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A fantastic collection of weird stories from Israel's most popular and acclaimed young author. In this collection of witty satirical short stories, best-selling Israeli author Keret describes the absurdities that plague his characters. These stories are brave, tense, sad, and sparkling. These stories, capable of both pain and pleasure, are brief but cover a wide range of emotions and narratives, establishing his status as the national conscience of Israel. These soul-stirring and humorous stories show that a passionate and intelligent person can also shine in a war-torn environment... We hope that Keret can trigger a craze for reading and a craze for the pursuit of reason. A man's beautiful girlfriend turns by night into a football-loving hunk with whom the man finds himself getting along; a pair of shrinking parents; a world where thoughts turn into shapes; a pessimistic talking Middle Eastern fish. "The Last Story, That's It" is an extraordinary collection of short stories, an Israeli bestseller, written by Etgar Keret, the most outstanding Israeli writer of his generation. "The Last Story, That's It" is about important things: friendship, grief, fear... But it's written in a way that's different from any other writer's.

This book was written between the end of 1907 and 1908. It includes six stories and is written on 75 pages. It is considered to be the first draft and "pen practice" of the autobiographical status of "In Search of Lost Time". It was once thought to have been lost. French scholars spent decades looking for it. Some people even believed that these words did not exist. Experts believe that this book is a "valuable guide" for understanding "In Search of Lost Time", "Proust's Holy Grail", and "a key part in solving the mystery" and will provide new clues to decipher "In Search of Lost Time".

This is a novel composed of many short story fragments. These stories include: a country girl fascinated by the magic of credit cards; an octopus that keeps eating its tentacles; a love triangle between tourists, patients and ski instructors in a sanatorium; a day as a deserter; a racing game in the circle of the rich and the tragedy it ultimately causes; for To avoid being executed and become the executioner in an instant; "I" left my hometown and came to the wealthy and indifferent new world, and began a life of hardship, danger and temptation... Kosinski combined his real life experience and imagination to form this insight into the life revelation of the 20th century. The novel reveals the control and alienation of people by the external environment, and the dangerous and fragile relationship between people. But in this kind of survival, the protagonist also discovers the completion of beauty and the possibility of mutual understanding between people.

Writer's List "Pride and Prejudice": a love classic in the style of a guide to marriage. Elizabeth, the fifth sister, lives with her parents in the English countryside. The sudden appearance of the rich Darcy and Bingley broke the peaceful life of their family - the elegant and restrained eldest sister Jane fell in love with Bingley at first sight, but always concealed her emotions; the smart and independent Elizabeth fell into prejudice and misunderstanding when faced with Darcy's sincere proposal; the passionate and unrestrained sisters longed to love and be loved, but often lost themselves... Faced with her mother's fancy push for marriage, only Elizabeth always insisted on being herself. When she transcended pride and prejudice, she gained a good love and marriage.

This book includes "Spring Breeze" and "Marriage Story". "Spring Breeze" tells the story of a female principal who is successful in running a school and has many students all over the world, but she is unable to achieve her goals in marriage. Her frail husband builds a love nest in another place and quietly raises a daughter with another woman. This novel describes the sacrifices and misfortunes in love and marriage. "Marriage Story" is Lin Haiyin's autobiographical love novel. By describing the different marriages of mother-in-law, aunt, "I", sister-in-law, and friends, it writes about the distortions of multiple marriages and the misfortune of both parties.

Japanese youth Ohta fell in love with a dancing girl during an inspection trip to Germany. He longed for freedom and love, but could not cut off the connection with the upper class society of his motherland. He finally entered the official career and abandoned Alice, making the beautiful love eventually become a tragedy in life. The novel is written in confessional style and is based on the author's experience in studying in Germany. It can be called a confession of life.

