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Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is published simultaneously around the world. "The sun always has a way of shining on us, no matter where we are." Clara is a solar-powered artificial intelligence robot (AF) specially designed to accompany children. It has extremely high abilities of observation, reasoning and empathy. She sat in the store display window, watching the passers-by on the street and the children who came to browse the windows. She always expects that someone will soon choose her, but when the possibility of permanently changing her situation arises, Clara is reminded not to put too much faith in human promises. In Clara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro observes the ever-changing modern society through the perspective of an unforgettable narrator and explores a fundamental question: What exactly is love? Although the story is set in a future society where technology is highly developed, it essentially speaks directly to the "human heart." Through the cold perspective of a robot, but with his consistently delicate and restrained writing style, the author reveals the split and anxiety of modern people's values, as well as the importance of the ties between people in the issue of "what makes people human."

Social accounts on the Internet are like a home when the owner is alive, and become her tomb after the owner dies.

No matter how painful things are, as long as you move in the ideal direction, you will be closer to happiness step by step. It tells the story of a poor and lonely boy who traveled across the Milky Way by train with his friends in his dream. The author constructs a prosperous galactic world with his magical writing. A boy named Joe Bonny fell asleep on the hill one day. In his sleep, he boarded a galactic railway train bound for the Kingdom of Heaven, and came to the Kingdom of Heaven with his favorite boy in the class, Cumberella. However, when he woke up, he found that it was just a dream...

Liu Cixin: All my works are parodies of "2001: A Space Odyssey"! The supreme masterpiece in the history of science fiction literature! In the past 50 years, it has influenced almost all science fiction works of later generations: "Three-Body", "The Wandering Earth", "Interstellar", "Star Wars", "Avatar", "The Matrix", "Gravity", "Arrival", "Alien", "Flying to Space", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Artificial Intelligence", "Terminator", "Contact", "Prometheus"... It was selected into the list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy novels of all time by National Public Radio, "Locus" magazine and the British "Guardian". Selected as one of the top 100 must-read science fiction and fantasy novels selected by American book e-commerce companies! The film adaptation of the same name, directed by Stanley Kubrick, tops all science fiction movie lists! A grand idea about human exploration of space and ourselves! Known as "touching the ceiling of human imagination"! Humanity's imagination of space ends with "2001: A Space Odyssey"! Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein are known as the "Three Giants of 20th Century Science Fiction" and are known as the kings of science fiction. He created more than 100 works in his lifetime, which were translated into more than 40 languages. The total sales volume of his works was more than 100 million copies. Arthur Clark is known as the great space prophet of the 20th century. Many of his predictions about space technology have come true. The orbit of the geostationary satellite was named the "Clarke orbit" because of him. "2001: A Space Odyssey" is Arthur C. Clarke's most famous and recognized masterpiece!

Note: This is a love story about a strong man and a strong woman, both with stunning looks and small buns. It mainly focuses on fashion and entertainment circles, supplemented by the literary and art circles. The story insists on not abusing the relationship between the male and female protagonists, the story is connotative and not silly and sweet, and the protagonists and supporting actors are all on the same page. If you like it, please join in! ! ! [Introduction to the male version:] Jian Youhuang, eighteen years old, is a newly transferred student from Class 1, Grade 3 of the High School Affiliated to Nanjing. In the eyes of the students in the school, this transfer student from Class 1, Grade 3, has no sense of existence except for his disfigured appearance and his grades that are always a few points behind. He keeps following Mr. Qiao and never lags behind, and is known to the whole school as the "second child in ten thousand years." Of course, this only seems to be true for the vast majority of people. After all, in the entire circle of disciples of the most powerful aristocratic families in Nanjing Affiliated High School, except for a handful of people who were vaguely aware of his mystery, no one knew that he was not only a financial genius with a super high IQ, but also the orthodox heir to the Golden Lotus Kingdom, the fifth largest empire in the Europa world, which he had held since birth. [Introduction to the female version:] An Heqiao, who jumped two grades in a row to enter the third year of high school, is recognized as the most extraordinary student in Nanjing Affiliated High School. The An family was born in one of the four most powerful families in the capital of country Z. Ten years ago, because his parents died in a car accident, he was designated as the latest heir to the An family by his powerful grandfather. Since he entered the Nanjing High School Affiliated, he has been respectfully called "Mr. Qiao" by the whole school. However, who knew that such a legendary winner in life who was kissed by God on his toes was actually just a cover-up used by the An family to protect the real heir. And she is not the eldest young master of the An family at all, she is just the eldest young lady of the An family who received countless honors and favors in the An family before she was five years old?! [Their profile:] Their encounter just started with a glimpse under the sunset by the Seine River. When she escaped and transformed, she turned into the president of TF Fashion Group, the most popular in the global fashion industry, and the most dazzling supermodel on the global T stage - Qiao An. There is also an additional identity that makes the Z country entertainment industry flock to it - the divine help behind the most legendary director Feng Yang, and the famous screenwriter Wei Sheng Qing Nan. Their meeting again after a long separation made the world understand that the bond between them was an inseparable bite of fate. [Classic quotations:] "From now on, we will only say goodbye and never be separated again." --Jian Youhuang 　　 [Bridge Section 1:] Jing San: "You like her so much, so much that you didn't even have a relationship, and she disappeared for seven years, and you still miss her? At that time, I just thought you were young and didn't know how deep she was." Jian Youhuang: "For some people, it's enough to know love at the first sight." [Bridge Section 2:] "Have you ever seen the sun at two o'clock in the morning?" "No" "I've seen it" "How is it possible, even if you are a god!" "Wake up in the middle of the night and see my kitten's sleeping face." [Bridge section three:] "Xiao Qingqing, I don't like the class taught by the teacher today." "Why?" "Didn't you tell me that the key to life is happiness?" "Yeah, what's wrong?" "Huh, today the teacher asked a question in class and asked us what the key to life is. He called me by name and asked me to get up and answer. I said it was happiness. But after I finished answering, the teacher didn't say anything, and then the children around me said that I understood the question wrong." "Well, you're right." "Of course, that's why I said it's not that I misunderstood the question, it's that they misunderstood life!"

