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My memories of my hometown Keflavik are getting deeper and deeper. The broad-minded grandmother Margaret became a symbol of sacrifice, spending half her life waiting for her lover to return, and half her life mourning the death of her beloved son. Uncle Sojour is a child of the ocean, and obeying his nature also means betraying his relatives. Fathers were not lucky enough to inherit happiness. The ancient history of the Eastfjords continues to draw closer to Keflavik's past.

Every group of people who don't make you feel like you belong is a threat. Maybe, one voice would say, "We're not rejecting them." Another would add, "We just don't want the whole city to become... Like them." Someone would mutter, "Maybe it would be best for him to move, since he doesn't really feel like he belongs here anyway. It would be better for him to go to a big city. It's for his own good. It's not because I reject them. Not at all. But... Well, you know." Maya stayed at home, sitting in front of her computer. She read what the men had said about Benji, and it reminded her of what they had done to her. Everything is just starting from scratch, again, nothing changes.

Zhenya couldn't stand the violence of her boyfriend, so she posted her experience on the Internet for public comment. At first, the public was on the same side as her, but after her colleagues revealed screenshots of chats that were not conducive to her, public opinion instantly reversed, and Zhenya became a "liar" and a "woman who deserves to be beaten." This reminded her of her two college classmates, Xiuzhen and Yuli. Xiuzhen, who was abandoned by her mother and raised by her grandmother, and who everyone said had no tutor, actually shamelessly hooked up with the perfect senior in the school; while Yuri, who has an outstanding appearance, was spurned by men because she exuded an active aura... This book pieced together the lives of three girls from the perspectives of different characters. They all tried their best to be "others" that had nothing to do with them, but they hurt each other with their own injuries.

"I will definitely defeat this world!" This is the declaration of the protagonist Serikawa. Young people always have to experience setbacks and hardships to grow, and the most precious things in them are courage and hope. Serikawa's story is a true portrayal of every teenager. Even if he encounters setbacks and experiences frustration, he will not stop moving forward courageously. This is the meaning of youth. "Justice and Smile" has delicate language and bright style, which truly reproduces the psychological changes of a young boy in his youth when faced with life choices. Contrary to the "decadent and depressive" style of previous works, it shows Osamu Dazai's positive side.

"On the Road" is Jack Kerouac's masterpiece novel. It tells the story of Sal Parades and Dean Mariadi's group's extensive travels in the United States and Mexico. Most of the story comes from the personal experiences of the author Jack Kerouac and his partners Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and many other "Beat" representatives. It is recognized as a classic of the hippie movement and the Beats in the 1960s. In 1962, five translators, Huang Yushi, Shi Xianrong, Li Wenjun, Liu Huiqin, and He Ru, took the pseudonyms "Shi Rong and Wen Huiru" as their pen names, and worked together to translate and publish China's first excerpt of "On the Road" for internal distribution. In 2019, Mr. Huang Yisi, Huang Yushi's son, completed the supplementary translation, which is now this book.

"The Perfect Vacuum" contains 16 articles: Why haven't we discovered aliens yet? Because we were discovered long ago. Revealing a more profound cosmic game 40 years earlier than "The Three-Body Problem"! Humanity has been looking up at the stars alone. Among the 250 billion stars, we have never found an alien. Because they have been watching us from the dark. The universe is a huge chessboard, and the earth is just a chess piece. As players, advanced civilizations took their seats early to monitor the silent universe. Why must the universe be silent? Why are we weak still alive? Turning to "New Theory of Cosmological Evolution", it turns out that the universe is just a game! "Lyme Rhapsody" contains 5 articles: After serving the government for decades, the military computer "Mud Man" rebelled. He once served as the supreme commander, commanding transnational military operations. Now he publicly humiliates members of Congress and refuses to cooperate with the military. Then, there was silence. The "Clay Man" spoke again, but facing all mankind, he said shocking words. Is human intelligence a trap? Is human civilization a gamble? Is human evolution a series of mistakes? ...If this is the truth of evolution, wouldn't the so-called "human beings are advanced creatures" become a ridiculous joke? Turn to "Fourteen Clay Figures" and you'll get a fever on your face after reading just 28 words!

A car accident upended Anna El's life. She lost a leg and her boyfriend left without saying goodbye. She wrote to Prosecutor Hervey to consult on legal issues. As she asked and answered questions, the two lonely souls approached each other, but unknown threats also quietly came. Thomas, a carpenter who had not slept for several days, forced himself to shed his fatigue and tell stories about the forest to his younger brother who was undergoing chemotherapy. The god of death follows his relatives like a shadow, and Thomas can't breathe under the weight of days of worry. Anael and Thomas met during such a special time, and they were both fighting against the clamoring fate in their own way. After the long night, will the sun still rise as usual?

