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Mysterious ancient Mayan mythology + Mexican folk culture, shortlisted for the Nebula Award, and an annual must-read novel recommended by many media. The ferocious game of the violent gods, the ruthless fight between the gods' agents! Cassiopeia, a girl who was bullied and bullied by others, opened the forbidden box in her grandfather's room, and her fate changed... In the first moment, the bones rose from the box and spliced ​​together in the air; in the second moment, muscles appeared on the bones and tendons grew; in the third moment, the muscles were covered with a layer of smooth skin. Hu Kam, the Lord of Hippoba in the underworld, reappeared in the world, missing an eye, an ear, and an index finger. There is the blood of mortals in the body of the god, and the bone fragments of the god are in the body of the mortal. The two are tied together by fate. They must embark on a journey together, traveling around Mexico to recover everything God has lost; they must also sneak into the darkest underground world of the Maya and regain the throne of God.

"Sister Carrie" is one of the important works of the American realist writer Dreiser. It describes the story of a rural girl Carrie who came to the big city of Chicago to find happiness. In order to escape poverty, she sold her virginity and lived with a salesman and a hotel manager. Later, she became a singer with her beauty and singing voice. The writer, represented by Carrie, profoundly exposed the cruelty of the American capitalist system's oppression of poor people and the corrosiveness of the bourgeois lifestyle on petty bourgeois elements. Carrie's tenacious fighting spirit has set an example for contemporary young people, and her fall has also sounded a wake-up call for contemporary young people.

Kronos, one of the original gods in ancient Greek mythology, represents eternity, chaos, and transcendence. He is also known as the god of time. "The Miracle of Chronos" contains seven science fiction love stories about time travel published by Shinji Kajio from 1994 to 2008. Many of the stories have been adapted into stage plays and movies, which have become household names in Japan and have been well received. Kajio Shinji's delicate writing style and tender narrative fully demonstrate the difficulties, suffering and incredible power of ordinary people's relationships. Seven touching and pathos stories describe the beautiful and incomplete love in human imagination. Extras: Chronology of the Chronos travel machine + commentary by the well-known writer Tsujimura Fukasuki.

This book is the pure English version of "The Mortgated Heart" by the famous American writer Carson McCullers. The book is a collection of posthumous works compiled by McCullers' sister, including his early and later short stories and essays, which are full of McCullers-like themes of "human loneliness" and "inability to love".

Kafka's five masterpieces of short and medium-sized novels will help you see the true face of human nature. "The Metamorphosis" (novella): One morning, Gregor woke up and found that he had turned into a giant insect. His superiors came to his home to urge him to go to work, but ran away when they saw his appearance. The mother was so frightened that she fainted and the father clenched his fists with hostility. Only the sister dared to take care of him... The family's life was turned upside down. "The Hungry Artist" (short story collection): Kafka's only collection of self-selected stories during his lifetime. Most of the protagonists in the story are artists: a trapeze artist who hangs alone on a hanging bar day and night, a starving artist in a cage, a female singer who has an enthusiastic audience but is not understood... They are extremely lonely artists, and they are also you and me who are unwilling to be mediocre.

The only reason you say race is not a barrier is because you wish it wasn't. We all hope that's not the case. But this is a lie. Ifemelu decides to move back to Nigeria even though she already has everything in the United States: a popular racial blog, a position as a researcher at Princeton University, and her boyfriend, a black professor who shares her views, is a decision that cannot be explained clearly. Immigration is the dream of all Nigerian young people, but when she came here she discovered that in addition to bills, identity, and language, skin color was the turbulent undercurrent hidden under everything. However, after returning to her hometown as a "Yankee", can she adapt to life in Nigeria again?

"Reflection in the Golden Eye" is McCullers's other masterpiece after "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". It has been adapted into a movie, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, John Huston and other superstars. The novel is set in an army stationed in the southern United States in the 1930s. It tells the story of a bisexual Captain Pendant whose life was turned upside down by the arrival of Colonel Langton. McCullers' marriage to Leafs was on the verge of collapse at the time of writing, and her second novel illustrates her signature themes of human emotional alienation and unworkable love.

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The protagonist of the story may be the most ill-fated Santa Claus in history. A cruel war is coming, and Santa Claus will be captured alive! How should he get out of this predicament and deliver Christmas gifts to the children? Although the war is cruel, the novel is tender and touching. Even in the midst of war, the children still have hopes and expectations for Christmas: Evelyn wants dolls, Charlie wants uniforms and small swords, and Bob and Luan know that their father, who is on the battlefield, cannot come home.

