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The Sun Turns (collector's Edition)

Fan Wen

237K0

Starting from the "Tibetan Trilogy", entering the scene of life and profound national cultural heritage have always been the distinctive features of Fan Wen's literary creation. In the creation of poverty alleviation themes, he still walks persistently. Fan Wen focuses on the current era and life, and narrates the epic of poverty alleviation that is both sad and moving but also full of high morale. The novel starts with a missing child case and tells the tortuous story of a retired policeman who, driven by a sense of responsibility and justice, persists in tracking the case until the truth comes to light. Enthusiastic, kind and honest people not only recovered the missing children, but also recovered the long-standing folk culture and national traditions. As the sun turns around this land, people's lives are also undergoing earth-shaking changes.

Regret Record

Regret Record

General Fiction

Thing

173K0

"Regret" tells the story of Zeng Guangxian who missed the girl who boldly confessed her love to him because of his helplessness and fear; but his extremely active desire caused him to blindfold his eyes and enter the room of the woman he admired. He was falsely accused and imprisoned for doing nothing. However, he gained steadfast love through the bars. But after he was released from prison, everything was still a mirage. Zeng Guangxian regretted every step he took, and regret became his life state. "Regrets" is one of the writer Dongxi's masterpieces. The novel uses Zeng Guangxian's growth as a clue to create an absurd and humorous reading atmosphere, showing the tears and laughter, crying and sadness of a generation's life. "Regrets" won the "Beijing News" 2005 Good Book Literary Book Award. The author won the "2005 Novelist" award at the 4th Chinese Media Festival for this book.

Walk Towards the Sun

Walk Towards the Sun

General Fiction

Yan Xinghua

132K0

"Walking toward the Sun" is a long documentary novel based on the personal experience of Comrade Han Lei (1920-2021), the former deputy governor of the People's Bank of China and the former president of the Agricultural Bank of China. It mainly tells the story of the protagonist Han Yutian who returned from Vietnam to join the revolution in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. Han Yutian, whose ancestral home is Nanhai, Guangdong, was born into a wealthy businessman family in Haiphong, Vietnam. At the age of 17, he embarked on a journey to return to his country to fight against Japan with a patriotic heart. At Shanbei Public School, Han Yutian's spirit was baptized and he officially became a glorious Communist Party member. During the war of resistance against Japan, Han Yutian was not only an outstanding soldier, but also became one of the first batch of financial talents trained by the Communist Party of China. He was responsible for important work at the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Bank and the North China Bank. After the founding of New China, Han Yutian became a member of the construction army of the People's Bank of China and embarked on a new journey as a red banker.

Nightingale

Nightingale

General Fiction

J

260K0

One summer morning, no one noticed that the peaceful life of a family living in the French countryside began to change. Sister Wei An has a happy family. She is gentle and modest, and manages her hard-won life carefully. The younger sister Isabel is young and energetic. After losing her mother and being abandoned by her father, she seems to be the enemy of the whole world and never gives in to setbacks. The two depend on each other, but they are critical of each other's lives. At this time, the war spread to the entire Paris, and everything became beyond recognition. Isabel has never given up her determination to fight, while Wei An only hopes that the family can live in peace. For this reason, they have constant differences and conflicts. The two people with very different personalities finally made different choices and faced their own destiny...

Paris Library

Paris Library

General Fiction

(u. S.) Janet Skathlin Charles

215K01

In the late 1930s, Odile, a girl who lived in a middle-class family in Paris and loved reading, applied for a job as a librarian at the América Library in Paris with her love for books. Although she has real troubles from life and growing up, she also gains friendship and love. After the Nazis occupied Paris, Odile and her colleagues who were both teachers and friends devoted themselves to maintaining the operation of the library, just to provide the last spiritual refuge for the Paris people. However, the subsequent changes caused Odell's life to fall apart, and she had to leave her hometown... In the 1980s, in Floyd, a small town in Montana, the United States, the girl Lily faced the troubles of adolescence: the death of her mother made her suddenly face the separation of life and death. , Her father's remarriage left her at a loss for new family relationships, and the social pressure of her peers turned the campus into a Shura field... One afternoon, Lily, a girl trapped in a complicated and mediocre life, accidentally broke into the home of Odell, who lived alone, and accidentally prevented a suicide. Since then, the life trajectories of two women with different cultural backgrounds have been intertwined, creating a history of spiritual growth spanning half a century.

