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"The Country of Strangers" selects 26 literary reviews written by J. M. Coetzee, the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, between 1986 and 1999. It is the author's first collection of literary reviews. In the first chapter, Coetzee asks the question "What is a classic?" And looks for the answer in the works and views of Eliot, Bach and Herbert. He then conducted in-depth discussions on literary masters of the 18th and 19th centuries such as Defoe, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky, as well as modernist German writers such as Rilke, Kafka, and Musil. At the same time, it also analyzes 20th century literary giants such as Borges, Brodsky, Gordimer, Oz, Rushdie, and Lessing. Coetzee's literary criticism has a more historical feel than other criticisms.

Hong Lingfei (1902-1934), a modern writer, had pen names such as Lin Manqing, Lin Yinnan, and Li Tielang. A native of Chaozhou, Guangdong. Born into a poor peasant family, he began to engage in manual labor at the age of 6, and later went to Guangdong Normal University to study. As a student, he actively participated in the revolutionary movement. After the failure of the Great Revolution, he was wanted by the Kuomintang and was forced to go into exile in neighboring countries such as Singapore. Participated in the publication of "Our Monthly". When the "Left-Left Alliance" was established in 1930, he was one of the seven-member Standing Committee. Hong Lingfei was arrested by the Kuomintang in 1933. After his arrest, Hong Lingfei adhered to the party's secrets and remained unyielding. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1934, Hong Lingfei, who was only 32 years old, was shot dead in Yuhuatai, Nanjing. His main works include "Exile", "Frontline", In the Torrent, On the Road, Returning Home, The Betrayer of Strength, etc.

The treasure of Japan's Kodansha town, ranked among the top 50 Kinokuniya bookstores in Japan; a five-star book on Amazon. Griffin, a mysterious thief in New York, received a business deal to steal Van Gogh's self-portrait collected in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The client told Griffin that the painting in the gallery was a fake. With the motto "put everything where it belongs," Griffin took on this desperate mission. However, this turned out to be a trap set by the CIA to coerce the thief Griffin to participate in a secret mission named "Phoenix Operation Plan" - to seize the dolls containing state secrets kept by General Enrique Pastrami, the top commander of the Bocono Republic's army...

This book is a collection of short stories published by the famous contemporary Japanese writer Ogawa Yoko in 1998. Although it is the author's early work, the author's characteristics - a world setting full of fantasy, a plot intertwined with reality and fiction, and a delicate and restrained psychological description - have matured in this work. The book consists of eleven short stories, with the themes of "death" and "mourning", and the stage background is set in a fictional town with a clock tower. The stories are independent of each other, but they are also implicitly connected and scattered with foreshadowing, vaguely forming a circular structure that echoes from beginning to end. Some characters appear interspersed in each chapter. For example, the passerby in the first chapter is the protagonist of the second chapter, and the second chapter has details related to the third chapter... Weird interweaving, evil collision, and the fate of desperate people are gathered in a poignant web woven by ominousness and darkness.

Turgenev's lyrical style is unprecedented and unprecedented. He can always add just the right amount of lyricism when telling stories, making the articles full of rich flavor of life and natural beauty. The language of Turgenev's novels is pure and beautiful, and the structure is concise and rigorous. His writing style even influenced the later standardization of the Russian language. Lu Xun recommended Turgenev to Chinese youths more than once, calling him a true master of the Russian language.

Douban's high-scoring Japanese drama original novel allows you to experience every detail of your daily life, and it all tastes real. Shibukawa, a young man who just wanted to live his life, came to his grandfather's house with an ulterior motive. Shibukawa has had a deep quarrel with his family since he was a child. Coupled with the strict family rules, his life has been like a year. It wasn't until the fierce-looking Liu Yanlong came to visit that everything changed. The fierce-looking Liu Yan uses the cheapest ingredients to make home-cooked dishes that make everyone feel happy. Shibukawa also gradually understood that there is no need to pursue a luxurious life blindly. Even simple home-cooked meals can be delicious as long as you put effort into it. Even in the face of adversity, we must continue to love life and cook every meal with heart. The bond between family members is like three meals a day. Although it is plain, it can give people warmth when needed. That is the most ordinary and sincere happiness. All kinds of things in the world are hidden in a vegetable or a meal. No matter how difficult the moment is, as long as you are still looking forward to the next meal, you will be able to go on. I'm ready to start this chivalrous meal!

