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Every small town has a few beauties who are "household names". In the late 1980s, there were three famous beauties in "my" hometown: He Li, Lina, and Hongxia. They were born beautiful, but they did not receive the favor of fate because of this; they brought the enlightenment of beauty and youthful nostalgia to the small town, and also attracted people's curious prying eyes and rumors. Over the past thirty years, amid the great changes of the times and the twists and turns of fate, the beauties seemed weak and unable to drift with the tide, but they persisted in life and tried their best to pursue their own happiness, settling into another history of the place. "Beauty" is a work by the writer Zhang Huiwen looking back at her hometown after living overseas for more than ten years. It uses the legendary life and series of stories of the beauty in a small town in northern China to reflect the great historical changes since China's social transformation at the end of the 20th century. It traces the unique growth process and life experience of a generation of Chinese women, and awakens the flexible and unbreakable female power that comes from simple vitality.

"Hell Change" collects many short stories by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, represented by "Hell Change", which expresses the life destiny of a lonely person who pursues art for art's sake, fully displaying the lonely core and death fantasy in Akutagawa's works. From a unique narrative perspective, Akutagawa coldly satirizes the modern social psychology of "others are hell" and is thought-provoking.

"Southern Bach" contains eight short stories and short stories written by Zheng Xiaolu, including "Southern Bach", "Hengyang Brand Tractor" and "The Last Breath". The novel takes search as the theme, is based on the countryside and cities of Hunan, incorporates social reality into the theme of creation, and targets the undercurrents of daily life: It shows the cunning of the adult world, people's secret desires, and the confusion of young people in small towns. It shows the survival dilemma of young girls and discusses the eternal propositions of life and death. It accurately transforms the author's observations of the real world into fictional stories to analyze the times and illuminate the dark humanity. Zheng Xiaolu's writing style is concise, his narrative is vigorous, his cruelty reveals poetry and kindness, and he has the power to directly touch people's hearts.

In the land of China in the 1900s, the lives of women walking and wandering: in late spring in Shanghai, a female college student in the drama department debated her script with others on the rooftop; a woman who came to the town after the summer flash floods to look for her lover, but decided to break up with her; in the increasingly intense autumn, the wife of a foreign crew member who was obsessed with finding her missing husband; in the vast northern city in winter, the daughter chose to give up the past and face her terminally ill father alone. The passage of time and the passage of time have brought about changes in their lives and destiny. Their memories, their actions, and their hidden past form the rich emotional tension of this novel collection, and also converge into the voice of the current era.

"The Pit" is a collection of short stories and short stories by the master of Russian literature Andrei Platonov. The novel "The Pit" of the same name is a landmark novella by Platonov full of ideological depth and artistic innovation. This novel, "Gradov City", "A Beautiful and Furious World" and "Makar with Doubts" are all Platonov's early masterpieces, which combine symbolism and realism. Through in-depth observation and thinking of real life, the writer uses plain language and humorous and joking style to depict allegorical pictures, exploring philosophical issues such as ideal and reality, material and spiritual, individual and collective, etc., Reflecting his thoughts on the fate and future of mankind. "Flo", "July Thunderstorm", "Return" and "The Third Son" are all Platonov's later masterpieces. These novels focus on themes such as love and family affection, reveal a natural, simple and restrained artistic style, deeply explore the subtleties of human nature, and conduct a profound analysis of social changes.

The original story of the film "Fertile Soil" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. When my grandfather passed away, I was only ten years old. I still have an impression of the scene at that time, but it was just the flowers blooming and falling that I witnessed when I was young. After I turned forty, I felt nostalgic. My grandfather loved me so much, but I often disliked him, which made me regretful. Life and death are so vast, where can I express my thoughts? This kind of knot prompted me to write "Grandpa's Tricks" in one breath. Words are such wonderful things. After writing them, I felt that the worlds of life and death were connected. Death is not such a terrible and decisive thing. In the time and space we cannot see, love continues. It can be said that death is another kind of life.

"The Gift of the Magi" is a collection of O. Henry's short stories, which selects seventeen of O. Henry's representative short stories, including "The Cop and the Hymn," "The Gift of the Magi," "The Child in the Jungle," "The Drunkard's Will," and "The Double Liar." O. Henry's novels display ironic compassion, unique humor and an ending that is never predictable. O. Henry's works can give you an unexpected ending every time, leaving you stunned and leaving you alone to think, cry and smile alone.