Youthful and Noble

Youthful and Noble

General Fiction

Public Yanshi

234K0

"Youth and Nobility" is a novel about inspiration and love. After graduating from university, Wu He and Lin Xuan joined Jiangdong Metropolis Daily as reporters at the same time. One of them was too simple and straightforward, and the other was unruly. Their outstanding abilities created obstacles for their development. Wu Ore persisted in his original intention and successfully competed for the position of director of the Current Affairs and News Department, but was forced to re-plan his future a year later. Lin Xuan could not bear a life without a future and took the initiative to resign. However, after he succeeded in starting a business, he could not let go of his feelings for the journalism industry. The two college students also performed their own love stories while starting their careers. Lin Xuan worked hard to pursue the dance queen Zhao Xiaomeng, forcing Li Li, who was once a childhood sweetheart and a perfect match, to let go of him. Wu Huo slowly walked away from the "qualification theory of love" and no longer looked up to Li Li, and became a warm support when she was in desperate need of care. Newcomers in the workplace always have to grow up in constant integration with society. In this process from innocence to maturity, what touches the soul the most is the beauty of innocence and youth. Youth is valuable in learning, and life grows because of youth.

Wait

Wait

General Fiction

Children's Leather

284K0

The novel uses a policeman's marriage and four loves as the main line to describe an embarrassing situation that everyone will encounter: people need the emotion of love throughout their lives, but they are all trapped by the emotion of love. Novels outside the main plot also narrate the ups and downs of the protagonist's career. The theme is intended to illustrate that all life is a waiting process. The waiting process may be anxious and painful, but as long as you don't give up hope, what you wait for in the end may be unexpected beauty and sweetness. The novel is set in Zhengzhou, and the narrative also emotionally describes the changes in Zhengzhou's reform and opening up over the past thirty years and some major cases that occurred in Zhengzhou during this period. The overall style is positive and uplifting, without any false or empty content.

Woman in War

Woman in War

General Fiction

J

217K0

War is one country trampling on another country, one mother's child trampling on another mother's child; and a woman's body is another invisible battlefield. 1943, Rome. Although World War II had broken out, Cecila and her daughter Rosetta were unaware of the war approaching Rome. But soon, prices rose and food became scarce. In order to avoid starvation or being killed by planes, the mother and daughter fled to the countryside in a hurry. Along the way, the mother and daughter witnessed people betraying each other for petty profits, and also witnessed the degradation of kindness and integrity. Fortunately, they survived famine and war, and waited for news of the end of the war; unfortunately, on their way home, a greater disaster was waiting for them not far away.

Maling Road

Maling Road

General Fiction

Hu Xingcheng

47K0

"Maling Road" is a novel that fully reflects the writer's extraordinary historical imagination. The novel centers on two objects, the silhouette play that has disappeared in the depths of history and the opera "Maling Road" that has been sung from ancient times to the present. It tells the story of the ups and downs of the protagonist Ding Rucheng's fate. Ding Rucheng's life is exactly like the story told in the opera "Maling Road". Ding Rucheng's biological mother Yu Xiangzhi is an excellent opera actress and especially likes to sing "Maling Road". Ding Rucheng grew up listening to his father and mother singing this opera. The novel contains both realism and imagination, and the two intersect to bring readers a novel reading experience.

Clean Face

Clean Face

General Fiction

Tao Liqun

41K0

This is a realistic novella by the famous writer Tao Liqun. It tells the daily life of Mrs. Mo, a clean-faced person. The profession of facial cleanser is to clean the body of people who are about to die. Mrs. Mo has been engaged in this profession for more than 40 years. She sends the people who are about to die cleanly away, but it is difficult for her to live a normal life again. She had to learn to get along with animals and plants that could not speak, learn to get along with isolation and loneliness, and learn to get along with a series of old and sick. It was in this situation that the author used quiet and meticulous pen and ink to describe the fate of Mrs. Mo, a clean-faced person, bit by bit, and tried to explore the process of her reconciliation with her own destiny.

Dream Chaser

Dream Chaser

General Fiction

Luo Ye

93K0

"Dream Chaser" is a novel with realistic themes and is the first full-length work to reflect the struggle history of young Internet entrepreneurs in China. Ye Xihu started selling clothes in an online store when he was in college. He made short videos with Yu Hang and became popular on the Internet. He became the first generation of Internet celebrities in China. After graduating from college, he started his own business and earned a considerable income. Yu Hang encountered difficulties in finding a job, but by chance, he joined a film and television company and was assigned to the crew. He met all kinds of people and began to learn how to write scripts and became a screenwriter. When Ye Xihu's online store was booming, he lost money due to too much inventory, so he had no choice but to work in a cosmetics company. A year later, Ye Xihu did not forget his original intention and came to Hangzhou Dream Town to start a business again. He used Internet sales ideas to sell Chinese cosmetics brands to the international market. Ye Xihu and Yu Hang worked hard together in Hangzhou. They had the same dream, hoping to shine some light in the city and guide the way for the young people who would follow.

