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"The Man Who Drinks the Horizon" follows "The Sword and the Spear" as prisoners of war are boarded for Portugal, where they are displayed along the coast and in Lisbon to show the colonial empire's victory. Then Imani and the Gaza royal family were exiled to an island in the Atlantic Ocean, where King Gaza died. Imani returned to Mozambique in his later years and lived there with his children and descendants such as Sergeant Mello.

"A wonderful American play about novelty, imagination, and love." The master of postmodern novels writes about the emotional entanglements of contemporary literary youth. When the marriage tradition no longer works, how should love end? Pulitzer Prize winner, author of "The Virgin Suicides" and "Neuter" is a novel masterpiece. It was selected as the best novel of the year by North American independent bookstores and selected as the annual novel read by the National Book Critics Circle. "Marriage Change" tells the story of the twists and turns and confusion experienced by three liberal arts students from Brown University in the United States before and after graduation, who are world-famous as writers. "Marriage plot line" is the topic of English major Madeline's thesis. In her thesis, she elaborates on the importance of marriage plot to traditional novels. In reality, she is also trapped in a marriage and love dilemma. Despite their completely different backgrounds and personalities, Madeleine and the talented Leonard are still an enviable campus couple. Unexpectedly, Leonard suffers from manic depression due to family inheritance and a damaged childhood, and their relationship is overshadowed. Falling in love with Leonard, who suffered from mental illness, made her both painful and unable to let go. She even gave up thinking and working on the future for this reason. Madeleine grew up under the wings of her parents and was unlikely to act out of line like her rebellious sister. However, she was deeply influenced by the atmosphere of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and she longed for independence in her heart. She originally wanted to get rid of her parents' control and live with her lover after graduation, but Leonard's illness made it impossible for her to refuse her parents' help. On the other hand, Madeleine's academic path is equally confusing...

A classic among classics of World War II novels, a masterpiece that removes the last fig leaf of war, the Iron Curtain, and human nature. The Naked and the Dead is considered to be the greatest of all novels about World War II (and some even think of all novels about war). Mailer was only 25 years old when he wrote this work, making him one of the most classic American writers of the 20th century. The novel is set on Anopope Island, a fictional tropical island in the South Pacific during World War II. It tells a panoramic story of how the U. S. Military, under General Cummings's strategic planning, broke through the Japanese defense lines and completely captured the island. The novel focuses on describing how a group of soldiers from the reconnaissance platoon, who came from grass-roots backgrounds and were almost social outcasts, succumbed to the iron curtain of the army. When they were ordered to complete a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines that was difficult and dangerous, with little hope, the most instinctive and naked side of human nature was exposed. The novel also creates an opposing camp represented by two middle-class officers, Major General Cummings and Second Lieutenant Horn, and explains the laws and nature of war and the development of human society. The work also uses a special narrative technique to give a biographical appearance to each character in the book, thus forming a wonderful and real microcosm of American society, making this work beyond the scope of ordinary war novels. The work uses a Tolstoyan-style sympathetic approach without losing its seriousness. Through this group of losers on the battlefield of life who won the battle to attack the island, the work ponders whether the morbid and degenerate society has reached the point of despair? Can power theorists manipulate the course of historical development at will?

"Carousel" was first published in 1905. It is Maugham's masterpiece of early novels. It has an exquisite structure and shows the complex relationship between love and reason through a charming trio of stories. Through the protagonist's eyes, readers witness the short but happy marriage of a dying poet, a woman's unethical love for a shameless man, and a noble man's efforts to practice virtue to the extreme.

The second volume of the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer Gurner's works focuses on the situation of refugees in the gap between different cultures, focuses on the immigrant identity crisis, and continues to write about the loneliness and struggle of those wandering in a foreign land. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech, giving a glimpse into the secrets of growth and writing that span two continents and blend with multiple civilizations. "2021 Nobel Prize Writer Gulnar's Works (Second Series)" includes 5 representative works of the Tanzanian British writer Abdulrazaq Gulnar: "Dotty", "Memory of Farewell", "Pilgrim's Road", "Abandonment" and "Gravel Heart".

Through the perspective of Anna Frith, a country woman who lost all her relatives, the novel truly and vividly reproduces the terrible plague and the various characters in the disaster, especially depicting several flesh-and-blood women. It is full of humanistic care, praises life, and is deeply touching. The rational light of the Enlightenment shines between the lines.