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This is a novel that vividly reproduces the romantic history of the Fitzgeralds, bringing to life the glamorous Jazz Age. It is also a classic work that represents the transformation of Fitzgerald's artistic style from youth to maturity. "Beauty and Evil" is Fitzgerald's second novel in his creative career. It is also an ukiyo-e depicting the eastern elites of the Jazz Age. The novel is highly autobiographical, and the protagonist in the book is largely similar to the relationship between Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Anthony Paige and Gloria - elegant and restrained, flirty and romantic, like a combination of black tea and chocolate; they pursue a luxurious and gorgeous upper-class life, rely on the wealth of the previous generation and do nothing to produce, and spend all their time in dissipation, causing their morals, economy, and health to be constantly distorted and degraded. "Beauty and Sin" is a mirror that reflects the author's autobiographical color; it is also a dazzling mockery of the greed of the American nouveau riche, the squandering of New York nightlife, and the waste of talent that blinds them.

The book consists of two parts. The first part describes the scene in the men's section of the bathhouse, which lasts from early morning to afternoon, with a lively and noisy atmosphere. There are dozens of characters among the bathers, including the paralyzed Dou Qi, a 70-year-old reclusive old man, Kinbei with his child, a quack doctor who plays nonsense, a stranger who mistakes someone else's underwear for a towel, a drunkard, a blind man, and 19 small scenes. The second part describes the women's section of the bathhouse, which is equally lively. There are women of various identities in the bathhouse, including geishas, ​​maids, daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, mothers-in-law, wet nurses, etc., With a wide age range, and a total of 16 small scenes. The characters of each of the men, women, and children who come to bathe are vivid and interesting through dialogue. This book contains color illustrations and inserts.

Evil seemed to have the upper hand. Amber is about to be destroyed. Amber's princes were at their wits' end. At this time, Oberon, King of Amber, ordered the princes to attack the Chaos Palace first. Kerwin did not join the attack. Oberon ordered him to take Amber's supreme jewel, the Arbitration Stone, and take a detour to the battlefield. Oberon himself will try his best to repair the destroyed source of Amber and the trial array. However, attempts to repair the trial array failed. The Arbitration Stone also fell into the hands of Amber's dark forces. Amber is devastated. The chaotic wave of destruction chased Corwin, sweeping through countless shadow worlds, engulfing them, turning them into chaos. The Amber army on the battlefield and the Amber princes commanding this army will also turn into nothing. The burden of protecting the tribe and rebuilding Amber falls on Corwin's shoulders.

The original work of the popular TV series "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses". Newcomer Maple became famous in her first game event. In search of rare equipment, she and Sally embarked on an exploration of the second event. Facing a killer player? Defeated! Encounter an undefeated monster on the road? Capture! New skills "Magic Enhancement" and "Floating Fortress" are now available. It turns out that the mysterious turtle floating in the sky is Maple's mount. In this way, amidst everyone's discussion, a week in which countless legends were born officially kicked off!

"Doctor Zhivago" describes a series of major historical events before and after the October Revolution: the 1905 Revolution, World War I, February Revolution, October Revolution, Civil War, New Economic Policy, and socialist construction. The protagonist of the novel, Yuli Zhivago, experienced almost all these complex and turbulent stages in his short life of less than forty years, and he responded to all these historical events.

"Madame Bovary" tells the story of Emma, ​​the wife of a provincial doctor, who is addicted to romantic fantasies. She falls into debt due to her pursuit of extravagant love and material things, and finally commits suicide in despair, revealing the evil of banality and the disillusionment of romantic fantasies.

Perfumer Alice leads a carefree life in London, often entertaining friends at home, but the noise often causes dissatisfaction with her eccentric neighbor Daldry. However, on Christmas Eve, her beautiful life falls apart when a fortune teller predicts that Alice must go on a long journey, during which she will meet six people who will ultimately lead her to find the most important person in her life. Istanbul will be the place where their fates meet. This prophecy plunges Alice into a series of nightmares. Under the persuasion of their neighbor Daidley, they embarked on a journey to Istanbul together. What awaited her was the truth that would subvert her entire life.

Two stories about death. "Persian Women": A story of love, revenge and death. The Hatter: A story about family, respect and death. Two days later, when I was walking towards the lonely house on the damp grass that had fallen into disrepair before even half of it was built, I suddenly remembered what I had said to a Persian woman when I went for a walk in the pine forest with her. Nowadays, so many young people have committed suicide. These young people have no choice but to commit suicide. The society we have lived in has no understanding of why young people would do this. I remembered that at that time, I asked her bluntly and in my unique unscrupulous way whether she would commit suicide one day. The Persian woman laughed after hearing my words and said, yes.