The German philosopher Jasper said: Every great improvement of the individual self stems from re-contact with the classical world. Italian litterateur Calvino said: Classics are books that are being re-read, classics are books that are often read and always new. About the author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian critical realist writer, dramatist, and master of short story art in the late 19th century. He is known as one of the three great masters of short stories in the world. His novels are short and concise, with bright and vivid language, full of musical rhythm and profound meaning. Among them, "Chameleon" and "The Man in the Trap" can be regarded as exquisite artistic treasures in the history of Russian literature. His plays had a great influence on 20th century drama.

The debut novel by Japanese literary genius Ryu Murakami won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's highest literary award, and the Newcomer Award for Group Portrait. The origin of Japan's "transparent" literary genre touches the pain of youthful confusion. In the late 1970s, Japan experienced a stage of rapid economic development and began to enter a mature stage of capitalism. However, the unprecedented improvement in material living standards has not brought happiness to a group of young men and women living near the US military base in Fussa District, Tokyo. On the contrary, in their eyes, society is like a huge black bird, casting a shadow over the city that makes people unable to escape, making them breathless. This group of people have nothing to do all day long and indulge in a dissolute life. But after the fanaticism passed, I found that I was still confused about life.

This book contains the representative novellas "Shuncho" and "Yoshino Kudzu" by Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature.

When I am lonely, I can only recite one song, Ishikawa Takuboku. Ishikawa Takuboku is a talented poet. His poems have clear sadness and bright cuteness. Reading a poem by Ishikawa Takuboku, one can read the gentle loneliness and feel the faint loveliness. "I Was Cute Too" contains three short collections by Ishikawa Takuboku, including "A Handful of Sand", "Sad Toys", "Mails and Whistles", and an article about his own journey of poetry creation, "Edible Poems". Ishikawa Takuboku said: "In short, songs will never perish. Because of this, we can satisfy the heart of cherishing life for a moment." Ishikawa Takuboku's short songs are all about daily feelings and personal experiences, so they are the most empathetic. "To satisfy the heart of cherishing life for a moment", this is Ishikawa Takuboku's feeling about poetry, and it is also our feeling towards Ishikawa Takuboku's poetry.

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"Pillow" is the pioneer work of Japanese essay literature. There are 305 paragraphs in the book, which are divided into three categories: diary, diary, and random thoughts. The random list lists various things in life, involving geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, life interests, etc., Reflecting Seishonagon's aesthetic taste; the diary records Seishonagon's life in the palace, from which we can understand the living conditions and tastes of the royal family and nobles in Japan's Heian period; the random thoughts are random feelings in the face of nature and life, expressing a bright and free attitude towards life.

"The Bathhouse of the Ukiyo" is a representative work of the "comedy book" of Japan's Edo period, which reflects the social scene at that time. The book consists of two parts. The first part describes the scene in the men's section of the bathhouse, showing humorous aspects of the world, while the second part describes the women's section of the bathhouse, which is equally lively. Each of the men, women, and children who come to bathe has a distinctive and interesting character.

"Edinburgh Notes", written in 1879, is one of Stevenson's most interesting and personal works. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, where he studied and lived. He himself was to Edinburgh what Joyce was to Dublin, always concerned about it but always at a distance during his lifetime. He once said: "There is no star as lovely and moving as the street lights of Edinburgh. If I forget you, Edinburgh, then please let my writing right hand lose its flexibility!" This book is composed of a series of prose, from Edinburgh's Old Town, Parliament Square to the New Town, Calton Hill and the Pentland Hills, unfolding a unique landscape painting. The work is both a travelogue and interspersed with social commentary, and is overflowing with the author's feelings about his hometown. The Edinburgh in the book is a three-dimensional city with dramatic contrasts - a city spread out between the old and the new, between wealth and famine, between mansions and countryside. In some chapters, the author eulogizes the beauty of the city and its unique spiritual temperament with a sense of nostalgia, while in chapters such as "Legendary Stories", he focuses on the dark and gloomy side of Edinburgh, such as the alcoholic lower class, social scandals, and the evil on the fringes of the city. Only a knowledgeable person who truly loves Edinburgh can tell all this honestly without falling into the clichés of critical literature. In short, this is the work of an Edinburgh "insider". This book was introduced by the Gutenberg Project and translated into Chinese for the first time.

