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Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece and Nobel Prize-winning work. The representative works of Japanese post-war literature use words to outline the beauty of color, the centuries-old circulation of an ancient tea set, and a story of abnormal love involving two generations. They show the conflict between love and morality. They also depict the psychology very delicately, showing a scene of extreme beauty and sadness. "Thousand Cranes" is a short story collection by Kawabata Yasunari, which includes "Thousand Cranes" and the sequel to "Thousand Cranes", "A Chidori on the Blue Waves". The story mainly tells that Mitani Kikuharu's father had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chikako during his lifetime, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota, but was alienated from the former because of the latter. Four years after his father's death, Kikuji and Mrs. Ota met unexpectedly at a tea party held by Chikako Kurimoto. Because Mrs. Ota missed Kikuji's father, she actually moved on to his son Kikuji, and Kikuji also accepted this immoral love. However, Mrs. Ota drank medicine and committed suicide out of guilt. Mrs. Ota's daughter Fumiko gradually fell in love with Kikuji during her contact with him. Chikako introduced her female disciple Yukiko to Kikuji and tried every means to bring them together. Wenzi was so ashamed of her mother that she finally left without saying goodbye.

"A Thousand Cranes" contains four classic novels by the world-famous writer Kawabata Yasunari, "A Thousand Cranes", "Cangha Plover", "Dancing Girl of Izu" and "Hot Spring Hotel". Among them, "A Thousand Cranes" was one of the three novels mentioned when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It tells a story about an abnormal love affair involving two generations. Mitani Kikuharu's father was a famous tea ceremony master who once had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chikako, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota. Many years after his father's death, Kikuji and Mrs. Ota met unexpectedly at a tea party held by Chigako. Ota, longing for his former lover, actually moved on to his son Kikuji, who also accepted this unethical love... The novel shows the conflict between love and morality, and depicts Japanese culture and psychology to the extreme.

"Sound of the Mountain" depicts the story of Shingo's family, his son's affair, his daughter's failure of marriage, and the sorrow of old age... Kawabata Yasunari uses his usual beautiful brushwork to delicately and calmly condense the post-war world, style and reality into Japan's ancient sorrow and melancholy, demonstrating the skill of overlapping images of poetry and drama.

This book fully incorporates Kawabata Yasunari's unique style: the sense of fantasy, the sadness of secludedness, and the mysterious aftertaste, which are traditional Japanese literary features. In his beautiful articles, he conveys people's subjective spiritual realm and charm, which is very contagious. Starting from the natural aesthetics, Kawabata describes concrete, detailed and delicate works, and adds a thicker and more delicate subjective emotional tone. Several of his speeches in the book became Kawabata Yasunari's Theory of Japanese Beauty and Japanese Art, constituting his unique aesthetic theoretical system, which shines uniquely in Kawabata's literature.

This book contains four of Kawabata Yasunari's late masterpieces: "The Lake", "Waltz of Flowers", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Arm". In the late period of Kawabata Yasunari's creation, the themes of his works became more bold and the thoughts he expressed became more profound. "The Lake" reveals the loneliness that cannot be cured throughout a person's life, and all pursuits and longings are nothing but sorrow and illusion; "Waltz of Flowers" expresses the author's belief in art through a lingering and pathos first love; "Sleeping Beauty" and "Arm" embody Kawabata's unique thinking on the philosophy of life based on the Eastern cultural tradition. Although the content is absurd, it is full of Zen principles. The inclusion of Kawabata's late masterpieces in one book reflects the literary professionalism of People's Literature Publishing House in selecting the collection of Kawabata Yasunari's works. The translator of this book, Chen Dewen, has been immersed in the translation of Japanese classic literature for many years. He not only has a special liking for Kawabata Yasunari's writings, but also has many years of painstaking research, making him the best choice to translate Kawabata's works. In this publication, the text has been revised again to make it more concise and elegant.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" is Kawabata Yasunari's famous work and a representative work of his aestheticism. It tells the story of a pure first love between a young student and a teenage dancing girl in the green mountains and beautiful waters of Izu. The new translation of "The Dancer of Izu" includes Kawabata Yasunari's most popular and famous classic "The Dancer of Izu", as well as "Blue Sea, Black Sea", "Reunion", "Wife Riding a Donkey", "Soul Song", "Twenty Years Old", "Beasts", "Parents", etc., A total of 8 short stories.

