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Botanist Arizu participated in a voluntary sperm donation when he was young and remembered the name of the recipient Saeko Munemiya. Ten years later, Yujin, who has a happy family, reunites with Saiko, who has become a single mother. Faced with Saiko, who gave birth to his son ten years ago, Yujin can't help but fall deeply in love with her, and they have the fruit of love. However, the fetters of genes and the fate of ethics have plunged Yujin into a deep contradiction. Where will the streets of Hokkaido with lilac petals floating in the air lead him...

Junichi Watanabe's classic prose travelogue. It mainly selects 20 lakes in Hokkaido and Northeastern Japan, showing the unique natural beauty of the lakes in the morning, afternoon and evening, and describing the unpredictable changes in the four seasons under the cover of the lake water. It is so beautiful that it makes people forget to leave. In early spring, Lake Biwa is gentle and calm, dreamlike in the morning glow; in midsummer, Lake Shikotsu is filled with mist and a deep green; in mid-autumn, Lake Toro is calm and elegant, retaining its original natural state; in early winter, Lake Furien, where the blue of the lake and the white of the swans complement each other...

The lead-gray sky and silver-white ice fields depict the winter scenery of the northern coast. With curiosity about drifting ice and a desire to see it, Misa boarded the train to Monbetsu alone. After feasting her eyes, she unexpectedly found a wonderful love affair. The silent and cold Paper Valley and the lively and willful Misa met in a small border town in Hokkaido and sparked the spark of love. After several twists and turns in love, the two people who fell in love with each other finally embraced each other happily... The Drift Ice Journey also staged a touching winter love song against the backdrop of the magnificent northern scenery.

Taki, the heiress of a fan factory in Kyoto, fell in love with Yuzuki, a medical professor whose father was a college student who died in a fight with his younger brother. At this time, a rich man who had given her financial aid to the factory also pursued her fiercely. As her interactions with the two men deepened, Taki gradually discovered that the rich man's pursuit was actually her stepmother's ulterior motive, and Yuzuki's dead son was not her biological child...

The famous Japanese literary master Junichi Watanabe's most emotional and rational insights on love, life and self. After analyzing every detail of life, I discovered that life is such a wonderful polyhedron. Warm and humorous words and forward-looking thinking provide you with more "ideological outlets" for you when you are lost in life...

The elderly apartment located in Ginza, Tokyo, was built by the operator, Kurusu, with the desire to allow the elderly who are no longer bound by work and worldly life to live happily, casually and enjoy life. In the apartment filled with a free and relaxed atmosphere, the established concept of "aging" was completely broken. Revolving around the "love" and "sex" of the elderly, stories that were either tender, desolate, funny or bitter happened one after another...

The doctor quickly sees that Shuhei's family life is the envy of others. His wife's house is beautiful and capable, and his daughter Hiromi is well-behaved and smart. However, he was never satisfied and maintained an underground affair with the married Ye Zi behind his wife's back. He originally felt guilty for his virtuous wife, but accidentally discovered that her wife did not seem to be as law-abiding as she seemed. Faced with the complicated emotional relationship, how should the couple make choices...

Two soldiers whose fates were completely changed due to different orders of surgeries... The ultimate choice of an artist suffering from cancer... "Typical" patients who want to defend their dignity or just live a life... The depravity and revenge caused by love and hatred... Junichi Watanabe's well-known short story collection is not to be missed, including Junichi Watanabe's early works "Light and Shadow", "Death Sentence", "Resistance of the Monkey" and "Association of the Rose".

A young lecturer at a famous medical school, Yusuke Naoe, is academically superb, but suddenly quits his job at the university to work in a little-known private hospital. Because of his cold face and unique personality, he attracted the attention of many women in the hospital. From colleagues to the dean's family and even patients, they all have ambiguous relationships with him... Is it his self-destruction, or is there something else hidden? As X-rays of bones are discovered one after another, the mystery gradually emerges...

People long for beautiful love, but what exactly is "pure love"? How to define "pure love"? Taking human nature as the starting point, Junichi Watanabe launched a series of discussions on "pure love", deeply exploring people's inner value judgments from many aspects such as culture, economy, and social life, so as to answer those confusing questions in the relationship between the sexes. The witty and perceptual essays will make readers laugh and bring them infinite thoughts.

The ultimate goal of love is the mutual consent and union of body and mind. The essence of love is nothing more than the process of realizing the desire of a man and a woman to attract and pursue each other. However, in this process, one cannot just rely on bravery and enthusiasm to charge forward as one wishes, but there are indeed some rules that no one can avoid.