Turn any page and your mood may be changed. Because as soon as you open it, you will laugh unconsciously. This is "Charming Temperament". This book is a book of golden quotes, which selects 180 golden quotes by Oscar Wilde and was translated by the famous translator Li Yuyao. The selected sentences are all the essence of Oscar Wilde's writing, humorous and interesting, making people laugh. Behind these short and exquisite maxims, Wilde has a charming temperament of his own.

The book "The Last Word" contains short stories such as Akutagawa's "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Bush", "The Nose" and "The Last Word". Akutagawa's works pay more attention to the ugly phenomena of society, but rarely directly comment on them. Instead, he only uses cold writing and concise and powerful language to state, which has a high degree of artistic appeal.

"Sand Country Almanac" records Leopold's experience in ecological restoration work on a farm in Wisconsin, USA, in the order of four seasons, as well as his thoughts while working and traveling in various states. It profoundly explains the relationship between man and nature from the perspectives of philosophy, ethics, aesthetics and cultural traditions. The "land ethic" represents the essence of Leopold's ecological thought and is still used today. This reflects the forward-looking thinking of Leopold, and he is therefore called the "prophet" of ecologicalism.

This book is a popular youth book. It is divided into three lectures. The first lecture talks about why reading, how to read, and what to read; the second lecture talks about women's status, rights and education; the third lecture talks about the mystery of life and its art. The speech is rich in content and highly readable. It is philosophical, full of wisdom, inspiring, lively, easy to understand, and integrates knowledge and interest.

The Bronte sisters are the epitome of the transformation of British society at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. They left their childhood pastoral songs behind and faced the whistle of the industrial age. They were both liberal rebels and romantic conservatives. Creating at the source of global industrial society, they left popular works such as "Jane Eyre", "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey" to the world. These great masterpieces have become the footnotes of the times, and the times have shaped their souls. As a "myth" in the history of British literature, how should we understand the relationship between their novels and the transformation of British society?

"Tsugaru" contains three masterpieces by Japanese literary giant Dazai Osamu: "Tsugaru", "Aomori" and "Sado". The main body of this book, the article "Tsugaru", is a custom written by Osamu Dazai for the Tsugaru area, his hometown, commissioned by Oyama Bookstore. It was first published in 1944. Dazai Osamu's works such as "The Disqualification of the World" and "Setting Sun" are always filled with a gloomy and decadent atmosphere. But "Tsugaru" is different. He returned to his hometown after many years, met his relatives and friends, and re-understood the customs, history and culture of his hometown, and conveyed a strong sense of nostalgia in his writing. Osamu Dazai's representative writing style is one of contradiction, decadence, struggle, despair, and loneliness. "Tsugaru" is Osamu Dazai's warm work, full of love for his hometown and attachment to the world. After reading "Tsugaru", you will have a complete understanding of Dazai Osamu, and you will also understand why Dazai Osamu gradually became decadent after leaving his hometown and the people in his hometown.

The story takes place in the Umaru Empire and its vassal kingdom - the vassal kingdom. Legend has it that a long time ago, a mysterious stranger brought back high-yielding Ora rice from the land of God to protect the people from hunger. Since then, Umaru has gradually developed from a small remote country into an empire. People believe that this stranger is a living god who can smell fragrance and know all things, and is constantly reincarnated. She is regarded as the first generation of fragrance king. Ayesha discovered her unique sense of smell when she was very young. She could smell the "sounds" made by all living things through their scent. However, because her grandfather, who was the feudal king, was ousted from power, the 13-year-old girl was rescued when she ran away and was sent to Lia Caiyuan, who served Xiangjun, and unexpectedly met the current Xiangjun. However, Aisha discovered that the other party did not seem to have the ability of the legendary Xiangjun, and a bigger secret gradually surfaced...

