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Who I am? A bizarre mystery that must be solved by the amnesiac "I"... A work written by a madman or a genius tells the world in the eyes of a different person, or a fantasy... A maze of thoughts woven by words, a contest of intrigues like my debut... Influenced the works of writers such as Kyogoku Natsuhiko, Murakami Haruki, Tsutsui Yasutaka, Arisugawa Arisu, Yamaguchi Masaya and other writers.

In 1914, the Danish girl Karen embarked on a trip to Africa with her new husband. In Africa, she looked at the lions, watched the zebras scattering, and waited for the coffee to mature. In Africa, she suffered from illness, went through divorce, and went bankrupt... Passionate stories were staged here, and tragedy and comedy were often confused. I don't know how many years have passed, but she finally found herself. If we paddle hard today, we can give the girls of the future a smooth sailing.

On the outskirts of Kyoto stands a European Gothic-style mansion, which is the castle of the Imaka family. Because of a letter of authorization and a threatening letter sent at the same time, private detective Yuya Kisarazu and his assistant Xiangyue arrived at Imakagami's house and stepped into the murderous world of Crow City. The members of the Jin Jing family have lost their heads and places, and there are also incredible secret rooms and ghosts who have been resurrected from the dead. The god of death spreads his dark wings in the Crow City. No one can figure out the murderer's intentions and layout. In the predicament, another detective Mercator appears... The subversive debut of Maya Yusong, a representative writer of the new style. Out of print for many years, it has been newly revised and reprinted. Multiple answers, a collapse ending, a showdown between famous detectives and Detective Ming! Mercator's final case. Paying tribute to "The Black Death" and Ellery Quinn, reasoning masters such as Shoji Shimada and Yukito Ayatsuji praised it highly.

Forty years ago, Lawrence Block, the master of American detective fiction, created a world-famous character: Bernie Roddenbarr, a clever and dexterous thief. Not only did he steal antiques, stamp collections, and priceless works of art, he also stole the hearts of millions of readers. For the first time, this book collects all the short works about Bernie, from his debut to his encounter with his cat when he was a bookstore owner, from Bernie's tragic adventure in Hollywood to his "New York Travel Guide"... There are also two brand-new articles, one introducing the origin of the elegant thief, and the other talking about Bernie's future: when the author was considering retirement, he had a long talk face to face with his own character. In all detective fiction, there has never been a character quite like Bernie-the charismatic, intelligent, and inventive thief whom two generations of readers have happily welcomed into their homes. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Diamond Dagger Award, Shamus Award, and Anthony Award, a collection of short stories by the master of detective fiction Lawrence Block. Fifteen pieces outline Bernie's life. The ending includes a conversation between the author and the characters spanning forty years. There are not many detective novels that can make people laugh, and the Ya Thief series is one of them.

The original novel of the popular TV series Liuren series. One of the protagonists dies suddenly? It involves his complicated life experience and the shocking secrets of three generations. David Cartwright has been retired from intelligence for twenty years, but he still knows where all the bones are buried. As he suffered from dementia in his later years, he suddenly became a target. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright. He knows better than most that the "old guy" is not fragile - a "vicious old spy with blood on his hands" might be a more accurate description of him. The "old guy" wants to raise his grandson to be a hero, not a lowly. But now, instead of joining the myths and legends of Spy Street, River Cartwright becomes a member of Lamb's desperate Slough Squad. So when the "old guy's" panic button sounded the alarm at Regent's Park headquarters, Lamb was called to identify the body. And Lamb will do whatever he thinks is necessary to protect an agent in danger... The masterpiece of Mick Herron, winner of the Diamond Dagger Award, the world's highest award in the mystery industry, and the adapted series of the same name won multiple nominations for the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. Hailed by foreign media as the successor of John Le Carré, he has counterattacked from a "social animal" to the king of spy novels in the new era.