"Chaos World" brings together author Zhao Benfu's masterpieces of novels and novels over the years. His works include the novel "Chaos World", the novella "On the Silent River", "The Call of the Forest", "Lin Nanzi", etc.

This book includes all eight of the author's novels, among which "Marquise O" portrays the image of a woman who dares to control her own destiny and is not bound by feudal ethical concepts.

The handsome and kind-hearted William works in a restaurant and dreams of becoming an actor; the confident and humorous JB tries to make a name for himself in the art world; the well-off Malcolm works in a famous architectural firm but has lost his original love for architecture; and there is the introverted and enigmatic Jude, a talented assistant prosecutor. After getting acquainted with a famous university in Massachusetts, they first came to New York to make a living. They were high-spirited but penniless and drifting. As he grew older and had a successful career, the friendship spanning more than thirty years faced the greatest challenge - the elusive Jude himself. He didn't want to talk about the shadow of his past with others, and chose to harm himself again and again in loneliness. With the help of his friends, Jude's inner defenses gradually disintegrated... "I know my life has meaning..." "A Small Life" is a hymn of brotherhood and an odyssey to explore the meaning of life. In friendship, what is damaged in us becomes whole again.

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

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

The book "Middlemarch" has two main lines. One is the disastrous marriage and disillusionment of the idealistic girl Dorothea, and the other is the tragic marriage and career failure of the young doctor Lydgate. The author uses techniques such as contrast, symmetry, parallelism and repetition to skillfully interweave these two main lines and write in many characters, successfully expressing the disillusionment theme of "society defeats people".

"Niels Riding the Goose" is Selma Lagerlöf's only full-length fairy tale written for children. It was written as a school geography education book in accordance with the requirements of the Swedish Ministry of Education. Unexpectedly, it later became a treasure of world literature and art. In Sweden, there is now one of the most important children's literature awards, which is named after Niels. This is a book that has accompanied the growth of generations of children around the world; a book that is printed on banknotes along with the author; a work that is well-known in Sweden and even around the world.

This book is a collection of masterpieces by Russian satirist Gogol. "Dead Souls" is "an epoch-making masterpiece in the Russian literary world". The novel describes a speculative liar, the sixth-level civil servant Chichikov, who came up with a scheme of buying and selling short and plundering in order to make a fortune. He bought dead serfs who had not been written off the serf list at a low price. He used immigration as an excuse to apply for unclaimed wasteland from the country, and then mortgaged the acquired land and the list of dead serfs to the government to make a profit. "The Imperial Envoy" tells the story of a playboy, Khlesdakov, who loses everything in a bet. When he is unable to do anything, he passes through a city in another province from Petersburg. He is mistaken for the "Imperial Envoy", causing panic among the local officials and making many jokes. "Nose" and "Coat" show the tragedy of "little people" living under an authoritarian system.

Julien, a young man born in the common people, relies on his intelligence and perseverance. In order to realize his huge ambition, he struggled in a hierarchical society. Just when he thought he was on the road to success and had a love that transcended class, society ruthlessly sent him to the guillotine.

There is a legend about a bird that sings only once in its life, and its song is more beautiful than any song in the world. From the moment it leaves the nest, it is looking for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it finds what it wants. Then, it plunged its body into the longest and sharpest thorn, and let loose its voice among the wild branches. In its dying moments, it transcended its own pain, and its song eclipsed both the skylark and the nightingale. This is an extremely beautiful song, and the song ends with death. However, the whole world is still listening, and God is smiling in the sky. Because the best things can only be exchanged for deep pain and great trauma... Or so the legend goes.

In 1947, the Alsatian girl Mathilde followed her Moroccan husband to the "land of the other". Here, she realizes that escape and running away are just another abyss, and she will always be just an outsider, a woman, and a wife. But even so, facing strangeness, poverty, violence and depression, she will eventually live again and again. "War, War, War" is a new biographical novel by Leila Slimani, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize. It is one of her "Land of the Other Trilogy" that writes about the true fate of three generations of women in the family. The novel is set against the backdrop of the drastic changes in social life in French Morocco after World War II. It tells the story of a country in deep political identity crisis, an interracial mixed-race family, and how an exhausted woman finds her place in a turbulent world.

