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One day in early March of the forty-eighth year of Qianlong's reign, Shouhui returned to her hometown in She County to pick up her sister and mother on their way to Yangzhou on the order of her father. When Zhizhi heard the news, she immediately ran to the back room and asked her mother: "Mom, is the third brother really going to take me to Yangzhou?"

In the social context of drastic transformation, the characters in the novel span a long 30 years. From the perspective of the protagonist Xu Jiaming, six stories of life stages are derived from the six themes of hope, farewell, growth, faith, possessiveness and dreams. They are both interrelated and independent, showing the mirror images of the times from the 1980s to the present. Xu Jiaming's life is not only a history of changes in the spiritual landscape of a generation, but also an entry point for you to understand China in the past 30 years.

Qiuye, a fifty-three-year-old man with a successful career, meets Kiriko, a simple and shy country girl. He taught her elegant dress and conversation, helped her learn to enjoy the joy of life and love, and even helped her have an independent career. Under the careful carving of Qiuye, Wuzi gradually transformed into a charming woman with various styles. However, is the awakened canary still willing to stay in the cage? Finally, the bird with full wings flew into the free sky; and the former bird keeper finally let go after some struggle.

"American Tragedy" was published in 1925 and is one of the author's masterpieces. The protagonist of this story, Clyde, grew up in a family of non-religious practitioners who first believed in religion but were so poor that they had to rely on religion to make a living. He was forced by his parents since he was a child to show up on the streets to promote the God his parents believed in in order to make a living. However, the poor and humble Clyde had an ambitious American dream. He was obsessed with climbing and indulged in wine, sex and material enjoyment. Clyde made a girl with a lower status than himself pregnant with a child, but he was unwilling to marry her, firstly because she would be a burden to him, and secondly because at this time, a young lady from the upper class happened to fall in love with him, which could help him escape poverty and rise to the top. So Clyde designed to murder the kind and innocent poor girl.

This book tells the story from the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 to the end of Wang Jingwei's period in 1940. The two male protagonists' turbulent and love-hate lives are used as clues to show the cruelty of war in the troubled times of old China and the splendid love of life and death in the world. The writing style is mainly realism, integrating modernist techniques, and striving for the readability and marketability of pure literature.

Here history and reality are intertwined, conspiracies and traps coexist, loyalty and betrayal coexist, solemnity and absurdity are mixed. A bank robbery during the Cultural Revolution mirrored the squirrel-like faces and souls of some Chinese people. Shameless forgetfulness calls for the urgency and necessity of rebuilding faith and reshaping the soul. The prism-like perspective is not only a writing technique, but also a torture and lashing of contemporary people's souls.

The book "Guess My Finger" selects seven novels from the famous writer Deng Yiguang, including "Experiencing Death", "Guess My Finger", and "Raising the Falling Yang". Most of the themes of this book are selected from many fragments of people's lives after the new era, vividly reflecting social life. The author's language is simple and accurate, the structure is rigorous, and the story is moving, making the reader's reading process always full of interest.

Shi Dachuan, a young man from the mountainous area, entered the city from the countryside through college entrance examination. After graduation, he "served" the rich women in the city under the name "Xiaoxiong" to make a living. Zhong Wenxin, who runs a company, suffered repeated emotional setbacks. She found comfort in Xiaoxiong, so she bought Xiaoxiong's freedom with money. Zhong Wenxin's daughter Zhong Lei is innocent and pure. She met the "Dark Horse Prince" online and fell in love with him involuntarily. Shi Dachuan is the "dark horse prince". He is pure and high-spirited online. The author conducts an in-depth exploration of the multi-faceted nature of personality.

"Wolf Smoke" takes the emotional entanglement of four brothers in the frozen soil as a clue. It is a unique story full of weirdness, bizarre kidnapping by bandits, rare beard legends, and the secret world of gamblers. It interprets the various lives of all kinds of middle- and lower-class people... Under the bayonet, more lives pass through the billowing smoke and accept the test of blood and fire...

"Uncle's Garden" edited by Wang Shengshan and Li Qing includes a total of short and medium stories by six well-known Beijing writers, including "If Snow Closes the Door" by Xu Zechen, "Uncle's Garden" by Li Yunlei, "The Past Flyes By" by Xiaoqiu, "Escape" by Chen Jiyi, "Law-abiding Citizen" by Jiang Feng, "Twilight" by Xu Hong, etc. These works have all been published in Beijing Writers in the past two years. The characteristic of these works is that most of them are based on the real society in Beijing, close to life, reality and readers.

Han Tiezi, a former special soldier, came to the ancient city to seek life in order to avoid an unexpected disaster. By chance, he relied on his martial arts skills to single-handedly start a business of collecting debts for others. Later, he was spotted by the female owner of a jewelry store and became her bodyguard. With his integrity, wit and bravery, Han Tiezi not only won the respect of the female boss and the love of the two girls, but also gained the support and trust of migrant workers because of his efforts to beg wages for his farmer brothers. The whole book reflects the various life styles and social conflicts of the people at the bottom of today's society.