Dr. Nibancho, a surgeon with stunning beauty and a prominent family background, is a popular target in the hospital. However, she has always remained single in the face of many suitors. Nurse Marikata Murakata is full of curiosity about her mysterious charm. In the process of treating dancer Reiko Fukamachi's leg disease, Mariko gradually discovers the extreme emotions and cold heart of Dr. Nibanmachi's beautiful appearance...

Looking back on my youth, there was love and affection, but at the same time there were also a lot of worries, hesitation and confusion. I wrote this book because I wanted to summarize and reflect on everything in my past. The characters and places in the book are not limited to my youth around the age of 20. All the regrets, confusions, homesickness, and resentment I experienced in my teens, thirties, forties, and even today are all recorded in this book. --Junichi Watanabe

Yusa, the successful president of a publishing house in Tokyo, develops a relationship with Kikuno, the proprietress of a long-established restaurant in Kyoto whom he met on a business trip. Ryoko, who witnessed the love story between her mother and Yusa, was at the age when she first fell in love, and fell passionately in love. In the end, the ancient legend about cherry blossoms became a reality for those who were addicted to emotions...

Dizi entered the workplace after graduating from university. Akutsu is Dizi's boss. He has a beautiful wife and a smart child. He lives a happy but dull life. Until one day, he fell in love with Di Zi. In the work interactions, Dizi was gradually impressed by Ajiujin's personality charm, fell in love with him deeply, and longed to possess Ajiujin alone forever. In order to achieve this goal, Di Zi planned a bold action...

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

[Cultivation novel, the heroine has no official partner] Lord Xia Mian "died", and everyone in the world was happy. But she was reborn. She was reborn into a little girl named Yu An, and even she didn't know it. Later, under Tiandao's intentional "reminding", she remembered all the memories about Lord Xia Mian, and began her road to revenge (play) and revenge (jing). But what she didn't expect was that she was...

He was forced to deprive himself of his Tianzun cultivation just to protect his lover! A chance encounter rekindled hope despite being devastated! Within a hundred years, can we break through the avenue and regain our lover?

Qidian Academy is a high-energy process. The protagonists gather here, sign a contract with Qidian, and compile their experiences into literary works. Looking at the library full of stories of the protagonists' seniors, I can't help but doubt life: Who am I? Where am I? What's the starting point? Could it be that my son of destiny is actually a fiction?

"Come here." "What do you want to do?" Fu Ling looked at the hands in front of him with disdain. "I'll take you to the haunted house!" "Are you serious?" "Of course, if you get scared later, just hold on tight." . . . . . . . . . . When the two came out of the haunted house, there was an extra person on Fu Ling's arm, and the originally neat sleeves became messy. Then a certain one lying on Fu Ling's body was messy in the wind

It mainly explains the development process of the war situation from January to June 1941. During this period, the world structure underwent astonishing changes: Germany tore up its previous border agreement and declared war on the Soviet Union. As a result, the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States joined forces to fight against fascist Germany. The two sides fought in open spaces across the Balkans, North Africa, and across the Middle East.

Churchill, one of the eight most persuasive orators in the world over the past century, one of the greatest Britons in history, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book is a panoramic historical masterpiece by the former British Prime Minister and the most authoritative and comprehensive historical review of World War II. It also commemorates the 81st anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. Decipher the little-known inside story of World War II and gain insight into the ever-changing international relations.

In this volume, the author describes the complex relationship between the United States and the Allies, from secretly providing assistance to the Allies, to gradually changing its attitude towards the war as the situation developed, until the "Pearl Harbor incident" that humiliated the United States. The United States, a military power that tried to stay out of the war in the early stages of the war, truly joined the camp of the Allies and participated in the struggle to resist and eliminate fascist Germany and Japan.

It describes Japan's aggression against relevant countries in Asia and the Pacific Rim in the middle of World War II, as well as the different responses of the United States and Britain to this. After long preparations, Japan launched a comprehensive war of aggression in the Asia-Pacific region, causing the United States to pay a heavy price in the Pacific battlefield and causing Britain to suffer huge losses in Southeast Asia. At that time, the world situation was entering an extremely anxious period. From China to Myanmar, from Malta to Madagascar, everyone was involved in this unpredictable melee. In addition, the book also reflects the key role China played in resisting Japanese aggression.

From June to December 1943, the Allied forces worked together to conquer Sicily and force Mussolini to collapse, thus further tightening the encirclement of Nazi Germany. As the war situation gradually became clearer, the prototype of the post-World War II international order took shape. The tracking reproduces the entire process of the Allies' victory over Italy, touching on the complex and delicate relationships between the United States, Britain, France and other Allied powers.