Julian Barnes, one of the three giants of British literature, a collection of short stories about the truth about the twilight years of life! Julian Barnes is the winner of the Booker Prize. He has won 17 world literary awards and 5 medals of honor. His award-winning record spans all over Europe! The 11 short stories record the changes in people's hearts over the long years and explore the value of life in aging and death. It vividly shows every possibility of growing old, and shows the reality of life in the story of time being slowly squeezed out. When I get old and go through a life of traveling through mountains and rivers, my soul finally becomes broad and peaceful. Lemon Table, a club where it's allowed - or rather, required - to talk about death. The sixty-year-old great writer Turgenev fell in love at first sight with the twenty-five-year-old actress, and burned his last love with his life; he kept dating his old lover every year, but it had nothing to do with sex, it was just an old man's pursuit of the past; an old musician who had run out of inspiration was once famous for his music, but now he is also famous for his long silence.

This book contains novels by Wang William, a famous writer born in the 1980s. These novels have been published in "Harvest", "October" and other magazines, and have been reprinted by many selected magazines. Among them, "Listening to the Sound of Salt Growing" tells the story of the Western Salt Lake, which is mysterious and attractive; "Book Fish" is a legendary Chinese historical fable; "Father's Revenge" is the writer's in-depth thinking about the city of Guangzhou where he lives; "Stumbling Block" expresses the writer's deep understanding of historical suffering; "One Night in Beijing" is the writer's only novella so far about youth and love.

The protagonist Rebecca comes from a humble background and suffers from discrimination in society, so she uses various strategies and even uses sex to seduce and curry favor with the rich and powerful, and uses any means to climb up the ladder. The work bitterly satirizes various ugly phenomena in the "vanity fair" where conscience and honor are traded, and is good at using profound psychological description and vivid details to depict characters. It is a masterpiece of realism.

This book is a collection of the author's works, which includes the author's previously published related literary works. There are "Ups and Downs", "Shooting the Cloud Cannon", "The Abandoned Mother", "Portrait", "The Ring of the Law", "Three Dates" and "The Unjust Case".

The rain hit the blooming tulip petals and scratched the girl's cold face. The girl died a few feet from the back door of her home, her mouth full of mud, her pants down to her feet, and covered in bruises. Her adoptive parents were accused of murder, but they strenuously claimed that they were innocent because they loved the girl... My father, who is nearly eighty years old, is a criminal lawyer. In the final days of his long career, he was responsible for defending the defendant in this murder case. My father was running around for cases, and I drove him to and from him - but I didn't know that my father was approaching the end of his life...

"The Chronicles of Narnia" is a series of seven magical stories created by Lewis between 1951 and 1956, including "The Sorcerer's Nephew", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "The Talking Horse and the Boy", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair" and "The Last Battle". The "Kingdom of Narnia" in the story is a mysterious and fantasy world. In these stories, the young protagonists enter the fantasy world of Narnia with a magic ring or through various magical methods such as a wardrobe door. They save the people of Narnia through heroic adventures and a battle of wits with the tyrant witch.

We are young, and our pride has faded away from our love. There is a reality that no matter how hard we try to love, there is no tomorrow. In 2014, the first youth-nostalgic novel Xia Qixi and Wei Sour Niao Niao recommended the short story Queen Feng Sheng Wan Liang, which has been gathering momentum for a year. Following the best-selling "Heartbeat", it once again describes the painful and lonely first love of a teenager. Perhaps only unforgettable loss can best commemorate our youth. I will never go out of my way to love someone again, even if that person is you.

A perfect fusion of aesthetic thought and literary creation by the Japanese literary genius Yukio Mishima.

The work tells a story: In the early morning of winter, a bridge quietly collapsed, and pedestrians were killed or injured - this seemed to be a subject matter taken from the news. In Fang Fang's writing, it became a magnifying glass to see through life, humanity, love, and friendship.