Record of Grinding Mirror in Mortal World

Su Xun

103K0

The protagonist Jialiu has been obsessed with antiquities since he was a child. Later, he met the master Teacher Yu. Jialiu has achieved great success in the torrent of the times, but he has also lost himself in the glitz and glamor of the world. In his twilight years, Jialiu compiled his many years of collecting and appreciating experience into a book and presented it to the country together with the family collection that he spent a lot of money on, in order to comfort his late master and return to himself. The fates of different characters in the book are intertwined, reflecting the brilliance of history and the times like a prism. It not only provides a comprehensive and in-depth portrayal of the antique trade, but is also full of feelings about family and country and profound philosophical thoughts.

One Water and Three Waves

Hu Xuewen

56K0

The novel tells the story of a boy Ruan Ping's misplaced life as he grew up. Ruan Ping's father died unexpectedly during the college entrance examination, and his life took a turn. Entering a meat factory and getting married is basically a passive capture of life. The choice to kill pigs seems to be proactive, but it is actually a passive resistance to reality rather than out of true love; the choice to marry Pan Meihong is due to moral guilt, fear and desire rather than true love; the reason for running away three times is not because of a clear direction in life, but because of the inability to endure the suffocating trivial life. In its dense narration, the novel highlights Ruan Ping's extremely dramatic life, and uses a narrative technique that seems both real and illusory to express the confusion and helplessness of personal life.

Go to Bahrain and Find a Tree

Xiao Qin

35K0

The novel tells the story of the protagonist Huang Gardenia's rough and passionate life. Her mother passed away before the college entrance examination. She did not ask for the principal's support. After finishing college, she also developed a strong character who would rather be a kapok than a Lingxiao. Her first love broke up and she became a single mother. She wanted to entrust her children and inheritance to a reliable person before her death, but her colleagues, first love, and ex-boyfriend all let her down. Her work partner and boss asked her to go to the Middle East to see a tree. Huang Gardenia finally found the courage to fight the disease. The novel is about love, affection, and life. In the end, answers and hope are found in a tree. The plot of the novel is tortuous, the characters are full, the story is strong and intriguing.

Limonium

Limonium

General Fiction

Yin Xueyun

42K0

The novel's vertical and horizontal strokes, against the profound and broad background of the times, present the estrangement between father and son, the emotional structure of incomprehension and reconciliation, and the entanglements between three families. The brother-sister relationship between Gui Erkui and Tuntun is superimposed on the history of their fathers' response to the country's call to "support the border areas." Through the obsession of "beating flags" in the hearts of their fathers, they demonstrate their unwillingness and unrepentant sadness. At the end of the novel, Gui Erkui's cry at his father's funeral shows the reconciliation between history and reality achieved through family ties as a bond. Although this novel is about family love, what makes it seem heavy is history. It is the history deep in reality that makes this novel particularly desolate and profound. The plot of the novel is tortuous, the characters are full, the story is strong and intriguing.

Licorice Flavor

Licorice Flavor

General Fiction

Liu Jiandong

34K0

"The Taste of Licorice" is set against the background of reform and opening up, and describes the ups and downs of Qin Dagui, a farmer entrepreneur, and Dong Yaoxian, an intellectual who became a doctor through self-study. The description of the novel is delicate and the plot is fascinating. It also shows the struggle and growth of characters in different fields in the era of reform and opening up.

Our Natasha

Our Natasha

General Fiction

Jiang Yun

32K0

This is a novella that tells the poignant life story of Natasha. Natasha followed her husband and married away from home. Many years later, her husband died, and her son was accidentally disabled and ran away from home. Natasha, who was far away from her hometown, lived alone in this strange city. Du Ruo and Jiang Youyou had some intersections with Natasha's life because they loved Natasha's son. In order to comfort the mother, they went out together to go on outings and compete in cooking skills. In the end, Natasha died of illness, but there was a restaurant called "Our Natasha" in this city. The author extracts legends from ordinary life, looks back at the past era with a poetic touch, creates the steadfastness of love with a sentimental style, and depicts the pain of life with a tone that still wants to talk about it. The novel is warm and delicate, the language is beautiful, the characters are full and vivid, and it is full of romanticism.

The Sky is the Limit

The Sky is the Limit

General Fiction

Zheng Xiaolu

44K0

"Falling Flowers" is based on realism and constructs a self-contained small world. The background of the novel is a village called Shuichu. The author created portraits of various characters living in this village, such as "I", second uncle, younger sister, Chunhua, second husband, Sanjiao, Shuilian, Mihua, etc., And told various stories between these characters. Most of the time, this place is isolated from the world and is an independent world, but occasionally it is connected to the outside world and is shaken by the outside world. A kaleidoscope-like rural scene slowly unfolds under the writer's pen, with the past and the present, both realistic and full of imagination. The novel's narrative is sophisticated, its rhythm is gradual, and its artistic techniques are mature.