Isn't the depth of grief the depth of love? "A Thousand Cranes" is the Nobel Prize-winning work of Kawabata Yasunari. It is the ultimate masterpiece that combines morality and desire into the tea ceremony. The novel tells the story of Kikuji, who was born in a famous tea ceremony family, and quietly met several women who had a close relationship with his father at a tea party, and was involved in the whirlpool of fate. The work uses Yukiko's cloth bag decorated with thousands of cranes as a symbol of beauty, to metaphorize that the beautiful and pure women in the heart are like flowers in the water, moon and mirror, out of reach. In the conflict between morality and taboo, it touches the cold and warm love, famous objects, life and death, showing an illusory beauty of sorrow. The sin may not be eradicated, but the sorrow will eventually pass. Supreme purity cannot be contaminated by any filth, and it is therefore inclusive of everything.

"Ancient Capital" is one of the three novels mentioned by Kawabata Yasunari when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is also one of his highly regarded novels. It describes the joys and sorrows of a pair of twin sisters, and also presents the customs and customs of Kyoto. Chieko was adopted by a brocade merchant and became a beautiful girl. On the night of the Gion Festival, she met Miaozi, a girl from a mountain village, and was surprised to learn that the two were twin sisters. They miss each other, but they cannot recognize each other because of their different identities. The sisters' faint sadness is woven into the beautiful scenery of Kyoto in all four seasons. Kawabata Yasunari uses light and delicate writing to narrate the story of the twin sisters Chieko and Naeko and the loneliness of the world. It brings the readers into a light poetic sentimentality. He writes about the bitter life experience and pure love of the twin sisters, their yearning for a better life, and at the same time shows people's simplicity and kindness.

The work of Nobel Prize winner Kawabata Yasunari is an ukiyo-e depicting all living things in Asakusa. "Asakusa Nine Palace Birds" collects three Asakusa-related novellas "Rainbow", "Asakusa Nine Palace Birds" and "Asakusa Sisters" written by Kawabata Yasunari in the 1930s. As the earliest bustling city in Edo, Asakusa is a prosperous and lively public entertainment area in Tokyo. Kawabata Yasunari came to Tokyo from his hometown in 1917, and initially settled in Asakusa. Since then, he created a series of works with Asakusa as the background, depicting ukiyo-e paintings depicting all living things in Asakusa. Most of the characters who appear in the novel are those at the bottom of society. They are the dancers in the sketch drama who are swept away by the winds of fate, and are precocious and coquettish mixed with childish innocence in "The Rainbow". They are the idle but still adhering to their own rules in the world of "The Asakusa Birds". A Fei is also the singing girl in "Asakusa Sisters" who walks the streets with a shamisen and protects each other in suffering... Kawabata Yasunari observes and reproduces their dreams and love, innocence and evil, the pain of life and the yearning for beauty with lyrical eyes.

Kawabata Yasunari's timeless masterpiece, a Nobel Prize-winning work, a Japanese literary classic that has influenced countless people. The elegance and sadness of the thousand-year-old ancient capital, the sadness and dreams of the girl, a timeless and cool aria, and the passing of the four seasons weave a beautiful and sad picture of Kyoto's customs. "Ancient Capital" is set in Kyoto, which was transformed between classical and modern times after World War II. It takes the young girl Chieko as the protagonist and tells the story of Chieko's experiences during this year. Chieko, the only daughter of a long-established silk and satin merchant, feels sad about her status as an abandoned child. However, her family's declining business and her father who is escaping from the world make her even more worried. On the night of the Gion Festival, Chieko accidentally met her twin sister Miaozi, a girl who worked logging in a mountain village. Because of the disparity in their identities, the twin sister Miaozi is unwilling to disturb Qianezi's life. In addition, Qianezi's love and marriage are also undergoing subtle fluctuations...