Moments, plastic surgery, ambiguity... Labels unique to this era, what do we see in this era? What do you feel? Nowadays, appearance has become the most important thing for young girls. When those legendary Internet celebrities who "become famous overnight" fill our eyes and ears, what kind of heart and belief should we use to calm ourselves? The greenness of first love, the helplessness of not seeing each other for a long time, the beauty of meeting the right person, love nourishes everyone's heart. But sometimes we miss love before we understand what love is. Everyone needs love, everyone can have love, but we need to understand what love is and where it is waiting for you. How do modern urban women evaluate themselves correctly and treat themselves with a normal heart? A polite compliment from others will make you feel happy. As a woman, do you really see clearly what true friendship is and what is an exaggerated appearance? In the chaotic world, the editor-in-chief of YOLO uses his pen as a boat to control the trickle of 24 short novels, leading us through the vanity of friends, the confusion of plastic surgery, and the pursuit of love, until we discover the overlooked beauty in life.

"About Love" - ​​Love and life in Chekhov's works. This book collects ten Chekhov short stories with the theme of love. By depicting the subtle psychology of men, women, old and young when facing love, it explores how love occurs and how it ends. Chekhov described various forms of love that have disappeared, imagined, and are about to come, ranging from expectation and warmth to absurdity and ridicule, as well as powerlessness and embarrassment. In these stories, we can see the dilemmas faced by people's hearts and their perceptions of life under the context of love. Chekhov tells us through his novels that facing love is facing life, and whether the ending is happy or unsolvable has been unpredictable since ancient times. However, the most important thing is whether you can capture the touching moment when love first comes, because that may be the opportunity to seize the opportunity to renovate your life. As to what the answer is, Chekhov leaves it up to the reader to find out.

"The Wall" is combined with three short stories "The Bedroom", "Aerostratus", "Secrets of the Boudoir" and a novella "The Childhood of a Business Owner" to form a collection of short stories and short stories. It tells the story of three International Brigade members who were sentenced to be shot by the enemy during the Spanish Civil War while waiting all night. One of them is frightened to the point of going crazy, the other is barely holding on, and the protagonist "I" has a very complicated mood: I hate the various abnormalities of my comrades, but I can't resolve the melancholy in my heart. During the countdown to life, he truly realized the preciousness of life through intermittent memories, and regretted endlessly for squandering his youth and thinking that he could live forever. The five works put forward a basic proposition of existentialism: people are free, and their destiny depends on their own choices.

This book is a collection of Zhong Ermao's themed novels, including 11 short stories and short stories published by the author in recent literary journals such as "Contemporary", "October", "Writer", and "Yangtze River Literature and Art", some of which have been selected for publication. Novels such as "Good Night", "Two Fathers", "A Gun and a Rooster" and "Fortress", which are concentrated in the novels, penetrate into the depths of urban space from different angles. Through the writing of deeply social themes such as home buying, childcare, elderly care and even euthanasia, it shows how contemporary people are lost in the urban forest. And breakthrough, sinking and redemption; especially looking at the inner dilemma of the "middle class" group - after defeating poverty, solving the problems of survival and food and clothing, and even achieving self-realization to a certain extent, why do they still feel bound, helpless and in deeper pain? While raising questions, the work also uses vivid stories close to the lives of contemporary urban people to arouse readers' inner emotional resonance and self-examination.

This book is titled "Selected Short Stories by Xu Kun (Chinese-English)", including the short stories "Kitchen" and "Encountering Love", and the novella "Young Friends Come to Meet". Xu Kun is the deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Literature" magazine. He has published more than 5 million words of works and won the second Lu Xun Literature Award and the first Feng Mu Award. The translations of the selected works in this book were revised eight times and polished many times by Canadian writer Dougals Roy. They were highly praised by the editor-in-chief of the famous literary journal "Asia Literary Review". It can be used as a teaching material for translation majors in colleges and universities, as a reading list for students taking postgraduate entrance examinations, and as extracurricular reading for students.

This was a concentrated burst of Lu Xun's suppressed romantic passion. He wrote eight imaginative short stories based on ancient myths and historical legends. The protagonists of the novel include heroes from ancient myths, such as Hou Yi who shot the sun, Nu Wa who created humans, and Dayu who controlled the floods, as well as ancient saints and sages, such as Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, and Zhuangzi. They all have some sacred auras about them. Lu Xun had a sudden thought: If such heroes and sages with sacred auras one day walked among the common people and became ordinary people, gods became human beings, and saints became ordinary people, what strange encounters and strange fates would they have? The entire "New Story" revolves around this weird imagination. Lu Xun's leading scholar Qian Liqun interprets each chapter, leading us into Lu Xun's true spiritual realm. To understand Lu Xun is to understand our society and these people!