Vampire Dog, a serial killer who was arrested more than 20 years ago. Although he was officially sentenced to life in prison, he was actually secretly imprisoned in a research institution for an experiment unknown to the world. A group of desperadoes successfully robbed a cash transport truck. On their way to escape, they were rounded up by the police and forced to hide in an uninhabited mansion. Maria and Ren Kujo joined the police search operation, but when they entered the robber's hideout, they found multiple dead bodies. The corpses were in the same tragic condition as the victims in the "Vampire Dog" case... Winner of the 26th Ayukawa Tetsuya Award - Ichikawa Yuhito's work, a new novel in the "Red-Haired Detective & Black-Haired Detective" series. It is a masterpiece that breaks through the double evil of closed space and latent time limit, and combines classical reasoning style with special setting system.

Wu Zhongquan has another heartwarming masterpiece after "Silence on a Cold Night"! A two-way healing journey spanning 30 years! A time machine that travels through two eras, presenting the youthful collision of two generations. Wu Zhongquan uses warm writing to tell the unspoken love of two generations in the Northeast. When a boy born in 1995 became friends with his mother who was being laid off, he understood the first half of his parents' lives through time travels. The First Sister in the Cabaret\u002FDebt Collection Queen\u002FLaid-Off Female Worker... The book uses humorous language and dialogues with characters like Northeastern Xiaoshao to narrate the "heroic" life of Northeastern aunts! "This time I will be involved in your past." The relationship between Gao Zhidong, a boy who grew up in a single-parent family, and his mother Gao Meizhen has reached a deadlock. In order to survive, Gao Zhidong started a loan sharking business. In the process of looking for his creditor Zhao Lingfeng, he accidentally traveled to 1996. In the past, he witnessed the impact of factory reforms and layoffs in the Northeast in the 1990s on his mother, Gao Meizhen's generation. He learned about his mother's past experiences, the grudges between his mother and her old friends, and the mystery of his biological father was gradually revealed. After returning to reality, can Kochidong and his mother reach a reconciliation, and what changes will happen to their lives...

The Mystery Writers Association Award, the original Mystery Award-winning writer-Maya Xiongsong's work, reprinted in ten years, a new translation. The girl Kazune once lived on an isolated island with a group of followers. Here she is worshiped as a god, the island and the buildings on the island are named after her, and believers also made a movie about her called "Sonata of Spring and Autumn". However, the good times did not last long, the girl suddenly disappeared, and the believers left the island sadly. Twenty years later, everyone returns to the island, and two outsiders join as reporters to report on this gathering. The peaceful atmosphere of this commemorative trip was completely broken during dinner, and then the conflict gradually escalated. With the snow falling in the summer, memory fragments came like waves. Who will survive in the end... Known as one of the "Five Wonderful Books of Japan's New Original Style", it has a strange layout and a surreal setting. It uses words to describe subversion and reconstruction, allowing readers to complete the plot and the truth.

Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard, who is good at studying faces, is hospitalized after breaking his leg. Bored, he discovers a historical mystery that has been hidden for four hundred years: Did Richard III, the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty of England, send someone to kill his two nephews who were said to be imprisoned in the Tower of London in order to retain the throne? How did Detective Grant peel off the cocoons, get closer to the historical truth, and overturn the case of Shakespeare's infamous Richard III? This book can be called a representative work of historical mystery novels. "Truth is the daughter of time." "A completely untrue story gradually turned into a legend, while those who knew it was not true stood by and said nothing."

A disaster trip that sells human nature, a dark and absurd "derailed daily life". "Jungle" is a company that specializes in providing disaster tourism projects for tourists. For ten years, Yuna has been stuck behind a desk as an itinerary planner for Jungle Travel Agency. Her job was unremarkable until an exploitative boss started giving her trouble. Yuna painfully submitted her resignation, but was given the opportunity to take a paid vacation: she needed to dress up as a tourist and go to Mui Ne, a remote island in Vietnam, to evaluate a travel project that was at risk of being removed from the shelves. This project included sinkholes, volcanoes, deserts and other elements. On the way, Yuna accidentally learned that the local resort was planning to "create" a disaster to regain attention. As she learns the cost of this man-made disaster, she realizes the lives of Mui Ne residents are in danger, as well as her own... The first Korean winner of the British Dagger Prize for crime fiction. Shortlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize. The Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic and other media praised it, and the copyrights were sold to Japan, France, the United States and other countries.