"Land is too big a ship for me." An immortal masterpiece that spans the history of film and literature. This book contains the complete original work of the movie "The Pianist" and "Silk", which was praised as a "literary treasure" by The Times. Newly translated by the famous translator Chen Ying. "The Pianist at Sea" is the original film of the same name directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It tells the legendary life of the "1900" pianist at sea who never set foot on land. In 1900, on the luxury cruise ship "Virginia", an orphan was abandoned in the first class cabin. He was seen by the sailors on the ship, raised him and named him 1900. As 1900 grew up, he showed his talent for playing the piano without a teacher. He played music that no one had ever heard in the band on the ship. Everyone who heard him play was deeply moved. "Silk" tells the story of a natural disaster that almost destroyed France's silk industry in the mid-19th century. Retired soldier Hervé Jungour left his beloved wife and went to Japan to buy silkworm seeds under the entrustment of French silk merchant Bardabiu. Barico narrates the subtle eroticism of this journey in a restrained, mythical, elegant and moving way.

Confucianism actively engages with the world. Both "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" emphasize "cultivation", and the ultimate goal of "cultivation" is to "govern the world", not for one's own sublimation and liberation. Therefore, the purpose of "governing the world" is also mixed with many utilitarian colors, which determines the impurity of "cultivation" and does not propose a specific solution. That is, if those who join the world are unwilling to cultivate themselves, what should they do? Cultivating oneself, managing one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world is an ideal life path, but unfortunately the reverse is not true. The governance of a country cannot be based on the cultivation of one person, and Confucian theory cannot lead Chinese history away from the cycle of rise and fall.

Norwegian writer Carl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel "Mein Kampf" has nothing to do with Hitler's ambitions. It is the author's autobiography of his growth and life for more than 40 years. The themes of the six volumes are death, love, childhood, youth, dreams, and thinking. The book uses a flowing style to describe ordinary life, which is straightforward and frank, with "masochistic truth and triviality", and also shows touching sensitivity in the daily details. This book is the last part of the "Mein Kampf" series. Like a falling boulder, it completely stirs up the reader's memory and understanding of the first five parts. Beginning with the unhappiness and controversy that aroused among family and friends when the first book was published, and ending with his wife Linda's treatment and recovery from depression, it includes four hundred pages of meditations on Hitler, Nazism, and the nature of evil, as well as a close reading of a poem by Paul Celan about the Holocaust. The book intersperses between the individual's external world and the internal world, exploring the irreconcilable tension between literature and reality, private and public boundaries, and individual life and social forces.

Vice Chairman of the International Literary Congress, Turgenev's most influential and famous work among the "Three Giants of Russian Literature". "Hunter's Notes" takes an aristocratic hunter's hunting trip through the countryside as a clue, depicts the beautiful Russian scenery and rural customs, and depicts many characters such as landlords, housekeepers, mill wives, town doctors, aristocratic intellectuals, serfs, farm children, etc. In the eyes of the hunter, there are beautiful Russian countryside scenery, hospitable farmers drinking kvass, a huge and amazing horse market, a beautiful country girl betrayed by her lover, a lover who is in love but destined to be separated forever, and a timid farmer with the sound of nature. , An upright and even stubborn landowner, a college student who struggled to pursue his ideals and eventually died of a serious illness; of course, the most important thing is to wait until dusk when the forest disappears, take the prey with him, have a glass of kvass, and look forward to a new hunting trip in the countryside tomorrow. And all this in the hunter's eyes constitutes the Russia he loves.