It leads readers into the stalemate stage in the middle of World War II and into the arduous and spectacular historical landscape on the African battlefield. At that time, after withstanding the initial fierce offensive of the fascist countries, the Allies gradually gained a foothold. Eisenhower led his troops into North Africa and reversed the situation in Africa in one fell swoop; Churchill successively visited Moscow and Washington, demonstrating magnificent great-power diplomacy. At the same time, the romantic Casablanca and the mysterious Katyn, Poland, these familiar place names are looming in the book.

"Churchill's Memoirs of World War II 12: The Iron Curtain" records the magnificent history before the Allied forces were about to achieve total victory in the late World War II: the successful convening of the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Red Army's march to Berlin, the defeat and surrender of German fascism, the friction between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japan and the impact of the Potsdam Proclamation. At the same time, it also shows the complex and subtle relationships within the Allies. Although a series of international conferences established a new order, the barriers and contradictions between the Western world and the Soviet Union have never been eliminated. The world was ruthlessly divided into two halves by the "Iron Curtain".

"Disqualification in the World" (also known as "Disqualification as a Human Being") was published in 1948. It is an autobiographical novel. The delicate autobiography reveals the ultimate decadence and is a destructive masterpiece. Dazai Osamu skillfully hides his life and thoughts in the life experience of the protagonist Ye Zang. Through Ye Zang's monologue, we can peek into Dazai Osamu's inner world, a "life full of shame." In the same year that this work was published, Osamu Dazai committed suicide.

As the author Canetti said, if you want to describe a person truthfully, you can write an entire book. Even so, the person is still not described in detail. But if people explore how they remember a person, they will find that what makes a person unique is a few characteristics. In this book, "Ear Witness", Canetti describes, or "invents" fifty kinds of personalities, which are extremely reflected in individual people and become their respective personality labels, such as "Celebrity Licker", "Tear Stoker", "Blatant Eyes", "Disaster Observer", "Intoxicated Man", "Nothing Virgin", etc. These seemingly exaggerated labels are actually extremely real in nature. They are all components of human nature. Perhaps every reader can identify themselves and see themselves in several or even more labels that may be cute, absurd, despicable, or ugly. This collection of character sketches was written in 1974. Its greatest feature is the combination of humorous writing and pungent satire.

"Rong Zhai Essays" is an ancient Chinese classical Chinese notebook novel. A total of "Wubi", 74 volumes, 1220 articles. Among them, "Rong Zhai's Essays" has 16 volumes and 329 items; "Rong Zhai's Continuing Writings" has 16 volumes and 249 items; "Rong Zhai's Three Strokes" has 16 volumes and 248 items; "Rong Zhai's Four Strokes" has 16 volumes and 259 items; "Rong Zhai's Five Strokes" has 10 volumes and 135 items. According to the autobiography of the author Hong Mai of the Song Dynasty, "Rong Zhai Essays" was written over nearly 40 years. It is the culmination of his many years of extensive reading and practical wisdom and sweat.

"Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" is a short story in Chinese classical Chinese that was written in the form of notes by Ji Yun, who was a scholar in the Hanlin Academy between the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong (1789) and the third year of Jiaqing (1798) in the Qing Dynasty. In terms of time, it mainly collects and compiles the folk tales of various foxes, ghosts and gods, karma, admonishing good and punishing evil, etc. Before and after that era, or strange anecdotes heard personally; in terms of space and geography, the scope covers the whole of China as far away as Urumqi, Yining, and south to Yunnan and Guizhou.

Gu Qingjue: I know that Your Highness is extremely powerful, but the affairs of this world will not always be under your control alone. There will always be that one person that you... Can't get; there will always be that one thing that no matter how much you turn your hands over, you can't... Turn things around.

Benjamin's thoughts are famous for their complexity, strangeness and unpredictable changes, and the thought of redemption is a thread that runs throughout. Taking salvation as the perspective, this book collects important documents on Benjamin's literary criticism, trying to show the trajectory of the thought of salvation in the field of literary criticism and gain a glimpse of Benjamin's overall thought. The objects of Benjamin's literary criticism are all giants of modern Western literature, such as Goethe and Holderlin. They are also thinkers who diagnose and treat the crisis of Western modernity. Therefore, this book actually provides us with a topographic map for interpreting modern Western thought and literature.