Baobab Tree

Baobab Tree

General Fiction

Li Gongsheng

178K0

The novel tells the experience of the first batch of Chinese entrepreneurs who went to Africa in the 1990s, and shows the pioneering and struggle of this group of Chinese people with courage, courage, kindness, integrity, and keen business acumen in Angola, Africa, for decades. They experienced setbacks such as illness, accidents, and business failures, and overcame countless difficulties such as difficult living conditions, poor living environments, and different cultural customs, and finally achieved success. Although the process of starting a business was full of hardships, they relied on the spirit of facing difficulties and never giving up, creating one "Chinese miracle" after another, making outstanding contributions to the construction of Angola and the friendship between the Chinese and African people, and proving the correctness of the great initiative of "One Belt, One Road" with practice. It demonstrates the ability of Chinese people in Africa to adapt to the living environment and social development, like the baobab tree unique to Africa, as well as the national characteristics of tolerance, unity and harmony with others.

Eraser

Eraser

General Fiction

Fan Wen

37K0

The novel describes an attempted home invasion. Brothers Bai Jinhua and Bai Yinhua, migrant workers, were forced by life to break into the house and rob Hong Hanlin, an elderly man living alone who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. However, they were mistaken by the old man for one of their relatives, and were finally moved by the old man's simple and true feelings. The author is cleverly conceived, using a remote home monitoring system as the framework, starting with sin and ending with true love, with many collisions of true love and evil mixed in. In the end, the "eraser" erases the evil, leaving true love. The novel observes reality and highlights the life problems of the elderly living alone, represented by Hong Yulin, and the education problems of the children of people who work in the city, represented by Bai Jinhua. The characters are full of vividness and have long meanings.

Basan's Sea

Basan's Sea

General Fiction

Helergena

36K0

This is a broad, compassionate and solemn grassland story: Basang, with his mutilated body, breaks free from the cage of bleak fate again and again, singing a long song of breaking through the shackles and growing tenaciously. Basang longed for the majesty of his father and the vastness of the sea, and forged his life to be extremely tenacious. He sympathized with the weak and sympathized with all living beings. He gave integrity to the incomplete, regained the lost, dignity to the humiliation, and gave more warmth and kindness to all things in the vast world. With its ups and downs yet calm and exquisite structure, unexpected yet well-rounded narrative style, rich and deep emotions and extremely poetic details, Heilegen preaches that only love can become the light, strength and eternal return.

Frozen Soil Observation Section

Dong Xia Qingqing

30K0

This manuscript is a realistic novel. Among the frozen soil of the plateau and on the border of the motherland, garrison soldier Xu Yuanyi died heroically in a fierce conflict. His comrades found a brief letter home from him on the cigarette case in his pocket. The letter simply recorded his pride as a soldier. Xu Yuanyi's death not only continued to cause pain among his comrades, but also prompted everyone to rethink everything related to themselves. In the novel, "Xu Yuanyi" is not only a name or a character, but also a symbol and a belief. Through Xu Yuanyi's personal choices and integrity, the author shows the noble character and heroic feelings of the border guards and soldiers defending their homeland.

Erosion

Erosion

General Fiction

Liang Hong

34K0

Liang Hong narrates the vicissitudes of life of little people and the trivialities of life with compassion and compassion. The novel uses the day before Yang Yousheng's work report as the narrative space to tell the story of his bleak life experiences. Yang Yousheng always sees people who once appeared in his life at night. These real and illusory people add up to his desolate and meaningless life. "Erosion" sees the big from the small, and deeply analyzes the psychological state of men who have lived in a stable and comfortable environment for a long time, are timid and fragile when facing setbacks, and are addicted to emptiness and pain and cannot extricate themselves from the mid-life crisis.

Situation Like Mine

Situation Like Mine

General Fiction

(norwegian) Per Patterson

124K0

Alvey Janssen's life was like a mess. His parents and brother were killed in a shipwreck. Misfortunes never come singly. His wife Tuli filed for divorce and took away his three daughters. A year later, Alvey still failed to recover from the blow. He wandered the streets in a daze, anesthetizing himself in alcohol, women and long driving. "Of course I can pretend that I don't feel pain, that's my specialty." But the dull pain brewed more and more intensely in the city center at midnight and in the Mazda at dawn. When the short-term happiness and the long-lasting pain were closely intertwined, he tried to hold on to something, but he could not simply abandon the past and face the future. The bleak life was going to go on, but an unexpected phone call from his ex-wife Tuli dragged Alvi out of the water and forced him to face all the things life had brought to him. As consciousness repeatedly wanders between memories and reality, the pain gradually emerges from the paper, cruel but hard to let go. "I must save myself." But this time, how should he save himself?