Zweig is a world-renowned master of psychological novels. "Letter from a Strange Woman" includes Zweig's "Letter from a Strange Woman", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "Women and the Earth", "The Governess" and other masterpieces of short and medium-length novels with the theme of female emotions. The translators of "Letter from a Strange Woman" are German literary translators such as Zhang Yushu, Zhang Penggao, Pan Zili, and Zhang Rongchang. Their translation is faithful and smooth, and conveys the charm of the original work very well. Zweig is a German-language writer loved by Chinese readers. 2022 Marks the 80th anniversary of his death. This book is released as a commemoration of him.

A phenomenal best-seller, ushering in a new era of "mourning culture" and selling tens of millions of copies worldwide! Japanese pyramid literature giant! Osamu Dazai's Book of Souls! The decadent philosophy of life in the confused world, the helpless swan song of life deep in the soul. Newly translated by famous writers and refined by experts, it is readable and durable.

Chu Ni and I are orphans and grew up dependent on each other. She wants to take shortcuts. I advised her not to go astray, but later she blamed me for her lack of popularity. Eventually I was killed by her radical male fans. Opening my eyes again, "I just went to his room to study the script! Why do you have to stop me from moving forward?!" I smiled slightly, "Go ahead. Remember to close the door for me."

During the war, Yukiko went to Indochina in order to get rid of the emotional control of her relative Yiting. However, she met Tomioka, a married man in the densely forested southern country, and fell into another unethical love. After the war, Yukiko and Tomioka returned to Japan respectively, and the broken reality shattered all their dreams. Xuezi was confused and didn't know how to live in the world. She had seen through Tomioka's coldness and wanted to break up with him several times, but in the end it was difficult to break away... The more she struggled in the entanglements between reason and desire, the more she sank, and she fell into the quagmire of fate while she was awake. "Floating Cloud" is Hayashi Fumiko's last representative novel during her lifetime, and it is the culmination of her painstaking efforts in her literary career. More than forty years of life experience full of hardships have allowed Hayashi Fumiko's vision to touch the despicableness of people and pursue their goodness. Her cold and clear brushstrokes reveal her deep compassion for all living beings. Kawabata Yasunari commented on Fumiko Hayashi: "It is very rare for people to lament the sorrow of women like this." Legendary novelist and eternal literary girl, Fumiko Hayashi's charm swept across the literary and art world. With her autobiographical writing of female experiences, she has become a model of Japanese "girl literature", and her unique "romantic" style has expanded the territory of "private novels". She is the favorite writer of the film master Mikio Naruse. Her works have been adapted for the screen six times. Among them, the film "Floating Cloud" won numerous awards and ranked second on the list of the top 100 Japanese films of the 20th century.

He was my thesis advisor and we fell in love for seven years. I couldn't be happier the day I found out I was pregnant. I think he will be very happy to know this good news. But he arranged to marry another woman in front of me. I asked him if this marriage must be done? He said it was his best option. I angrily scolded him that he was not worthy of having children in this life. Later, he allowed his fiancée to push me to the forefront and I lost my studies. I fought back, but he held me down to force me to obey, and made me bear unwarranted charges. In the end, the child was gone, our friendship was broken, and he went crazy.

In the Victorian era, women's life choices were narrow and cramped, and their lives were gray and pale. They were either imprisoned in a deep house, or grew up in a den of thieves, or were imprisoned in a lunatic asylum, or were sent to an asylum. Men's voices are high-pitched and loud, but women's voices are often suppressed. However, British storyteller Sarah Worster pointed out a unique path to freedom for women in the early stages of their awakening of female consciousness. With her amazing narrative talent and in-depth research on the Victorian era, she wrote the "Victorian Trilogy", which shows the struggle, awakening and inexhaustible vitality of women in the Victorian era.

Xinyiwu's new heart-warming masterpiece after "To Our Dying Youth". The older woman Feng Lan, as a young proprietress of a restaurant, inexplicably fell in love with Ding Xiaoye, a waiter with unknown origins in the restaurant. As everyone knows, in the hunting ground of love, Ding Xiaoye is more like a hunter, and he likes fresh prey caught by his own hands. When he held her so tightly and kissed her like a rainstorm, when the endless flames were only ashes, she was trembling all over. He doesn't hate her, but he doesn't love her either. And what about her? I'm not afraid that he'll love me, or that he won't love me, I'm just afraid that he won't love me enough. There is no innocent lover in the world, and time is never wasted. The best thing she did was to love wildly while she could still love.

Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renee Chiwei star in the original movie "Cold Mountain" of the same name. Inman, a Confederate soldier at the end of the Civil War, walked alone with his scarred body and soul, just to return to his hometown of Cold Mountain and his sweetheart Ada; Ada was alone in the mountain manor, and was forced to learn to face the conspiracy of rice and rice necessary for survival. The war is raging, things have changed, and only the cold mountain still stands, carrying the memories shared by the lovers. Facing the cold mountains, Inman measured the land with his footsteps, while Ada embarked on a spiritual journey. Can their life trajectories overlap again? "Cold Mountain" recreates the history of the Civil War, writing about twisted human nature, pervasive loneliness, poignant love, and deep affection for the homeland, but more importantly, it reminds us of the meaning of going home.

From Copenhagen to Stockholm, from Oslo to Helsinki. It started with bullying and fiction, and ended with deep love and forgiveness. At the age of four, he was his mother's little actor; at the age of fourteen, he was the "mail-order bride" on the school stage; as an adult, he was the radiant Hollywood star Jack Burns. However, just when he was gaining both fame and fortune, he was told that there was a completely different version of his childhood life story. His memories had been fabricated and his experiences had been deceived... In order to find his father, find himself, and retrieve the truth about his childhood and life, he once again set foot on the Nordic continent and embarked on a journey of pursuit that had been delayed for many years. Live with your past, don't forget, just forgive.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is the famous masterpiece of American writer Ernest Hemingway. The story tells the story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who drove a small boat alone and caught a particularly large marlin. After being dragged by the big fish at sea for three days, the big fish was exhausted and killed by the fisherman. On the way back, he was attacked by a shark. In the end, only the remains of the backbone of the big fish were left. This work shows a powerful and indomitable spiritual force, for which Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to "The Old Man and the Sea", this book also includes some of Hemingway's best short stories. For example, "The Old Man and the Sea", "Snow on Mount Kilimanjaro", "Mountains Like White Elephants", etc., The translations are all classic interpretations by senior British and American literary translators.

In an online game, Yan Ange, as the only unmarried female player, unexpectedly gets the favor of the great god Shanhe Yongji. But she didn't want her ex-boyfriend Jin Shaohua, who made her infamous and spurned by others three years ago, to return from the United States...

In the book "The Evolution of Love", the talented British writer Alan de Botton launched a more unique and profound reflection on the nature of love and marriage. In this book, the British genius Alan de Botton uses the love story of Rabbi Khan and Kirsten as the main axis, and conducts a calm and wise analysis of the two protagonists' complete journey from the beginning of love to the sailing of love, from entering the siege to being trapped in the "city", to extramarital affairs, and finally to the ultimate acceptance of marriage through self-exploration. De Botton integrates his rich philosophical speculations into delicate situations through concrete and real characters, exploring the meaning of love and marriage to life.

After the great writer Driffield passed away, his wife Amy asked someone to write a biography of him. Ashenden was asked by the biographer to recall his association with the writer. Ashenden recounted his early relationship with Driffield and his ex-wife Rosie. Rosie, a writer from a humble background and his fashionable and beautiful ex-wife Rosie, who once worked as a hotel host, fled the town due to foreign debts. A few years later in London, Ashenden met them by chance. By this time Driffield had become a somewhat famous writer, and Rossi had become even more charismatic. The striking Rosie watched plays and laughed with her admirers, including Ashenden. One day, Ashenden was suddenly told that Rosie had run away with her first love. Rossi was never heard from again. Driffield wrote many works in the following decades and became a well-known author. The elderly Driefield married nurse Amy, but he was still full of feelings for Rosie, and finally passed away in memory of Rosie.