"The Mysterious Island (Full Translation)\u002F National Reading Classic" is the third part of the famous science fiction trilogy by the French writer and "father of science fiction" Jules Verne. The novel describes the story of five Northern Army prisoners who escaped from Richmond in a balloon during the American Civil War. They encountered a storm and were thrown to a desert island in the Pacific Ocean. The plot of the whole novel is ups and downs, full of descriptions of strange and colorful nature, and it integrates various knowledge into the thrilling story. Therefore, although it has been published for more than a hundred years, it is still highly praised and loved by readers all over the world.

Seven heart-warming stories brought by a cat who delivers oracles, a heart-warming masterpiece by Japanese healing writer Michiko Aoyama! Everyone who is confused will find their own guidance in this book. A lovelorn girl, a graduate frustrated with job hunting, a father with a rift in the parent-child relationship, a housewife trying to decide between her family and her dreams, a victim of school violence... Several people accidentally visited a shrine and all met a cat with a star mark on its left hip. The oracle is like a riddle, but when people find the answer, their lives will change dramatically. Seven leaves, seven tender stories, let the magical cat enlighten you who are confused. Won the 13th Tianlong Literary Award × Shortlisted for the Future House Novel Award! Michiko Aoyama, a treasured Japanese healing writer, writes with heart-warming words and phrases! "Pain can't go away, and you don't have to let it go away. It won't go away, but will slowly turn into something else." Michiko Aoyama's warm writing style will heal you who are anxious and sensitive. Although we are all small existences, the world exists because of you and me.

The work centers on the Russian Patriotic War of 1812, showing major historical events from 1805 to 1820. The novel depicts the social life and characters in the alternation of war and peace through the changes in fate of the four noble families of Balkans, Bezukhov, Rostov and Kuragin. The work praises peace and reflects the heroic spirit of the people in defending their motherland. It is a magnificent epic full of humanitarianism and fraternity.

Facing the pressure from society and family, would you choose to marry the person you love or continue to wait for the right person? Katie, who is young, beautiful and vain, chose the former, but was captured by a smooth-talking married man soon after her marriage. She thought she had met true love, so she risked her life, like a moth to a flame. But when the veil is lifted, her illusions are shattered by the truth. For the first time in her life, she began to reflect and grow; perhaps, her mistakes and follies, and the misfortunes she suffered were not in vain, and would eventually lead her to find a way to inner peace. "The Veil" not only presents the bad aspects of love and marriage - betrayal, indifference, suspicion, revenge, but also the uneasiness and self-salvation in the face of life changes. If you understand "The Veil", you will understand yourself.

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"The Mercenary Captain" was written from 1957 to 196. The protagonist Gaspard Winclair has devoted himself for several months to imitating a "Mercenary Captain", which is comparable in all aspects to the "Mercenary Captain" in the Louvre. The original is a 1475 painting by the Italian painter Antonello of Messina. Page 1 begins with Winclair assassinating Madeira. Why was there this murder? Why Gaspar? Winclair failed in his plan to rival Messina's Antonello? What is he looking for in becoming a master of counterfeiting? What does he want in the image of control and energy embodied in the mercenary's face? Why did he view Madeira's murder as a form of liberation?

This book is one of Nabokov's lesser-known biographies. The author takes readers into Gogol's youth, looks through his early works, and provides detailed reviews of his collection of The Imperial Envoy and the first volume of Dead Souls. He also briefly reviews Gogol's most famous short story, "The Overcoat." In the book, Nabokov explores Gogol's unique writing style, using multiple fragments of his own translation to prove Gogol's impeccable prose. He emphasized not the plots of Gogol's works but their style, and successfully showed another side of Gogol, who was known for his satire.

One of the strangest of all Nabokov's novels. The novel consists of a preface, a four-chapter poem, commentary and index. Just looking at the four-section structure with commentary as the main body cannot help but make people suspicious. It is said that Nabokov was inspired by the process of translating Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin". The number of pages in the notes exceeds the translation by ten times. As an avant-garde exploratory writer, Nabokov was always looking for original novel forms. This intertextual structure with commentary as the main body reflects Nabokov's point of view: "Human life is nothing more than a series of notes added to an obscure and unfinished masterpiece."

