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The healing masterpiece of Japanese literary queen Banana Yoshimoto, illustrated by the famous Japanese illustrator Mai Ono. Xiao Qian was abandoned at the beach when she was a baby, wrapped in layers of wakame. The Odaira family picked her up and she became a member of the Odaira family. His grandfather founded a family hotel, and Xiaoqian was deeply influenced by his grandfather who had magical luck since he was a child. After his grandfather passed away, Xiaoqian took over to help manage the hotel business. In a small village with beautiful scenery, the family is warm and happy, and there are often incredible magical moments. Xiao Qian lives an ordinary and contented life. One day, his parents were involved in a traffic accident. It was not a big problem at first, but from that day on, the family began to be trapped by nightmares from time to time. Some pebbles appeared inexplicably in front of the entrance, and strange things happened one after another... In a small village protected by a sacred hill, what kind of "happy magic" does the protagonist Xiaoqian, who was once an outcast, master? Banana's new work depicts the light of hope living in this beautiful world. Yoshimoto Banana self-evaluated this work as "an unforgettable work in my life. Although it is short, it is of profound significance. I hope this novel can become a beam of light that will forever illuminate the darkness."

The healing masterpiece of Japanese literary queen Banana Yoshimoto, illustrated by the internationally renowned artist Yoshitomo Nara, composes a soothing song for all the depressing sorrows in life. People close to her are leaving one after another, and there is nothing more tragic than this... Daisy was born without a father, and her mother died in a car accident when she was young. The reason why she can continue to live is because she has her best friend Daria. For twenty-five-year-old Daisy, the memories of her and Dalia's past are still vivid in her mind... A car accident caused twists and turns in her life. When sadness is as unstoppable as the torrential rain that day, Banana wants to tell us a story about understanding life from dreams. The two girls named after flowers are like twins who are separated but still have telepathy, supporting each other. Having experienced childhood bereavement, how should they face it when the shadow of death comes again?

Japanese literary queen Banana Yoshimoto's healing masterpiece, illustrated by the internationally renowned artist Yoshitomo Nara, jointly depicts a healing story of perfect happiness. Mitsuko is a happy girl. She has a father who is good at stone carving and a mother who loves dolphins. But my mother passed away due to illness, and my father disappeared that day. The strong Mitsuko is persistently looking for news about her father. Half a year later, Mitsuko came to a strange building full of exotic flavor. The three-story building stood alone in the middle of a large grassland. Knocking on the door, Mitsuko was greeted by a strange old woman with gray messy hair. Her unprovoked warm hug surprised Mitsuko. Curious Mitsuko was attracted by the tinkling sounds upstairs, and unexpectedly found her father carving a dolphin tombstone for her mother on the top floor. This weird Argentinian mother-in-law saved the relationship between the father and daughter with her warm hugs, amazing dances and her own family philosophy, and helped them find the true meaning of family and affection. During the tango dance, Mitsuko gradually understood why her father fled here and was so fascinated by her Argentine mother-in-law. The original book cover and illustrations were designed by the Japanese art master Yoshitomo Nara. The story has been remade into the movie "Argentine Mother-in-Law" by the famous director Naoki Nagao. Popular movie stars Horikita Maki, Yakusho Koji, and Suzuki Kyoka co-starred. It is known as "a story depicting a perfect happy situation."

The novel "Lolita" is the famous work of Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov and a landmark work of world literature. It has become a modern literary classic because of its complexity and artistry. The introduction collector's edition adds a long introduction before the text of the novel. It is written by Alfred Appel Jr., Nabokov's student at Cornell University and a recognized Nabokov research expert and cultural historian. It guides the reader from the three major aspects of "puppetry", "background" and "ingenious techniques", taking readers to appreciate the large number of word games, literary allusions and social customs that Nabokov carefully woven into "Lolita". This introduction also records the conversation between Appel and Nabokov himself, from which we can get a glimpse of the writer's writing motivation, theme, purpose, etc. In addition, anecdotes of film adaptations, the hobby of catching butterflies, long-term and passionate devotion, and various stubborn reading interests are also involved. The introduction records that Nabokov is both concerned about serious propositions and obsessed with trivial things. This contradictory expression obviously also remains in "Lolita".