The only novel by the literary giant Dr. Johnson, the text is elegant but not heavy, and the writing style is vivid but not harsh. It is the last translation by the famous translator Mr. Shui Tiantong. It has been out of print for more than 30 years and has been newly revised and released. The translation was revised by the senior translator Mr. Pu Long. Samuel Johnson is a British encyclopedic literary giant, a poet, essayist, literary critic, biographer and linguist. To talk about his achievements, the first real dictionary in the history of English compiled by himself is the "English Dictionary". "The Travels of a Prince" is his most popular work, selling well in Europe and the United States for centuries and influencing later famous writers such as Jane Austen, Shelley, and George Eliot. Johnson only wrote one novel in his life, which was "The Travels of a Prince". This is a philosophical novel, with the legendary story of the Abyssinian prince escaping from the Valley of Happiness and traveling around the world as the main line. It discusses the pain and joy of life, family and marriage, life and death and other issues. The writing is elegant but not heavy, and the writing style is vivid but not harsh. It is worthy of the style of a master. Mr. Shui Tiantong is a great scholar in China in the 20th century who has mastered Chinese and Western studies. His Chinese and English are first-rate. Shui's translation of "Prince's Travels" was first published in 1988. When he translated the book, he was already in his old age. In addition, due to his poor health, he died suddenly before re-reading the proofs, so the book contained many errors. The current translation has been revised by Mr. Pu Long, a senior translator, and a new edition has been released. It is hoped that readers can appreciate the subtle meaning of this classic philosophical novel and that Mr. Shui's last work will not be forgotten.

This is a novel with a strong Chinese flavor. The novel begins when the Chinese New Year is approaching and a family of three returns to their hometown to celebrate the New Year. It does not shy away from the vulgar or the local, and is close to the entangled world and human relationships. Among the relationships between husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter, brothers, father-in-law, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts and nephews, the true emotions and true situations of people determined by the blood relationship within the family are thus highlighted...

Jiayu went to the boiler room with a bamboo basket on her back. The road surface was hard and slippery from the winter frost. Jiayu walked out of the row of bungalows next to the farmland, walked up a long loess slope, and then crossed over the overpass next to the children's school. The dim lights of the mining area illuminated her pudgy figure. The fog was very thick, and suspended ice particles slapped her face. She felt like pieces of her face were bitten by hungry ice shards.

Let's meet Mira. She is a small-town girl who loves reading. She has been an independent and smart child since she was a child. When she was fourteen, she read Nietzsche and Paine. She finished all the textbooks on the first day of school, and the school had to let her skip a grade. But this was the United States in the 1930s. The most common occupation for women was "typist" and the theme of life was "family." Her mother's greatest expectation for her is to "marry into a good family." In a small, closed place, her intelligence and independence make her an outlier. Over time, she succumbed. She got married hastily like other girls, wore a corset, learned to cook, kept the house in order, gave birth to two children, and tried hard to be a "good wife and mother". Her husband has a decent job and she lives in a big house that many people dream of. She has a graceful manner and is always smiling. And only she knew that beneath the calm surface of life, she was silently collapsing...

"Spanish Armada" takes the naval battle between Spain and England from the beginning of 1587 to the end of 1588 as a clue. It tells the origin, process and results of the Spanish Armada's expedition to England, and reveals the intricate interest relationships among European countries in the 16th century. The book covers major historical events such as the "Three Henrys' War", St. Bartholomew's Massacre, and the Paris Riots. Why was Mary Queen of Scots guillotined? How does Queen Elizabeth I of England plan her strategy? Why did King Philip II of Spain insist on attacking England? Why was King Henry III of France killed? Why did the powerful Spanish Armada return with a disastrous defeat? What impact did this naval battle have on European countries? The Spanish Armada set sail in the name of God, but why was it abandoned by God? This book will reveal the answers one by one.

In June 1944, nearly three million Allied troops landed in Normandy, successfully opening the second battlefield in Europe; in September, although Operation Market Garden, a planned air landing on the Arnhem Bridge, failed, the German army on the Western Front had gradually fallen into despair. On December 16, Hitler launched his "last ditch effort" - concentrating his forces to launch a counterattack in the Ardennes region at the junction of Belgium, Germany, and Luxembourg, in order to seize Antwerp, the main Allied supply port, and attempt to create a second "Dunkirk retreat." The Allied forces, who mistakenly believed that the German army was no longer able to launch a strategic offensive, were caught off guard. Some soldiers were defeated by the German offensive, fled or surrendered, but more soldiers stood bravely and resisted tenaciously, delaying the German attack. Driven by despair and revenge, coupled with the harsh winter climate, the Ardennes Campaign was as brutal as the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front. Both the Allied and German forces suffered nearly 100,000 casualties in this battle. Anthony Beaver, a famous British military historian, described in great detail this tragic battle that ultimately crushed the German Wehrmacht in terms of days.