Shui Shuo

Shui Shuo

General Fiction

Tongsheng

156K0

"Shui Shuo" is the story of one person and a microcosm of a generation of Chinese students born in 1995. The whole story unfolds from the perspective of Zheng Xinran, an international student. She studied abroad when she was young, worked hard to learn English, imitated the local accent, understood the customs, and tried to integrate into the new environment. After many attempts, I discovered that there were invisible but solid barriers between different cultures, so I chose to give up on being "assimilated". After going through various twists and turns in study, life, and internship, I returned to my country, but it didn't go smoothly either. The number of international students is increasing, and the quality varies greatly. Some are genuine and some are seriously watered down. Among them, the discussion about "water master's degree" is becoming increasingly fierce. Is she Shuishuo? The content of the course is in English. I graduated with distinction in both my undergraduate and master's degrees. I try my best to work in the workplace. I face it calmly when things go against my expectations. I accept that I will eventually be ordinary. I often find the warmth and beauty in the subtleties of life. Isn't she Shuishuo? I encountered obstacles one after another in finding a job, I was disappointed in my work as a secretary, my English interpretation was like a disaster scene, my emotional intelligence was so low that I contradicted my seniors in public, and I was on the verge of being "optimized" by the company several times. Who defines Shui Shuo? This book puts forward the definition of "Shui Shuo" for the first time and looks forward to readers' discussions. What exactly is Shui Shuo? Everyone has their own answer.

Pass

Pass

General Fiction

Guo Haihong

135K0

The novel "Passing the Passage" takes the interaction between two families and two generations in Shenzhen and Hong Kong as the main line, and writes about the beautiful feelings, pure love and the entrepreneurial journey of young people in the integrated development of Shenzhen and Hong Kong under the background of the new era. The life encounters between Zhu Charlie and his son and Li Gaimei's family are both dramatic and accidental, and also reflect the universality of the social development of the times. The novel not only shows the emotional and spiritual world of the characters, but also reflects the complexity and treachery of business activities. It not only observes the happiness of marriage and love of the elderly, but also presents the hardships of young people in their careers. It has many elements of dramatic conflicts and expressions of the times. The author's writing style is delicate, and he has a precise grasp and expression of human nature. He has created three-dimensional and rich portraits of characters such as Li Gaimei, Zhu Charlie, and Professor Zhang, showing their different spiritual worlds. At the same time, it also has a comprehensive and profound understanding of the grand era, and writes about the complex texture of the urban commercial field. It is an excellent work with a warm sense of the times and a vivid presentness. "Passing the Passage" is about the interactions of a limited number of people, but what it reveals is a big theme, namely the coordinated development of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

Seventy Lines (complete Collection)

He Wei

563K0

This book is a biographical novel, based on the author's own experience, showing the growth experience of the generation born in the 1970s. The protagonist, Lu Yunhong, was born in a peasant family and changed her destiny through studying. After experiencing a series of emotional turmoil, family changes, entrepreneurial setbacks and health crises, she gained spiritual experience and sublimation, and gained deeper thinking about life and society. This novel also reflects the changes of the times and the transformation of people in them.

Troubleshooter: I Open a Master House in the City

Lin Huan

74K0

Lin Huan, a Beijing girl suffering from social phobia, resigned and became a "high-end nomad". Later, she was encouraged by Hao Yue, a rich second-generation roommate and returned photographer, to come to Chengdu and join Hao Yue's studio. The two teamed up to create their own "Trouble Solver" and began to take on some special business. A pregnant mother suffering from ovarian cancer asked to leave the world in an extreme way after she died after giving birth to her child; a strong man who was 1.8 Meters tall and weighed 200 pounds came to them, and his only request was to have a good sleep; a young star who had been working hard in the entertainment industry for many years and was still lingering on the 18th line asked to experience the feeling of a superstar before quitting the entertainment industry... After completing these special tasks During the process of entrusting the client, Li Man, a mysterious and beautiful stewardess who commits crimes, and Zhong Yuhan, a radio DJ with a wide network of connections and a mean personality, also joined in. The four young people walked in the urban forest full of joys and sorrows, solving one problem after another and experiencing the joys and sorrows. These various clients and commissioned business also made them think more about life and death, human nature, fame and fortune, and life.

Prison Bird

Prison Bird

General Fiction

J

131K0

Starbuck Sr., 66, Is about to go to jail for the third time. In the past few decades, he has attended Harvard University, edited avant-garde newspapers, and entered the White House, working hard for the peace, prosperity, and happiness he imagined. In the hearts of some people, he is a hero; in his own heart, he is a habitual criminal - he has never risked his life for all mankind. For many years, he has just been a "prisoner" who followed the instructions and rules of others. Now, he willingly goes to jail. Because for him, everywhere is a prison.