A popular candidate for the Nobel Prize, one of the most important writers in the Spanish contemporary literary world, the story of the spiritual escape of a middle-aged poisonous tongue man suffering from "literary inflammation" is a contemporary literary classic that complements "Bartleby Syndrome". "Montano's Literary Disease" was first published in 2002. It is another masterpiece with a distinctive personal style by the famous Spanish writer Enrique Villa-Matas. Its style ranges between private diaries, novels, emotional experiences, autobiographical novels and essays. The five chapters are like five books with different genres. Literary critic Rosario Girondo and his son Montano both suffered from literary disease, but the symptoms were exactly the opposite: Montano encountered writer's block, could no longer write anything, and frantically wanted to return to literature; Rosario fell into a morbid fanaticism for books, and he felt breathless and just wanted to forget literature completely. Both of their illnesses stem from the excessive presence of literature in their lives, which their father calls "Montano's literary disease." In order to save himself, Rosario embarked on a Quixotic spiritual journey, traveling to Nantes, France, Valparaiso, Chile, and the Azores Islands in the North Atlantic. However, as the trip came to an end, his literary disease became more serious. This novel won Villa Matas several important literary awards, including the Spanish Novel Prize (2002), the Spanish Literary Criticism Prize (2002), and the French Medici Foreign Novel Prize (2003). It made him the first Spaniard to win the Medici Foreign Novel Prize. It is an ideal choice to understand the writer's unique creative style.

This collection of works by Kobo Abe, a representative figure in Japanese existentialist literature and "Japan's Kafka", shows the unique landscape of contemporary Japanese avant-garde literature. Kobo Abe (1924-1993) Japanese novelist and playwright. He graduated from the Medical Department of Tokyo University in 1948 and emerged in the literary world in the early 1950s. The short stories "Red Cocoon" and "The Wall - The Crime of Mr. S. Karma" won the Post-War Literature Prize and the Akutagawa Literary Prize respectively, establishing his position in the history of contemporary Japanese literature. In 1962, Kobo Abe published the novel "Sand Girl" and won the Yomiuri Literature Prize. In 1968, "Sand Girl" won France's Best Foreign Literature Award. There are also novels such as "The Face of Others", "The Burnt Map", "The Box Man" and "Secret Meeting". The novels and screenplays created by Kobo Abe have won many awards at home and abroad, and he was once one of the strong candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works have been translated and published in more than thirty countries and he is one of the most popular Japanese writers. This set includes Abe Kobo's most representative novels "Sand Girl", "Box Man" and "Secret Meeting", as well as a collection of short stories and short stories "The Wall".

There are 24 wooden boards hidden in the shepherd's grave, which record ancient mysterious stories: In order to find the legendary utopia "Gugu Cloud Valley" established between gods and humans, the shepherd swallowed the magic potion and turned into a donkey, then a fish, and finally a crow. He traveled across land, oceans and stars, and finally arrived. However, after reading the all-knowing book, he chose to go home and spend the rest of his life with his flock. In the Middle Ages, this story was copied onto a parchment. On the eve of the Sultan's attack on Constantinople, the monastery girl Anna discovered it on an abandoned ship and escaped from the ancient city with it. She met Omer, a young deserter, and they returned to their hometown together. After Anna's death, Omir traveled thousands of miles to deliver the parchment to the Italians who protected the books. In 2020, a terrorist attack occurred outside the Hukou Pier Public Library in Idaho, USA. In order to save five children, 86-year-old Zeno rushed into the snow with a bomb that was about to detonate. Before the incident, he and his children were rehearsing a play, which was about the remaining manuscript of the parchment "Gu Gu Yun Gu" that he painstakingly translated. A hundred years later, mankind had a space immigration plan, but a viral infection broke out on the spacecraft. The surviving girl Pediatric Steinz read "Gu Gu Yungu" in the virtual library. It turned out that her great-grandmother was actually one of the five children Zeno saved. When she finished reading the story, she suddenly had a bold idea: to take her own life to prove that the spacecraft had never left the earth.

In the third year of Keio, the confrontation between the new government and the old shogunate caused Kyoto to be in turmoil at the end of the Tokugawa period. The young Owari clan official Kano Shimitsu met a man named Eto Shinpei. This important figure who later became the first Secretary of Justice of the new government and laid the foundation of modern Japan's judicial system, and Shiguang encountered a series of bizarre murders. The strange deaths of the reformers, the corpses in the small secret room, the prisoners who were poisoned before execution... In the turbulent current situation, there is an incredible logic behind the murderer's strange actions.

In my lonely youth, you were half of the poem in my heart. "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is a poignant, romantic and sad novel written by Kawabata Yasunari based on his personal experience. The work describes a high school student "I" who traveled to Izu alone and met an innocent dancing girl, and then developed a beautiful and regretful innocent love. By describing the beautiful scenery of the green mountains and green waters of Izu, the author highlights the pure love between the two people, combines the beautiful scenery with a touch of sadness, and shows a world of sad beauty and a fresh and elegant lament through the beauty of nature, women, nirvana and mystery. The accidental intersection of lives has gently wiped away the loneliness and sentimentality of youth for us.