The novel collection "Late Spring Love Stories" contains 6 short stories and short stories written by Han Songluo from 2022 to 2023, totaling 150,000 words. Three of them have been published by the magazine's current headlines: "A Love Song to Remi Young" and "Late Spring Love Words" are the current headlines of "Tianya" and "Mountain Flowers". "My Father's House of Imagination" was published in "Flower City" magazine and has been selected into various major magazines. It was listed on the 2021 Harvest Literature List, ranking fourth, and is negotiating for film and television rights. "Fish Tank and Sunlight" will be published by "Harvest" magazine in November 2023, and "The Golden Age of Remi Young" will be published by "Fangcao" magazine in January 2024.

"Only Water is Young" is a collection of novellas by writer Lin Sen. It is a "Heart Sea" trilogy that describes the coexistence and symbiosis of the sea, islands and fishermen. They take the "change" and "constancy" of Hainan fishing villages as the starting point, integrate fables, local chronicles, personal history and contemporary experience into a complex integration, telling the life comparison and spiritual dialogue of several generations of fishermen. The hardships of surviving in the sea during peacetime, and the sustenance of family and country coexisting with the island in emergency times. These strong memories of the South China Sea for hundreds of years are vividly laid out by the author, full of human fireworks.

This book is a collection of 43 novels about animals as metaphors written by the writer Yi Shui. Many of them have been published in domestic provincial literary journals, such as "Young Writers", "Chinese Literature", "Western", "Oasis", "Yellow River Literature", "Guangxi Literature", "Anhui Literature", "Shandong Literature", etc. The writer uses rich imagination and humorous and fluent language to construct an animal world. What is said to be an animal world is actually a metaphor for the real world. The in-depth analysis and exploration of human nature in the Clothing and Water Animals series of novels has a distinct contemporary character, and is also more modern and realistic.

In the past thirty years, five ladies have grown old together and entered their octogenarian years hand in hand. They gather together every month to share "ladies' luncheons" where they plan for each other's life difficulties, tell interesting stories about each other's encounters, and develop insights into friendship, aging and death. Sometimes they battle wits with caregivers just to get a bite of bread that is high in oil and sugar; sometimes they try to drive to rescue their companions who are sent to a nursing home in a whimsical way, although in the end they are unable to renew their driver's licenses due to vision problems; sometimes they forget the theme of the party and only find out in the end that it is a funeral. In addition, there is also the overwhelming burden that the dust of history recorded by the author weighs on ordinary people. She experienced World War II at the age of ten and was forced to flee to a foreign country. She was unfortunately infected with COVID-19 in her later years. She wrote about what she witnessed with her own eyes, but it is also affectionate, warm and touching.

"Hot Night Dreams": In the 19th century, on the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi River was filled with the dreams of all boatmen. Countless steamships chase each other on this arterial waterway, competing for money and honors, with long whistles and white smoke billowing. Just when a snow disaster almost destroyed Captain Abner Marsh's shipping career, he received a letter from a mysterious man. The promise of gold and a magnificent new ship that could make history made Captain Marsh irresistible. Joshua York came to seek cooperation and wanted to cross the majestic Mississippi River. He hoped that Marsh could help him. The only requirement was to respect his privacy and not doubt his decision, no matter how bizarre, arbitrary or abnormal his behavior seemed. Although Marsh instinctively sensed that the proposal was fraught with dangerous secrets, he decided to go all-in. They built a steamboat called "Hot Night's Dream" that perfectly matched all of Captain Marsh's dreams. It wasn't until the new ship made its maiden voyage that Marsh realized what had happened... Along the way, the "Hot Night's Dream" turned the Mississippi into a river of blood; and it itself gradually turned into a blood ship. "The Passing of Light": The protagonist Dirk is summoned by his lover who has left him long ago and comes to the planet Voron. However, Voroun is a world completely outside of Dirk's experience, and Gwen is no longer the woman he is familiar with. Surrounded by conspiracies, Dirk is increasingly unable to distinguish between his allies and enemies... In this unforgettable space opera, George R. R. Martin unfolds a chilling eternal night - a turbulent world filled with cultural conflicts, a lack of honor code, and the identities of hunter and prey are often interchanged.