"The Travels of Marco Polo" is written by the famous Venetian businessman and adventurer Marco Polo in 1298 about his experiences along the way to the East. This book is the first book in the history of the world to report China's vast land and resources to Europeans. It records the situation of many countries in Central Asia, West Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions, and its focus is on the narrative about China. In a large number of chapters and passionate language, it describes China's endless wealth, huge commercial cities, excellent transportation facilities, and gorgeous palace buildings. These narratives have important historical value in the history of geography in the medieval era, the history of Asia, the history of transportation between China and the West, and the history of Sino-Italian relations.

1. The history of Jerusalem is the history of the entire world. It is the temple of one god, the capital of two peoples, the holy land of three major religions, a city with two existences, heaven and earth; it is a strategic point in the conflict of civilizations, a place that haunts the world, a place where conspiracies, fictional legends and 24-hour news take place. Simon Montefiore, the "Master of Storytelling", vividly tells the past and present life of Jerusalem based on the competition between the three major religions around the "Holy City" and the rise and fall of several major families in chronological order. The author uses a large number of field surveys and documentary research, and from an objective and neutral perspective, through soldiers, prophets, and poets Live with kings, farmers, musicians, and the families who shaped Jerusalem to present the city's three thousand years of magnificent history and restore the real Jerusalem... Based on this, the new expanded edition adds 30,000 words of content including Chapter 54 "21st Century", 30 color illustrations, and a letter from the author to Chinese readers. 2. "The World History of the Big Man" is an introductory book on world history written for the public by Simon Montefiore, the author of "Three Thousand Years of Jerusalem". History is not determined by a few people, but it is these people who changed the course of history that make up the face of our world today. From Ramesses the Great and Confucius to Anne Frank and Bin Laden, from kings, queens, conquerors, gangsters to prophets, poets, composers, and philosophers, they are either noble and brave, with unique charm, intelligence, and creativity; or they are reckless, arrogant, cruel, shameless, and almost crazy; or they are a combination of the two, a contradiction between heroes and beasts. Historian Simon Montefiore uses detailed historical materials and a unique biographical writing style to tell the stories of more than 100 historical figures and their impact on the world in chronological order, thus forming this unique world history spanning more than 3,000 years. 3. "Young Stalin" is the work of Montefiore, the author of "Jerusalem Three Thousand Years", who spent 10 years visiting 23 cities in 9 countries, mastering the authoritative archives disclosed, retelling the little-known growth process of Stalin from a shoemaker's son to Lenin's right-hand man, and restoring a prehistory of the former Soviet Union. In the authoritative book "Young Stalin", Montefiore uses detailed research, a series of brand-new materials, and narrative techniques that are like Dickens' possession to tell a multi-faceted and contradictory image of Stalin in ups and downs. 4. "World History in Letters" contains more than 100 letters, including love letters, family letters, foreign affairs negotiations, war declarations, peace plans, etc. They seal human life and beliefs and become first-hand materials for studying history: If Elizabeth had not written to beg for mercy from her half-sister "Bloody Mary", would there have been a "golden age" in British history? If the Allied invasion of Normandy failed, what kind of condolences would General Eisenhower send to the Allied soldiers? Would Wilde have lived the rest of his life happily if he had not responded "recklessly" to an insult from his lover's father? On the eve of launching "Operation Barbarossa", why did Hitler, who had already made up his mind, write to Mussolini? ... Montefiore focuses on the moment presented in each letter, restoring the historical scene, giving us a glimpse into the lives and thoughts of kings, queens, generals, actors, writers, scientists, explorers, presidents, etc. These figures plucked the strings of history, and the letters they wrote ranged from noble and inspiring to disturbing; some were excellent literary examples, while others were reckless; many were full of lust, while others were heartbreaking... It was the choices of the countless individuals they composed, as well as universal human emotions, that drove history forward. By reading these letters as archives, as the breath of life, we can more fully understand the past, understand the present, and illuminate the path to the future.