[Original work of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! ]After the second event, Maple once again became the center of the topic. But she herself had no idea about this and continued her daily adventures with Sally. Building a guild, collecting materials, shearing sheep... She was active in the game and spent a peaceful and fulfilling day. Until - Do you accept the mission "Knights of Charity"? So, she appeared in "angel costume", and the road to becoming a god officially began.

Coming from a country that no longer exists, being taught a language that was fragmented, I stuck out my tongue like a dragon in a fairy tale, and it bifurcated: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian... Can a language so painful, a language that has never learned to describe reality as complex as one's inner experience of reality, be able to tell a story? It was always like this in the beginning. Or that. They did that, went there, and then came to Holland. The exile narrative is undated. Too many things happened in the short "post-war" period, and their psychological clocks broke under the pressure. Everything is broken. Place and time are divided into "before" and "after", life is divided into "here" and "there". They are suddenly without witnesses, parents, family, friends, or even the usual people with whom they can reconstruct their lives. Without these reliable intermediaries, they are thrown back into themselves. In a mediatized world, nothing is real. Memories pass through many intermediaries, taking the form of a Juliette Binoche or a red, white and blue woven bag, translating my personal pain into my language. Only this one thing is true. Pain is silent, useless, but the only true witness.

With unique wisdom and the power of narrative, Dubravka leads us from Russia to Japan, from the Balkan minefields to the American highway, from the 1920s to the present, exploring many topics such as the power of narrative and literary creation, the identity and situation of immigrants, women and their writing, the sequelae of war, and the situation of literature in today's era. The book is divided into six chapters, interweaving and jumping between history and regions, but it is easy to read with ease. Dubravka takes the "fox" that exists in ancient myths in various cultures as the prototype, and reveals the mystery of "story as story" layer by layer.

To disappoint you, reader, a quick glance at these few lines of text will not help you understand the content of this book. If you really want to know what it's about, you'll have to put in more effort. But maybe you are so disappointed that you don't even want to read this book. Can you really do this? No regrets? Just because you're unhappy? If that's the case, then your temper is simply worse than the protagonist of this book. At least he'll decide whether to stay or not after reading the first page. So, for the sake of caution, would it be more appropriate for you to take the same cautious approach? Wu Libo's literary classic, a companion chapter to "Why I Didn't Write a Book of My Own". A letter of challenge to all experienced readers, a reading adventure full of ups and downs. It contains a large number of quotations, allusions, allusions, parodies, and word games, making it highly informative, playful, and enjoyable to read.

Here are 11 bad news and 11 good news, as well as countless farces in between: Bad News 1: The single woman Nell was induced by a successful woman to become her stand-in and sneak into her marriage. Good news 1: Nell has become the new mistress and has a cow that loves to escape, a lamb that loves to bump into people, and a pony that loves to be lazy. Bad news 2: The doctor told Nell that her sister suffered from schizophrenia and asked her to take special medicine. Good news 2: Another doctor told Nell that as long as she stopped taking these special drugs, her sister would recover immediately. Bad news 3: Nell's mother gradually became blind and deaf, and began to avoid everything in reality. Good news 3: In her memory, my mother never seems to have lost anything: her youth, her wreaths, her wild horses, and the boys in the laboratory...

The human body is grief. It is filled with depressions, soft places, and easily injured places. Arms, armpits, chest, between thighs. This body was born to embrace people and to be embraced by others. Don't you think it's weird sometimes? Our bodies have eyelids and lips. They are occasionally closed from the outside and can also be locked tightly from the inside. Without any reason or warning, a woman becomes speechless. The first time was in the winter when she was 17 years old. She felt that the sentences emitted from her tongue and hands were tied up like white spider webs, and she was very ashamed. She could hear and read every word clearly, but she couldn't open her mouth to make a sound. What made her speechless lips tremble again was a strange foreign language-a French word. Her mother passed away half a year ago and she got divorced a few years ago. After three lawsuits, the woman finally lost the custody of her nine-year-old son. After sending the child away, she suffered from insomnia. The unbearable weight of the crystallization of words was placed in the middle of her beating heart like cold explosives. She sees a psychiatrist once a week. The psychiatrist who was over fifty years old judged that she was temporarily aphasic due to the stimulation of recent life circumstances, but she just wrote "No, it's not that simple..." Over and over again on the table. The man was 40 years old. His eyesight was gradually weakening due to fate, and the doctor declared that he would lose his sight forever in one year. He left his family in Germany and returned to Korea alone more than ten years later to teach Greek. Among the students at the academy, he noticed women who didn't speak or smile. When the silence of a woman who is gradually losing her language meets the light of a man who is gradually losing his light, everything may be allowed to change.