Isn't the depth of grief the depth of love? "A Thousand Cranes" is the Nobel Prize-winning work of Kawabata Yasunari. It is the ultimate masterpiece that combines morality and desire into the tea ceremony. The novel tells the story of Kikuji, who was born in a famous tea ceremony family, and quietly met several women who had a close relationship with his father at a tea party, and was involved in the whirlpool of fate. The work uses Yukiko's cloth bag decorated with thousands of cranes as a symbol of beauty, to metaphorize that the beautiful and pure women in the heart are like flowers in the water, moon and mirror, out of reach. In the conflict between morality and taboo, it touches the cold and warm love, famous objects, life and death, showing an illusory beauty of sorrow. The sin may not be eradicated, but the sorrow will eventually pass. Supreme purity cannot be contaminated by any filth, and it is therefore inclusive of everything.

"Jane Eyre" is the famous and representative work of Charlotte Bronte, a 19th-century British realist literary writer. The novel tells the story of an orphan named Jane Eyre, whose parents died when she was young. She was fostered in her aunt's house and suffered severe abuse. She was later sent to Lowood School by her aunt and survived tenaciously. Two years after graduation, Jane Eyre applied for a job as a tutor to make a living. The master Rochester has a melancholic and moody personality, but after a long period of contact, Jane discovers that Rochester is kind-hearted, upright, and resolute, and she gradually develops feelings for him... "Jane Eyre" shows the rough experience and brave pursuit of the little character Jane Eyre.

A young brain surgeon received a special patient, his mother, and tried his best to save her under tremendous pressure, but in the end he was unable to save her. In the midst of self-blame and guilt, he and his relatives performed the final make-up and solemn farewell ceremony for her with love and attachment...

It is hard to accept that someone like Ravelstein has passed away. He is familiar with human thoughts of all eras and is enthusiastically sought after by presidents and intellectuals; he has countless elite disciples, and every young person is eager to receive his guidance; he sells wisdom as a commodity and uses the money he earns to purchase rare antiques; he indulges in immoral love, but lives a more sincere and sincere life than anyone we know. He has been dead for many years, but people keep mentioning his name - Ravelstein, Ravelstein...

USA. The president received a report on the possibility of human extinction-the "Heisman Report". From this, a shocking plan related to the survival of mankind slowly kicked off. Japan. On the fifth day after his father's death, he received a mysterious email with a coded message. Following the instructions, he discovered that his father was engaged in some secret experiment during his lifetime. A line of small words scrawled in the relic caught his attention - "Heisman Report." Congo. The mercenaries received a dangerous mission: to exterminate the tribes infected with the deadly virus and collect the organs and blood of the dead at the same time. With his life hanging by a thread, he found that he had fallen into a horrifying trap... A ​​hunting plan related to the fate of mankind, an unprecedented extinction crisis, and a difficult choice before everyone! We eliminate all threats to human extinction except our cannibalistic nature!

Eri Makimura, who worked at Bambi Nightclub, was found dead in Room 203 of the Ginza Queen Hotel. It was Hisao Marumoto, the president of Bambi Nightclub, who found Eri's body. After investigation, the police found that Eri and Hisao were lovers, and the crime scene was in a secret room, so they concluded that Eri committed suicide because of love. However, Eri's friend Xiangzi had doubts about the cause of his death, and Shibata, the police officer in charge of the case, also believed that the matter was not that simple, so the two decided to continue investigating the case. Soon, Eri's friend Kayuri secretly sneaked into Bambi Nightclub in order to find out the truth about Eri's death. Unexpectedly, when things finally came to light, Yukari was strangled to death, and Xiangzi's home also showed signs of being invaded...

A glass tower gleams in a forest deep in the snow. With 11 floors above ground and 1 floor underground, it is a beautiful and huge spire tower. At the invitation of the museum owner who loves mystery novels, distinguished guests such as detectives, doctors, novelists, editors, and famous detectives gathered in the glass tower. That night, the owner of the museum was scheduled to make a big announcement, but before that, he was killed in the secret room. The next day, the Glass Tower was shut down to traffic and communications due to an avalanche on a nearby mountain. The people trapped in the tower were waiting for help from the police, but secret room murders occurred one after another. In addition, someone wrote down a mysterious case thirteen years ago in blood... Detective Biyue Ye and doctor Yuma Ichijo are pursuing the mystery. An unexpected beginning, a high-energy plot, overwhelming conspiracy foreshadowing, and a shocking ending. Are you ready to accept the challenge...