Redundant People

Redundant People

General Fiction

(south Africa) Damon Galgot

124K0

This is the Booker Prize-nominated novel by South African writer Damon Galgot. It tells the story of Lawrence, an idealistic medical graduate, who comes to a remote hospital in South Africa and becomes a roommate with the cynical Frank to receive a year of community service. Lawrence came to a dilapidated and unwanted hospital and faced the dislocation between ideal and reality, as well as the lingering shadow of the old era. Frank, on the other hand, faces a broken marriage, a hopeless future, and a love affair that never ends. When Lawrence attempts to change the status quo with a makeshift clinic, Frank predicts that the move will fail, and their fragile friendship is shattered beyond repair. Just when the temporary clinic was successful, Lawrence disappeared because he prevented the warlord from taking away the patients. Frank lost his friend but gained the position of director. This is a novel that depicts the inner moral and spiritual struggles of individuals. It tells about the different choices of idealists and cynics, and how the unpredictable fates lead them to different endings.

Nausea

Nausea

General Fiction

J

128K0

"Nausea" is a diary novella written by French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, first published in 1938. "Nausea" is the first novella in which Sartre combined his philosophical thoughts with literary forms and used novels to express "existence". Sartre assumes that the protagonist suffers from a disease in the book, and points out that this disease can be suffered by everyone. Therefore, Roquentin sometimes suffers from "nausea" when he is in a state of discomfort, and we can also suffer from "nausea". Roquentin is fighting, trying to get rid of his real existence, to identify with one or some artworks from the past, or even a piece of jazz music "A Moment of Time", to achieve some kind of freedom. This is the central idea that Sartre wants to express in this book: "being and freedom."

Trilogy

Trilogy

General Fiction

M

82K0

The masterpiece of the 2023 Nobel Prize winner, a model of "slow prose" novels, a literal translation of the original Norwegian text. With a minimalist and dense narrative, surging and bursting emotions, a couple escapes for survival and wanders on the desolate land. We are all looking for spiritual peace in a world that seems to have many choices and many different ways to live. The novel begins with the young lovers Asle and Alida leaving their hometown and heading to Bjorgven (Bergen): Alida is pregnant, but they have difficulty finding a place to live and have to wander in the cold autumn rain. Later they found a place to live and gave birth to their son Sigvar Jr. One day when Asler was out, someone from his hometown recognized him and pointed out the crimes he had committed in the past... Years later, Alida's daughter Alice also grew old. She saw her dead mother again and recalled her half-brother Sigvar. The life experiences of descendants and ancestors overlap in an inevitable fate.

Changle, I've Always Been There

Hai Xin

115K0

Chang Le, an only son, was rebellious during adolescence and stayed at home for ten years, and his parents were exhausted both physically and mentally. After surviving the dark night, when the prodigal son turned around, his father had already passed away. Chang Le went through ups and downs to gain the favor of three women, but his mother blocked him in every possible way. How does it end? Will Chang Le find true love? Everything is hidden in waiting and hope.

Temporary Couple 2

Temporary Couple 2

General Fiction

Prince Qun

142K0

This book tells the story of a working couple. Hong Lian and her husband Lai Huo live in a dormitory in the factory. They are close at hand but far away. In order to reunite, Lai Huo frequently visits places, comes up with ideas, and rubs elbows... It can be said that they are trying their best to date Hong Lian, but they make jokes that are ridiculous... After the New Year, they are back on the road. What difficulties will they face in their new job journey?

Mountain Goods

Mountain Goods

General Fiction

In One Breath

101K0

The story is based on the protagonist Huang Jinshan's old memories from the Republic of China to his family's journey south to Guangdong as clues. It tells the story of some of the anecdotes that the male protagonist saw when he was engaged in mountain goods trading and went deep into the mountains and old forests. Among them were the exotic animals and birds and natural treasures hidden in the mountains. There are also treasures hidden in the mountains by ancient people. The process of exploring the treasures is full of thrills and excitement. At the same time, it also reflects on the relationship between man and nature. While traveling around the mountains, rivers and lakes in the motherland, he introduces local customs, customs, and interesting humanities.

Ups and Downs

Ups and Downs

General Fiction

Publicity

86K0

"Ups and Downs" is an autobiographical novel written by the author in the third person. 18-Year-old Zhang Yang was originally an ordinary college student. His first part-time job was as a shopping mall promoter. He was keen on starting a business and suffered countless setbacks and failures. However, when his life was at a low point, his relatives and friends never gave up on him, which kept him confident in reviving his career...

Herzog

Herzog

General Fiction

(us) Saul Bellow

273K0

Herzog lay on the sofa, looking back on his life, he felt that it was a mess, really a mess: to his wife, he was a bad husband; to his parents, he was an ungrateful child; to the country, he was an inactive citizen. He had the chance to love, but he was lazy. He had the chance to shine, but he chose to be dim. He is powerful but very inactive. He has his own soul, but he never dares to face it. He was always thinking so hard, as if he would die if he stopped thinking. He began to write letters non-stop, with endless things to say in his heart. He wanted to write to everyone in the world...