There are three volumes in the set, namely "Sophie's Choice", "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and "The Darkness Visible".

Maupassant's short stories and short stories are deeply rooted in reality and have a wide range of themes. They mainly describe the French social customs of his time, and all kinds of life are included in them. Carrying forward the long tradition of French literature, his novels are characterized by criticism, criticism, ridicule, and pity, and their comedy techniques are their outstanding features. The basis of this complete collection is the "Illustrated Complete Works of Maupassant" published by Paul Orlandolfo Publishing House: "The Story of the Woodcock", "Harriet Miss", "Miss Feifei", "Yvette", "The Chaste Boy of Madame Huson", "The House of Tellier", "The Moon" "Light", "Tuva", "Ola", "Little Locke", "Mr. Parlan", "The Left Hand", "The Story of Day and Night", "Useless Beauty", "The Rondoli Sisters", "Sunday in Paris", "Ball de Suif", "Papa Milon" and "Misty". It contains all 306 of Maupassant's short stories and short stories discovered so far, and is accompanied by Austrian edition print illustrations. It can be said that it is rich in pictures and texts. The translator Zhang Yinglun is an expert on Maupassant at the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been cooperating with our agency to translate Maupassant's short stories and short stories. His writing style is humorous and in line with Maupassant's writing style. Maupassant's works are fast-paced, unique, highly readable, and suitable for readers of all ages.

"It is better to be an unfortunate person who knows everything than to be a happy person and live a fool's life." Duke Myshkin, who was studying in Switzerland and suffering from epilepsy, suddenly returned to St. Petersburg one day. Unexpectedly, he was involved in a sinful transaction of money, power and sex. Those high-society dignitaries began to laugh at the Duke's naivety and gullibility, calling him an "idiot." And around the huge property left to him, blackmail, betrayal, and murder began to take turns in front of him... Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy said: ""The Idiot" is a diamond. For those who know its value, it is as good as thousands of diamonds."

This book includes newly discovered translations of novels, poems, essays, and dramas that express Koreans and Koreans in the modern period of China after 2015, as well as reviews of relevant translations of this period. The collection of old-style poems, classical Chinese novels, and chapter novels are disclosed for the first time after punctuation checks. This batch of newly unearthed documents makes up for some shortcomings and gaps in the ten-volume "Modern Chinese Literature and Korea" Material Series published in 2014. From it, we can see that there are more authors, richer content, more impressive aspects and more diverse artistic expressions of literary works on this theme in modern Chinese literature.

During the French Revolution, Paris and London were characterized by fanaticism and chaos, and calm and restraint. Dickens witnessed the contradictory scene of nobles and commoners being executed together, with mixed feelings. He was determined to write biographies of the two cities, but he focused on the fate of individuals: some people were swallowed by hatred and turned into cold killing machines; some people resolutely went to the guillotine for the happiness of others. In the troubled times he writes, everyone is dust, and only those who love are the eternal shining stardust.

"Oliver Twist" is an early work by Dickens, published as a serial novel from 1837 to 1839. Orphan Oliver grew up hungry, living in workhouses and on the streets of London. This famous juvenile adventure story in the history of literature shows us how a small heart can protect its innocence and courage in a vast world where kindness and darkness are intertwined.

A poor boy meets a rich lady and falls in love, determined to pursue his own "Great Future". A carnival about love and wealth unfolds in London. Between chance and disillusionment in the world, when all the splendor fades away, the most authentic things in a person's life can be revealed. In December 1860, "Great Expectations" began serialization. Dickens, who entered the late stage of his creation, used this work to tell readers that the relationship between life and life is far greater than the relationship between money and money.

What brought prosperity to the Umaru Empire was a unique type of rice, Ole rice, which was not only high-yielding but also fearless of pests, so it was also called the "miracle rice." To the surrounding vassal states, Ole rice is a rice that brings joy and sorrow. Although it can fill the stomachs of the people, its seeds must be distributed by the Umaru Empire. One day, Orade rice suddenly encountered a pest called Oyoma. For people who could no longer grow other crops because of Orade rice, this was a life-and-death crisis. At this time, an improved "Rice of Hope" appeared. It was not afraid of Oyoma and could grow in the sea breeze, saving people from the disasters caused by Oyoma. Just as people were cheering, a bigger disaster followed...