This book is "one of the most outstanding pictures" in Balzac's "Human Comedy". The novel narrates a story of money destroying human nature and causing family tragedy. It revolves around the central event of Eugenie's love tragedy, and uses three intertwined plot threads to connect the novel: the waves caused by the autocracy within the Grandet family, the open and secret fights between the bankers and notaries outside the family, and the painful life experience of Eugenie's love for Charles Grandet and Charlie's betrayal.

"Oliver Twist" is a realistic novel published by the British writer Dickens in 1838. Set in the foggy city of London, it tells the story of an orphan's tragic life experience and experiences. The protagonist Oliver grew up in an orphanage, experienced an apprenticeship, escaped with difficulty, fell into a den of thieves by mistake, and was forced to work with vicious murderers. He went through countless hardships. Finally, with the help of kind people, he found out his life experience and gained happiness. Like Dickens' other novels, this book exposes many social problems of the time, such as workhouses, child labor, and gangs recruiting young people to participate in crime. This book has been adapted into movies, television and stage plays many times.

This book is the work of Emily Brontë, one of the Brontë sisters, a British female writer. The novel describes the story of Heathcliff, an abandoned gypsy boy who was adopted by the old owner of the mountain villa. Due to humiliation and failed love, he went out to get rich. When he came back, he took revenge on the landowner Linton and his children who married his girlfriend Catherine.

This book is the representative work of the famous British female novelist Jane Austen. This work uses daily life as the material. It goes against the content and artificial writing methods of sentimental novels that were popular in the society at that time. It vividly reflects the conservative and closed-off British rural life and world conditions from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century.

"Gulliver's Travels" is an outstanding travel satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. It expresses the author's thoughts in a relatively perfect artistic form. The author uses rich satirical techniques and bizarre plots of fictional fantasy to profoundly analyze the social reality of Britain at that time.

This book is one of the most popular works by French science fiction writer Jules Verne. The protagonist Ford made a bet with his friends that he would travel around the world and return to London in 80 days. He and his servant Passepartout tried every means to overcome all the difficulties on the road, but they were still five minutes late when they arrived in London.

"Chernobyl: A Tragic History" is a new masterpiece by Harvard University professor Shahili Ploki. It is an authoritative historical work on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its geopolitical impact. Professor Puluoji used newly disclosed government files and a large number of interviews with survivors to describe in detail the background, causes, process, and follow-up of the Chernobyl incident, as well as its profound impact on humans, nature, and the international community. The book involves more than 400 characters, ranging from national leaders to ordinary people. All the people of all colors involved in this nuclear disaster are described, all loud and weak voices are recorded, and all vague and one-sided understandings are clarified.

When Lessing looked back at the 20th century and her own life, she saw a series of large-scale mass events, a dance of emotions, and a flurry of fanatical partisan enthusiasm. The constant occurrence of these things prevents us from thinking rationally. In this book, Lessing addresses the major question we as humans currently face: How often do we fall under the sway of our savage instincts? How can advances in psychology and technology be used by experts to turn them into tricks on us? How did we become prisoners of group consciousness, repeating the history of party unity and opposition? By sharing her life experience, political life, ideological process, and keen observation of society, combined with the latest psychological experiments and interesting historical anecdotes, Lessing drew a portrait of this divided era and also provided us with a new possibility of examining the world and ourselves.

"Contemporary Heroes" consists of five relatively independent but mutually echoing short and medium-length stories: "Bella", "Maxim Maximich", "Taman", "Princess Merry" and "The Fatalist". It is the culmination of Lermontov's literary creation and pioneered Russian social psychological novels. The novel outlines a group portrait of the elite of an era through the experience of the protagonist Bi Qiaolin, reflecting the writer's thinking on the philosophical proposition of "individual existence" that is closest to the present and most oriented to eternity. It is an epoch-making work with exquisite artistic structure and profound ideological connotation. Guided by Professor Zhang Jianhua. Zhang Jianhua: Professor of the History Department of Beijing Normal University. His main research fields are Russian (Soviet Union) ideological and cultural history, Russian (Soviet Union) diplomatic history, Sino-Russian relations history, Russian Sinology history, and modern and contemporary world history.