In a small port city on the banks of the Paraná River, after an erroneous kidnapping operation, all parties involved were in a dilemma. The honorary consul who was innocently kidnapped, the guerrillas who were riding a tiger, the British doctor who was tortured by his conscience, the young wife who was hesitant between her lover and her husband, and the ruthless politicians... Religious doctrines, social ideals, and the bottom line of human nature. In this chaotic chaos, what choices will each of them make?

I thought silently and wrote slowly. Seeing the camel team approaching under the winter sun, and hearing the slow and sweet ringing of bells, my childhood came back to me. Summer passed, autumn passed, winter came again, camel caravan came again, but childhood is gone and never returned. I will never do the stupid thing of imitating camel chewing under the winter sun. But how much I miss the scenery and people living in the south of Beijing in my childhood! I said to myself, write them down, let the actual childhood pass and the spiritual childhood last forever. In this way, I wrote a book "Old Things in the South of the City".

It is April in the world. Li Xiaochun applied for two days of rest, and planned to take advantage of the warm and cold days to climb Yanchi Mountain, which he often climbed when he was a child. For no other reason, he was really too tired. It seems that only by immersing myself in the mountains and streams where I spent endless hours in my childhood can I relax and forget about drawings and stress.

The clouds merged in a silent silence. Suddenly, the lightning tore the sky with its sharp hands, the thunderbolt shook the earth with its thick hammer of sound, and the violent wind stirred up all space. Nature shows its vitality in this tense roar. After everything was violently and effectively washed away by the heavy rain, all the dirt was washed away, and everything showed its true color. The raging torrent made the Yangtze River, which had been silent in the past, become full of vitality again. However, it irresistibly burst its dams and overflowed...

In 1948, during the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Communist Party defeated the Kuomintang and occupied Changchun. The first problem it faced was how to deal with the tens of thousands of corpses that were gradually decaying inside and outside the city. In addition, according to intelligence obtained from insiders of the Ministry of Security, the Kuomintang Secret Bureau was unwilling to lose Changchun and had formulated a "Three Cities Plan" to destroy Changchun, attempting to use germ warfare to turn Changchun into a city of plague, a city of decay, and a city of death. Major disasters are often followed by major epidemics. The Communist Party sent Men Yusheng to Changchun to serve as the director of the Health Bureau. In this invisible battlefield, Men Yusheng leads a group of medical and epidemic prevention cadres such as Gao Dajun. On the one hand, they have to deal with plague, cholera, smallpox, typhoid, encephalitis, relapsing fever and other epidemic diseases. On the other hand, they also have to deal with the sabotage and conspiracy from enemy agents... What will be the fate of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people?

A history of young people's personal struggles and a picture of the people and world in old Beijing. A classic of modern literature. Translated into 17 languages, dozens of versions, and best-selling for more than 70 years. This book includes two Beijing-style classics, "Camel Xiangzi" and "Under the Red Flag", which were approved by the Lao She Research Association. A word-for-word "full text" restored based on Lao She's 1936 manuscript. Due to the influence of the times and other factors, some contents of the various domestic versions have been abridged or changed to varying degrees. This book is based on Lao She's manuscript that was accidentally discovered in recent years. It restores the deleted parts and restores the true appearance of the book. "Under the Red Flag" is an autobiographical novel secretly written by Lao She. In the late Qing Dynasty, old dreams are about to be awakened, and the building is about to collapse. The birth of a child brings a strong sense of black humor... This unpublished and unfinished work is recognized as Lao She's masterpiece and a truly great contemporary literary masterpiece.

My name is Yuxi, named by my mother. I only remember that when I was little, the blond aunt in the kindergarten always couldn't pronounce my name correctly, "Yuxi." They looked at me, their tongues were intertwined, but they still couldn't pronounce the "X". I asked my mother why she gave me such a hard-to-pronounce name. "Because you are Chinese. This is a Chinese name."

In 1929, his aunt Mang passed away, and George Weber returned to his hometown to attend the funeral. The death of his aunt caused him to lose the last trace of connection with his hometown. Soon, his debut novel "The Tomb of the Mountains" was published, and George became famous in one fell swoop. However, because this work with a strong autobiographical flavor had no intention of revealing the truth about his family, George fell into a torrent of censure from relatives and friends, and could never go home again. During this period, he gradually discovered people's hidden fears, vulnerabilities, and self-deceptions in the shadow of the Great Depression of 1929. This is the real American tragedy. In March 1936, after the second book was published, George received a warm welcome in Germany, but he also realized the illusion of fame and fortune, and the spread of Hitler and his Nazi faction.

"The Jungle Book" is one of the collections of Nobel Prize-winning literature, edited by J. Kipling. "The Jungle Book" tells the story of seven o'clock in the night, when it was very warm in the Xioni Mountains. Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest. He stretched out his muscles and yawned, stretching out his paws one after another to drive away the sleepiness from his fingertips. The mother wolf was still lying down, her big gray nose stretched across the four somersaulting and whining cubs, and the moonlight shone into the entrance of the cave where they lived. "Ouch!" Father Wolf howled. "It's time to go hunting." Just as he was about to jump down the mountain, a little man came to the entrance of the cave...