"Youth" is a coming-of-age novel that takes the growth experience of a young man who is inexperienced in the world and deeply influenced by Rothschild's thoughts as the main line, and depicts the various conditions of Russian society in the 1870s when capitalism was developing rapidly. In academic circles, "The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment", "The Demons", "The Boy" and "The Brothers Karamazov" are known as the "Pentateuch". These five novels are Dostoevsky's mature works. They not only fully demonstrate his writing talent, but also profoundly and comprehensively demonstrate his world view and outlook on life.

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?

Selected from Hitchcock's short story collection, including more than ten short stories such as "The Third Person", "The Emerald Necklace" and "Escape", the text is concise and plain, the plots are twists and turns, and the endings are unexpected, and often give readers an immersive feeling. The novel is highly readable, full of modern features, in line with current reading habits and trends, and is very popular among the younger generation.

In the Hormone Apartment, Zhang Wei watched a video of playing Dragon Balls and traveled to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), where he obtained the dragon family's unique ability to defy the heavens and can create Dragon Balls and summon dragons. I thought I could shout: "Back off... I'm going to start pretending." Who would have thought that the materials for making Dragon Balls would have to be collected by oneself, but this is the MCU. As a result, dragons with various materials, shapes, and abilities were born.

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.

In 1946, O'Connor, who was in his early twenties, published his first short story "Geranium", which together with several early short stories such as "The Barber", "Wild Cat" and "The Crop", demonstrated his vitality and penetrating creative talent. This book "Geranium" selects 12 short stories written by O'Connor. In addition to the early 9 short stories, it also includes "A Festival in Partridge Town" and "Why Do Foreign Countries Fight?" " "You will not be worse than the dead" are three mid- to late-stage works. Among them, "Train", "Peeler", "Heart of the Park" and "Enoch and the Gorilla" outline the prototype of his full-length masterpiece "Wisdom of Blood", while "You Can't Be Worse Than the Dead" is the beginning of the novel "Force to Take".

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"The Red and the Black" is a monument of French and even European literature in the nineteenth century. The protagonist Julien is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was working as a tutor in the local mayor's house. After the affair was exposed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary. Recommended by the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris to work as a personal secretary for the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the extreme royalist party. He was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, Julien had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine. The confrontation between the individual and society is the central theme of The Red and the Black. The book challenges traditional customs and denounces the hypocrisy of social values.

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"Childhood" is one of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy. It describes the growth experience of a Russian teenager from a first-person perspective. The creation of this work is based on the author's real experience. In this work, Gorky observes various bizarre events in old Russian family life through the eyes of his childhood - some of which are already commonplace in the eyes of adults, but colorful in the eyes of children - and the various people who make up these events, including relatives, domestic servants and neighbors, all of them are meticulous and lifelike. In particular, the image of the smart, capable and considerate grandmother has warmed thousands of readers and left a deep impression on them. This edition of "Childhood" is a direct translation from the final Russian version. It is accompanied by a thousand-word introduction by the translator Mr. Yuan Tinglei, character relationship diagrams, geographical diagrams and other illustrations to help readers better read and understand this century-old classic.

Like McEwan's other novels in recent years, "Sweet Tooth" is the kind of work whose plot is particularly closely aligned with the era in which it is set. As the only "female literary youth" in the Five Divisions who is keen on reading novels, and who "happens" to have a figure and appearance that seems to have come directly from a novel, Selina accepted a special task: "Operation Sweet Tooth" aims to indirectly and covertly fund writers who are ideologically aligned with British interests and have influence on the public. The person Selina is responsible for approaching and luring them to join is the only novelist in this operation, Tom Haley. Tom and Serena fell in love with each other, and they loved each other step by step, they loved each other true and false, and they survived desperate situations. But if you guess the beginning, you may not be able to guess the end.

Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize (2008), and selected into The Guardian's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century (2019). An architect built a dream summer villa on the lakeside outside Berlin, but he had no idea what this land had and would experience: a young woman went crazy and drowned in the lake; Jewish neighbors sold their property at a low price and then disappeared; the advancing Red Army requisitioned the house; fled the Nazi government The author Quan returned from exile and wanted to drag out an ideal home that could last for a long time from the ruins; decades after the reunification of the two Germanys, her granddaughter was forced to give up the property rights, and the successor was the heir of its original builder... In the same place, residents of different eras separated and came. The huge invisible force of history continues to erode mankind's efforts to establish lasting values, and above all passion, pain, reconciliation and destiny stands a landscape that no amount of madness or turmoil can truly change. The "iceberg-like transcendence" poetic narrative of "A Guest" is an echo of Germany's centuries-old vicissitudes. From the Weimar Republic to the years after reunification, twelve fragments of life form a mosaic in which the past and the future collapse. The real teller of the story is time. "Eternal life has existed in the lifetime of an individual human being."

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the autumn of 1558, church bells rang throughout England, announcing the news that Elizabeth had become queen. Only one person was worried about it: Amy Dudley. The bells will call her husband Robert back to power and to the amorous Queen. The favored minister fell in love with the queen, but money and power could not fill Robert's expanding ambition. He dreams of regaining control of his destiny and marrying Her Majesty the Queen of England, but he believes that the only obstacle on this road is Amy... "The Virgin Lover" centers on Elizabeth I and writes about the men and women who surround her after she ascends the throne. How much sincerity and how much flattery is there in love based on power?

I volunteer to be alone because I enjoy it! Lonely Kafka 100th anniversary set! Includes all the full-length works of "The Missing", "The Trial" and "The Castle". "The Missing" is the beginning of Kafka's novel. Karl desperately wanted to gain a foothold in a foreign country, but he repeatedly found himself in trouble... He wrote about the experience of people becoming lonely again and again in society. "The Trial" is a symbol of the formation of "Kafkaesque" novels. Until he was sentenced to death, Joseph K did not know what his crime was... This was a kind of loneliness in which he sought to understand but found no results. "The Castle" is the finale of Kafka's novel. For land surveyor K, the castle seems close at hand, but he can never enter it... It is autobiographical, showing the struggle of a lonely person in an indifferent world. Loneliness was an important source of inspiration for Kafka's life. After Kafka's death, his close friend Brod compiled and published the three unfinished posthumous works of "The Missing", "The Trial" and "The Castle", collectively known as the "Solitude Trilogy".

In the previous work "Salt Road", Renault and her husband Maus lost their home due to the betrayal of their friends, and at this time Maus was terminally ill. In a desperate situation, the two decided to go on a fearless hiking trip. During the trip, Maos's health improved, and the two started a new life in a foreign land. However, their new life is full of challenges: When Renault's mother suffers a stroke and is hospitalized, her life hanging on a thread. Should Renault, as a daughter, choose full rescue or palliative care? Suffering from a degenerative disease and once unable to take care of himself, Maus struggled to complete his studies or gave up? Faced with a sudden gift, will the betrayed and displaced couple still have the courage to trust others again and accept the kindness of strangers? How can Reno open his heart, use pen and paper to fight Maos's illness, and save his husband's memory? With their strong will and infinite love for nature, Renault and Maus bravely embrace the life that belongs to them...

[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! The guild competition has come to an end, and "Big Maple Tree" has become a blockbuster, ranking among the top three! The much-anticipated new section of "City of Eternal Night" is officially launched. This time, the members of Big Maple Tree fought independently and started a fantasy adventure with new comrades. The Night Demon Sword, the Flame Dragon, the Mysterious Tower Master... Faced with many levels, let's see how Maple and her friends successfully pass them!