On the pounding Izu Mountain Road, a young man from Tokyo met a group of artists and they walked together. The young man was attracted by Xun, a pure, lovely, charming and charming dancer who was traveling with him, and a ray of tenderness sprouted in his heart. He seemed to see a ray of light, and his heart, which had been troubled for a long time, suddenly forgot about gains and losses. The stubbornness and awkwardness of the past and the humiliating feeling of being given charity suddenly disappeared. The two have never expressed their feelings, but in the fleeting daily life, they have accumulated feelings of mutual admiration. Full of youthful poetry, the lyricism reveals Kawabata-style sadness, but only lightly. This novel became a masterpiece of Japanese youth literature. The book includes 11 short stories and short stories including "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "The Bone Picker", "Fragile Vessel", "Her Running into the Sea of ​​Fire", "Sacrifice for Love", "Make Up", "Pomegranate", "Red Plum", "Autumn Rain", "White Horse" and "Reunion". It also comes with a long preface by Gao Huiqin and Kawabata Yasunari's musical score.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" is Kawabata Yasunari's famous work and a representative work of his aestheticism. It tells the story of a pure first love between a young student and a teenage dancing girl in the green mountains and beautiful waters of Izu. The new translation of "The Dancer of Izu" includes Kawabata Yasunari's most popular and famous classic "The Dancer of Izu", as well as "Blue Sea, Black Sea", "Reunion", "Wife Riding a Donkey", "Soul Song", "Twenty Years Old", "Beasts", "Parents", etc., A total of 8 short stories.

This is a book about "strength", telling how "reading" makes life come alive, how "knowledge" changes people's destiny, and how "the power of family" supports children to realize their dreams. France likes reading, and she goes to the library every Saturday to borrow two books to take home and read; she also likes to observe the lives of her neighbors, watching their every move is like watching a play on the stage; she also likes to listen to the adults around her narrate their own lives: life is rich and colorful Aunt Sissy, who was married three times and gave birth to ten children but all died in infancy, and each of her lovers was called John; Grandma Mary, although illiterate, remembered more than a thousand stories and legends; Uncle Freetman's only topic at home was his horse Drummer. How to tease him... Although France has a lively heart, life in Brooklyn is difficult after all: her mother is beautiful, petite and has an iron will, but she prefers her younger brother; her father is warm and charming, but has no fixed job and is addicted to alcohol; the child earns money by picking up rags. With a few meager pennies, she could only spend half herself and take the other half home to her parents who could barely afford the rent and could only afford expired bread... Frances' mother hoped to help her children escape the bottom through education. However, the drastic changes and hardships in life made everything out of reach. Facing the ups and downs of life, France is as tough as the tree of heaven in the yard, always maintaining dignity and faith, dreaming of a future that is different from the past and present. Finally, another door of life opened for her...

My name is Kim Byung-soo, I am seventy years old, and I was recently diagnosed by a doctor with Alzheimer's disease. The memory fell into pieces and I began to forget many things, such as the time of my last murder. Under the bamboo forest in the backyard, the body lay silently in the dirt. They turned into bamboos and towered into the clouds. When burying them, I always kept saying: I can do better next time. I like to write about the process of killing people, just like writing a poem. Now God has decided what punishment will be given to me - I am walking into oblivion. I am not afraid of death, nor can I prevent forgetfulness. I only care about one thing, and that is to prevent my adopted daughter Eun-hee from being killed by that man, before all my memories disappear. This is my karma and karma in this life.

In a corner of Kyoto, Chieko, who was adopted by a brocade merchant, has grown into a slim girl. On the night of the Gion Festival, she met the village girl Miaozi for the first time, and was surprised to find that the two were twin sisters. They miss each other, but they cannot recognize each other because of their different identities. Between the sisters' faint longing and sadness, there are interspersed the beauty of Kyoto's four seasons and their respective explorations of life and emotions. "Ancient Capital" is one of Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning works. It contains two articles, "Ancient Capital" and "Beauty and Sorrow". The text is delicate and sincere, and is known as "the postcard of Japanese literature".

Kikuchi's father is a famous tea ceremony master who once had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chikako, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota. Four years after his father's death, Kikuchi met Mrs. Ota at a tea party hosted by Chikako Kurimoto, and began an illicit love affair with her... This book includes Kawabata Yasunari's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Thousand Cranes" and its sequel "A Thousand Birds of Blue Waves", which is known as the watershed in Kawabata Yasunari's writing career. It is a profound description of the conflict between love and morality. The text is meaningful and meaningful.

As a girl, Elizabeth, an art history teacher at a British university, was good friends with Daniel, her much older next-door neighbor. The two often discussed issues about art and life. Daniel was an artist when he was young and was a good friend of Christine Keeler, a well-known political scandal model in Britain in the 1950s. Starting from a real political scandal, the novel explores the ceiling problem for female artists in the context of the times, and projects the mental state of Elizabeth and other British people during the Brexit period. The whole book is composed of Daniel's dying dream and Elizabeth's memories of her teenage years, which together interweave a picture of current British social life.

Winter, desolate. The wind is like frost, the ground is like iron, and the water is like stone, so goes the old song. The shortest day, the longest night. Winter brings things into sharp focus. When four people, strangers and family, gather in a 15-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas, will there be enough room for them all? Allie Smith casts a warm, wise, joyful, and uncompromising gaze on a post-truth era in a story grounded in history and memory, and deeply rooted in evergreen, art, and love.