The era of rapid growth in trade and investment has come to an end; the butterfly effect of natural and man-made disasters has frequently caused global supply chains to collapse, with widespread consequences; the gap between rich and poor, lack of welfare, and out-of-control taxation are getting worse... We must ponder a question - can globalization continue? This globalization problem that seems unique to the 21st century actually began to emerge when industrial capitalism was born in the 19th century: Britain relied on the dividends of the Industrial Revolution to gain the first-mover advantage of cost reduction and became the dominant manufacturing industry in one fell swoop; steamships reduced transportation costs, and the gold standard system stabilized exchange rates, which strengthened global economic ties; globalization led by European powers has sown the evil consequences of rich countries exploiting poor countries... Only by looking at the past of 200 years of globalization can we understand where the future of globalization will go now.

In October of the first year of Xixia, the Xixia Kingdom canonized the third princess Leng Youli as the princess, and the heads of the six kingdoms came in person Six years ago, the second princess of the Xixia Kingdom, who had caused a sensation six years ago, coldly walked out of the cold palace where she had not taken a step in six years. In the eyes of the six kingdoms and Xixia monarchs, they raised their swords and killed the third princess, Leng Youli, who was about to become the princess of Xixia-- Everyone was shocked and their expressions changed. Six years, more than two thousand days and nights, whether it is long or short, it is not short. When everyone had forgotten about the second princess of Xixia who was stunningly talented and gorgeous, she stepped out from the depths of the cold palace step by step and reached the hearts of everyone with an appearance that shocked the world even more. For six years, Leng Buqing gradually made herself stronger, until she no longer needed anyone to stand in front of her-- The phoenix was reborn from the ashes and appeared in front of everyone again. She was no longer the cold, arrogant and indifferent woman she was before. She was sharp, cold, evil, charming, unparalleled in elegance, and amazingly talented! When the modern queen travels to the second princess who was relegated to the cold palace in ancient times, it is destined that this continent will never have peace again! [Introduction to incompetence. . . . In short, this woman was not a good person before her rebirth, and she was even less good after her rebirth.

The whole book consists of twelve chapters on chronicles, ten on tables, eight on books, thirty on famous families, and seventy on biographies, for a total of one hundred and thirty chapters. "Historical Records" is a very large volume with more than 520,000 words, which is very difficult for ordinary readers to read. Therefore, this book excerpts the essence of "Historical Records" and selects the best parts of famous epochs, aristocratic families, and biographies in history, and arranges them in historical chronological order, so that readers can have a macro grasp of the "Historical Records". In order to facilitate readers' reading, this book uses detailed and accurate vernacular translations and many exquisite illustrations to reinterpret this great classic of Chinese classics using modern language and today's perspectives and standards.

The new book next door, "The Movie Queen Got Punched Again Today," is also very welcome. A cute and coquettish drama girl VS a handsome guy who talks little but is extremely to the point. A sweet story about daily interactions with the domineering boss. -- Lu Wan, a popular niche student, is well-known for being an insulator against the opposite sex. He has been down-to-earth since his debut many years ago, does not engage in CP speculation, and keeps himself clean from mud and dirt. He is completely different from when he was in school. Friends around him all said that he had had enough of the waves and had finally returned to shore. Unexpectedly, during a program recording, he revealed that he only entered the entertainment industry because of one person. Netizens have speculated who the person he holds close to his heart is. Someday. Shang Zhi was awakened by the sound of the doorbell. He grabbed some clothes and put them on before opening the door. When the director, cameraman and others outside the door saw the woman wearing a large white shirt, they were so shocked that they could not utter a word. Lu Wang appeared at the door with an apple haircut and a pink apron, not forgetting to pull a piece of clothing to cover the woman's legs under her shirt. The news that the popular movie star and China Entertainment CEO are living together has detonated the entire Internet. Lu Wan's girlfriend immediately burst into tears. In response, Lu Wan posted a Weibo post with a photo of the two intertwined, with the woman even wearing a diamond ring on her ring finger. Caption: My sponsor. After Shang Zhi browsed Weibo, he kicked him over: "My hand speed for more than 20 years is extraordinary. Why are you posting on Weibo so fast?" Lu Wan: "Swear territorial sovereignty."