"Faith": I am a realist who always likes to say "how much does this thing cost?" People around me didn't understand me, and gradually kept away from me. My younger sister even said nasty things to me: The "reality" my sister believes in is actually a cult, right? Just at this time, an old classmate asked me to form a new religion to make money. In order to live a normal life, I decided to join and asked my classmates to brainwash me... Other included works - "Survival", "Unfinished Novel"... Sayaka Murata told eight stories full of science fiction and absurdity in calm and concise words.

"Collection of One Hundred Demons of the Past and Past - Moon" is a collection of mystery novels about monsters, featuring Atsuko Chuzenji, the younger sister of Kyogokudo Chuzenji Akihiko and editor of "Kitan Monthly", and female middle school student Gomi Yuki. "Tengu": What is the connection between a series of mysterious disappearances and deaths of women? Gomi Yuki, who wanted to go to the Rose Cross Detective Agency to say hello, did not see Enokizu, but unexpectedly met the congressman's daughter Shinomura Miyako. Her friend disappeared on Mount Takao, and almost at the same time, many women disappeared and died in the mountains one after another... "The locals said they met Kamigakure." "Kamigakure?" "It's not Kamigakure, should it be said that the Tengu kidnapped people?"

The story takes place in 1864. During a voyage, Sir Glenarvan, the owner of the cruise ship Duncan, got a drift bottle, which contained clues about the Scottish navigator Captain Grant who was in distress and disappeared two years ago. In order to rescue Captain Grant in distress, Sir Glenarvan took his wife, his sailors, Captain Grant's children, and the geographer who accidentally entered the cruise ship on a journey to find Captain Grant. Floods, wolf attacks, scams... They experienced numerous hardships along the way, overcame all dangers with wisdom and courage, and finally rescued Captain Grant on a small island.

Fifteen-year-old girl Dylan died unexpectedly in a train accident and met her destined ferryman Tristan. They traveled through the deserted land twice for love, and when they came to the human world again, they finally started a peaceful life. But this life did not last long. Soon, cracks appeared in the veil of life and death, and evil spirits entered the world again. A series of vicious events occurred one after another - farm animals were brutally attacked, and the entire bus and its passengers mysteriously disappeared... At this time, Susanna and the undead Jack were trapped in a real deserted land, surrounded by evil spirits, and their way out was unknown. The boundaries between life and death have been shaken once again, and the balance between the two worlds has been disrupted. The Judge appeared and threatened the lives of Dylan's parents, asking them to return to the deserted land in order to restore the balance that was on the verge of collapse. In order to save his parents, Dylan resolutely embarks on the return journey - this time, they have to travel through the deserted land to pursue their parents' souls; face the hunting of evil ghosts and the fateful separation.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece that will not be forgotten by time is published for the first time in simplified Chinese. Kawabata Yasunari's last novel for girls depicts complex and intimate emotions with the master's delicate writing style. "Best Friends" is a story about two girls who have similar looks. Emi and Kasumi were born on the same day and have exactly the same cute faces. By such a coincidence, the two naturally became good friends. Although their faces and birthdays are the same, their family environments and personalities are completely different. Huimei, the eldest daughter of a well-off family, has a calm personality; Kasumi, whose father passed away, grew up with her mother's pampering, is sensitive and willful. One after another unexpected things happened to them together, and the trivialities and inevitability of these lives made the two closer but also caused differences, and finally ushered in the moment of separation...

"One Million Pounds" is one of Mark Twain's classic novels. The novel uses an exaggerated approach to tell the story of Henry Adams, a poor American boy who got involved in a gambling game in London and became a rich man, winning the love of a beautiful lady. "One Million Pounds" reproduces Mark Twain's satirical and humorous skills and exposes the money worship in British society at the beginning of the 20th century.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" describes in the first person the story of a 19-year-old high school sophomore who traveled to Izu alone to relieve the unspeakable melancholy and anguish in his heart. On the way, he met a group of wandering artists and developed a longing for the 14-year-old dancer Kaoruko... "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is one of the three works of Kawabata Yasunari that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. In it, every little thing is described in detail, until the final parting with Xunzi, and the indescribable sadness, emotion and the pain of youthful self-consciousness flow out...