This book is Thorne Smith's most poignant social satire and humorous novel, set during the implementation of the Volstead Act (the Prohibition Act). A stubborn, unrestrained older man and woman are celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their successful mutual seduction. Rex Pebble, a fashionable older man, is having a tryst with another woman behind his wife's back, while his partner, Spray Summers, is a difficult lover. Their Japanese male servant Nojima's behavior is infuriating, he drinks excessively, and uses English as judo to talk to his master. The two slipped into the garden swimming pool. They didn't know that the water in the pool had just possessed the magic power to return people to youth. The man and woman threw away their clothes and modesty. After emerging from the water, they suddenly looked decades younger and regained their youthful bodies. The two experienced and skillful people, plus a girl who turned into a sculpture standing in the middle of the pool, a few neighbors, two robbers, a team of firefighters, Mrs. Pebble who came in a hurry, and a psychic who didn't know where they came from, all these people were wild and carnival, and staged one incredible farce after another from dusk to dawn the next day? Comedy? A satire?

In 2006, Paulo Coelho, who was about to turn 60, was already famous all over the world. But he was dissatisfied with his overly stable status quo, and was called by his inner uneasiness. He decided to listen to his inner voice, travel, and re-understand the world. Paulo Coelho visited seven strange places as a way to find answers: In Russia, he met a sensitive Turkish girl and took a train to Siberia with her; on the train, he and her accidentally entered "Aleph", a point where time and space intersect; in Aleph, Coelho suddenly discovered the truth of life that he had never faced face to face...

This book is a collection of Zhou Lili's short stories, including "Transplantation", "Ice Release", "Chief", "Eight Gates", "Principles of Mechanics", "How to Cross the Four Yuan Bridge", "You Are Old", "Changing Clothes", "East China Sea, East China Sea", "Sinking in the Sand", "Back and forth", etc. The work dares to face reality and contradictions, breaks the long-standing hard shell, and embodies a strong spirit of realism and criticism and thinking from a unique female perspective.

The entire novel is about the novelist Henry James in the last few years of his life. He is very famous and laid the foundation of psychological realism in the history of world literature. In his later years, he refused to be lonely and tried drama writing. As a result, on the night of the performance of his play, he was humiliated by the public and he never recovered. The writing form of "Author, Author" is very novel. If it is a novel, it contains very detailed historical facts, but it is completely different from a biography in the general sense. The author consciously arranges the facts according to artistic needs.

After Jiang Renhao, a former businessman, failed in his business, he came to Wujin from Seoul alone with his wife's help, and applied for a teaching position in a school for the deaf and mute. His purpose is very simple, he just wants to make some money and live a better life so that he can go back to the big city to reunite with his wife and daughter. But slowly, he discovered that the entire school was enveloped in a tense and depressive atmosphere that was suffocating. A shocking secret was exposed, layers of darkness were slowly unveiled, and the truth shocked everyone... Faced with the unbearable reality and crazy life, as a husband who has to earn a living to maintain his family, a father who wants to set an example for his daughter, and an ordinary person who is kind and cowardly with his own disgraceful past, how should Renhao choose? It is adapted from a true incident at Inhwa School in Gwangju, South Korea.

Within four years, five of the author's relatives and friends died unexpectedly one after another. Their deaths seemed unrelated, but were intertwined by their identity and location. These young black men live in the Deep South, where intergenerational poverty looms over their lives. In remembrance of the past, the author shows how today, more than a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, racism is deeply institutionalized through economic and educational disparities, plaguing generations of black youth. With the warmth of nostalgia mixed with the guilt of the living, the author finally returned to his hometown and wrote down their and his own stories, allowing those fresh faces obscured by cold statistics to resurface.

"The Needle of Time" is Maria Dueñas's first novel. Without any marketing promotion, this debut novel by a newcomer has been enthusiastically sought after by readers due to the charm of the novel itself. It has sold more than 1.5 Million copies in Spain alone and has been translated into more than 20 languages ​​​​and distributed worldwide. Sheila, an innocent tailor girl, opened the door of a typewriter store with her fiancé on the eve of her wedding. Her originally determined fate was completely changed: a huge fortune and a father she had never met fell from the sky! This is just the first page of the immortal copy of time. As the pages of the war years are gradually opened, the entire Mediterranean coast has become her stage. Politics, espionage, conspiracy, and adventure, which originally had nothing to do with her, are all related to her...