"New Love Louise" describes the love story of the 18th-century aristocratic girl Yuli Datangra and her young tutor and civilian intellectual Saint Pluan. Yu Li's father is an aristocrat with a strong sense of feudal hierarchy and firmly opposes the union of this pair of lovers. At first, Yu Xian listened to his own voice and committed himself to Saint Pluan. Later, he succumbed to his father's will and married de Vollmart, a middle-aged man from the aristocratic class who was well-matched to his family. Saint Pu Luan had to leave Yu Li. After Yu Li got married, she confided to her husband her past love affair with Saint-Pluan. De Volmare showed his trust in them and brought Saint-Pluan to his home. The old lovers spent time together day and night, trying their best to suppress their inner feelings, but they felt deeply painful about it. Later, Yu Li's son accidentally fell into the water, and she threw herself into the lake to save him. The mother and son were rescued, but Yu Li died of illness soon after. Before her death, she wrote a suicide note to Saint Pu Luan, saying that she had sacrificed her life at the cost of her life. "New Love Louise" describes the love story of Yu Li, a noble girl in the 18th century, and her young tutor and civilian intellectual Saint Pu Luan. Yu Li's father is an aristocrat with a strong sense of feudal hierarchy and firmly opposes the union of this pair of lovers. At first, Yu Xian listened to his own voice and committed himself to Saint Pluan. Later, he succumbed to his father's will and married de Vollmart, a middle-aged man from the aristocratic class who was well-matched to his family. Saint Pu Luan had to leave Yu Li. After Yu Li got married, she confided to her husband her past love affair with Saint-Pluan. De Volmare showed his trust in them and brought Saint-Pluan to his home. The old lovers spent time together day and night, trying their best to suppress their inner feelings, but they felt deeply painful about it. Later, Yu Li's son accidentally fell into the water, and she threw herself into the lake to save him.

She just accidentally swallowed a bead. She didn't expect that when she opened her eyes again, she would be in a strange continent. If you want to travel through time, just travel through time. After all, this temporarily requisitioned body is fair-skinned, beautiful, and has long legs. She is still the eldest lady of the Generalissimo's Palace, and she is fair and rich. You've already reached the pinnacle of your life before you even start struggling, okay? What? Anthomaniac? Haha, look at the various handsome men running behind this girl. Do you need to be a nymphomaniac? Even if you are committing nymphomaniacs, you are committing nymphomaniacs towards your own man, so it is not illegal, right? Waste? My sister is on the road to cultivating immortality and becoming a god, and she recognizes that Ersha is also an accompanying divine creature, and is protected by the four great divine beasts. If sister is a waste, then who are you? Swag? Let's take a look at the journey of a modern agent who travels to another world, waves his hands, dances in the wind and clouds, and moves the world with his feet. Is it an accident or an arrangement of fate? The heroine of this article is strong. If you like it, please collect it. If you don't like it, please be careful!

[The new book "All Sects Are Sick, Only I'm Sober" has been signed and everyone is welcome to read~] Su Jin's mission is to protect the poor people whose lives were ruined by the best scum and become a good person in the eyes of the world, so she became these best: 1. The best of dedicating oneself to one's husband and children for one's younger brother 2. The love-minded mother who travels far and wide for love 3. The vicious real daughter who hates everyone equally 4. A giant baby squatting at home and chewing on old people 5. The ultimate stepmother who monopolizes her ex-husband's inheritance 6. The evil mother-in-law in a sad drama 7. An emotional liar who does anything to marry into a wealthy family. ... When Su Jin turned into these people, the brother-in-law turned into a child-loving maniac, the stepmother turned out to be hard-spoken and soft-hearted, the love-minded mother returned home with a huge fortune to support her, the old giant baby turned out to be an Internet celebrity, and the real daughter turned out to be a arrogant and poisonous girl... Everyone: Ah, it turns out that we are too superficial and only saw her superficial appearance. In reality, she is beautiful, excellent and kind. She is really a good person...

"Travel, Life's Most Valuable Investment" is a very influential classic book by investment guru Jim Rogers. It records Rogers' thrilling trip around the world in the early 1990s. After 22 months and a journey of nearly 100,000 kilometers, spanning 52 countries and regions on 6 continents, this investment guru shed his glory as a successful man. As a 37-year-old backpacker, he experienced the joys and sorrows of travel and re-examined the meaning of life. Traveling around the world made him understand that many countries become rich, but over a few years, or decades, or centuries, pride will lead to decline. He also understands that even if all wealth is gone, life goes on. Jim said: "If you have a dream, go for it because you won't get a second chance. If you want to change your life, do it now."