This book is one of the series "Diary of Akito", among which "The Man Who Can't See His Shadow", "Why Are You Running", "You Are My Prototype" and "Transparent Life" have been published by our company. This book continues the author's consistent writing style, letting the story speak for itself, remaining silent on what readers expect, and allowing readers to resolve their hesitations on their own. This book contains more than a hundred short stories recently written by the author, most of which have been published in newspapers such as "Xinmin Evening News" and "Beijing Literature". The work uses ordinary life details as an entry point to scrutinize the appearance and mentality of Chinese people in a period of transformation and great development. The subject matter covers many fields such as society, economy, and culture, and expresses the appearance of all living beings in Chinese society in the new era. It is helpful to understand and feel the humanistic features of the current reality.

"Smell the Green Plums" is a collection of emotional and inspirational short stories. The book contains six volumes: "Those Beautiful Things", "Rear Window", "The Most Beautiful", "How Far Is Forever", "Because of Love, So Love" and "Peach Blossoms Blooming". Most of the heroes and heroines in the article are familiar figures around us, and the stories they tell are all about each other.

"The Color of Black" is a collection of country-themed short stories. The author takes the countryside in southwestern Zhejiang as the background, captures different scenes, and narrates the struggling life of farmers in the mountainous areas of southwestern Zhejiang during the historical changes of the twentieth century. While paying attention to the fate of the protagonist, the author also expresses his reluctance for his homeland and his humanistic care for the disadvantaged groups. He also pays special attention to the description of the village customs in southwestern Zhejiang. This collection of novels can be understood as the author's collection of memories of a certain period in the countryside of southwestern Zhejiang. The protagonists created in the novel are all new farmers with knowledge and ideals after the reform and opening up, with advanced ideas and challenging spirit. Among them, "Black Color" won the short story gold medal in the Second Lishui Literary Grand Prix.

"The Rose of Love" is a collection of emotional and inspirational short stories. The content includes five volumes: A Flowering Tree, No Going Back, Those Beautiful Things, Those Loves, and Many Years of Love. Most of the heroes and heroines in the article are familiar figures around us, and the stories they tell are all about each other.

Yu Hua's new book! You must go out and compete with the world! Yu Hua became a famous work! Let the 27-year-old Yu Hua begin to enter the history of contemporary Chinese literature. I felt that although the car was covered in bruises, its heart was still sound and warm. I know my heart is warm too. I've been looking for a hotel, but I didn't expect you to be here. The book includes ten of Yu Hua's most representative short stories, including "Going Away at the Age of Eighteen", "Blood Plum Blossoms", "Past Events and Punishment", and "This Document is for the Girl Willow", which comprehensively presents Yu Hua's writing style when he was young. "Going Away at the Age of Eighteen" writes about every young person's ideals, confusion, disillusionment and growth.

"Jumping Ship" is a collection of short stories and short stories by writer Qiu Song. This book contains several novels written by Qiu Song in recent years. These works mainly focus on Chinese people who first came to New York for business and work in the mid-19th century. It tells the story of their hard work and hard work in a foreign country. The living environment of these Chinese who traveled across the ocean was extremely difficult, and the entrepreneurial environment was very difficult. Some of them failed to start their businesses, but some of them created a new world, established businesses such as traditional Chinese medicine in foreign countries, and promoted many excellent Chinese cultures to the West. It is from this perspective that this novel tells the story of a group of daring Chinese who crossed the ocean and came to Western society in the mid-19th century to start a business. It is a collection of novels that is highly readable and has a wide range of knowledge.

The collection of novels includes stories based on rural areas in the plains, as well as creations inspired by cross-sections of the lives of overseas Chinese in foreign lands. It describes the social landscape of different eras and countries, with many tastes of sour, sweet, bitter and salty, and further explores the living environment and meaning of survival of people at different levels. In terms of reading perspective, readers have the feeling of traveling thousands of miles away.

Deep in the whirlpool of the times, observe the stories of the small town; review folk crafts and experience the various tastes of the world. This book collects a series of small town short stories and short stories written by Wei Ya in recent years, including 7 stories in total: "Town Dancer", "Town Boxer", "Town Ball King", "Town Navy", "Town Kirin" and "Town Caveman". It focuses on folk craftsmen and uses the cultural migration of small towns to reproduce the tortuous development and persistence of traditional skills in the new era. From it, we can see the spiritual aspirations of small town people and the retrospect and inheritance of folk crafts.