Aisha, a girl with a keen sense of smell, discovered the secret of the "Rice of Hope", but she also found herself in danger. The news that there was Oraku rice on Gilam Island that was not afraid of pests spread quickly. The Umaru Empire improved the new Oraku rice and distributed the rice seeds to the feudal kingdoms. Facing this "rice of salvation", people cried with joy, and the voices of praise spread throughout the empire. Only Ayesha felt vaguely that this kind of rice was a bit scary. Soon, someone brought back a type of locust from the bank of the Shenxiang Praying River that was said to be able to eliminate the Oyoma insect. However, it was discovered that they could multiply their larvae quickly and eat up the Ora rice and all other plants quickly. Seeing the large-scale destruction of new rice, Aisha decided to burn the Ora rice within a certain area together with the locusts before the locust disaster arrived, so that they would not be able to reproduce. This is a battle against time, and no one knows whether they will be the final winner...

This is a realistic novel set in Rongdu, the capital city of southwest China in the 1990s, with the rapid development of the times as the narrative context. Through the growth perspectives of Yu Zaiyuan, Zhang Mingde, and Tang Jiang, it tells the story of the growth and degradation, struggle and peace, and affection of the three friends. It shows the ups and downs of their and their families' fates in the great changes of the times, and outlines an ukiyo-e of the fission of the times. The novel restores the real texture of the 1990s with plain writing and becomes a microscopic specimen for observing social changes.

The laid-off female worker Minci's house leaked and it rained all night. Her teenage son Xiaogang was accidentally discovered by her husband Sun Shichang that he was not his own. In a rage, she kicked Minci and her son out of the house. Minci, an orphan and widowed mother, has since embarked on a life of humiliation. During this period, she has opened a small shop, been bullied by gangsters and shrews, collected rags, opened a small restaurant, and worked as a white-collar worker in a hotel. Every time when she was desperate, an inexplicable care and help would quietly appear. When she learned that the person secretly helping her was the child's biological father, Huang Zhixiang, the culprit who raped her and ruined her life's happiness, the volcano she had suppressed for many years erupted. She resolutely quit her job in a hotel and set up a food stall on the roadside. Helplessly being chased by gangsters setting up stalls, Huang Zhixiang came to the rescue. His son Xiaogang was stabbed several times in order to save his biological father Huang Zhixiang... During the process of starting a business, Minci developed a relationship with Qin Dafu, a lame veteran who looked after his own car. Later, Minci and Qin Dafu got married, and Huang Zhixiang's married life got back on track.

Yang Wawa, a beautiful and innocent female editor, has always pursued quality of life, but unexpectedly ended up becoming an older leftover woman. After going through online dating, dating agency introductions, blind dates, etc., She finally got married to her lover. However, after marriage, Yang Wawa tasted the ups and downs of married life in the face of a series of life conflicts such as house problems, child problems, relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and work difficulties.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Ma family, a prominent family in Hu Town in the south of the Yangtze River, suffered a series of disasters. First, the daughter-in-law Jiang Ruying hanged herself from a honey locust tree in the courtyard because she was dissatisfied with her husband's living and drinking outside. Then the owner Ma Nan also committed suicide by taking rat poison because of the pain in his chest for decades. The Ma family compound was in a state of turmoil. Could all of this be caused by the ghost of her who died unjustly fifty years ago? Ten years later, the Ma family set off a new round of uproar. Ma Deyang, who had been away for ten years, married a new wife and returned home, but was rejected. And his grown-up daughter Xiao Hehua, who has just begun to fall in love, also unknowingly falls into the emotional confusion between the servant Wu Yazi and the young master of the Wang family Wang Jiaren. Will the turmoil in the Ma Family Courtyard never stop? And what is the horrifying top secret that Mrs. Ma has hidden for nearly half a century? On the night of the lotus pond, the cold crescent moon is above; my unpredictable heart wants to express my secret thoughts... I just say: "The path of the lotus is cleared by mist and rain, but life is desolate where love is superficial."