This book tells the story of Sun Tongkang, a son of a wealthy family, who was chased by thieves on his way to visit his teachers and friends. He suffered several accidents. Fortunately, he was rescued by strangers. He also got a sword, a mirror, a shovel and other items. He bravely fought monsters and monks, and reunited with several other friends from his past life after the disaster. He annihilated the monsters in a Dongting battle, and finally achieved enlightenment and became an immortal. It runs through the lingering love story between Sun Tongkang and his previous wife, the female fairy Sun Yutong. The book's language is concise and gorgeous, and the plot is vivid and bizarre, which reflects the author's extraordinary ability to control language and tell stories.

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"Never Bow" is Gu Long's only modern urban martial arts work and one of the "Famous Stories". Gu Long said: "Everyone will change. The only eternal thing is time, because time is the most ruthless. In this ruthless passage of time, everyone will slowly and unknowingly change." Therefore, Bobo has changed, Black Panther has changed, and Luo Lie has also changed, but the fate of the three people is still intertwined. Fortunately, there are always some things that will not change no matter what. As long as you want to live seriously, courage, chivalry, love and tolerance are all indispensable spiritual sources.

In her previous life, she was ashamed of being disfigured, so she restrained her nature and allowed her husband to take concubines and pamper her. It's just that her appearance was damaged, but she still occupied the position of the concubine. After all, she was regarded as a thorn in others' eyes, and the last cup of Juezi soup cut off the livelihood of her unborn child. It turned out that even though I had given everything without any regrets, it was still no match for the white lotus in my husband's heart. It turns out that his connivance with the second-fang clan girl was to lure a wolf into the house and kill his mother. It turns out that a daughter should be self-reliant and should not have only one man in the world. After her rebirth, she vowed to revive the Hou Mansion. Despite the turmoil in the shopping mall, the treacherous palace, and the various designs of her love rival, she calmly turned the tide in the midst of the turmoil. However, I made a wish in my heart, wishing that I would be with my lover forever. I just want to be with the person in my heart for the rest of my life and never be separated.

"The Eye Game" is the third part of Canetti's autobiographical trilogy, describing the writer's experiences from 1931 to 1937. When he was less than 30 years old, Canetti had already written "Confusion", a classic in the history of modern literature. However, this work was not taken seriously when it came out. Canetti's evaluations of literary giants such as Thomas Mann and Robert Musil were harsh and sharp, while for his spiritual idol Dr. Matsunai, he respected him like a god. This period ended with the funeral of the most important woman in Canetti's life: his mother.

"One Sunday in June, just after noon, my father wanted to kill my mother..." The book begins with this horrifying scene that happened when the author was twelve years old. The horrific event was never mentioned within the family thereafter, and Elno was forced to deal with her fear and shame alone for the rest of her life. In this book, Anne Ernault offers a powerful reflection on life experience and the power of violent memories with the emotional richness and sharp vision of a literary writer, showing how insights into life can become the driving force for writing.

A collection of representative novels by writers who laid the foundation for the development of Soviet literature. Most of the contents of this book are translated into Chinese and published as a book for the first time. "The Beautiful But Rough World" is a collection of Platonov's novels, which includes five novels: "Epifan Sluice", "Ether Passage", "Station Village", "Happy Moskva" and "The Beautiful But Rough World". Except for "The Beautiful But Rough World", they are all translated and introduced to Chinese readers for the first time. These five novels belong to Platonov's three artistic stages respectively. The themes range from science fiction to history and finally return to reality, showing the changes in the writer's thoughts throughout his creative career. "Ether Channel" is a concrete depiction of the "future new world". This new world is not impossible to achieve materially. The real problem lies in how to find the channel in the spiritual world. So the writer extended his brush to history and created "Yepifan Water Gate" and "Station Village", using "historical reality" to think about the roots of the people's spiritual home and explore the methods of transformation of the spiritual world. "Happy Moskva" is an attempt to integrate spirituality and materiality in the new world. However, after a long period of exploration, the final result is the tranquility of reality, and the transformation of the spiritual world is still difficult to achieve. "Beautiful and Rough World" takes the tranquility of reality as its starting point and shows the huge gap between the real world and the "future new world" through the positional relationship between people and society.

"Tokyo People" belongs to the Japanese translation series and is a novel by Kawabata Yasunari. Keiko, a native of Tokyo, lost her husband in middle age, but still loves life and lives a positive and sunny life with her two children. By chance, she met Toshizo and his daughter Yumiko. Junzo's wife has been recuperating away from home for many years due to illness. In the post-war environment, Keiko, Junzo and three children with very different personalities formed a strange family. Keiko's business is getting better and better. She not only supports the family's expenses, but also bears the medical expenses of Junsan's wife. However, Junsan's company is on the verge of bankruptcy. One day, Toshizo suddenly left without saying goodbye. Keiko and the three children experienced the world's human kindness and kindness through the joys and sorrows of the passing years. With a soothing pace, the novel gently and calmly depicts the family life of ordinary people, as well as the mood of everyone in the family - the hardships of life, inner demands and desires, the melancholy and loneliness that always surrounds them, and the self-blame and guilt of facing close people...