That spring, "I" met two people, one was Xiaomei, a female researcher from Hokkaido, and the other was Kido who presented himself under a false name. "I" and Xiaohui are like two railroad tracks approaching each other in a graceful arc, but they can never cross. Just when "I" was depressed because of this, Kido let "me" touch his collection of Mount Fuji stones, and encouraged "me" to shake hands with Xiaohui to express his feelings. While "I" and Xiaohui felt that they had become the happiest lovers in the world, they also experienced twists and turns. What would be the final direction of the two infinitely approaching railway tracks?

"A Room of One's Own" fully expresses the author's thoughts on women and overall thoughts on women. The writing style is delicate, funny and full of wisdom. It is suitable for reading by friends who like writing, especially women. This is not sexist. I am afraid that, as Woolf herself feared, many men will read this book and think she is a feminist, or imply that she is a homosexual. Even if they praised the book for its excellence, they would not feel the same kind of revelation or spiritual connection as the woman did.

Women are like flowers, possessing the most touching beauty, but they cannot control their short and fragile life. All good things will wither like flowers, but the fragrance that can never be erased is the perfect interpretation of the existence and dignity of small creatures. Ukiyo-e paintings of low-class Japanese women in the old era, all nine chapters of the "Flower Burial" series are included. In "A String of White Vine Flowers", a woman who lives in the world can send a letter home to her family, which becomes their only spiritual sustenance. In order to support their parents and sick husbands who are far away, they have no choice but to sell their bodies and souls. "A Platycodon Flower" A young girl fell into infinite darkness until she met a boy. But, can such a girl have the right to love? "The Iris Boat" The most famous singer of the Taisho era, after leaving two stunning masterpieces, died calmly with his lover - leaving only withered Iris flowers around him. What kind of entanglement is hidden behind the sad songs? "Chrysanthemum Dust" Bushido, Chrysanthemum and Sword! This is supposed to be a fate only for men, why should a woman like a white chrysanthemum bear it?

Father and son, on the road. If I have one day left in my life, I hope to take him with me to travel. Along the road, heading north, from City A to City Z, from the wilderness to the ruins, not only allowed him to see the world, but also allowed the world to see him - a cute boy with one more chromosome than "normal people". I used to be a doctor and now I'm a census taker. This is my new identity, or rather, the new identity I share with my son. I have always felt that my son is more suitable for this job because he has a "really blank heart." He sees the world without distracting thoughts; he is not disturbed by desires, and does not understand differences in class, color, and language; he understands the world in a different way from us. So, before I died, I chose to travel with him. I wanted to see the world again through his pure eyes, and I wanted to rethink humanity through the way people treated him. Of course, what I want most is to gather the goodwill in the world and send him warmth for the rest of his life. Send to the stars and say goodbye along the way. Loneliness is inevitable, and so is our love for you.

Thomas Pynchon is a contemporary American literary eccentric, with a secretive background and eccentric writing style. "Auction Lot 49" is the most story-telling and easiest to read among Pynchon's many novels. It is called "the best book about Pynchon" by Pynchon enthusiasts. The protagonist Oedipa discovers a large number of stamps in her ex-boyfriend's inheritance, which seem to hint at some kind of secret. For this reason, she searched and investigated everywhere, and slowly she didn't know whether she had really discovered something or whether she had fallen into an illusion. Could it be that everything was just a huge prank set by the deceased for her? All possible insiders mysteriously disappear as she approaches. The stamps were eventually put up for auction, and it was said that a never-before-seen person would bid on them. She sat in the auction hall, waiting for the mysterious figure to arrive...

"The Deer Park" is Norman Mailer's third novel after his famous "The Naked and the Dead", published in 1955. The story takes place in the author's fictitious town Desert D'Or, which is the place referred to in the novel's title "The Deer Park". This town is located two hundred miles away from the movie capital. Down-and-out directors, beautiful actresses, producers in the film industry, unknown people looking for opportunities, and even prostitutes and pimps intertwined and staged tragedies and comedies in this resort town.