A collection of systematically related personal memories spanning thirty-seven years (from August 1903 to May 1940), it is one of Nabokov's most important and famous works. It uses the precise language of a lepidopterist to observe the wonderful patterns on butterfly wings through a high-power magnifying glass and describe them, giving readers an extraordinary reading experience. Memory and review of the past often dominate Nabokov's novels, so this autobiography is an excellent code for interpreting his novels, because memory itself is a hidden bridge between fantasy and reality.

The Japanese version of "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio", the origin of modern ghost story literature and a mirror through which Westerners look into Japan, "Kai Tan·Qi Tan" contains a total of fifty-five ghost stories, all of which are retellings and rewrites by Koizumi Yakumo based on famous works of Japanese classical literature, and are taken from "Wandering Strange Tales" "Talks", "Ghost Talk at the Night Window", "Ten Lessons", "Stories of the Past and Past", "Ugetsu Monogatari", "Anthology of Ancient and Modern Writings", "Hundred Monogatari", "New Hundred Monogatari" and many other ancient Japanese books. These stories of loneliness or loneliness in the dark have won the samadhi of Japanese literature. "Strange Tales" is an indirect reflection of Japanese history, and it also carries the cultural beauty shared by the East. The aesthetic realm of the blending of Eastern and Western civilizations presented in the whole book has extremely high appreciation and recognition value. The book is equipped with Koizumi's hand-drawn illustrations from his manuscripts, which are extremely precious.

Thirty-five-year-old Nora Hinds decided to die. She lost her job, messed up her intimate relationships, her pet cat died, her dreams became a joke, her relatives and close friends also left her... After experiencing a series of blows, Nora suddenly discovered that she had unknowingly led a terrible life. Already deeply depressed, she was finally overwhelmed by regret and despair and decided to end her life. At the critical point between life and death, Nora came to a mysterious library. Each book here represents a possibility of Nora's life, and Nora's journey of life redemption begins here. What kind of adventures and insights will Nora, who wants to die, have in the midnight library? Can she find a reason to believe in life again and continue to live here? Let's follow Nora on this magical journey of healing. In the cycle of time and space between life and death, re-experience the true meaning of love and happiness.

Mimi, a boy from Naples who dreams of becoming a poet, looks out the window all day long - on the balcony of the opposite building, the "Milan girl" dances like a ballerina on a music box. As beautiful as a myth. For love, a little boy can accomplish extreme feats: engage in a "life and death duel" with his partners, and even abandon the dialect and speak Italian like a Milanese girl. Many years later, Mimi, who has entered college, meets her childhood friend again. Our narrator, the boy who once had a dream, must honestly face his memory and pursue the true identity of the Milan girl. Starnone pays homage to the "Divine Comedy" and tells us in a simple, direct, realistic and powerful way the moment when childhood ends: the moment when love is discovered, the moment when death is discovered, and the two are inseparable and pursue each other.

"The Rise of the Rougons" is the first volume of Zola's multi-volume masterpiece "The Rougon-Macquarts". It was serialized in "Le Temps" in 1970 and was later discontinued due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. The book was officially published in France in October 1971. By describing the fate of several generations of the Lugon family, this book depicts all aspects of French life from Napoleon III's coming to power to the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, exposing the unpopularity of Napoleon III's coup and the abominable face of his supporters. The novel's depiction of characters and exploration of human nature are meticulous and profound.

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The old woman took her granddaughter to the park and met a fugitive on the way. She tried to use religion to influence the other party, but it triggered conflicts, and ultimately revealed the complexity and absurdity of human nature in violence.

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"Nostalgia" is the work that made Hesse famous in one fell swoop and jumped into the literary world. Hesse's unique and musical style and his ability to observe the shadows of the soul gradually won his worldwide reputation with his series of subsequent works. The book depicts Pater's ups and downs and struggles in love and relationships, the blow of his friend's drowning, the isolation and loneliness encountered in life, the call and ties of family affection, and the youth's yearning for nature, making this work a touching educational novel. Hesse's works have a picturesque rhythm, like violin and piano sonatas, sometimes melodious, sometimes deep, with rich poetic nostalgia and persistent love for life. They also express the understanding after experiencing battle and tempering, so they can deeply touch the heartstrings of readers.