The legendary grandmother of the family is about to pass away, and the secret history of past immigration and the treasured time are intertwined and reappeared. In order to have a tryst and avoid surveillance, a university professor exchanges identities with a similar-looking worker, staging a campus black comedy with suspense and espionage elements. The Chinese students returned to their hometown, but became strangers because of their identity and language. They even launched a speeding chase that was almost as fast as an action movie and filled with a dead end escape. This book fully demonstrates Zhang Guixing's short and medium-length skills "beyond the full-length novel", and also allows people to see another side of him that "doesn't have much Malaysian Chineseness". Diverse scenes and local experiences collide to create a vast paradise on paper, and preciously preserve the fearless exploration attitude of a literary master in his youth.

The latest collection of novels selected by Wang Xuan, a powerful writer born after 1985. Ten stories, ten masterpieces. From the world of fireworks to the magic of cyberspace. Ye Zhou, Di An, Shi Yifeng, and Wang Chunlin unanimously recommended it. Traveling between the abyss of the city and the country roads, it is about the twilight of heroes and the depression of poets. About the release of nature and self-salvation, about cyber technology and the grave soil of hometown. This book is the latest collection of novels by the writer Wang Xuan. It contains a total of 10 short stories. The core theme is: directly addressing the dilemmas and embarrassments in contemporary people's real life, aiming to portray the heavy destiny of all living beings.

"Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2021 Novella Volume" selects more than 20 outstanding novellas in 2021, including works by writers such as Fan Xiaoqing, Ai Wei, Hai Fei, Yao Omei, Sun Pin, Xiao Jianghong, Hu Xuewen, etc., Representing the higher level of contemporary Chinese novella creation. The editor-in-chief is Wu Yiqin, the former director of the Museum of Modern Literature, an authoritative literary research institution in China, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, and a famous literary critic. He uses his professional vision to strictly select novellas that are worth reading each year, and attaches them with professional comments.

"Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2021 Short Stories Volume" selects more than twenty outstanding short stories in 2021, including works by writers such as Tie Ning, Feng Jicai, Chi Zijian, Xu Huaizhong, Xu Zechen, Deng Yiguang, etc., Representing the higher level of contemporary Chinese novella creation. The editor-in-chief is Wu Yiqin, the former director of the Museum of Modern Literature, an authoritative literary research institution in China, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, and a famous literary critic. With his professional vision, he strictly selects the short stories worth reading of the year and attaches them with professional comments. The editor-in-chief of "Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2021 Short Stories Volume" is Wu Yiqin, director of the Museum of Modern Literature, an authoritative literary research institution in China, and a famous literary critic. With his professional vision, he strictly selects the most worth-read short stories of the year, and each article is accompanied by professional and exciting comments. It not only summarizes the development and achievements of contemporary Chinese literature, but also brings readers a delicious literary feast.

This book is a collection of original novellas, including "Old Uncle", "Following" and "Family with Children", all of which take "family" as the theme and tell the family and love stories of three current families. "Old Uncle" tells the story of the mid-life crisis and self-salvation of a middle-aged man, "Old Uncle". It won the Excellence Award in the "Diaoyu City" Chinese Creative Writing Competition for College Students, commented by Bi Feiyu, winner of the Contradiction Literature Award. "Following" tells the delicate and subtle family relationship between a grandfather and grandson. It won the annual excellence award in the novel category of the 2018 "Huayi Brothers" Chinese Young New Filmmaker Competition. "Children" tells a touching story of the joys and sorrows of a second-marriage family from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy, and elaborates on the touching theme of "as long as there is love, there is home."

This is a collection of short stories and short stories by Yan Zi, a native Jiangxi writer, which panoramically describes the life of fishermen in Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. It reproduces the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of generations of lake men and fishermen, praising them for not fearing hardships and dangers, fighting strong winds and waves, and continuing the broadness and tolerance of the lake in pain and happiness. It describes the determination of a new generation of fishermen to stick to their hometown, protect every plant and tree in Poyang Lake, and turn Mother Lake into an ecological lake with clear water, blue sky, and the fragrance of birds and flowers.

"Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2020 Novella Volume" selects more than ten outstanding novellas in 2020, including new works by more than 20 famous writers including Fan Xiaoqing, Qiu Shanshan, Ai Wei, Zhang Chu and other Mao Dun Literature Award winners and Lu Xun Literature Award winners, representing the high level of annual novella creation. The editor-in-chief of "Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2020 Novella Volume" is Wu Yiqin, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and a famous literary critic. With his professional vision, he strictly selects the most worth-reading novellas of the year, and each article is accompanied by professional and exciting comments. It not only summarizes the development and achievements of contemporary Chinese literature, but also brings readers a delicious literary feast.

"Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2020 Short Stories Volume" selects more than 20 outstanding short stories in 2020, including new works by more than 20 famous writers including Mo Yan, Wang Meng, Xu Huaizhong, Liang Xiaosheng and other Mao Dun Literature Award winners and Lu Xun Literature Award winners, representing the high level of annual short story creation. The editor-in-chief of "Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2020 Short Stories Volume" is Wu Yiqin, vice president of the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association and a famous literary critic. He uses his professional vision to strictly select short stories worth reading in the year, and each article is accompanied by professional and exciting comments. It not only summarizes the development and achievements of contemporary Chinese literature, but also brings readers a delicious literary feast.

If you haven't been to hell in person, how can you describe the scene of hell? "Hell Transformation" tells the story of a highly skilled painter, Yoshihide, who cruelly sacrificed his daughter in order to pursue the highest realm of art and completed a "Hell Transformation" screen that shocked the world. Through the human tragedy of the painter Yoshihide, we gain insight into the deep ugliness and darkness of human nature, express the life tragedy of a lonely person who is "art for art's sake", and fully demonstrate the lonely core and death fantasy of Akutagawa's literature. The book includes 8 representative works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Hell Transformation", "Spider Thread" and "In the Bamboo Forest", from his talented early stage, the middle stage that juxtaposes ancient and modern times, and the late stage of his heartfelt confession, leading readers to experience the out-of-control human purgatory of greed, anger and ignorance, and to torture their own sincerity in the fire of ignorant karma. Everyone who steps into the gate of hell from the human world thinks that he is the embodiment of justice when he does evil. Attachment is hell, others are hell, and the world is hell.

"Selected Novels of O. Henry" selects dozens of O. Henry's representative short stories such as "The Gift of the Magi", "The Cop and the Hymn", "Twenty Years Later", "Children in the Jungle", "The Drunkard's Will" and "The Double Liar". O. Henry's novels show ironic compassion, unique humor and never-guessed endings. O. Henry's works can give you an unexpected ending every time, leaving you stunned and leaving you alone to think, cry and smile alone.

[Modern sadomasochism + BE aesthetics + rough Chinese literature] Those desperate and passionate loves are the last glory in my pale life! Urban fashion writer VS rural rough young man, tortured to the point of suffocation, love as gorgeous and indulgent as a flash in the pan. I was born like an ant, like falling into the abyss, and I lived passionately in your love. "Beishannan": Urban beauty and columnist Liu Fusheng discovered that her husband had defrauded her of marriage and divorced her. When Liu Fusheng went out to collect news, he ran into the rough male protagonist Zhan Wu, and the two desperate people fell in love passionately. The ex-husband tore up the divorce agreement and falsely accused Liu Fusheng of cheating on her first. Liu Fusheng was separated from his family and suffered from a terminal illness. He wanted to spend his last days with Zhanwu, but accidentally discovered his ex-husband's illegal activities. The ex-husband hired a murderer, and the whereabouts of Liu Fusheng and Zhan Wu are unknown... "Life Planner": If appearance, IQ, emotional intelligence, wealth, and love luck could be reshuffled, how would you choose? Yue Fei, a "flower vase girl" with mediocre work performance, won the "Life Planning Package" and got the opportunity to reallocate her appearance, business intelligence, and luck. With her appearance reduced, she encountered a series of crazy things with the help of her exclusive life planner, Qiao Yice, and finally caught up with the handsome boy Qiao Yice she had a crush on. However, Yue Fei is not Yue Fei, this is just a trick of reversing and reversing again.

"Moral Stories" is a collection of Coetzee's short stories. The Chinese version is introduced for the first time, including "Dogs", "Stories", "Vanity", "When Women Get Old", "Old Women and Cats", "Lies" and "Glass Slaughterhouse", a total of seven stories. The novel uses mother and child, love and desire, youth and aging, and the relationship between humans and animals as entry points. It uses speculative dialogue and psychological portrayal to create a female image with rich heart and distinctive personality. The story is concise but meaningful, presenting Coetzee's deep thinking on the nature of human morality and the situation of life. A reader's comment on the Goodread page reads: "The seven stories are all shallow and profound. Some passages need to be read repeatedly to understand the author's meaning. I will keep this book and read it frequently 20 years later." "When I first heard about Coetzee, the Nobel Prize winner, I thought his novels were difficult and obscure; after reading these stories, I found that his style is actually clear, profound, and light."