Lisa, a Jewish woman, is plagued by hysteria and can often foresee catastrophic episodes about the future. She turned to Freud for help, hoping to find out the root cause of her illness from her repressed memories through psychoanalytic therapy. But are those crazy dreams just reflections of past trauma? After treatment, Lisa's disease gradually improved. Not long after, World War II broke out, and she and her son were about to be deported to the "Jewish ghetto." The sound of machine gun fire was heard in the distance, and the nightmare she had once appeared before her eyes...

Brecht, the founder of "epic drama", one of the three major performance systems of world drama, a great German playwright in the 20th century, a poet who still wrote "songs about the dark ages" "in the dark ages". How did he spend the last eight years of his life? In 1948, the 50-year-old Brecht ended his exile and returned to East Berlin, where he had been away for a long time, dreaming of building a model theater. Maria, a beautiful actress, walks into his drama and into his life. Maria opened the drawer next to his bed and recorded his every move. And outside the window, there is a telescope watching everything... If becoming a spy means lies and betrayal, then in this world that is falling into sleep, can anyone understand their own life and hold on to a little bit of love and warmth?

"The Temporary Gentleman" is a novel written by Sebastian Barry in 2016. It is also the last book in the "Sebastian Pentology". This is Barry's third novel about the McNulty family. The hero of the story, Jack, is the brother-in-law of Roseanne, the heroine of "The Secret Manuscript", and the brother of Enes, the protagonist of the novel "THE WHEREABOUTS OF ENNIUS MCNULTY" (not published in mainland China). Jack is the only character in the Five Parts who appears in a negative light. He was an alcoholic, a gambler, an absentee father, and a neglected husband. He is dissolute and lazy, lacks responsibility for marriage and family, and is confused and indifferent in the face of war and the army. Almost everything he does has a beginning and an end, and he is used to wasting away his time in a muddle-headed manner, until 1957, which is the time when the novel begins. At that time, World War II had ended many years ago, his wife Man had passed away, and his children had grown up. Jack lived alone in Accra, Ghana, recording the past years in words amid aging, loneliness, hesitation and regret. What tormented Jack was not the sadness of his dying years, nor the disease, nor the cruel memories of the war, but his grief for his wife, a "gnashing guilt" that kept eating away at his soul. The title of the novel seems to be a satire on Jack's absurd life, a temporary gentleman for whom virtue seems to be forever fleeting.

"The Long Day" is a novel by Irish writer Sebastian Barry. The work won the 2016 Costa Literary Award, the 2017 Scott History Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize. The novel "The End of the Day" fully demonstrates the ups and downs of the Irish refugees who fled to the United States due to the Great Famine in the early 20th century. They rushed to board the "coffin ship", endured hunger, plague and extremely harsh climate conditions, and finally arrived at the "promised land" in their dreams after months of wandering at sea. They were engaged in jobs at the bottom of the food chain, digging stone mines, building railways, and working as lumberjacks. Many of them were even drawn into the army to participate in wars for unknown reasons from beginning to end, and died in the wilderness of unknown places. The two male protagonists of the story, John and Thomas, are also survivors of the Irish Famine. They started wandering when they were teenagers. Forced to make a living, they worked as dancers (in disguise) in the declining Grand Rapids City. They joined the army for meager military pay and experienced extremely cruel battles. Blizzards, long periods of severe cold, floods and plagues, battles and killings with Indian tribes, behind every serious disaster are the scars of the times. After everything, John and Thomas have become each other's closest friends, accompanying each other and redeeming each other, while the exiled Indian girl Winona symbolizes immortal hope, like the glimmer of light after the snow, illuminating the endless years.

The five novels "The Temporary Gentleman", "Top Secret Manuscript", "On the Other Side of Canaan", "The Long Road" and "The Long Day" together form the "Irish Story Universe", with the same story structure and intertwined characters, vividly, three-dimensionally and comprehensively showing readers a national group looking back on history in the smoke of gunpowder.

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The "Telepaths", an evil gang with the ability to implant thoughts into other people's bodies, have thrown Ghost Town into chaos. Ace Jerry lost his beloved woman and brother due to the crazy behavior of the telepath; the ghost alien accidentally broke into the telepath's base amidst confusion and contradictions, and fell into a dilemma; Takiyan's alien Sunbras ran away from home because of dissatisfaction with his discipline, and wanted to take revenge on Takiyan. Some want to return everything to normal, while others want to use this ability to embark on a path of destruction.