Ever since I was a child, I have felt that there is another self in my body, often talking to "me" in my mind. My family and friends don't know about it. The father was absent growing up, and the relationship between father and daughter was particularly poor. When I grew up, I had a bad job, fell in love and encountered fraud. She wonders why she is going through this? Is she an alien? Is this world only for her? After going through all kinds of things, she discovered the reason, and that reason made her cry.

Han Jiang, a female college student, participated in the Sudoku competition for the first time and failed. Then she worked hard to catch up. She faced pressure, choices, joys and sorrows in the examination room, the competition field, and the interpersonal field. From a novice to a champion, from campus to the workplace, what kind of encounters and growth has she had in Jiugongge?

The novel tells a series of local stories about the "marriage exchange" of Zhang, Zhuang, Yang and other families in several villages at the junction of Tai, Lin and Ji. These primitive, chaotic and wild marriages slowly unfolded in the hometown of Lin Fang, a master of etiquette. They were like a picture of rural customs in Qilu, giving readers a strong impact.

A collection of Ma Hejing's short stories, the works cover a wide time span - from the war years to the present; the themes are diverse, and the most prominent feature is that it pays attention to the fate of ordinary people living at the bottom. On the one hand, it writes about the difficulties of their lives; on the other hand, it also writes about their self-improvement. Reading it gives people more motivation to move forward.

Wang Qi immigrated to Vancouver from China in 2000 and worked as an editor at a local Chinese media, the Chinese Daily, living a nine-to-five life. She rented at Bao's house and got along with the landlord and became good friends. The Bao family has two sons and one daughter. The eldest daughter Elisa falls in love with Yu Hang, who works as a chef in the Bao family restaurant. Yu Hang is divorced and has a daughter. The Bao family is worried about their daughter's relationship. The eldest son of the Bao family, Kaixuan, is kind and generous. He likes to make friends and drink. He got into several major traffic accidents because of drunk driving. Later, Kaixuan accidentally made friends, which eventually led to tragedy. Wang Qi's career and relationship journeys were not smooth either. She was first fired by the Chinese Daily, then worked for Oriental Trading Company, and then resigned. She was once discouraged and wanted to return to China to find a new career direction. Because of their work relationship, Wang Qi met Jian west, a divorced advertising person. She admired Jian west's talent endlessly and had a secret crush on her, but Jian Xi only regarded Wang Qi as a psychotherapist and confidant, and was limited to dating and heart-to-heart conversations. After Wang Qian and Jian west ended their ambiguous relationship, they met a married accountant on the road. Because Wang Qian resembles Lu You's first girlfriend, Lu You is passionately devoted to Wang Qian. Faced with Lu You's care and love, Wang Qian couldn't help herself, but she was also caught in a contradictory psychological struggle. After Wang Qian saw Lu You's half-heartedness, she decided to work hard to cut off the relationship. After the Bao family's accident, the family sold their house and moved back. Wang Qian moved out of the Bao family and met Andy, a local Chinese man she met on a dating website, determined to start a new life.

An ordinary Saturday changed the lives of Mu Yunxi and his family. Mu Yunxi was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Fortunately, she met many noble people and arranged for emergency surgery. After the surgery, the whole family changed their living habits together in an attempt to defeat the cancer cells, but the disease still recurred the next year. In the days that followed, during the course of chemotherapy and rest and recovery, her daughter Fang Xin accompanied Mu Yunxi to embrace hope and love life. She met many different lives in the ward, which made Mu Yunxi more determined to arrange her own wonderful life and live out unlimited sparks with a limited life. There are many kinds of miracles in life. Maybe a miracle is needed to cure cancer. Maybe, detecting cancer is also a life-changing miracle.