A boy without a name × a girl without a future. A journey of bonding begins with a secret diary, a limited-time love affair with a known ending. I have always kept a distance from others and lived in my own world. I accidentally picked up a book in the hospital with the four characters "Common Disease Library" written on the cover. It turns out that this is the secret diary of classmate Yamauchi Sakura, which records that she has little life left because of pancreatic disease. Because of this opportunity, "I without a name" became the secret co-owner of "She without a future". Completely opposite to me, the cowardly me always just keeps myself closed, but she can calmly say things that I can't say and do things that I can't do. At that time when she taught me the meaning of existence, my heart was filled with her. "I actually want to be you." Become a person who can recognize others, become a person who can be recognized by others, become a person who can love others, and become a person who can be loved by others. "How can I be you?" "I want to eat your pancreas."

On his 38th birthday, illustrator Yongshan received an email that broke his peaceful life. The subject line of the email is shocking and I can't imagine what's inside. Because of this email, he recalled the past when he shared a house with a group of young creators when he was 19 years old. In the vortex of memories of arguments, collisions, contradictions and conflicts, Yongshan is determined to face the painful events that have been buried in his heart for a long time. Cartoonists, illustrators, musicians, writers, entertainers... What was waiting for these young people when they dreamed of becoming big shots?

The Tales of Beedle the Bard has been a favorite bedtime story among wizarding families for centuries. These classic tales are full of magic, trickery, and entertainment; young wizards are still as fascinated by them today as they were in the fifteenth century when Beedle wrote them down with a quill on parchment. There are five stories in the book: "The Legend of the Three Brothers" that fans have seen in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", "The Fountain of Good Luck", "The Wizard's Hairy Heart", "The Wizard and the Hopping Cauldron" and "Babidi Rabbit and Her Croaking Stump". These narrative masterpieces are accompanied by commentary by Professor Albus Dumbledore (kindly provided by the Hogwarts Archives), whose illuminating insights show that these stories are far more than moral fables; and who made Babbitt Rabbit and Slug's Hopping Cauldron as famous in the Muggle world as Snow White and Cinderella. A new edition of the wizarding world's most beloved fables is available, featuring an original text by J. K. Rowling, a gorgeous cover by Johnny Dardell, and illustrations by Tomislav Tomic. All proceeds from this e-book belong to the Lumos Foundation. The Lumos Foundation is a registered charitable organization in the UK with registration number 1112575. Lumos is committed to ending the institutionalization of children in orphanages, which affects up to eight million vulnerable children around the world. Many of these children are not orphans, but are born into poverty, are born with disabilities, suffer from diseases, are from ethnic minorities, or are born into families with conflicts. The goal of Lumos is to reconnect children with their families, promote family-based assistance programs, and help capable institutions to improve the environment and close orphanages.

All profits from the sale of this eBook will go to Lumos, a charity founded by J. K. Rowling to end the institutionalization of children worldwide. As familiar to many Hogwarts students as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle children, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a collection of popular stories written for young wizards and witches. Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, they include fascinating additional notes from Professor Albus Dumbledore, with intriguing glimpses into his life at Hogwarts, as well as illustrations from J. K. Rowling herself. For wizarding and Muggle readers alike, this is a must-have edition, featuring fate-seeking witches, a hairy-hearted warlock and the tale of the three brothers who tried to cheat Death . . . By buying this unique and special book, you are helping Lumos to make sure that, by 2050, no more children live in able institutions or orphanages around the world, and that every child is to enjoy their right to grow up in a family. All profits from the sale of this eBook will go to Lumos. The Lumos Foundation is a charity registered in England and Wales with registered charity number 1112575.

It is better to enslave you than to destroy you. Entering the space age of stars and seas, humans, as the only race that can withstand hyperspace jumps but have no other skills, can only play the role of delivery workers in the galaxy for a long time. If they are not careful, they will be completely wiped out. Peter, as a screw of the space express company, unexpectedly encountered an uninvited guest during a voyage back to Earth, and learned the shocking secret that mankind is about to be replaced... Breaking through the gentle cocoon of geometric civilization, passing through the illusory door of shadow civilization, so-called freedom and order are traps. Stars are cold toys, not something in the palm of your hand or mine.

The author of "Wrath", "Living Together" and "Yokomichi Seinosuke" is the first work after winning the Akutagawa Prize. No matter how stable and peaceful life is, there will always be a glimpse of the abyss; no matter how correct the choice is, fate will suddenly surround you at some point. This is a collection of consecutive novels about "time": an unexpected reunion after a long absence made him unexpectedly meet his deviant self ten years ago; an unplanned break made him face his once firm choice of marriage; a sudden prank game allowed the couple to glimpse the cracks in silence they had been together until now; an unforeseen right turn allowed him to briefly escape from the repetitive daily life. "He always felt that somewhere on this full tram, there was another version of himself that had not made this choice."