People who act solely on instinct are at a disadvantage in front of smart people, that is, they will be seen through very quickly. Thoughts based on instinct are too simple, too dazzling, and can be easily understood at a glance. It is no better than understanding scheming thoughts. Both parties must be equally intelligent.

"Money" is Martin Amis's masterpiece and was selected as one of "The 100 Best English Novels" by Time magazine. The protagonist of the novel, Self, is a producer who "makes commercial TV commercials for tobacco, alcohol, junk food, and nude magazines." For money, he even more unscrupulously makes pornographic videos, and travels between London and New York, two money-worshiping metropolises. In this web of money and sex, Self's relationships with everyone around him are laid bare. Money is everywhere and omnipotent. As the only "true god" that Self trusts, it can not only fulfill all of Self's despicable and greedy human desires, but at the same time pave the way for Self to fall into hell. In this money and sex scam, Self ultimately became the biggest loser. In its straightforward, uninhibited and decadent description, this book profoundly highlights Amis's extreme ridicule of "money" and the silent sorrow of the twisted human soul corroded by "money".

The author who never fails - three novels by Emer Towers. "The Rule of the Top": In the expectation of hopeless love, she finally understood that the "right" choice often involves the pain of loss. "Moscow Gentlemen": Living in the attic of a five-star hotel, you can watch the great changes unfolding in Russia under the wheel of history from a unique perspective. "Lincoln Highway": four teenagers drifting on the road, four destinies unfolding in ten days! Some people have a new beginning, while others fall into a bitter fate.

The book "Death in Venice" says that the sun confuses reason and memory, making the human soul forget itself and lose its direction due to pure joy and persistent attachment to the most beautiful object it shines on: yes, it is only possible to reach a higher realm with the help of an object. Love imitates the mathematician, who must resort to concrete models in order to teach abstract concepts to slow children; God also adopts this method, in order to show us his greatness, using the body and color of young people to visualize conceptual things, arouse people's reflection on beauty, and make us full of sorrow and kindle the fire of hope after seeing it.

This book is a collection of works by Nobel Prize winner and famous Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari. The two works included are both his late masterpieces. In "Sleeping Beauty", the sixty-seven-year-old Eguchi was introduced to a unique hotel by a friend. At night, in a hotel, next to a sleeping young woman, Eguchi, who has reached the end of his life, is uncertain. His past emotions and his daughter's marriage come to mind, and he struggles with aging as time goes by... Yinping in "The Lake" embarks on another journey of struggle. After losing his father at a young age, he became an adult and could not suppress his desire for the opposite sex and beauty. However, he was addicted to sex and developed a abnormal emotion. Facing the unspeakable loneliness, Yinping wanders hopelessly on the road of life...

My father is still alive, but he is socially dead. He lost his job due to a work injury and became a "lazy guy" in the eyes of politicians and a "trouble" in the eyes of his bosses. My relationship with my father is not good. I am not a manly son in my father's eyes, and he is not a qualified father in my eyes. He drank heavily, was violent, and spent all night in bars with his friends until my mother kicked him out. In the process of visiting my father again and again, I began to try to understand his past and break the silence and barrier between father and son. My father was also in his prime, but eventually fell into the quagmire of fate uncontrollably. I use his life experiences to reveal social issues. People often talk about politics eloquently, "For rulers, politics is just an aesthetic matter: a way of thinking about oneself, a way of looking at the world and constructing individuals. For us, it is life or death."

This book is the author's first novel written in English. The protagonist Sebastian wrote several books and died young due to a heart disease. He was lost in love once in his short life. The book contains both the impoverished wandering life of the Russian aristocracy and the sincere memories of his half-brother. Fragments echo throughout the book, exploring time, love, death, art and other eternal themes in a gorgeous and simple way.