The power of expansion is gradually awakening, and he builds more defenses to block human attacks. The ghost cards are fully armed and ready for war. On the other side of the sea, in New York, mankind has formed an offensive team. In addition to the direct leadership of the top leader, it has also summoned several powerful aces to join in, which is bound to destroy Ellis Island.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the autumn of 1558, church bells rang throughout England, announcing the news that Elizabeth had become queen. Only one person was worried about it: Amy Dudley. The bells will call her husband Robert back to power and to the amorous Queen. The favored minister fell in love with the queen, but money and power could not fill Robert's expanding ambition. He dreams of regaining control of his destiny and marrying Her Majesty the Queen of England, but he believes that the only obstacle on this road is Amy... "The Virgin Lover" centers on Elizabeth I and writes about the men and women who surround her after she ascends the throne. How much sincerity and how much flattery is there in love based on power?

The movie of the same name stars Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the summer of 1524, an unblessed baby girl was born. Her mother was the daughter of the Pauline family, Lady Mary; and her father was His Majesty the King of England, Henry VIII. The illegitimate baby failed to become a bargaining chip in the game, and the king who loved new things and disliked old things soon turned his interest to another Boleyn girl, Anne. Anne was unwilling to be as nameless and insignificant as her sisters. Her huge ambition drove her to embark on the thorny road of picking the fruits of power, but she was by no means the last Boleyn girl to jump into the whirlpool of the palace...

Mysterious ancient Mayan mythology + Mexican folk culture, shortlisted for the Nebula Award, and an annual must-read novel recommended by many media. The ferocious game of the violent gods, the ruthless fight between the gods' agents! Cassiopeia, a girl who was bullied and bullied by others, opened the forbidden box in her grandfather's room, and her fate changed... In the first moment, the bones rose from the box and spliced ​​together in the air; in the second moment, muscles appeared on the bones and tendons grew; in the third moment, the muscles were covered with a layer of smooth skin. Hu Kam, the Lord of Hippoba in the underworld, reappeared in the world, missing an eye, an ear, and an index finger. There is the blood of mortals in the body of the god, and the bone fragments of the god are in the body of the mortal. The two are tied together by fate. They must embark on a journey together, traveling around Mexico to recover everything God has lost; they must also sneak into the darkest underground world of the Maya and regain the throne of God.

Power and love are always difficult to have at the same time, but truth and death go hand in hand - in the spring of 1464, the young king on horseback met the most beautiful woman in England, Elizabeth Woodville. Rose discovers that the war has come to an end, and a secret love that is romantic but betrays the family begins. People say that this commoner queen must have used some kind of magic to confuse the king and put herself in a high position; but this rumor seems to be nonsense, but it is half true and half false - Elizabeth, who has inherited the blood of the river goddess, will make waves at the intersection of England's destiny.

Finally returning to the planet Takis, Brass, with the help of "Killer" Durg, successfully won the support of everyone and ascended to the position of ruler. Takiyan must make peace with his cousin, a former nemesis, and fight against Brass together. A struggle for power, a test of family ties, and a battle to defend the body.

The evil deeds of the telepaths have made mankind more and more resentful of the ghost card, and Rocket Castle, the dream habitat of the ghost card, has become the target of public criticism. Takiyan is trapped in the body of a young woman, experiencing torture that is worse than death. Ace Jerry continues to track the leader of the telepaths, vowing to exchange his life for another; Ace Wallwalker, alias Shad, forms an alliance with Swell and is bound to rescue Takiyan.

One of the original blueprints for the hit American drama "The Sun Calls"! New York Times bestselling author Lee Bardug's classic book! A prisoner hungry for revenge. A sharpshooter with a gambling addiction. A down-and-out young man who was betrayed by his family. A spy known as the Ghost. A ghetto girl who survives by using magic. A genius thief with a unique talent for escaping. The genius thief Kaz led the crow team to break through the layers of protection and go deep into the ice court, only to find that the rescue plan was just a cover. The scientist in the prison had passed away long ago, the prisoner was actually the son of the scientist, and the dangerous magic formula also died. However, the rescue plan completely deviated from the normal track. Not only did the six crows have to escape the pursuit of the Ice Court, but they were also betrayed by the Business Council. The team was in danger... The six crows redeemed each other in the adventure, and the journey of changing fate continues! ! !

A new storm has arrived. Ashes and crimson thunder swept across the land, awakening ancient enemies. The soul of the dead enemy came out of hibernation and stirred up again in the name of the Destroyer. Human beings opened their eyes and discovered that this war had never been imagined. The power of the hurricane may be within grasp, just because the light reappears here and shines there. The lieutenant who has gone through hardships is constantly searching for reconciliation; the spy who has experienced cruelty is pursuing perfection; the stranger who is bound by the oath is stepping on the stone to explore the truth; the ambitious traitor is resolutely seeking freedom. Outside of the four members, there will always be a king. Once tired of fighting, now we want to find the dusty past.