Long Wait

Long Wait

General Fiction

Chinese Cabbage

77K9.311

Originally titled "Waiting to Die". Who is not afraid of dying alone? But he waited for the last warmth in the world! A very shocking social novel, in just 70,000 words, the dying story of an ordinary old farmer, Li Dafa, was turned into a magnificent poem! Even though in this world, human relationships are cold and warm, the world is hot and cold, and family love is weak... There is always a trace of warmth as a return of kindness! They all wanted him to die happily, but she wanted him to live. "Sometimes, people live like animals, not because of their faith and cultivation, but because they have people worth missing in their hearts." He came to the world with a hot and sincere heart. He met his blood relatives, who either took a symbolic look at him when he was dying, or dealt with his departure, calculating his meager property, and after he left, they took back their respective homes with sadness and relief. He met the most beautiful woman and she didn't wait for his return. He met the bravest woman who walked to another country. He met the most hard-working woman. She stayed with him for three years and gave him the last warmth at the end of his life. She wanted him to live, they all wanted him to die happily...

Moon and Bonfire

Moon and Bonfire

General Fiction

(italian) Cesare Pavese

98K0

"The Moon and the Bonfire" is Cesare Pavese's representative work. The protagonist of the book, Eel, returns to his hometown after being tired of the endless search for dreams and mythical wanderings. He was pleasantly surprised that time had not passed by the hills of his hometown, but that everything else had changed. Although his childhood was difficult, he still recalled it. Things are different and people are different, so he can no longer find a kind of harmony to let go of his nature. With mixed feelings, he embarked on his journey again.

The Legend of Hulan River

Xiao Hong

102K0

It is an important work in Xiao Hong's life and a representative of modern Chinese novels and prose. Written in Hong Kong in 1940. Mao Dun spoke very highly of this book. He said: ""The Story of Hulan River" is not like a novel in the strict sense, but it is different, and there is something else, something more attractive than a novel. It is a narrative poem, a colorful folk painting, and a string of sad ballads."

Stagnant Water

Stagnant Water

General Fiction

Li Jieren

134K0

The novel "Still Water Waves" was written in 1935. As soon as it was published, it became a sensation. Guo Moruo even called Li Jieren "China's Zola". "Dead Water" has been frequently put on theater stages and film and television screens, attracting great attention from all walks of life. 70 Years after Mr. Li Jieren wrote the novel, "Dead Water Waves" was adapted for the screen. "Still Water Waves" breaks out of the traditional Chinese novel emphasis on plot and story. Through a series of stories, it presents a vivid portrait of the "citizen class" of Tianhui Town in front of readers. It depicts the psychology of the citizens in a subtle and vivid way.

Winter Garden

Winter Garden

General Fiction

Wu Minmin

311K0

This is a novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Yan Yilong, a Chinese young man who participated in the Russo-Japanese War as a Japanese soldier, was injured and was sent to Japan together with Xiao Takahashi for treatment. Since then, he has been separated from his girlfriend Xu Wenjuan. Yan came into contact with the Chinese Revolutionary Party and Japanese gangster forces in Japan, and was later sent to Dalian to deal with several factions. During this period, he reunited with his girlfriend Xu Wenjuan, who had been separated for many years and had gone through many hardships. In order to control Yan Yilong, the Japanese gangsters designed Xu Wenjuan to commit the felony of killing her husband, so the two were forced to embark on their escape paths. The story thus unfolds. Although the two protagonists meet again after going through many hardships, they have long since changed. The plot of the book is based on real historical context, showing concern and sympathy for the humanity and destiny of small people in the big historical background. The three clues are intertwined, and the plot design has ups and downs.

Tight Seam in Water

Tight Seam in Water

General Fiction

(japan) Haruna Terachi

80K0

After "Scream", it is another phenomenon-level social topic masterpiece that detonated Japan. It won the 9th Hayao Kawai Story Award, was shortlisted for the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Award for Newcomer, and ranked No. 1 In Japan's bookstore sales rankings. This is a very ordinary family, but everyone in the family has something extraordinary: the younger brother likes embroidery, but was ostracized by his classmates because of this unmanly hobby; the elder sister does not like feminine things and is worried about not having a wedding dress that suits her; the mother does not like raising children, and is blamed for not being maternal; the father cannot shoulder the responsibility of making money to support the family, and is defined as a loser; the grandmother once dreamed of becoming a career woman, but was stuck as a "housewife" for most of her life. An upcoming wedding is like an exquisite container. Childhood memories, secret persistence, clumsy care, and quietly opening hearts, when the family began to understand the edges and corners of themselves and each other, the "abnormal" shell covering them gradually peeled off... In the end, they all found a way to accept the "abnormality" of themselves and others, and completed the leap.