"Red Flowers" narrates the three emotional upheavals of the protagonist Lennan, which occurred in the three periods of his life: "spring", "summer" and "autumn". What connects these three stories is the "red flowers" that frequently appear in the book - the red carnations that symbolize passionate love or strong lust. The story is both touching and sad, real and touching, yet unconventional, with beautiful language and elegant style. Although there are three romances, they are organically connected into one. Although it is a novel, the text is as beautiful as poetry. Mr. Huang Gaoxin is a great translator of English poetry and rarely translates novels, but he has a special liking for Galsworthy's small work: "Somehow, in my memory, no book seems to move me as much as it does."

Dazai Osamu's masterpiece. "Disqualification in the World" (1948) is the most outstanding work in Dazai's literature. It was written before committing suicide. It is his last work and is also the "most profound reaching point" of Dazai's literature (Okuno Keno). The work depicts a young intellectual with an eccentric temperament, who suffered from the harshness of the world, indulged in wine and sex, and finally destroyed himself. "The Setting Sun" (1947) is a very important work in Japan's post-war literary world and has set a best-selling record for post-war literary works. The work shows the declining social status of the descendants of the nobles after the war and the dilemma of losing their glory. It can also be said to be Dazai's elegy to the declining nobles. The term "Xiyang Clan" is widely known as a synonym for declining nobles.

A heavy snowstorm, a boy's three days and three nights, the ancient and charming world of Iceland a hundred years ago. "They are too young, have read too many useless books, and their hearts beat with more uncertainty than others." The boy and his only companion, Bart, who loves to read, went out to sea with the cod fishing fleet. Before leaving, Barthes was so fascinated by reciting the poems of Milton's "Paradise Lost" that he forgot to bring waterproof clothes. As a result, he encountered a heavy snowstorm on the way and froze to death on the boat. With great grief and confusion, the boy set out that night and trudged for two days and two nights in the snowy seaside valley to return the book to the coffee shop on behalf of his friend. He has decided that after returning the book, he will reunite with his friends in death.

The book "Uncle Bangs" tells that Uncle Bangs is an honest and noble musician. He had a very high artistic taste and would do anything to enrich his collection of paintings. When people didn't know he had these treasures in his house, no one took him seriously. When people learned of the value of these famous paintings, people from the upper class, led by the president's wife, tried every means possible to gain his wealth.

This book collects all of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. With the sharpness and absurdity of Southern Gothic, it interweaves deformed souls, violent fates and secret divinity, and cuts through the folds of human nature in cold narratives. It is not only an irreplaceable collection of dark fables in the history of American literature, but also an excellent mirror to peer into human moral dilemmas and glimmers of redemption.

In London at the beginning of the 20th century, under the bustling scene, there was an undercurrent surging in the thick fog. The mysterious lady Rachel joins hands with the young reporter Jacob to investigate a series of murder cases: the funeral train case: the dead person shows up at the funeral? Case of car burning and corpse burning: Why does the identity of the charred corpse change again and again? Zoo murder: Why was the cricketer killed by a lion? Cabin Murder: Who killed the woman who had an affair? The Case of the Man's Corpse in the Attic: A seemingly accidental encounter, who is the prey? Lakeside Husband Murder Case: How can the defendant prove his innocence despite irrefutable evidence? ...10 Incredible murders and multiple suspects who were perfectly acquitted. When all the suspects gathered together, the murder happened again. Is the real murderer hiding there, or is there someone else? Behind the many murders, who is the person the real murderer wants to kill?

The beginning of the story tells that a little boy and a girl accidentally entered a different world called "Narnia", where they experienced a series of adventures and saw the creation of that world...,

Selected from the Hitchcock short story collection, including "The Last Evidence", "Jewelry Designer", "The Secret of the Assistant Manager" and more than ten short stories, the text is concise and plain, the plot is twists and turns, the ending is unexpected, and often makes readers feel like they are there. The novel is highly readable, full of modern features, in line with current reading habits and trends, and is very popular among the younger generation.

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