"The Mysterious Youth" collects 42 of Hoshi Shinichi's works, including "The Guest in Hot Summer", "The Golden Pin", "Frozen Time", "The Mysterious Youth", etc. The themes of these short stories are novel, the imagination is novel, and the endings are unexpected. At the same time, the ideas are profound and make people reflect after reading them. At noon in the hot summer, there was a knock on the door at a psychiatric clinic in Tokyo. A pale woman told the doctor that she had killed a pig... In the hotel, an old woman knocked on the door next door. She claimed that she was short of money and wanted to sell a magic golden pin... Monte became a cyborg due to an accident and has been hiding in the dark basement to watch TV and kill time. One day, the TV broke down, and he was forced to come to the outside world... In a corner of the city, there were only houses and roads, and there was no place for children to play. A mysterious young man appeared and bought land to build a beautiful park for the children...

"Friendly Devil" collects 40 of Hoshi Shinichi's works, including "Friendly Devil", "Seven Criminals", "The Troubles of the Robber", "Snowy Night", etc. The themes of these short stories are novel, the imagination is novel, and the endings are unexpected. At the same time, the ideas are profound and make people reflect after reading them. The young people are not only plain-looking and frail, but also have no talents and are in financial distress. On his way home from the hospital, an old man stopped him and said that his wish could come true... Mr. N was framed and sentenced to ten years in prison. But the judge made a condition: if he catches seven criminals during the two-year probation period, he will be exempted from serving prison time... A criminal gang wanted to commit a major case that would shock the society and be foolproof. They formulated a "perfect" plan to rob a bank... Universal Life Insurance Company provides a special kind of insurance, and as long as customers have any unpleasantness, they will receive compensation...

One is a "well-behaved student" who has high hopes; the other is a "genius poet" who always causes headaches. One person once thought that perfect test papers, excellent grades, ancient prestigious schools, glorious careers, and lofty status were the "correct answers" in life, but little did he know that the more precious things in life were disappearing; another person felt that passionate poetry, brilliant art, magnificent imagination, magnificent nature, and a free soul were the true meaning of life, and fell into endless depression and resistance for this. When a "well-behaved student" and a "genius poet" meet, in the collision of two completely opposite personalities and thoughts, the truth of life is finally revealed - become yourself! Written for every soul who is unwilling to be pushed forward by the wheel of the world and wants to be himself! Open "Under the Wheel" and join Hesse in taking back the initiative in life!

Flannery O'Connor, an icon of American literature, the most outstanding writer in the American South after Faulkner, and the author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find", is among the "100 Greatest Novels" selected by The Guardian. The novel is set in a city called Tokingham in Tennessee in the mid-20th century. It describes the protagonist Hazel Motz's attempt to eradicate the influence of Jesus on him, and embarks on a path of spiritual disillusionment mixed with sadness and joy.

The dark masterpiece of Daniel Defoe, the famous British writer and "father of novels", is the founding book of "plague literature" that influenced Marquez, Coetzee, Camus, Saramago, and Pamuk. Defoe's "Chronicles of the Plague Years" published in 1722, vividly depicts the tragedy of the Great Plague in London and tells us this dark and terrifying history. This is an informative and informative record, a restoration of history, and an in-depth on-site report, allowing the city of London, where the plague was rampant in 1665, to be resurrected in time and space. London's ninety-seven parishes, cities and suburbs, the banks of the Thames, the Stock Exchange and Land Sale Market, Whitehall and the Tower of London, Greenwich and Southwark, the gates and palisades, the countless streets and alleys and churchyards, are presented in this panoramic view. In addition, it provides a table of casualty figures and discusses the credibility of various accounts and anecdotes. Some critics believe that "only a small part of the records in the book are fictional", while Watson Nicholson wrote in 1919 that the book can be regarded as "true history". At the same time, this book is an imaginative novel and an "ingenious work of art."

The famous French writer, thinker, and feminist leader Beauvoir's masterpiece, a work that won the French Goncourt Literary Prize, and a documentary of post-war European society and culture. Based on the writing and social life circle in which she lived, Beauvoir described the activities and ideological processes of a group of intellectuals in Paris from 1944 to 1945, when France was at the end of World War II and about to fall into the Cold War. This novel has a strong documentary color, and the relationship between Dubreuil and his wife corresponds to the mutual attachment, respect and independence between Beauvoir and Sartre. Anna Dubreuil's image of an intellectual woman and Robert Dubreuil's identity as a famous writer involved in politics are very consistent with Beauvoir and Sartre in reality. Henri Perron corresponds to the French writer Camus. Camus met Sartre in 1943, and Sartre became Camus's leader in the literary world. As an active activist, Camus had founded the left-wing underground daily "Combat". He made Sartre, who was hoping to "intervene", truly participate in the resistance movement. In 1952, the magazine "Modern" edited by Sartre published an article criticizing Camus, which eventually led to the breakdown of the relationship between the two. In the novel, the American writer Lewis gave the ring to Anna. In reality, Beauvoir wore it and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