The novel collection "The Shape of Heart" can be described as an ukiyo-e of overseas life. The novel focuses on the multiple life styles and intricate relationships of overseas immigrants. Under the broad perspective of world economic integration and cultural globalization, the novel describes the twists and turns of studying abroad, the arduous job hunting and workplace situations, the collision and friction between two generations, the blending and estrangement of Chinese and Western cultures, and the love and hatred of old and new immigrants.

Everyone has their own story, and everyone was once an angel, but she will eventually bid farewell to the sweet singleness of an angel and become a rich, diverse and indescribable herself. Qiao Ye plunges into the depths of life without hesitation, constantly explores and repeatedly observes, captures the undercurrent of the characters' inner world, and writes about the quiet conflicts and waves in the characters' spiritual world. The constriction and openness of life, the collision and game of human nature, slowly unfold in her writings. Qiao Ye plunges into the depths of life without hesitation, constantly explores and repeatedly observes, captures the undercurrent of the characters' inner world, and writes about the quiet conflicts and waves in the characters' spiritual world. The constriction and openness of life, the collision and game of human nature, slowly unfold in her writings.

"No One Dies from a Heartbreak" is a collection of novellas by the famous writer Li Qingyuan, which includes six of his recent or representative novellas. The works are based on the lives of young people today, telling their respective situations in life: in ordinary long years, a series of betrayals and abandonments lead to huge losses and difficulty in breaking out; big crises caused by accidental small misfortunes; unknown truths and sudden and unexpected situations. The tragedy of human relations; the gap between middle-aged people and young children, as well as the embarrassment of their own lives; the young urban sojourner reached a reconciliation with his father and girlfriend during the extremely difficult process of returning to his hometown to "fish" his father from the public security bureau; twenty years have allowed a man to grow into a skilled doctor, an unhappy temporary settler. During a relationship and career crisis, he gained insights into others and himself.

A legendary Irish female writer who has been dormant for many years has been reborn, reviving the great tradition of Irish short stories. An Irish feminist literary pioneer praised by Alice Munro and Edna O'Brien. This book contains a total of 21 short stories, which follow the lives of several middle-class families in a small street in Dublin, describing secular scenes and family relationships with a strong Irish flavor, sometimes intertextualizing and complementing each other. The author uses the most turbulent depression and the most silent passion to connect the life story of a submissive woman, but the wild horse cannot pull anything out of her body. These stories that reflect the author's childhood and even coincide with the lives of her parents are full of miracles; she penetrates into every hidden corner of the relationship between husband and wife, dissects the emotional dust, and forces the secrets out of hiding, while some of the most touching stories are so miraculous that almost nothing happens at all. Its imagery is profound, and its prose is as plain as water but cruelly poignant enough to "prun the hedges." In the words of the New York Times Book Review, it is "enough to bring Brennan back to the world-class banquet of fiction that she has been absent from for so long."

"Mr. Lu Xun in Hangzhou" is Fang Wei's latest collection of short and medium stories. It includes eight works of various themes and types that he has created in recent years, presenting a novel and changeable appearance. "The Profiler's Reminiscence" three hundred years later after the earth has become a giant community, the female writer who was mysteriously murdered at home, the female video writer struggling between the overwhelming reality and the online world, and the fake "Adventures" of Mr. Lu Xun in Hangzhou, the secret of the unexpected disappearance of Yu Dafu in the summer of Sumatra... Fang Wei Freely shuttle between the identity of a writer and a scholar, mixing historical materials and reasoning, time travel and fantasy, collaging historical, contemporary and future elements, using historical fantasy and black humor to launch a general attack on the absurd, nihilistic and boring life, and write another imagination about self, destiny and future.

Nine stories on a small southern island are interconnected like intersecting narrow alleys. In the long past, the life trajectories of the islanders were intertwined with each other. Just like she never expected that the old house in disrepair would collapse on a rainy night and the old mango tree in the courtyard would be cut down, the young girl Ah He never thought that her mother would grow old and her grandma would pass away; the most powerful woman on the island, A Xia, changed a few times as the source of customers changed. Secondary business direction: seafood restaurants, cafes, beverage shops, and B&Bs. One person runs the business in a frightening manner, but in fact there is always a soft Axia hiding under the murderous appearance; the big clock in the market bell tower no longer chimes the time, but after many years the clock The sound rang again, and Jade Rabbit and Tian En had arrived in an adult world different from their parents' generation. They were finally no longer afraid of the legendary green-eyed ghost; Uncle You Cong and the old fairy Miao Xiang came to keep company and started a funeral business. The old man who was healed by others was burdened with unknown pain... With the hustle and bustle of the times, many things on the island have changed, but the wind from the south is still warm and humid, and the fog of mourning and the glimmer of tomorrow will come at the same time as always.