This book is Balzac's masterpiece. It is based on the French society during the Bourbon Restoration. Through the shaping of "typical characters in typical environments", it depicts a panoramic view of Parisian society that uses money as a lever: "Balzac's character is not just a character, but a typical example of the era. The tragic factors are not limited to personal temperament, but especially the licentious and corrupt social environment. Madame Beauseant represents the declining nobility. The family ends up in seclusion, and Rastignac and Vautrin represent the two styles of the emerging class: one penetrates into society like a plague, and the other blasts into society like a cannonball. The interplay between the struggle of careerists for fame and fortune and the desperate fatherly love of Goriot make the content of the novel even more bizarre and touching." The translator Chen Jing is an associate professor of French at Beijing International Studies University, and her main research interests are French women's literature and comparative literature. The guide, Wu Yuetian, is a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a doctoral supervisor, the president of the French Literature Research Association in China, and a member of the Chinese Writers Association.

In the United States in the 1920s, the air was filled with singing and drinking. By chance, the poor clerk Nick breaks into the secret world of the spendthrift tycoon Gatsby. He is surprised to find that the only connection in his heart is the little green light on the opposite bank of the river - in the flickering light, lives his beloved Daisy. However, the cold reality cannot tolerate vague dreams. In the end, the goddess in Gatsby's heart is just a material girl in the earthly world. When all the truth is revealed, Gatsby's tragic life is like fireworks. The brilliance is only for a moment, and the disillusionment is eternal. A gorgeous "Jazz Age" elegy, written by Fitzgerald like a poem and a dream, leaving a deep mark on the history of contemporary American literature.

This book is a long historical romance novel of the Qing Dynasty, with a total of one hundred chapters and 665,000 words. It is a novel with dual characteristics of heroic legend and historical romance. Taking the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty as the background of the story, it tells a historical romance about the fall of the Sui Dynasty and the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, recreating that historical era with great changes and numerous heroes.

This book is the debut novel of contemporary French female writer Inés Bayard. It was shortlisted for France's most important literary award in 2018, the Prix Goncourt. With the writing style and courage to face reality directly, the novel tears apart the veil of tenderness in life and tells a tragedy caused by sexual assault. In a literary way, this book reveals the unimaginable physical and mental harm and unspeakable pain that women suffer after being sexually assaulted, as well as the sad attitude of the whole society towards sexual assault in the context of the prevalence of feminism. In a deeper sense, "Hidden Pain" reveals the tragedy of relationships between people, not only between perpetrators and victims, but also existential tragedies between relatives and relatives, friends and friends, and even the changes in people's (victims') cognition of the meaning of self and others. Inés Bayar shows readers the huge and complex black hole in life with a writing style that is so cold that it is almost cruel and horrifying.

This book is a biographical novel written by Zoya and Shura's mother, Liu Kosmodemyanskaya, describing how Zoya and Shura grew up to become heroes of the former Soviet Union's Patriotic War. Main story: Sudden artillery fire disrupted the peaceful life of Zoya and Shula's family. The two siblings used their actual actions to write the most touching answer to life. Youth, life, sunshine, and smiling faces disappeared in the flames of war, leaving behind the brave and fearless righteousness of the two little heroes. They were the two children's deepest love for their motherland, everyone around them, and their mother.

"Oliver Twist" is the first socially critical novel by the British writer Dickens. It is set in the foggy city of London and tells the story of the tragic life experience and experiences of orphan Oliver. Oliver grew up in an orphanage and worked as an apprentice in a funeral parlor when he was only nine years old. Unable to bear the abuse, he fled to London alone, and was tricked by thieves into becoming their accomplice. Despite all kinds of inhuman hardships, Oliver still sticks to his inner innocence and kindness. This persistence finally helped him wait for a bright future: Mr. Brownlow, Mrs. Merrie and others provided a helping hand in time; at the same time, the truth about Oliver's strange life experience was also revealed step by step. While the novel profoundly reveals social ills, it also leaves a series of vivid characters in the history of British literature, and has been deeply loved by readers for more than a hundred years.

"Story of Stones from Other Mountains" is one of Yuwen Suo'an's most well-known works and has always been highly praised. This is not only due to the translator's high-quality and delicate writing style, but also to its own academic value. The articles in the book can be divided into two categories: one is a close reading and interpretation of specific texts and famous articles - "The Book of Songs", "Zuo Zhuan", Sima Qian, Liu Xie, Li Shangyin, "The Peach Blossom Fan", etc. - Which contain the author's historicist interpretation. The other type is macro-thinking, rethinking the history of literature and literary history writing. In articles such as "Huluo's Literary History", he made an overall reflection on the traditional vitality of Chinese literary history, and made a breakthrough in exploring the value of Chinese literature and cultural traditions in the context of globalism. As a "stone from other mountains", Yuwen Suo'an uses a global cultural perspective, rich historical imagination, and novel and eye-catching perspectives to impact our usual understanding of literary history.