Born in a suburb of Tokyo, Tsukuda's dream since childhood was to fly into the universe. When he grew up, he became an outstanding scientific researcher, specializing in rocket engine research and development. But when he was closest to the peak of his dream, an accident caused him to resign and return to his hometown, inheriting the factory left by his father. Seven years have passed, and the word dream has long been far away from Tsukuda. Now he is a small and medium-sized enterprise operator. He has to deal with banks and compete with large companies for the sake of his employees... Just when Tsukuda has almost forgotten his dream, a lawsuit comes to his door. Just when he is struggling, Tsukuda sees a glimmer of a dream in the whirlpool. Want to give pursuit of your dreams another try?

This is the sequel to the author's famous work "An Angel Looks Hometown", which records the life experience of Eugene Gant from the age of 20 to 25. The novel begins with Eugene leaving his hometown to study at Harvard. It describes his living conditions at Harvard, what he saw when he returned home for a funeral, his arrest and imprisonment, his experience of teaching in New York, his travels in Europe, and his meeting Esta when he returned home by boat. By narrating the growth process of a young man from a remote town in the southern United States, the author attempts to reveal his inner confusion and express his exploration of the meaning of life and his pursuit of happiness and truth.

Manchu youth Ning Boyong studied in Japan for six years. After returning to China, he encountered the Revolution of 1911. He heard that his old classmate was running Dahua Daily outside Qianmen, so he went to find a job and became a reporter. After moving from the suburbs of Beijing to the city, Ning Boyong saw an increasingly changing Beijing. He met Bangzi Xiaohuadan White Peony at Longquan Temple, and organized a group with Peishang Yimin and others to celebrate the white peony. From then on, White Peony gradually became popular, and was later monopolized by Wei Er Ye, who disliked Ning Boyong and others. Ning Boyong met the prostitute Xiuqing again. Xiuqing looked coldly on high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen, but treated Ning Boyong differently, and the two gradually fell in love. Xiuqing unfortunately fell ill and entrusted her mother and younger brother to Ning Boyong before she died...

"I'll Plant Oats in the Next Year": To say that Niu Sixi is a poet, he should have found a talented woman who is as warm and gentle as water. Even if he can't find a talented woman, he should still find an intellectual woman as his companion. The problem is that he won the title of "famous poet" only later, when his second son was seven or eight years old. He couldn't do it at first. After graduating from normal school in 1979, he taught at the county's central primary school. After teaching, he went to the creative team of the cultural center to learn poetry writing techniques from others. People said that skills come from life, read more and write more. Then he wrote and wrote, and sent it to the newspaper as a small piece of tofu for a manuscript fee of 50 cents. At that time, land contracting had not yet become popular in these mountainous areas in the north, and the people were still quite poor, but no matter how poor the young people were, they still had to get married.

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

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

Pengpeng and Qi Sheng finally lived a happy retirement life, but they never expected that their third daughter, who was the true mother of their mother, would also have a heart-stirring "strange" experience! Qi Shengpengpeng wanted to choose a virtuous son-in-law for his favorite princess, but he never thought that marriage was destined by fate... The princess also never expected that the first words she said when she saw her future husband were: God, he is so ugly!

This is a deeply emotional work by Martin Walser, the master of German literature. The famous writer Basil Schlupp fell in love at first sight with the goddess Maia Schnelling. He tried to send a letter confessing his love, thus starting a period of love-making. They used letters to complete their betrayal of marriage, but the letters revealed that they were the first to be betrayed in the marriage enclosure. Maya's husband is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Maya accompanies him on the last bicycle ride of her life in the Canadian wilderness. Schlupp began to wait silently...