The final chapter of the Booker Prize-winning historical novels "Wolf Hall" and "Legendary" is Hilary Mantel's "Swan Song". The original novel of the popular BBC historical drama "Wolf Hall" has achieved a ratings miracle and won the 73rd Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries and Television Movie in the United States. In May 1536, the executioner waved his sword, and the head of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen, fell to the ground. After Thomas Cromwell, who came from a humble background, entered the court, he went through rounds of power struggles and baptisms of ice and fire. He rose from the position of Minister of State, Lord Privy Seal, Baron of Wimbledon, Knight of the Garter, and finally obtained the distinguished title of Earl of Essex. The marriage of his son Gregory to the Seymour family made him an in-law to Henry VIII, and the family became the most popular upstart in the dynasty. After dealing with a large number of disgruntled ancient Plantagenet nobles for Henry, Cromwell was already powerful and had no rivals inside or outside the court. At this time, the wheel of fortune was rumbling, and danger was quietly approaching. Plantagenet's old and young children, Lord Suffolk, Uncle Norfolk, the Bishop of Gardena... These enemies of Cromwell were already preparing to make a move in the dark.

"Hello, Sorrow", author Sagan's posthumous work, was published for the first time. It is a typical Sagan style of ridicule: a baroque, unparalleled adventure, but with a rude undertone. You resist, you struggle, and depression becomes the appearance of your ordinary life. You become a puppet who commands respect, a vague respect that surrounds the groaning corpse. Sometimes it even becomes attractive to others. But if this person is interested enough in you, in your grief and rejection, if your rejection happens not to make him feel so humiliated, if he understands that a wounded heart is still beating, then everything can become a window to the terrace again, opened on a beautiful autumn afternoon. Then the first leaf that falls on your cheek is no longer a slap in the face from the past, but an incredible happiness that, no matter what name you give it, suddenly becomes irrefutable and incomprehensible. Sagan became synonymous with youth and petty bourgeoisie with "Hello, Sorrow". Nobel Prize winner Mauriac commented on her: "This 18-year-old charming beast, her literary talent burst out from the first page." Sagan himself also lived a novel, with a wanton life and unscrupulous love. After her death, her legend lives on. "The Four Seas of the Heart" is Sagan's posthumous work. After his death, Sagan's son discovered this never-published novel while sorting out his belongings. It was published for the first time in France or China.

When the balance of comfort in life is insufficient, how can the love of neighbors resolve the confusion of life and death? The National Graphic Award winner's work directly touches the soul, and goes on a beautiful deathbed adventure with lonely souls. A clear summer night, a beautiful town, a beautiful house, and a bottle of euthanasia medicine hidden deep in the drawer... This is the final ending she wrote for herself. It is also the vow she and her best friend made in front of the hospital bed and the adventure they decided to go on together. When the journey of life becomes twilight, and everything that has been squandered such as madness, willfulness, youth, appearance, career, family affection, and love gradually fades away, can the traveler end his life peacefully? Sigrid Nunez, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, tells a story of talking and listening with her unique prose and note-taking techniques, asking every lonely soul in the noisy world: What are you going through? This creates "neighborly love" with the person who confides in each other. The novel sparkles with the philosophical meaning and universal sentiment of Nietzsche's "On Neighbors": when the various comforts in life are insufficient, to resolve those eternal life puzzles, perhaps only the love of neighbor can comfort each other's pain.

Zamyatin's collection of novels includes the writer's most famous masterpiece "We" and three early works: "Remote County", "Islander" and "The Man Catcher". "Remote County" was the first work that won Zamyatin a reputation. The image of "animal nature that ignores morality and is greedy" described in it is still praised by people today. The two novels "Islander" and "The Man Catcher" were written in the last two years of the writer's stay in the UK, so these two novels also have a "British accent". In these two works, the writer criticized the lifeless life in Russia in "Remote County", mercilessly lashing out at the so-called mechanical and meaningless life in the world of Western civilization. These works also laid the foundation for the subsequent creation of "We". "Us" is well known as the first part of the "Dystopian Trilogy", but in addition to the dystopian elements, the novel also clearly discusses and analyzes the protagonist's adventurous spirit. Psychology and philosophy, love and industry are also the structural themes of the novel. Rather than saying that the characteristics of utopian or dystopian themes gave birth to Zamyatin's imagination, it is better to say that the wild imagination is the result of the author's own efforts to escape the gravity of reality, and it is also another large-scale artistic experiment for him to test the correctness of various ideas. Rather than saying that the laws of the future world and the expected brilliant achievements of scientific and technological development are the readers' points of interest, it is better to say that the conflicts caused by the protagonist's mental imbalance really hit people's hearts. Because of this, these novels, which were written more than a hundred years ago, are not only still timeless today, but have even brought more useful enlightenment to people.