Li Tianqin, also known as Eric, immigrated to Vancouver with his parents when he was young. He fell in love with his college classmate Lin Jing, got married and had two children. He first lived and worked hard in Vancouver for a few years, and then returned to Guangzhou with the consent of his father, Li Yide, chairman of Kai Tak Company, and started a new career in Guangzhou. Eric is in charge of Kai Tak Company, a large real estate development and construction group headquartered in Guangzhou. During a competition for a Beijing bidding project, it was accidentally discovered that employee Lin Simin was the daughter of Beijing project leader Liming. This article tells how Eric maintains his bottom line in a materialistic society, helps others and himself find his true self, and deals with complicated emotional and work relationships. He has emotional entanglements with Lin Simin and his wife Lin Jing's best friend Wu Ying, how to deal with the entangled relationship with women, and understands that the true meaning of a happy family does not lie in a high-end mansion facing the sea. Mrs. Lin Jing will also face the pursuit of her old suitor Peter again. How should she deal with the family crisis and maintain the harmony and happiness of the family? This story that takes place on both sides of the Pacific, in Guangzhou and Vancouver, covers career, love and family. It tells the challenges and problems faced by families with immigrant backgrounds under the changing times. Through their stories, they tell their own answers.

The wind is roaring, the horses are braying, and the swords are unsheathed. The clouds are roaring, Yulin is roaring, Jintian is roaring, Luo Jing is roaring... The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom revolutionary movement swept across most of China. The Ling Shiba uprising fired the first shot of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

This book is a collection of short stories that depict the various life styles and emotional entanglements of low-level people. The author's language is simple, his writing style is fresh, sensitive and intelligent, and every story is written very vividly. The story contains the joys and sorrows and struggles of small people, as well as the narrow-mindedness and cunning of ordinary people; there is the love and heartbeat of ordinary people, as well as the helpless fate and sense of powerlessness. Although they live at the bottom, they still have weaknesses and shining points in human nature. There is no falsehood in the author's narrative, and she has no intention to avoid the mediocrity of life. She has no intention to please readers with illusory and sweet candies. Instead, she uses a very gentle tone to complete her understanding of fireworks life and her care for the people at the bottom.

Ma Hejing's collection of short stories contains nearly a hundred short stories, among which "Enter the Play" is particularly wonderful. Life is like a play, and play is like life. In and out of the play, there is a taste of the various flavors of life, and there are also laments about the joys and sorrows of fate.

This book is a collection of novels by Hu Daping. Hu Daping published "Hot and Spooky Noon" in 2015. He has certain writing ability and has always paid attention to and reflected on reality. Articles such as "Stone Monkey in Heaven", "A Prince at Home" and "Dian Wan Mu Paint" focus on small people who work in cities, care about whether small people can be treated fairly in the big society, care about students who are tempted by online games and parents who are suffering but powerless because of this, which is remarkable.

This book collects the author's works created over the years. The book contains both short novels and short stories; simple and elegant manuscripts, as well as national grade-award-winning masterpieces, masterpieces selected for the album of the Guizhou-Taiwan Cup·Second World Chinese Micro-Novel Grand Prix, and even shining masterpieces that have been included in college Chinese mock examination papers. The book has a wide range of topics and rich content. There are scenes describing the past years, which are vivid and heartwarming to read; there are also new scrolls praising the style of the hometown and the good words and deeds of the people, which are admirable and yearning to read; there are also wonderful articles that express feelings and promote the positive energy of society, which inspire people and leave an indelible echo. In short, this is a highly readable, full-scenario collection that appeals to both refined and popular tastes.

Write a story about a woman who cannot see the world, my grandmother, and a small town hero. The first half is about my grandmother who cannot see the world, a story that happened in a time before I was born, and the story hears the world through the eyes of a small town hero. The second half was created through my eyes, and the changes of this era were passed on to my grandmother through me. The story starts from a place of fierce struggle in the old society. Facing unavoidable difficulties, my grandfather, a loyal and virtuous old man, has established a flesh-and-blood image in the novel. Through the shaping of the characters' fate, the novel shows the fate of the town and the people living in the town. By showing the changes in folk customs, folk customs, and villagers, it reflects the great changes in the mountains and villages.