He was called Balthasar, the Seven Suns, because he could see things in the light; she was called Blimunda, the Seven Moons, because she could see things in the dark. He has the iron hook growing out of his broken arm, and she has eyes that pierce everything; their bodies and minds love each other, and love makes people dare to go against the grain. It was a time of little imagination. The great king wanted to build a unique monastery, and the 31-ton boulder was moved purely by manpower; the crazy priest and the young lover wanted to build a machine that could fly into the sky, but people said flying was a sin. Eventually, the craft crashed, the body was burned, and the monastery was built. In the end, the divine power was deposed, the royal power was reduced to ashes, but love and will remained forever.

"Kindness" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Hungarian writer Krasnohorkaj Laszlo, which includes eight stories including his masterpieces "The Trap of Ruz" and "The Barber's Hands". His works are obscure and have gloomy themes, and are often classified as postmodern novels. The sentence structure in the story is weird, the location is ambiguous, the meaning is elusive, the plot is extremely jumpy, the structure is often radioactive, the narrator is always unclear, and the ending is full of mystery. In addition, the preface written by teacher Yu Zemin for the work is also very exciting. It not only details the author's creative process, but also analyzes Laszlo's almost crazy "Chinese complex" with first-hand information based on his own experience. There is no doubt that this will shorten the distance between readers and the work.

Various life stories that unfold through food. Slowly savor the power and meaning of rebirth that each delicacy brings to people. The mother actually called grandma Xiaohua, saying that grandma had returned to the state of a child. Grandma first erased my mother's existence from her memory. Not long after, Mayu was also forgotten by her grandmother. Grandma, who became strange, suddenly remembered the natural shaved ice that looked like Mount Fuji. The boyfriend, who is about to be transferred to Canada, takes his girlfriend to visit an inconspicuous but delicious restaurant that his father frequented during his lifetime. Here he will confess to his girlfriend the most important thing in his life. The couple who were about to divorce decided to arrange a farewell trip, enjoy delicious matsutake dishes together, and go to hot springs separately. ...Food plays a down-to-earth and reliable role in these people's lives. Food is an important emotional nutrient, a comfort that can't bear sadness, an addition to happiness, and a force that supports people to go on bravely.

"Doctor Zhivago" is a novel by the Soviet writer Pasternak. It describes the story of the Russian doctor Zhivago, his wife Tonya, and the beautiful female nurse Lalisa. It is considered to be an autobiographical work. By describing Dr. Zhivago's personal experiences, the novel shows another aspect of Russia's two revolutions and two wars from a completely new perspective, embodying the cruelty of war and the ruthlessness of destruction. "Doctor Zhivago" spans about half a century and describes more than 60 characters from all walks of life who were active in the above-mentioned historical time and space, expressing their complex emotions and their thoughts on the times during the historical changes. The whole book is a review of the Russian history in the early 20th century by the author from a unique perspective in the post-war years, and covers his reflections on this historical process. The author won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This book is a representative masterpiece of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, a giant of Japanese short stories in the Taisho era. It contains nineteen representative short stories such as "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Hell Transformation", "The Nose", "Kappa" and "The Life of a Certain Idiot". The author examines evil with a cold eye, reveals the truth with sharp writing, and launches a series of human dialogues between good and evil, fiction and reality. Although each story is short in length, it is well-conceived and the plot is bizarre yet profound. The film "Rashomon" adapted from the two novels "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Grove" by Japanese film master Akira Kurosawa won the Golden Lion Award at the 16th Venice International Film Festival and the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the 24th Academy Awards.

When the pressure of life continues to hit us, is there a utopia where we don't have to make a living or socialize, so that we can escape it all? When real life makes our spiritual world more and more overwhelmed, is there a way to balance the two so that we can live an ideal life? Hesse spent a full 12 years writing his thoughts on these issues in "The Glass Bead Game". He created a pure spiritual world and used the life experience of the master of the glass bead game to give the answer - only by going deep into life can the power of the spirit bloom! Open this book and plunge into life bravely!