"No matter how mediocre and boring this world is, it is my world after all." "Sheep Hunting Adventures" is the third novel in the "Rat and Me" series of trilogy after Haruki Murakami's debut novels "Hear the Wind Sing" and "1973 Pinball Game". A super-powered sheep that controls all of Japan has disappeared, and its host, the underworld leader, is dying. "I" accidentally received a photo of this sheep from my friend "Rat", and was coerced by the underworld, so I had to take my girlfriend on an adventure to find the sheep with strange star-shaped markings. Away from the boring life that I once had, in the process of searching for sheep, "I" continue to search and redeem myself, and determine the meaning of my existence. In the snow-capped mountains of Hokkaido, when "I" finally reunited with "Rat", at this moment, my friend had already become a ghost that had perished with the source of evil.

In 1933, a series of violent murders of three people occurred in the small Nicaraguan town of León, for which the authorities launched a series of court investigations, evidence collection, interrogations and defense work. Castañeda, a handsome and progressive lawyer, was accused of being a murderer for no reason. He was imprisoned, tortured, and eventually died in a trap set by the authorities. As the book ends, the case remains a mess, but its repercussions extend from the thirties to the eighties. Who is the real murderer has never been determined from beginning to end. "Condemnation" is an "anti-dictatorship novel" deliberately innovative by Sergio Ramírez: it combines many characteristics of detective novels, political novels, empirical novels, love novels, and custom novels. It has the strengths of many novels but has its own characteristics. This book has been hailed as "one of the best novels in Central America" ​​in the 20th century. In 1989, it won the "Hamet Award" - the world's highest award for detective literature. The famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes praised this novel as inheriting the writing techniques of "The Red and the Black", "Madame Bovary" and "Crime and Punishment"; the Latin American literary circle called the book "a real miniature kaleidoscope of Central America" ​​and called Ramirez a great writer who can stand shoulder to shoulder with García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar and Fuentes. The author Sergio Ramirez, a former vice president of Nicaragua, is one of the important representative writers of Latin American post-explosion literature.

Sarah Waters, the original author of the British drama "Fingersmith" and a master storyteller among the living English writers today, has made a stunning debut in the literary world. The New York Times Noteworthy Work of the Year; won the Betty Trask Literary Award. From the theater to the street corner, from a seaside girl to a beauty in men's clothing; she experienced betrayal, transcended despair, and finally reached the bloom and awakening of a woman. Because of a thrown rose, the seaside girl left her hometown and followed her beloved beauty in men's clothing; because of an unexpected betrayal, the actor Nancy fell into depravity and exiled herself to the dark street corners of London. In this novel about lust and freedom, about growth and transformation, Sarah Waters examines the theater culture of the Victorian era, the men's beauties trend, the embryonic form of the feminist movement, and the aristocratic underground erotic clubs, recreating the various aspects of London at that time.

"Eugénie Grandet" is the representative work of Balzac, the "father of modern French novels". It is included in the "Studies of Customs" and "Scenes of Provincial Life" in his masterpiece "The Human Comedy". It is regarded as "one of the most outstanding pictures" in this monument in the history of world literature. Through a network structure model, Balzac takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line and Eugénie's love tragedy as the core of contradiction, comprehensively showing the French society in the first half of the 19th century, and at the same time describing the diverse and complex characters. In the work, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

This book is Margaret Atwood's masterpiece novel. It is based on a notorious crime in the 1840s and tells an intricate but poetic story. At first glance, the novel is full of realistic narrative style, but as the plot progresses, the writing style naturally reverses, sex, murder and class conflict are mixed together, and the resin of imagination flows into the gaps of historical events. Through the switching of characters' perspectives, the story achieves a brilliant fragmentation effect. Evil and dignity, tragedy and beauty coexist, and reality and fiction coexist. The most extensive social picture of a specific era unfolds before us.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people riding horses on the plateau, and the legendary riders of the past are now riding motorcycles. A horse used to sell for 20,000 yuan, but now it sells for 8,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a mid-range motorcycle. It has only been a few years since the motorcycle entered the source area of ​​the Lancang River, and riders on the plateau have already treated it like riding a wild horse. Through TV, the riders quickly realized what those Western motorcyclists had in common with them. They installed rubber streamers on their motorcycles, hung bronze eagle heads, wore sunglasses and traditional felt hats, and their outfits were dusty from the work of herding yaks. They combined modern fashion with primitive ruggedness in an unpretentious, fashionable, accurate and natural way.

Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, is known as the "Three Immigrants in the British Literary Circle" along with Naipaul and Rushdie. Kazuo Ishiguro does not have many works, but almost every one of them has won important literary awards: "Shadow on the Mountain" won the Winifred Holby Memorial Award, "The Painter of the Floating World" won the Whitbread Best Novel Award of the Year, "The End of the Day" won the Booker Prize, "No Consolation" won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature and Art, "The Painter of the Floating World", "We Are Orphans" and "Don't Lose or Forget" were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 "for his tremendous emotional power in unearthing the abyss hidden beneath our illusory connections with the world." This set contains all eight of Kazuo Ishiguro's published works: "The End of the Day", "Don't Lose, Don't Forget", "Shadows on the Mountains", "Inconsolable", "The Buried Giant", "The Orphan of Ours", "The Painter of the Floating World" and "Serenade: Five Stories of Music and Dusk".

In this book, Jeff Dyer writes about travel, the unconscious, and the questions we ask when we look at ourselves from the outside. He presents us with a series of fantastic adventures and pilgrimages. He has traveled all over the world, from French Polynesia to the far north of Norway. Throughout his adventures - with a "tour guide" in the Forbidden City in Beijing who is not actually a tour guide, with a friend in New Mexico, USA, with a stranger hitchhiking near White Sands Prison, and with the American jazz musician Don Cherry in Los Angeles (or just a photo of him), the author continues his unfinished exploration of the world - what is he looking for? Even he himself may not know. Jeff Dyer tries to figure out what a specific place and landscape represents, what they want to tell the world, and what do we get from it...

"A Tale of Two Cities" is an immortal classic in the history of world literature. It tells the social life of France and England during the French Revolution. It describes the corruption and depravity of the aristocratic class, as well as their oppression and persecution of the middle and lower classes. It also describes the surging revolutionary wave positively, witnessing the destruction of an era and the birth of a new era in the bloody massacre.

No matter how small the fragments between family members are, they are precious memories of life. To be born in this society is to be involved in the family - this unknowable relationship. Zi broke up with her live-in lover and was kicked out of the place where they lived together. Taking the opportunity of attending her grandmother's funeral, Zi returned to her hometown and lived in her parents' home. Her mother, Xiangzi, is old, but she is still worried about what happened in her childhood and complains about her daughter who is lazy every day. His father Shiyan felt helpless with such a wife and maintained lukewarm communication with a woman in her 40s. My aunt Daoshi ran a small store selling food and groceries in a remote countryside. She had never traveled before, and she embarked on a journey to New Zealand because of an opportunity. Uncle Bohe has lost contact for many years and has quietly started a new life in a distant place. The family members who were once together were separated due to various reasons, but they reunited at my grandma's funeral...

"The Ghost Writer" is the first in a series of literary adventures by Nathan Zuckerman. The 23-year-old protagonist Nathan Zuckerman has just published a batch of short stories and received an invitation from his most admired writer E. I. Lonoff to visit him at his home in the Berkshire Mountains. There, Nathan met the Lonovs and a female student they adopted, Amy Bellette. He was immediately attracted by Amy's unique charm. But what Nathan didn't expect was that in the process of getting along with his idol, the other person's wife Hope suddenly lost control. During the subsequent stay, Nathan discovered the affair between Lonov and Amy, and was even more shocked by Amy's bizarre experience as the original author of "The Diary of Anne Frank." At the same time, Nathan's past is also slowly unfolded from his own memories, about his growing up experience, and how he had a falling out with his family because of writing novels about Jewish family relatives... The novel uses first-person narrative, intertwined with flashbacks, interludes and other techniques, and is a masterpiece in American literature.

The year 2532 AD is a new world with highly developed science and technology: there are no worries about material scarcity, no worries about aging and decadence, no boredom from tedious work, no pressure to raise children, no restrictions on marriage and sexual morality, no restrictions on drug abuse, and no suffocation of political pressure... It is like the "Utopia" and "Utopia" that humans have always yearned for and longed for infinitely. However, in this "brave new world", people have lost their personal emotions - mom and dad are humiliating words, they have lost love - sex has replaced love, they have lost pain, passion and the feeling of experiencing danger - Xoma can bring happiness. What is even more frightening is that people have lost the right to think and the ability to create... Past, present and future, all human concerns about themselves and the future are contained in it.

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is Goethe's important early work. The novel describes the progressive young man Werther who falls in love with the engaged girl Lotte. He feels deeply painful and decides to leave Lotte in the hope of getting relief from his career. However, the filthy, despicable and depressive social environment is incompatible with him. Under the multiple blows of failed love, frustrated career, and being despised by the world, Werther came to the married Lotte for the last time and ended his young life with a bullet.

The plot of the novel is very simple. Young Werther comes to a small town, where the natural scenery, simple folk customs, and innocent and happy children bring him great happiness. At a dance, he met a girl named Lotte. Her every smile and every move attracted him. Lotte also liked him, but could not reciprocate her love. She was engaged to Werther's friend. Werther fell into embarrassment and pain. He resolutely left here, trying to get relief from his career and achieve something. However, the despicable environment, dirty interpersonal relationships, and the existing order that suppressed personality and suffocated freedom made him intolerable. When he returned to Lotte with no talent, he found that Lotte was married. He decided to die for love and ended his life with a pistol.