Paying attention to life and social reality in a critical way, revealing absurdities and paradoxes that are different from Kafka; Thomas Bernhard's classic novels are the winners of the Lille Patzer Award, the Austrian National Literature Award, the Büchner Award, the Free Hanseatic City Bremen Literary Award, the Julius Kamppe Award, the Anton Wildgans Award, the Franz Theodor Chokol Literary Award, the Federal Chamber of Commerce Literary Award, and the Cultural Committee Literary Award of the Federal Association of German Industry. "Masters of the Past": We fill our spiritual safe with these past masters, but when we open it at the decisive moment of life, it is empty. "Logging: An Emotional Wave": My life, my existence, is all acting, always performed for people to see, and never my real life. "The Sinker": In theory he can deal with all the unpleasantness in life, but in reality he has never been able to do so.

Wertheimer's misfortune was that just as he passed Room 33 on the second floor of the Mozart Institute, Glenn Gould happened to be playing the Goldberg Variations there, playing the so-called aria. Wertheimer later told me his experience, saying that he stood in front of the door of Room 33 and listened to Glenn until the end of the aria. I understood then what kind of horror this was. This monologue novel describes three people's artistic pursuit of piano playing and their different life choices: one becomes a miracle, one sinks, and one turns to another path.

In the 1980s, in Vienna, Austria, the Olsbergers held an "artist dinner" at their home. At 11:30 in the evening, the so-called "artist dinner" has not yet started, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of the dinner guest - the famous Burgtheater actor. I sat on the sofa chair with a headrest and waited while observing the people at the dinner party. I recalled my experience of being close to and alienated from the art world over the past few decades, the various situations of artists, and Joanna's funeral during the day today. In my eyes, they suffered artistic or spiritual collapse decades ago. It can even be said that their entire souls collapsed. All the people in the music room heard me say the words "art world" and "art spirit" as if I were talking, like the Olsbergers, about "artists' dinners". They only paid attention to the sound of these words when I said them, and they had no way of understanding what meaning these words meant to me when I said them.

The art critic Reger would go to the Kunsthistorisches Museum every other day and sit in front of Tintoretto's painting "The Man with the White Beard" for more than thirty years, until one day his wife passed away. Six months later, he appeared in front of the portrait again and invited his old friend Atzbacher to meet him at the museum the next day. Through Atzbacher's eyes we get to know Reger - the death of his wife, his thoughts about suicide, his comments about the masters, and finally, the purpose of the meeting. At once pessimistic and elated, both hateful and hilarious, The Masters is a satirical comedy about culture, genius, nation, class, artistic merit and human pretension.

From a bit player to a supporting role to impersonating the emperor, this is Nocker's meteoric career. He worked in major theaters in the capital. Now, the enemy's army is pressing on the border, and the capital is in danger. And when he was in danger, he took orders and turned the entire empire into his theater, turning the enemy troops all over the mountains and plains into his audience. How can a false emperor protect the empire? It's nothing more than painting your face, sharpening the sword in your sleeve, and opening a door for death amidst laughter and laughter.

"Science Fiction World" magazine was founded in 1979. It has always been an important magazine introducing science fiction culture in China and a major publication place for Chinese science fiction novels. Today's high-profile science fiction writers in China, such as Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, and He Xi, all entered the creative stage through this magazine and became well-known to readers here. A new generation of science fiction writers with great potential, such as Jiang Bo, Baoshu, and Aque, also started here. This book selects eleven excellent works from the works published in the magazine in 2023. These works have diverse themes and different styles. Some are wildly imaginative and try to depict the various possibilities of the vast universe; some are focused on the future and carefully depict the broad prospects of technological development. Through this book, we can enter the fantasy world and reach the moment of inspiration.

This book collects 7 short stories by Taizo Kobayashi. The author uses his unique style to span science fiction, mystery and horror. He uses science to write horror stories and solve suspenseful cases with fun. It not only describes a shocking interracial love, but also proposes an outrageous method of predicting the future. Before opening this book, let me ask a question first - are you really awake now?