An urban white-collar worker whose sister died young and has never been able to find the person he likes, a young man on the beach who grew up passively in ignorance of love, a junior high school girl who was bullied by her classmates and accidentally saw her late mother, a middle-aged office worker whose wife and daughter left for the other side of the ocean after the marriage broke up, an elementary school boy who was entangled between his original family and the reorganized family... The protagonists often have a rough fate at the beginning of their appearance, but the power of the characters is hidden under the surface indifference. Just like an avocado seed that strives to grow, ordinary people can find a way out in dull days and bloom with regret.

"Zhu Ming's Thousand Sins" portrays a Chinese superhero Zhu Ming. He rides a BMW and holds a steel gun. He travels across the western desert and Pacific Railway construction sites of the United States in the 1860s. In order to regain the girl he loves, he takes revenge on the railroad tycoons who exploited Chinese workers, the vicious foreman who oppressed workers, and the racist white police officers. This book has elements of suspense and fantasy, and a strong sense of imagery. It aims to reconstruct American western novels and reveal the lives of Chinese Americans and immigrants in the second half of the nineteenth century. "Zhu Ming's Thousand Sins" was recommended by the editors of the New York Times and Amazon. Com after its publication, was selected as the Los Angeles Times' 2021 Summer Best Book, and won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Award for Outstanding Fiction.

Nakamura Hang's classic novel collection consists of three warm and elegant short stories. "Wish You Were Here": When Yoshida grew up, he left his hometown of Odawara and came to Tokyo to study, but he never forgot the elephants in Odawara and his childhood friend Matano. At the same time, he and his classmate Maiko gradually fell in love, hoping that these warm people and things could stay with him forever... "Five Stories for Men": adapted based on the author's life experience. It describes the "me" in elementary school who only knew how to have fun, the "me" in junior high school when my love interest first blossomed, the "me" in high school who gradually developed a dream of music, the "me" in college who was confused, and the "me" after constantly trying to challenge myself in work. "Bard Life": The wonderful story of a boy named Tomohiro Ogawa and a girl named Xiaolan who got to know each other by feeding the same stray cat and communicating in a tree hole has been adapted into a movie.

That summer, the old school building that had stood in the town for 84 years was finally going to be demolished. The glass that has been distorted by time and gravity, the chalk dust that has been floating for nearly a century, and the dim and winding corridors and stairs will all be buried under the dust forever with it. However, just the day before the summer vacation started, a boy walked into the basement of the old school building and completely disappeared into the darkness. The moving things under the old school building, the corpse collection truck in hot pursuit, the teacher talking to the phosphorus fire, the strange soldiers with stiff movements... With the old school building as the center, an invisible evil force is rapidly spreading to the entire town, invading its last students' summer vacation that should be full of joy and sweat... They still don't know that the upcoming weird summer night is destined to change their lives.

On the first spring day in Philadelphia, Agatha escaped from prison. At this time, she has been there for 30 years and will be released after serving her sentence in a short time. What made her choose to take the risk of escaping from prison at this time? "The Other Meaning of Happiness" is a road-style novel created by Mark Levy, a wonderful story about love and friendship. The book ranked first in France's annual sales rankings, with an astonishing sales volume of more than 1 million copies in half a year, and was sold worldwide in 49 languages. Writing about the indispensable love and friendship in life, and the pursuit of happiness, freedom and indelible faith, Mark Levy's latest novel perfectly combines exquisite narrative and delicate writing. It is a healing book that awakens inner tenderness.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is a representative work of anti-war novels in the world. It tells the story of the protagonist Paul Boymer and his classmates who were incited by chauvinist education and joined the First World War with "patriotic enthusiasm". During the war, he witnessed the horrific casualties and the devastation of war on the human soul, and witnessed the inhumanity of war. The initial "patriotic fervor" was gone, leaving only pain and doubts about German militarism and the purpose of participating in the war. Clichéd slogans were blown away in a brutal barrage. The idealism of young people cannot withstand the hail of bullets and brutal fighting. Their illusions were shattered. Their only motivation is to survive, and their spiritual support is the friendship formed in the common destiny on the front line. The novel reflects the tragic experiences of a generation of German youth on the battlefield and indicts the evils of imperialist war. This book was translated by Qiu Yuanwei, a teacher from the German Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, based on the German classic version. The translation is faithful, smooth, vivid and vivid.