[Japan's top Naoki Award writers have joined forces, Shimamoto Riko, Tsujimura Mitsuki, Miyabe Miyuki, and Mori E are all here! ]Every first time is worth remembering. Four of Japan's top Naoki Prize writers have joined forces to create an ultra-luxurious collection of short stories! Riko Shimamoto, Fazuki Tsujimura, Miyuki Miyabe, and E Mori all used the theme of "stories I read when I first XX" as the theme for the first time to create novels that only belong to the first time. Risao Shimamoto: "This creation is not so much about challenging myself as it is about returning to my origin, turning it into a story about meeting the person I like. In my story, please meet the bond that is closer than love - "The Owner Only for Me."" Tsujimura Fukasuki: " I feel that no matter who you are, you have an experience that changed your life due to a certain encounter. My story only happened one night. It was the story of a girl who ran away from home for the first time and could never return to her former self. I believe that after reading this novel, something will happen to someone. These changes are what I look forward to the most." Miyuki Miyabe: "When I create a story, I always look for music that suits the story. If I can find the right music, then the music will lead me in the right direction. The story comes first, and then the music is born. , It is a completely new experience for me." Mori Eto: "Because it is based on the theme of 'first time', I rarely tried the first setting and told a story about unrequited love that transcends time and space. I hope it can ignite those important moments in readers' lives. "

Taro, who had just divorced, quit his job as a hairdresser and moved to an old two-story apartment in Setagaya District, Tokyo. However, the old apartment was about to be demolished and rebuilt, and the tenants had received their rent refund fees and planned to move out one after another. At this time, he accidentally witnessed the "Chen tenant" Miss Nishi who lived in the apartment cross the wall and planned to break into the empty house next door. Taro, who originally wanted to stop her, learned the reason behind the move from her - it turned out that Ms Nishi was not up to no good, but out of fascination with this ancient bungalow. Later, a couple and two children moved into this uninhabited bungalow for a while, and the empty house became inhabited. Miss Xi got acquainted with the new owner of the house, and entered the house as she wished. She walked on the clean corridor like a pilgrim and sat on the soft and comfortable L-shaped sofa as big as a bed, chatting and laughing with him. After several interactions, the two parties gradually became familiar with each other, but it was not enough for Miss Xi. Her mind was always focused on the mosaic gradient bathroom covered with yellow-green tiles in the photo album. She tried her best to just take a look, so she and Taro Deciding to use a feint to achieve his goal - in the end, both the bungalow and the old apartment were empty, but one night, Taro broke into the courtyard of the empty house without authorization... This book also contains three short stories: "Yarn", "Blind Spot" and "Preparation Before Departure".

One of the annual selection series of "Novel Monthly", including ten novellas and ten short stories selected from the works published in "Novel Monthly" in 2017. The authors include Zhou Lili, Fang Fang, Shuang Shuang Xuetao, Sun Pin, Zhang Yueran, Wang Anyi, You Fengwei, Li Qingyuan, Xiao Qin, Wen Zhen, Qin Ling, Cao Junqing, Su Tong, Zhang Huiwen, Cui Manli, Chen Yonghe, Qian Jianan, Qiu Shanshan, Zhong Qiushi, Ye Zhou, etc.

This book is the first collection of short stories and short stories by young writer Lily Chen. It consists of 10 short and medium stories, namely "Swimming", "The Legend of Penrose", "Presidential Suite", "Chain of Happiness", "River Burial", "The Third Man", "Return", "Ice Sculpture", "Basement" and "Mr. Wang's Father". Lily Chen has a unique vision, showing the daily life of ordinary people in today's society, revealing the thick fireworks of the world in the great era. The novel pays attention to human nature, maintains tolerance, reconciliation, sympathy and compassion. It handles details exquisitely, has delicate psychological description, and the language is poetic. It is an excellent collection of short and medium stories.

"Duck and the Prophet" is the first collection of short stories and short stories by young writer Lin Xiaozhe. It consists of 8 short and medium stories, namely "Duck and the Prophet", "Jiu Nian Ji", "Morpho Butterfly", "I am Sick", "What If", "Inspiration of Music", "Distance" and "Burning". The author is good at describing simple stories in endless twists and turns, making them exciting. While telling ordinary life, he also keenly captures people's psychological flow. The novel has a sophisticated narrative and a gradual pace. It is an excellent collection of short and medium stories.