Went to Los Angeles to attend the Chinese and American Writers Conference, and was later invited to visit the United States. When we were leaving Beijing, several leaders from the Chinese Writers Association went to the airport to see us off. When an old poet shook hands with me and said goodbye, he saw that my hair had not been carefully combed, and a lock of it stood on end. He took out a small comb from his pocket and brushed my disobedient hair a few times. I know that the lock of hair that represents my personality and aura will not fall down. He said: "In more than 30 years, you are the first delegation of Chinese writers to officially visit the United States. Together with the translator and secretary, there are exactly 8 people in your delegation. It can be said that the Eight Immortals have crossed the sea."

"Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" describes the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II in a cold way. It writes about eleven kinds of lonely lives. The protagonists are all people who lack security and live unsatisfactory lives: fired white-collar workers in Manhattan office buildings, people with outstanding imaginations A taxi driver, a young man who has been frustrated many times and wants to be a writer, a confused man and woman who are about to get married, an eccentric old teacher, a newly transferred primary school student, a tuberculosis patient, an old and sick wife, a jazz pianist, a frustrated military officer, a retired soldier, etc. Yates's works are all about the ordinary lives of ordinary people, describing the loneliness, loss and despair of ordinary people. He himself once said: "If there is any theme in my works, I think there is only one simple one: people are lonely, no one can escape, and this is their tragedy." As a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-20th century, critics compared him to Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever. In 1962, his first short story collection "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" was published, and was even known as "New York's Dubliners". Yates's works have been praised by the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Washington Post and other media, and four novels have been selected for the "Book of the Month Club". In addition, he also has a large number of writer fans, including many famous writers, such as Kurt Vongunnet and Andre DuBois. His works have also influenced many writers, such as Raymond Carver, and he is known as the "writer's writer".

"Destiny" is a breakthrough transformation in Yates's writing career. The novel focuses on the life dilemma of a down-and-out mother and son. After his parents divorced, Prentiss and his mother depended on each other, but her mother was obsessed with becoming a sculptor. After repeated failures, the lives of mother and son fell into the abyss. Prentiss had to support his mother's emotional support while dealing with the pressure of life. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the army. Prentiss is young, withdrawn and sensitive. The most trivial things in the military camp make him feel shattered and life-threatening. He fully hopes that being a soldier means becoming a hero, but he finds that no matter how hard he works, he always looks like a clown. The war is finally over, but Prentice's life has "no reckoning, no answers, no proof." However, this time Prentiss decided to "run away" as a decision for the future. It is difficult to say whether this is an escape from "destiny" or a compliance with it.

"Cold Spring Harbor" tells the story of two families who unexpectedly meet and become intertwined under the shadow of the times. A broken down car made the young and handsome but confused Evan and the sensitive and delicate Rachel meet and fall in love, which also pulled the shadows of their respective families into a whirlpool. The Shepard family and the Drake family tried to start a life in the seemingly peaceful town of Cold Spring Harbor, but they quietly exposed their inner fantasies and cracks. The tug-of-war between ideals and reality, the alternation of passion and disappointment, along with the slow tide of fate, push everyone to the edge of emotion. With his signature calm style, Yates meticulously presents the process of ordinary post-war American families pursuing happiness but having to face disillusionment, profoundly revealing the endless sadness and tenderness contained in life's trivial daily life and the entanglement of fate.

Richard Yates (1926-1992) was "the great writer of the anxious age." As a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-twentieth century, critics have compared him to Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever. His debut novel "Revolutionary Road" was an immediate success and was nominated for the National Book Award. In 1962, his first short story collection "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" was published, and was even known as "New York's Dubliners".

Wu Feifan, who comes from a working-class family, went to Shanghai to make a living. After more than a dozen companies went bankrupt, she received an invitation from Qian Qianqian, a second-generation rich man who had a crush on her. Together with her roommate Ning Linlin, who was engaged in beauty live broadcasts, she joined the new media studio co-founded by Qian Qianqian and his friend Hua Yiyi. The four young people worked together and supported each other. After experiencing various entrepreneurial difficulties, they gradually gained a deeper understanding of the new media industry, grew rapidly through the experience, and gained beautiful love.

A geek CEO who can rely on his reputation but more on his talent VS a goddess with great professional skills. The upstart CEO in the technology industry "encounters" the omnipotent CMO. They fight monsters side by side in the workplace and show off their love in love! Urban romance author Fu Yi's "Industry Trilogy" 1.0 - Artificial Intelligence × Market Operation × Emotional Inspiration, dreams will eventually bloom with blazing fireworks, and you are in my heart.