"It's Summer Outside" is Jin Ae-ran's fourth short story collection, which includes seven works in total. Most of the protagonists in the story are experiencing "loss", losing their children, losing their father, losing someone who can communicate with them in their native language... Jin Ae-ran seems to intentionally crush the pain of all kinds of losses and evenly distribute it between the lines, so that the pain hits the readers' hearts from time to time. In this book, the author still maintains his role as an observer and recorder of urban life, and his narrative is plain and close to life. "It's Summer Outside" is the winning work of the 48th Dongren Literary Award, among which "The Silent Future" and "Where Do You Want to Go" won the author the 37th Lixiang Literary Award and the 8th Young Writers Award respectively. This time it is included in the "Collection of Jin Ailan's Works" and Di'an, winner of China's "People's Literature Award·Novel Award", is invited to write a preface.

Everything that seems to have passed away has never left. This book is a warm, healing and touching fantasy novel. In order to adjust her mood and concentrate on writing, Jasmine, who had just lost her love, chose to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city and move to a long-historic Annes Yule cottage. An additional condition for renting a cabin is that the mysterious "aboriginal person" who must take care of the cabin, a black cat named "Paling". Accompanied by the black cat, Jessamine gradually uncovered the secret hidden behind the cabin - a touching story about love, friendship, people and cats that lasted for five hundred years. In order to protect the hut and Parling, Jasmine is determined to devote herself to it, but who will protect her own happiness?

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

Shinichiro Yuki, a rising star in the world of Japanese reasoning, sharply explores modern life from the perspective of Generation Z, deeply describing the traps of the Internet age and the horrors of human psychology. Can you see through the "small inconsistencies" and "big madness" hidden in daily life? "Interviews with the Tragedy": A part-time college student engaged in family tutoring noticed "mutations" in a certain family... "Dating App": A father who was worried that his daughter would fall into a social quagmire could not refuse the encounter on the dating app and began to carry out subversive actions... "Pandora": A couple who suffered from infertility finally welcomed their child. At this time, another daughter who claimed that "I was born through your sperm" suddenly appeared. What cruel truth is hidden in Pandora's box? "Triangle": The threesome were in high spirits at a remote reception. Who would have thought that the "reunion" after a long separation would be full of murderous intent... "Please forward": A primary school student who dreamed of becoming a video blogger and grew up on the island was alienated by the islanders after a certain case occurred...

In the Twin Moon City where "past" and "present" are intertwined, the bloody murderous secrets on stormy nights echo in the basement, spiral staircases, inner courtyards, and two heavily locked towers... On the banks of the Rhine River in Germany, there is a mysterious castle called "Twin Moon City". Legend has it that on a rainy night a hundred years ago, a group of bandits broke into Shuangyue City and wanted to humiliate the two daughters of the city lord. At this time, the ghost city lord wearing pure black armor and holding a long sword came riding a black horse and beheaded the robbers. Time comes to the present, and several guests visit Twin Moon City. As if imitating the legends of the past, the tragedy slowly begins. In the heavily locked tower, the beautiful twin sisters died miserably. Their severed heads and hands were burned until they were charred black. The corpse was lying on the ground as if worshiping Allah. The windows were wide open toward the cliff, just like that rainy night a hundred years ago. The shadow of death shrouds Shuangyue City at this moment, and the cruel murderous intention is about to come again...

"Ocean" is the first part of the "Blood and Rust" classic science fiction series. The story is set in a future world where the earth's resources are exhausted and human civilization is in crisis. The protagonist of the novel, Naylor, is a young "shipbreaker" who struggles to survive on a meager income. By chance, Naylor discovers a wealthy young woman named Nita hiding on a stranded luxury yacht. Naylor and Nita gradually establish an alliance that transcends class and embark on a dangerous escape journey. They not only have to face cruel challenges from different interest groups, but also struggle to survive in a world that excludes them. Throughout the book, Bachgalubi uses vivid language and powerful imagination to depict a world devastated by climate change. As a profound and revelatory novel, "Ocean God" shows people the possibility of a future world and guides people to think about the problems existing in contemporary society. This novel is not only a science fiction novel, but also a literary work that reflects social reality and is worthy of everyone's taste and consideration.

It was once banned, reprinted 21 times, and translated into a best-selling book in more than 20 languages. The book of destiny fully presents the life of Middle Eastern women, awakening in a long and turbulent era, and raising profound thoughts: Can a woman have an independent destiny? Or can I only be subordinate to the men in my life? The young girl Masumei moved her family to Tehran and tried hard to integrate into the new city life. Unlike the conservative town of Qom, here she does not have to marry in a hurry and can go to middle school and continue her education. She enjoyed the sweetness of her first love, but she also became a shame to the entire family because of the exposure of her love affair. She was beaten by her brother, cried by her mother and disappointed by her father, and was imprisoned at home. When 16-year-old Masumei sought death because of a broken love, she didn't know that the entire country was about to fall into decades of turmoil, and that her own destiny would also usher in countless moments of joy and sorrow...