"The Blue Bird" tells the story of a brother and sister, Tytil and Mytil, who went looking for a blue bird and understood the true meaning of happiness. On Christmas Eve, after a pair of sons and daughters of a poor woodcutter, Tytil and Mytil, fell asleep, they dreamed that the fairy asked them to find a blue bird that symbolized happiness for her seriously ill daughter. So, Tytir and Mitil, accompanied by light, water, bread, fire, sugar, milk, cats and dogs, began a dream journey... The whole story praises sympathy and friendship, explores the true meaning of human happiness, and is a masterpiece that combines magic, fantasy, and symbolism.

During World War I, Hermann's youngest son Bruno suffered from a serious illness. In 1916, his father died, a marital crisis, and his wife's mental illness plunged the already famous writer and poet into a deep depression. In this situation, the author began to write this book. This work, written in 1922, is also his ninth work. It describes the protagonist Siddhartha's three important journeys in pursuing himself in ancient India. From conscious asceticism to self-exile and sensual enjoyment, inner peace finally became the ultimate goal he pursued. The whole book is written in a simple and poetic language. Siddhartha, an aristocratic young man in ancient India, had everything that people envied. In order to pursue his inner self, he embarked on a journey of self-seeking. After enjoying the indulgent happiness and luxurious life, he abandoned all sensory stimulation and came to the river. By the river, Siddhartha finally awakens and experiences the eternity of himself and the moment.

Many years ago, three men who had never met each other encountered a fire in the same hotel and narrowly escaped death. Many years later, the three men unexpectedly reunited and entered a bizarre dream, transforming into warriors to fight against monsters. And the giant bird that guided them in the dream, the endless monsters, and the square filled with posters are all inextricably linked to the real crisis? Politicians, popular idols, and ordinary office workers co-starred in a fantastic adventure that traveled between reality and dreams!

Welcome to Iceland. Welcome to the end of the world, the end of the mind. In Iceland a hundred years ago, a boy who never had a name wrote letters day and night. He wrote to people he knew and to people he didn't know. Letters bring hope and reverie to people, slowly and irreversibly changing people's imagination of life... Some people travel far, some break up, some confess their feelings, some go to sea, and some wait in place. "We believe that some words can change the world, they can comfort us and dry our tears; some words are bullets; some words are violin notes; some words can melt the ice surrounding the heart."

"Journey to the East" is a turning point in Hesse's writing attitude, from the perfect individualism that emphasizes the self to the lofty spirit of service dedicated to the group. Describe the mental journey of the pursuer of life. We no longer have a protagonist striving towards a vague ideal, but only a central idea trying to express and realize the ideal. Through the fascinating techniques of the popular "Covenant novels" in the eighteenth century, Hesse's own protagonist H. H.'S symbolic journey for the Covenant - a "Kafkaesque" experience through time and space, finally effectively defines the eternal spiritual realm he pursues - the "Third Kingdom". The book that begins as a symbolic autobiography ends with the sanctification of art. Hesse has reached the ideal state of beauty here.

"The Wandering Soul" consists of three consecutive novels: "Early Spring", "Remembering Knulp" and "The End". It is Hesse's famous "tramp style" novel. The protagonist Knulp is a amiable wanderer who wanders between towns, staying in friends' homes and eating the food given by his friends. Knulp never wanted to be beholden to any industry, place or person, and even abandoned his hiking companion, who was probably Hermann Hesse himself. Knulp's exile was blissful and self-absorbed. However, what lies behind "The Wandering Soul" is the conscience of an artist. In the eyes of this artist, his own liberation is worthless, and even has no morality at all.

For the Bishop of St. Michael's Cliffside Parish, Reverend Dodd and Doctor Pendrill, meeting every Monday at 7:20 pm is a regular ritual. The two old friends communicated as usual, discussing their opinions on the latest detective novels, and made no secret of their admiration for detective novel writers - they persevered like spiders in weaving a large web, leading curious readers to follow every thread to find the answer in the center of the web. Suddenly, a phone call broke the calm at the moment.

The story is set in the living circle around Regent Square. A total of 10 houses are home to a group of friendly residents with different personalities. Beneath the warm and harmonious exterior, tensions lurk beneath the surface that affect the relationship. In this book, the author tries a new approach, introducing the main suspect before the crime occurs and establishing a series of murder motives - but there are more than one potential victims in this book... As the police investigate, the focus of the crime shifts among the residents of Regent Square, and it is obvious that everyone has something to hide. The book's narrative is rigorous, it pays attention to recording details, and its language is humorous. The author appears to be able to face complex story lines with ease, showing excellent writing skills.