In the not-too-distant future, terrorist attacks and viruses have taken over every corner of the world, and large-scale offline activities are explicitly prohibited. In the post-epidemic era, people no longer have the freedom to gather - weddings, funerals, concerts, sports events... Have all become a thing of the past. All human desires can be satisfied in the "hood space" by then. Luce Cannon, a passionate musician, longs for direct and essential communication with her audience; Rosemary Rouse, who lives in a safe community, longs to explore a wider world. The fate of the two people intertwined like notes, and finally played a beautiful and hopeful melody.

Kevin is a low-level lothario who grew up near the port, and is also a miner leader under the interstellar colonization company "Sword Shark". For nearly two decades, he has led his team to travel through space, mining and transporting various precious resources. During this mission, Kevin once again entered the "star" - the corpse of a huge alien creature floating in space. Not only did he have to compete with other teams, he also had to deal with two uninvited guests sent by the company: Qiong, an alien biologist who is obsessed with scientific research, and Yingjiu, who was defeated in office politics. When an unexpected disaster occurs inside the star, the undercurrents among the people who already have their own thoughts become more and more intense, and the direction of things becomes more and more bizarre...

Ren Qing's first personal collection of short and medium-length science fiction novels reviews his six-year science fiction creation process starting in 2018. The nine selected works include the famous works "The Lost Circus" and "Resurrection", the sharp style works "Night Circle" and "Orphan White", the mysterious new works "The Fictional Zero", "The End of the End", etc. These stories revolve around themes such as dreams, subconsciousness and artificial intelligence. The writing style is beautiful and profound, and the emotions are delicate and warm. They not only show new and bizarre technological ideas, but also contain keen and profound philosophical thinking.

[Original film and television + female growth + family portrait] Shen Mingzhu is pregnant. But her husband Feng Jianqi became a martyr who acted bravely for justice, and "life or not" became the problem Shen Mingzhu faced. When the storm of fertility swept over her, she rebuilt order from the brokenness and carved the edge from the compromise - there was no natural "mother", only self-reshaping through death again and again. Life is nurtured in the womb, and in life, a sky that is broader than the womb will eventually grow.

The supreme mystery masterpiece of Ellery Quinn, the God of Mystery! Out-of-print reappearance. Agatha, Keigo Higashino, and Borges are all paying tribute to and following up on this mystery series masterpiece! The tragedy series is published in a new hardcover set for the first time, with both binding and translation upgraded. "The Tragedy of X": Three crimes committed in plain sight. A masterpiece of reasoning in the hearts of thousands of readers. "The Tragedy of Y": A murderer who has lived in a deformed family for a long time kills his family members without leaving them alive. Agatha directly used a certain masterpiece to pay tribute to "The Tragedy of Y", and the setting was completely consistent with the background of the story. "The Tragedy of Z": Eliminate 27 suspects one by one to identify the real murderer, a masterpiece of elimination method. "Jerry Lane's Last Case": The twist in the ending is great, and I couldn't help but burst into tears for the murderer. The final chapter of the great tragic tetralogy, watch Keigo Higashino cry.

[Horror and Supernatural + Mysterious Culture + Suspense Decryption] The Yin soldiers of the Yellow River, the corpse of Chi You, the ancient tombs at the bottom of the river, the ghost corpse Gu... Decipher the oriental mysterious culture of the ancient Yellow River route. The prequel to the series "Ancient Stories of the Yellow River"! The audiobook series has been played over 500 million times in Himalaya! The new work of male channel master Long Fei! The corpses reappeared, and the sky collapsed. A mysterious picture of Eight Sheep breaks the tranquility along the Yellow River. The father and brother of Chen Qiliang, a young fisherman, escape into the painting. In search of his father and brother, Qiliang was accidentally involved in a catastrophe. Under the Yellow River, ancient secrets such as the Zhenhe Sarcophagus, the remains of Chiyou, and the Divine Bell of King Yu have emerged one after another. The seven sects are falling apart, Chi You's descendants are trying to cause the world to collapse, and the forces of the side sects all have their own evil intentions. The young man's ambition is to turn the tide... The river is surging, true and false, and he will survive a narrow escape to protect the Yellow River. See how the unknown poor boy from Hetan can single-handedly stop the powerful enemy in the ever-changing and chaotic world.