"The Battle of Tur" is the third part of the "Blood and Rust" science fiction series. In a post-apocalyptic future world, the protagonist Tur is a biological weapon created by humans with superhuman strength and agile reflexes. He was originally just a cold product of technology, but gradually gained self-awareness during the war. He tried to break through his programming limitations, made a real friend Maria, and understood the meaning of teamwork and brotherhood; as the leader of the enhanced humans, he also made other enhanced humans realize that they should not be born as slaves, but should resist human oppression and drive and become organisms equal to humans, but human greed and selfishness dominate everything. Tur decided to overcome his servility and take revenge on the master who created, enslaved and attempted to destroy him. The author explores the ethical issues of genetic engineering, the use of biological weapons and the value of human life from an extremely sharp perspective, and profoundly expresses the significance of fighting for freedom and dignity in an environment of oppression and exploitation.

"The Drowned City" is the second part of the classic science fiction series "Blood and Rust". In a flood-ravaged city, mutant species roam around, and various forces fight each other for resources... The girl Maria, the boy Moss, and the hunted half-orc Tur, who wander in the flooded city, not only have to face the pursuit of government forces, but also face deception and betrayal from within. In this world full of dangers and challenges, they are constantly looking for freedom and truth, trying to find their own way of survival amidst chaos and violence. This book vividly depicts a world in crisis, where people are forced to make difficult decisions in order to survive, and the lines between good and evil become increasingly blurred. The story culminates in a fierce and violent conflict between different forces vying for power and control. "The Drowned City" explores themes such as loyalty, betrayal, and the impact of environmental disasters on human society. It is not only a reflection on the consequences of climate change and environmental destruction, but also an exploration and reflection on how humans respond to these disasters.

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

Nothingness, cleanliness, sadness, the crystallization of Japanese beauty, has influenced the classic works of Mo Yan, Yu Hua and other literary giants. It is one of Kawabata Yasunari's most famous works, a Nobel Prize-winning work, and translated by the famous Japanese literature translator Gao Huiqin. "Snow Country" tells the story of Shimamura, who enjoys eating his ancestral property and studying imaginary Western dances. He visits a hot spring village in the northern snow country three times and meets the local geisha Komako and the girl Ye Zi who meets by chance on the train. Kawabata Yasunari meticulously painted a peaceful and pure picture of the Snow Country: thick layers of snow, low houses lying on the ground, the bright Milky Way in the northern night sky, and the Snow Country woman burning passionately with love. Although Shimamura is attracted to Komako, in his pursuit of the beauty of nothingness and the belief that everything is in vain, from his perspective, Komako's beauty, her love, and all her sacrifices for others are meaningless...

"Another Sea" is a short story by the famous Italian novelist Claudio Magris. It is an excellent work full of poetry and philosophy. In 1909, the young intellectual Enrique left Gorizia, a city with a mixed population and culture in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and took his ancient Greek texts with him across the ocean alone to the Pampas and lived a life of herding. His closest friend Carlo, a philosopher and poet, taught him to find a true life free from society's lies. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroyed every chance of a normal life; thirteen years later, even after his return to the Istrian seaside, his life became increasingly lonely, and his attempts at connection and meaningful love were thwarted.

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

The condensation of Kawabata Yasunari's literature, a miracle in just one page. Mysterious, illusory, cruel and beautiful. This book selects more than fifty novels: the autobiographical novel "The Bone Picker", which tells the memories of the death of his grandfather; "Glass", which describes the miserable fate of the bottom workers in the glass factory; "Station in the Rain", a sad story caused by the vanity of wives, etc. These novels either show Kawabata's own life as an orphan and the emotional twists and turns, or express his deep sympathy for the people at the bottom, or philosophically think about the psychology of men and women in the world, fully demonstrating Kawabata's rich poetry, fresh and keen feelings, and pessimistic attitude towards life. Among my works, the ones that make people miss and love them the most and the ones that I want to give to others the most are actually these novels. --Kawabata Yasunari