"Only Love Strangers" is a highly skilled short novel, a masterpiece of the "Horrible Ian" period. It focuses on exploring the infinite possibilities of human desire and tells a story about how a pursuer of beauty destroys the object of beauty to death in order to satisfy his own desires. A pair of lovers who are inseparable but seem to be inseparable are on vacation. From the first day they entered this bustling but weird tourist city, they have been followed and secretly photographed. The eyes in the dark follow each other like a shadow, tempting the lovers to seek fresh excitement and solace from so-called strangers, and ultimately make them devote themselves wholeheartedly to a trap of lust and death that is deliberately set for them. The novel contains countless metaphors, is highly intertextual with many classic texts, and is full of meaningful quotations or parodies of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" and E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View." It is known as one of McEwan's two "mini-masterpieces."

"Everything must have both an entrance and an exit. There is no other choice." The second part of Haruki Murakami's "Youth Trilogy" is the beginning of Haruki Murakami's creative consciousness. Talk to the pinball machine and find the exit of your soul. In 1973, along with memories of college life and the passing of his college girlfriend Naoko, "I" graduated from college and made a living as an English translator. I met a pair of twin girls by chance, and then we went together to find a "pinball machine" in the bar where Rat and I often went three years ago. Finally, we found the legendary pinball machine stored there with dozens of other pinball machines in an old chicken farm warehouse. After being lost and found, he just left indifferently. Then "I" and the twin girls separated and returned to their own loneliness. At the same time, Rat, who dropped out of college three years ago and has lost his sense of reality, hangs out between the bar of the Japanese-Chinese hero and the apartment of his girlfriend who works in an architect's office. After some psychological struggle, he finally decided to leave his close friend Jie and his beloved girlfriend, pack his bags and stay away from his hometown. The major Chinese publishers of Haruki Murakami's works and translator Lin Shaohua have joined hands to present a new revised edition of Haruki Murakami's long-running series. In terms of design, we cooperated with the internationally renowned illustrator NomaBar. The three colors of black, white and red depict the subtle blur in Murakami's works between the square and the circle, and the overall presentation is both simple and classic. In terms of content, a lot of revisions have been made around foreign words, restoring the details of the author's intentional emphasis in the original version. Lin Shaohua updated the prefaces of the translations of many works, and made slight adjustments to some of the tone and expressions in the translations. The chronology of Haruki Murakami has been updated to the latest, and a music list is attached at the end of each book.

Martin Amis's unique masterpiece, ranked first in the "Sunday Times", describes the eternal love, desire and summer of young people. Unparalleled and ambitious excellence in English writing, brilliant and fearless alternative writing. A novel about sexual trauma, a vacation that "ruined Keith's twenty-five years of good life." In the summer of 1970, Keith, a 20-year-old nerd, a literature college student, and his friends were on vacation in a castle in Italy. At this time, new trends of thought were surging and in full swing. At this unprecedented historic moment, new trends of thought were flooding in. In everyone's mind, girls act like boys, and boys act like themselves. Keith is caught between the three women, and his friends are in a state of ecstasy, their true nature revealed but unresolved and unbearable. But they soon discovered a very disturbing fact, that is, in the change of social order, there will always be a threshold of purification, and this is the "pregnant widow" once described by the great Russian thinker Alexander Herzen - between the death of one and the birth of another, she will spend a long night of chaos and loneliness, struggling and being baptized.

Published in 1922, "The Beautiful and the Damned" is Fitzgerald's second novel, which depicts the First World War and the early 1920s, the New York coffee communes of the Jazz Age and the elites of the eastern United States. As in his other novels, the characters in this work are complex, especially those involving marriage and intimacy, while the book's intellectual and literary quality reaches a high level. The Beautiful and the Damned tells the story of Anthony Page, a high-society celebrity in the 1910s and potential heir to a tycoon's estate, and his courtship and relationship with Gloria Gilbert. This book describes Anthony's brief military camp life during World War I, the couple's postwar life having fun in New York, and Anthony's later alcoholism.

This book is a novel published in 2022 by Paolo Giordano, an Italian writer and winner of the Strega Literary Award. This is a rich and profound novel. It follows the protagonist walking on the streets of Rome, Italy, the climate summit in Paris, France, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and even the distant Guadeloupe. He talks with meteorologists, physicists, journalists and atomic bomb survivors, trying to show the current moment. It explores the complexity of the world, the spiritual crisis of contemporary people, and explores the dangerous future facing human society. It is a literary work with realistic concern and topical significance. It was praised by the media as "a novel that truly belongs to our times" and won the 2023 French André Malraux Literary Award.