becoming famous. He visited people who had interacted with his father, but no one could provide him with complete information. In the process of searching for his father, he also recovered every bit of his own growth. Another monologue novel "Fall" is a first-person self-narration and self-reflection to explore the meaning of life. Both works truly reproduce the author's mental journey of exploring human existence and the meaning of life.

"The Pat Hobby Series" contains a total of 17 short stories, all of which were serialized in "Esquire" magazine. The first article, "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish," was published in January 1940, and the last article, "Pat Hobby's College Years," was published in May 1941. The author's language is humorous and satirical, and the work is compact and interesting, microscopically recreating the style of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.