This book "Ancient Capital" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kawabata Yasunari. It consists of three stories: "Ancient Capital", "The Ballad of Wings" and "The Flower of Competition". "Ancient Capital" tells the story of the friendship and misunderstanding between twin sisters Chieko and Naeko who grew up in different families; "The Ballad of Wings" describes the emotional initiation process of the girl Lingzi in adolescence; "Blooming Flower" describes the complicated love-hate relationship between three women and Shimura. This book is one of Kawabata Yasunari's masterpieces and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In 1848, Dostoevsky began writing "Nedochka". In 1849, he was exiled to Siberia and then interrupted his writing, leaving the novel unfinished. In this book: he writes about a wasted genius, who cannot live his life in vain. If he is decadent for too long, his talent will be taken away; he writes about a arrogant girlfriend, and the friendship established in his youth is more pure and precious than anything in the world; he writes about the growth of a young girl, in order to protect the people she cherishes, cowardly girls dare to stand up. Wang Xiaobo said: "I read this book and have remembered the first half for the rest of my life. I still think this is the best book, worthy of being a major masterpiece. I think people should always commemorate Dostoevsky for it."

"The Two Hundred Years' Child" is a fantasy novel written by Japanese Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe. In this work, three children, a mentally retarded brother, a healthy sister and a younger brother, use a time travel device to witness various scenes of social changes and historical processes in Japan over the past 150 years, and the story unfolds accordingly. The author uses a narrative structure that intersects time and space to express Japan's two hundred years of history since the Meiji Restoration, as well as the state of human soul and body, material and spirituality in this historical process, thus proposing the idea of ​​"new man". In addition to continuing the social themes of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection in the four dimensions of social criticism, disaster prediction, historical exploration, and cultural reflection during the period when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the work also focuses on thinking and exploring the future destiny of mankind, and ultimately places what he thinks is the answer on children as the "new human beings."

"Thirteen Pieces" is the first collection of short stories written and published by the famous American writer William Faulkner. It was first published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith in the United States in 1931 and was later republished by Penguin Random House. Faulkner dedicated the book to his eldest daughter, Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and his wife Estelle. Nowadays, the book "Thirteen Chapters" is no longer printed and published separately and has become a collection. "Thirteen Parts" is divided into three parts. The first part mainly writes about the experiences and mental difficulties of soldiers on the European battlefield during World War I; the background of the second part is Faulkner's classic creation; the story of the third part moves to southern France and Italy.

"The Lost Dream of the Tiger" is a full-length mystery novel by the emerging Japanese mystery writer Momono Zapa. It is the winning work of the 67th Edogawa Rampo Award in Japan. This is a martial arts setting that combines Chinese martial arts and Japanese reasoning. It is a true mystery work. It brings together the classic settings of Chinese martial arts novels (such as martial arts, mental tricks, martial arts competitions) and Japanese reasoning island secret rooms, multiple conspiracies and other elements, giving readers a new experience in the world of reasoning. The novel tells the story of the murders that took place during the Southern Song Dynasty when the head of the Eight Immortals Sect convened other sects to compete in martial arts to select a new leader and teach the sect's kung fu secrets. Finally, through layers of reasoning, it was decrypted and involved a period of past grievances and hatreds in the world and the conflicts between family and country between the Song and Jin Dynasties.

The fantasy novel series set by the well-known German TV screenwriter, Emmy Award winner, and best-selling author David Safire is interesting and fascinating. Safire has achieved the perfect balance. David Saffir always has a way of magicizing happiness, and every reader can be infected by it.

The first novel by Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, is about a loveless family, a hopeless future, a fruitless first love, and an endless sea. Every sad young man has to say goodbye to a miserable past life. The protagonist of the story, Hassan Omar, was born into a poor Arab-Muslim family in the seaside town of Kenge. His father, Omar, was bohemian, alcoholic, and cruel; his mother was cowardly and tolerant, accepting the cruel abuse of her husband almost fatally; his elder brother, Saeed, was naughty and unruly, and died unexpectedly in a fire when he was six years old. The country's independence brought social unrest and a betrayal of the promise of freedom. The new government is worried about the brain drain and has delayed announcing the results of the high school graduation examination. Unable to get a scholarship, Hassan came to Nairobi to seek refuge with his wealthy uncle Ahmed, hoping to get back the family inheritance his mother deserved. There he discovers a larger world, but soon peels back the veil of his idyllic life and sees the corruption and hypocrisy that pervades this modern African city. The hazy love with his cousin Salma ignited Hassan's hope for life, but the ugly reality will soon surface along with an unbearable family secret...