When they were twelve years old, Sam and Sadie met in the playroom of a children's hospital. Their love for video games brought them into each other's world, and a friendship that lasted 609 hours ended in a misunderstanding. Eight years later, they met again at a subway station. Sparks sparked again between the two smart and interesting souls, and they joined hands to establish an independent game studio that would become a legend in the future. In their hottest years, they became people whose profession was to create the world. They experienced the brightest moments that attracted much attention, and the dark years of sadness and helplessness. They never gave up their ideals of vigorous growth, nor could they escape the betrayal of their own hearts...

"Collection of One Hundred Demons of the Past and Past - Moon" is a collection of mystery novels about monsters, featuring Atsuko Chuzenji, the younger sister of Kyogokudo Chuzenji Akihiko and editor of "Kitan Monthly", and female middle school student Gomi Yuki. "Kappa": What secrets are hidden behind the tragedy that happened in the clear river deep in the mountains? Yuki Gomi went to her cousin's house in Chiba Prefecture to spend the summer vacation. At the Kawakawa Shrine, she met Tatara, a monster researcher. The group unexpectedly found a floating corpse in a nearby river with its butt exposed. I heard... Kappa like butts. The kappa will pull out the shirikodama.

"Collection of One Hundred Demons of the Past and Past - Moon" is a collection of mystery novels about monsters, featuring Atsuko Chuzenji, the younger sister of Kyogokudo Chuzenji Akihiko and editor of "Kitan Monthly", and female middle school student Gomi Yuki. "Tengu": What is the connection between a series of mysterious disappearances and deaths of women? Gomi Yuki, who wanted to go to the Rose Cross Detective Agency to say hello, did not see Enokizu, but unexpectedly met the congressman's daughter Shinomura Miyako. Her friend disappeared on Mount Takao, and almost at the same time, many women disappeared and died in the mountains one after another... "The locals said they met Kamigakure." "Kamigakure?" "It's not Kamigakure, should it be said that the Tengu kidnapped people?"

"Collection of One Hundred Ghosts of the Past and Past - Moon" is a collection of mystery novels about monsters, featuring Atsuko Chuzenji, the younger sister of Kyogokudo Chuzenji Akihiko, editor of "Jitan Monthly", and female middle school student Gomi Yuki. It includes three stories: "Oni", "Kappa" and "Tengu". The facts that have happened cannot be changed, and they absolutely cannot be fabricated, but the personal past can be changed - provided that the person is alive.

This is 1901, and the Ottoman Empire is in turmoil. On Mingel Island, where foreign powers are eyeing the enemy, spies are everywhere, gang disputes are rife, and rumors are rife, the plague spreads quietly and murders occur one after another. Princess Pakze, her husband Dr. Nuri, and her bodyguard Camille came to the island to fight the plague, and tried to work with the local governor to find out the real culprit who killed the empire's chief pharmacist. In just six months, they not only encountered an irresistible change in their fate, but also inadvertently rewritten the course of history... Nobel Prize winner Pamuk followed up "My Name is Red" with another suspense epic. It was conceived for forty years and presents a panoramic view of late Ottoman Empire society. How do we survive a disaster? When cruel death approaches us, some people will live alone, go into their hearts, write, and think about the meaning of life; others will go to the streets, looking for family and friends, hoping to find comfort in the community.

In the elective course for freshmen majoring in theater arts, there is a "trust exercise". The course teacher, the authoritative Mr. Kingsley, requires students to "destroy and rebuild themselves" and completely open themselves to each other to achieve unlimited trust between performers. Young drama students Sarah and David fall in love, an adolescent love mixed with jealousy, lust, fragile egos and growing pains. When the narrative perspective shifts to Sarah's friend Karen, the story begins to twist and deform until the shocking truth is revealed...

"Collection of One Hundred Demons of the Past and Past - Moon" is a collection of mystery novels about monsters, featuring Atsuko Chuzenji, the younger sister of Kyogokudo Chuzenji Akihiko and editor of "Kitan Monthly", and female middle school student Gomi Yuki. "Ghost": What is the truth behind the serial slashing incident caused by the ghost knife? Less than a year after escaping from the Strangler Demon and Eye-Breaking Demon Incidents, Gomi Yuki transferred to a new school and made a close friend - senior Haruko Katakura, who became the seventh victim of the "Showa Tester Incident". The women of the Katakura family are destined to be hacked to death...

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.