John Carter and his friend Powell went to the west to pan for gold. They were attacked by Indians on the way and Powell died unfortunately. Carter was pursued by the Indians and entered a cave. An invisible force made him escape from death and unknowingly flew to Mars where he had been dreaming. There are tall and ugly green people there, as well as beautiful red people who are peace-loving and similar to the people on earth. At that time, there was a chaotic situation where heroes were fighting for hegemony. Carter displayed his talents and acted chivalrously. During the battle, he fell in love with Deja Thoris and got married. When Mars is in danger of destruction, Carter rushes to the scene desperately and takes in charge of the magnificent scenes of different planets in the universe. The adventures of the protagonist are gripping, and the strange love between people on different planets is heart-stirring.

Lan Hongen, the owner of the Lan Mansion, has been childless for many years after his marriage. In order to keep the Lan Mansion alive, he directed a tragedy of feudal society under the careful planning of the old lady and his wife.

A letter written by the prestigious poet laureate Rilke to a young poet, about poetry, life, loneliness, self, career, poetic dialogue; a poet who has always maintained an "ancient hostility" towards life, history and nature, a period of fusion between poets and poets. Good story; this is no longer a new book. When you pick it up, it has already been read and lamented by countless poets or quasi-poets, in short, people who love poetry and beauty; the 1931 classic translation by Shen Zhongshe poet Feng Zhi has been completely presented again in ten years. Maybe you have been waiting for too long, and now it is here; the whole book was corrected by Ms. Feng Yaoping, the daughter of the translator Mr. Feng Zhi, and the translator Mr. Han Yaocheng, who studied under Mr. Feng Zhi, provided professional guidance; serenity, patience, experience, loneliness, these ten letters are more like poetry than poetry. You and I are both young poets.

These are ten letters Rilke wrote to young poets when he was about thirty years old. Although he wrote to "young poets", Rilke did not stop at talking about creation and poetic art. In his letter, he talked about the many doubts and sorrows faced by young people: poetry and art, sexual love, sorrow and doubt, life and career difficulties, revealing the profound nature of aesthetics, faith, loneliness, love, sorrow and other topics. Rilke told the poet's experience of life to the young people in trouble, hoping that they could treat the pain of growing up with greater patience and seek a deeper and authentic meaning from ordinary life. These timeless topics are told in friendly and easy-to-understand terms, showing a beautiful and timeless style. Everyone is a "young poet", sharing an eternal flow in reading.

System 003 of the Quick Travel System Bureau accidentally bound a lonely ghost. I originally thought that this was a poor little guy who knew nothing, but who knew that every slap in the face hurts more and more. ... "Host, what did you do? Why are they all lying on the ground?" "They want to get involved! They want to blackmail me! They want my little money!" System: It turns out that the host is a weak chicken, it needs to protect the host. ... "Host, the palace's treasury is too big for us to carry, so let's forget it." Unexpectedly, when I turned around and saw that everything was gone. "Host, why are things missing?" Shang Ling looked cute and cute, pointing to the gold and silver jewelry in the space, "Look, they don't go out by themselves." System: I believe you! "Ah, that's not right, host, when will you have space?" "Always, you didn't ask." System: It turns out that the clown is myself. ... "Host, when will you have a photographic memory?" "I always know how to do it. Is it possible that you don't know how to do it?" System: I don't deserve it. ... "Host, the main male is dead..." "Host, are you really okay with this?" Shang Ling dug the pit with great enthusiasm and kicked the male protagonist into the coffin in the pit. "Men only affect how quickly I get rich." "The most important thing to stay away from when you want to get rich is emotions! Emotions are the number one taboo that affects getting rich. If you don't have a man in your heart, getting rich is a natural god!" The heroine is an emotionless person who only focuses on making money and causing trouble. He is the most active in fighting, never loses in a group fight, makes a lot of lies, tortures scumbag men and beats up scumbag women, and does not forget to steal the wealth of the plane while taking advantage of the situation.

This is a novel written by Yan Lianke, China's first winner of the Kafka Literature Prize, and Yan Lianke's most emotional and sexual work. The manuscript truly depicts the living environment, life consciousness and living conditions of the "Yaogou Villagers", writes about the pain and struggle of several generations represented by "Yan Lianke" in difficult situations, and embodies deep philosophical thinking and awareness of worries. The growth process of "Yan Lianke" from immaturity to so-called "maturity" is like an emotional purgatory. It embodies the never-ending dream that generations of Chinese people have been constantly rising and shattering. This dream is sad and ridiculous, but also admirable and tearful.