If time bends, can I meet myself in my youth? Blurring reality and fiction, exploring the essence of time, and practicing Einstein's theory of space and time in novels. "Bending Time of Krems" is the latest work of Italian writer Claudio Magris. It contains five short stories related to time. The protagonists of each story have different identities. An old doorman who was an entrepreneur in his youth, an old music teacher who met his students, a speaker who met a strange lady, a late-blooming writer, and an old professor who watched youth movies. In each story, the protagonist recalls a certain episode from the past, and everyone searches for time that has been lost and found. Those times associated with life, love and experiences. Time and cause and effect go hand in hand: the cause leads to the result, the effect will become the subsequent cause, and in the end everything will return to its origin.

Is the mute woman's swan song the cry of human society before the end? Alexis Wright uses his signature style of "Indigenous Magical Realism" to create a literary masterpiece with a confusing plot. Through the heroine's ups and downs experience of being abused and unable to speak, it sends a deafening cry for vulnerable groups such as women and indigenous people. A hundred years from now, the environment will deteriorate due to the climate crisis. In the Northern Territory of Australia, a mute girl was gang-raped as a child by three teenagers who snorted gasoline, and then fell into a hole under the roots of a eucalyptus tree and fell asleep. Ten years later, she was rescued by Bella Dona, a climate refugee and an old white woman, and named "Forgotten Vinyl". Bella raised her and told her stories about swans throughout the ages every day. After Bella's death, the mute girl lived with the swans that Bella fed by the lake, and was called the Swan Girl. Many years later, Warren Finch, who had a baby engagement with Swan Girl, became the first Aboriginal president in Australian history. He went to Swan Lake to marry the mute girl, but took her to the city under house arrest. He also sent people to blow up Swan Lake, which was filled with Aboriginal people, climate refugees and swans. Later Finch was killed and the flood came...

Gurner, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, pays tribute to Shakespeare's work. I can't go back to my hometown, and I can't leave this city behind. Where is my home? Ordinary people who are helpless in turbulent times have nothing but their broken hearts. The protagonist Selim lives with his parents and uncle Amir in a house full of secrets. One day, Selim's father moved out of the house, but his mother kept silent about it, and then started a new family with a strange man. Selim cannot understand his father's choice and is ashamed of his silence. After graduating from high school, Selim was taken to London by his uncle who became a senior diplomat. However, the noise and coldness of this city left him at a loss and he could only survive in endless loneliness. After his mother's death, Selim returns to his hometown to try to unearth the secrets that are tearing his family apart. Eventually he had to face the pain of those closest to him, and the truth nearly destroyed him.

The seventh novel of Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer and shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, is one of the writer's masterpieces, with a clear autobiographical flavor. This poignant and moving love story has successfully created two African female characters belonging to different eras. The portrayal of the characters' psychology is very delicate and highly contagious. The novel "Abandonment" was first published in 2005. It is one of Gurna's masterpieces and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Award. It tells the story of the love tragedy of two generations who cannot tolerate the secular world. The first story takes place in the British colony of Kenya at the end of the 19th century. Martin Pierce, a British writer, traveler and orientalist, was in danger in the desert and was discovered and rescued by a Muslim young man, Hassanali. After being rescued, Pierce came to thank Hassanali and met Hassanali's sister Rihanna. The two fell in love at first sight and came together regardless of colonial and religious restrictions. The second story takes place in Zanzibar and London, England, before and after independence in the mid-20th century, telling the story of two brothers, Amin and Rashid. His brother Amin fell in love with Jamila, a young and beautiful but not well-known local woman - she is the granddaughter of Pierce and Rihanna in the previous story. However, due to the firm opposition of her parents, they were forced to break up. Since then, they have lived with the guilt and regret caused by "abandoning" each other. His younger brother Rashid won a scholarship to study in the UK and "abandoned" his hometown in turmoil.

The works of Martin Amis, a representative writer in the contemporary British literary world who is as famous as McEwan and Julie Barnes, a naughty boy in the literary world, and a master of style, use detective novels as the shell to explore the issue of "death".Jennifer, the beloved and almost perfect daughter of the police chief, was shot three times and died completely naked. So "I" - the opposite of Jennifer, a masculine and inelegant female police detective Mike Houlihan was ordered by the police chief to conduct an in-depth investigation and clear up the heavy fog. "I" gradually pieced together the truth of the matter... When the female police detective faced Jennifer's "dark moment", why didn't she also face her own secret corner?