Flee from Famine

Flee from Famine

General Fiction

Caohui Town

379K0

This is a novel that is by far the most profound, bold, and most pious description of a family's living conditions and revolutionary experience for nearly half a century. The novel mainly describes the life trajectory of Chen Qingshui's family who fled famine, joined the ranks of the Anti-Japanese War, and later changed jobs as mayor of the town and secretary of the commune party committee. The novel is based on a true historical story, with rich characters, full of positive energy, and a shocking story that will make you sigh after reading it!

Minghehetianren

Minghehetianren

General Fiction

Chen Zhongyi

163K0

"The Man from the Ming Dynasty" is a story about people who are not afraid of ghosts in the new era. The novel cleverly tells the historical origins of various superstitions such as ghost stories from the perspective of psychology and sociology, and how they slowly influence and poison people's hearts through the collective unconscious and those with ulterior motives. Out of family misfortunes and feelings for home and country, the protagonist of the novel unswervingly tracks down a master who pretends to be a ghost, confuses people, and commits all kinds of evil, until he instigates the rebellion of his cronies. Finally, with the support of the government, he destroys the "paradise" and evil empire she has deliberately created, and brings her to justice and uproots her. The novel has a novel concept, twists and turns in the plot, and suspense repeatedly. It has profound historical insight and strong realistic relevance.

I Refuse to Be a Genius Parrot

(us) Ben Lerner

175K0

Adam Gordon, a high school student from Topeka, Kansas, USA, a master debater, poet, and migraine sufferer, is about to take the stage to participate in the National Speech and Debate Championship. His parents, Jonathan and Jane, both psychiatrists, sat nervously waiting to watch. Jonathan understood the folly of psychiatrists: they thought that because they could analyze their emotions, they could transcend and overcome them. But in fact, they are more often feeding this emotion. Their lives are also one long psychological analysis. But it did not bring healing, but instead caused emotional imbalance. Until the pressure broke out and the smooth surface broke, everything gradually returned to normal... It was 1997, like a party that was hot, noisy, and somehow not very good. Like migraines, phosphenes, and eternity.

Tokyoites (japanese Translation Series)

F

428K0

"Tokyo People" belongs to the Japanese translation series and is a novel by Kawabata Yasunari. Keiko, a native of Tokyo, lost her husband in middle age, but still loves life and lives a positive and sunny life with her two children. By chance, she met Toshizo and his daughter Yumiko. Junzo's wife has been recuperating away from home for many years due to illness. In the post-war environment, Keiko, Junzo and three children with very different personalities formed a strange family. Keiko's business is getting better and better. She not only supports the family's expenses, but also bears the medical expenses of Junsan's wife. However, Junsan's company is on the verge of bankruptcy. One day, Toshizo suddenly left without saying goodbye. Keiko and the three children experienced the world's human kindness and kindness through the joys and sorrows of the passing years. With a soothing pace, the novel gently and calmly depicts the family life of ordinary people, as well as the mood of everyone in the family - the hardships of life, inner demands and desires, the melancholy and loneliness that always surrounds them, and the self-blame and guilt of facing close people...

Western Wilderness Revised Edition (part 1)

Wang Xuzhi

325K0

This book tells the story of a reckless young man's grievances and hatreds in troubled times - faith and morality are a very weak part of an individual composed of life and material, but when it is needed, it can support a strong spiritual system, just like the Chinese Red Revolution walked out on a narrow road. Although materials can build a solid wall, democracy and faith can penetrate this wall even more.

Mason

Mason

General Fiction

Golden Song

198K0

The work describes how in the early 1980s, Wu Xun and Changgui, with the support of Guihua and the villagers, led a peasant construction team to carry out the expectations of their fathers and go to the city to work with their vision for the future. After twenty or thirty years of hard work, they have developed into a large-scale construction company and have made great contributions to the construction of the emerging city of Yongchuan City. More than twenty years later, Wu Xun's son Shaokang and Guihua's son Ouyang Chun graduated from college and joined the ranks of their fathers as a new generation of masons, inheriting the sacred mission of masons.

Get to the Bottom of Things

Liu Ting

65K0

"The Truth" is Liu Ting's new novel. The middle-aged Beidiao returned to his hometown and revealed the first half of his life in which he was exchanged: foster care in childhood, brother translocation, "I am two years younger than my brother." In real life, absurdity can be seen everywhere. The two brothers have been brooding over their pregnancy for half their lives, and in the blink of an eye they have reached middle age. The trend of the times is vigorous, and the wind, sword, and frost sword are urging each other urgently. The original short return home unexpectedly brings the two of them back to the same starting point of life. The mountain is high and the moon is small, everything is about to come to light...

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