"Masterpiece Series of Chinese Classical Literature: The Continued Biography of the Heroes and Martyrs" includes "The Heroes of the Ming Dynasty" and "The Continued Biography of the Heroes and Martyrs". "Masterpiece Series of Chinese Classical Literature: The Continued Biography of the Heroes and Martyrs" is adapted from folk stories of the Ming Dynasty and describes the legendary deeds of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. The story depicts the transformation of human nature under the impact of power, fame and fortune. It is meticulously illustrated and full of drama. It contains love that lasts until death, and a love that turns into hatred. The bloodshed in the palace, the struggle for power, the plot is surprisingly mysterious and touching, and the exciting martial arts are exciting.

As the most important representative work of Adam Smith, the "father of modern economics" in the 18th century, this book not only summarizes the experience of capitalist economic development in various countries in the early modern period, criticizes and absorbs the important economic theories of the time, but also provides a systematic theoretical description of the operation process of the entire national economy. It is known as the foundation work of modern economics.

This little story that has been passed down for 2,500 years has cultivated the great wisdom of countless philosophers! In the history of human literature, "Aesop's Fables" is the crystallization of human life wisdom over the past 2,500 years. It uses the animal world to map the real society and uses simple stories to tell the philosophy of life. It has become one of the 100 books that have influenced human culture. 365 Days a year, a fable every day, gain a piece of life wisdom! Great philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all influenced by "Aesop's Fables"! According to Plato, while Socrates was in prison awaiting execution, he attempted to rewrite Aesop's fables in verse. Plato mentioned Aesop several times in his masterpiece "Dialogues". Aristotle was very keen on collecting "Aesop's fables", classifying them into categories and showing them to his disciples. "Aesop's Fables" have eternal value and are beneficial to every generation. --Lin Haiyin (famous Chinese writer, representative work "Old Things in the South of the City") "The Tortoise and the Hare", "The Fox and the Crow" and "The Wolf Is Coming!" These philosophical stories you are familiar with are among them, and they have been passed down for more than 2,000 years!

"Aesop's Fables" is one of the earliest collections of fables and fairy tales in the world. Among them, popular short stories such as "The Tortoise and the Hare", "The Crow Drinking Water" and "The Farmer and the Snake" have always been recognized as the most precious treasure house of human intelligence. His language is concise and concise, his style is approachable, and he is loved by readers all over the world. The great thing about "Aesop's Fables" is that it completely abandons the empty preaching mode and takes us into the magical world of fables, allowing us to gain spiritual enlightenment while appreciating the wonderful stories. Whether they are animals, plants or other creatures written in the book, they all have human thoughts and emotions. The author uses the stories that happened to them to tell us some principles of life.

"The last knight of German Romanticism" and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Hesse's new 10-volume anthology, translated by famous writers, includes novels, short and medium-length works, poetry, prose, fairy tales and paintings, comprehensively displaying Hesse's creative career. "Under the Wheel" is Hesse's early work. The story narrated in the novel is: the protagonist Hans has been extremely intelligent, diligent and studious since he was a child, and is regarded as a child prodigy by everyone. He was sent to a seminary to study. Influenced by his extended family and society, he was eager for fame and studied hard in an isolated school without any free time. His physical and mental health was damaged. His classmate Herman is stubborn by nature, despises fame and is not tolerated by the school; but Hans feels that only Herman is his confidant. Hans worked too hard, became physically weak, and his grades dropped; the school blamed Hermann for this. Hermann was expelled from school, and Hans felt even more lonely. He was scolded by teachers and ridiculed by classmates from time to time. Later, he suffered from neurasthenia, which made him unable to continue his studies and had to return to his hometown to work as a fitter to make a living. Social discrimination and frustration in life made him feel as if he had fallen under a ruthless and huge wheel. This is a novel that indicts the old education system in Germany and is considered to be highly autobiographical.

This is a novel that accuses the old German education system and has a strong autobiographical flavor. The protagonist of the story, named Hans, was born in an ordinary family. He has been extremely talented since childhood, diligent and studious, and is regarded as a child prodigy by everyone. Hans entered the seminary with excellent grades, but he was not good at socializing and was alone. Until by chance, he met Hermann. Herman was rebellious by nature, despised fame, and was not tolerated by the school. Although they are two completely different people, they have the same spirit and become good friends. When Hermann appears, Hans is lost. Her health deteriorated day by day, and her grades plummeted. The school blamed Herman for this and expelled Herman. After losing his friends, Hans became even more lonely and was often scolded by his teachers and ridiculed by his classmates. Day after day, Hans's mental condition became worse and worse, and he could no longer continue his studies, so he had to return to his hometown to work as a fitter to make a living. Social discrimination and frustration in life made Hans feel as if he had fallen under a ruthless and huge wheel...

Hans was smart and talented since he was a child, and was regarded as a child prodigy. At school, he met Herman, a classmate who despised fame and was a maverick. Hans became a confidant, but Hermann was expelled from school. Hans was scolded by his teacher and ridiculed by his classmates. Amidst the ridicule day by day, Hans gradually lost control of his own destiny...