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories written by Su Landuo, a female writer born in the 1970s, from 2010 to 2013. The 11 works included in the collection, including "Looking for Avril", "Ugly Girl", "First Love", "Lily", "White Skirt", "Apple", "Balcony", "MMS", "Left Foot", "Fragmented Face" and "Chanel", all focus on urban little people. Among them are duo actors, dog dealers, hair salon workers, taxi drivers, civil servants, retired nurses, temporary radio hosts... The stories in the novel mostly focus on the complex emotions of men and women, with ups and downs in the plot, delicate writing style, and fascinating.

This book uses the small to see the big, and uses the small characters to interweave their own destiny and love in the wave of the big era. Such a story reflects the changes of an era and the changes in values. Everyone has a different perspective, because everyone is a living history, containing secrets that explain and explain the changes of the great times.

When I was walking through the spring breeze, a grand horse race was being held in Hadatu. I can't ride a horse, not even a donkey. The main reason is that I am not interested in these things. I am always attracted by other things, such as: a gust of wind blowing, a flower blooming, a dragonfly hovering... Of course, a horse galloping on the field, kicking up bursts of dust, will always make me dazzled and unable to control myself. But I never thought about controlling it, never. I feel like a wild horse. When spring comes, I can't wait to rush into the wilderness and run wild. What's more, after a light rain, horse lilies bloom all over the hillside, like clouds pulled from the sky, so light that people dare not touch them, so blue that it makes people feel distressed, like a dream.

Thirty years ago, several young intellectuals, Guo Yumin, Su Qi, Ning Liben, Zhong Meiyun, Shi Guangliang and Shen Shen, went to the countryside to join a team and experienced tired and depressed youth together in the countryside. Later, they left the countryside one after another and embarked on different paths in life. Thirty years later, when everyone comes together, the reality is very different. Now a writer, he contacted his former partners one by one, interviewed them, and had in-depth conversations with them. In the stories of friends who have withstood the wash of time, and in their conversations with each other, Shen Shen glimpses into the depths of the soul of the times, and it also reflects into the depths of his own soul. About the author Li Lianqu is a member of the Chinese Essayists Association. Graduated from the Chinese Department of Zhengzhou University in 1982. After graduation, he successively served as township head, mayor, audit director and other positions, and his footprints also moved from towns to counties and then to provincial capitals. He once published the novel "Official Career Gate" in Writers Publishing House.

"The Buddenbrooks" describes the rise and fall of four generations of the Buddenbrooks from 1835 to 1877. Through the historical description of the gradual decline of the Buddenbrook family under the exclusion and attack of the monopoly bourgeois family, it reveals in detail the fierce competition and historical successes and failures of capitalism's old deliberate exploitation and new plunder and merger methods, becoming an artistic microcosm of Germany's social development in the second half of the 19th century. However, because the author was influenced by the philosophical thoughts of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the novel has a helpless and negative attitude towards the imperialist forces and a helpless and sad mood towards the liberal bourgeoisie.

In ancient times, there was a jade valley. The best jade is grown. The fertile soil that infiltrates this beautiful jade is people's blood, sweat, grease, and bones... Today's jade-growing valley has become a battlefield where greedy people lick the sword of justice. Based on his rich literary and historical background, the author eloquently tells ancient and modern stories, calmly and unhurriedly, and expresses the most true principles in the world.

Julia and her sister Kate have been dependent on each other since childhood. As an adult, Julia formed a perfect family in London, while her younger sister lived alone in Paris, leading a chaotic life. The days went on peacefully, until one day, Julia suddenly learned that Kate had died unexpectedly. She decided to log into the dating website that her sister often visited as her younger sister, and simulate and restore her younger sister's past life in the virtual world. She hopes this will lead to the hidden murderer. During the day, she is a virtuous wife who loves her husband deeply; in the silent night, she is obsessed with a stranger online. She was a dedicated mother; now she was ready to leave it all behind. She knew what she was doing and what she would face; she was getting deeper and deeper, unable to control herself. She is innocent; she is unforgivable. She lived the lives of two people in one breath; she also overturned her own destiny with her own hands.

Social occasions are very popular among many celebrities, but some social evenings often deceive those who are keen on socializing; not only is it a waste of energy and time, but of course money is no exception. Damon and Ollie are two people who take advantage of people's social psychology to defraud money. The narrator of "Round Face" is a psychopath. He has a natural hatred for a man with a face like a full moon. He tried every means to cause trouble for him, driving his cattle to the fields in the middle of the night, poisoning his dogs, burning his grain, and giving him a mortgage so that he lost his house... But this man still did not change his smile like a full moon. Finally the pervert trained a dog and gave it to him. When he took his dog to catch trout, the well-trained dog picked up the explosives he threw into the pond to catch fish, and the round-faced man was eventually killed. The pervert secretly rejoiced over the "accidental death" he had successfully created.

This is a neo-Confucian history. The work successfully creates a group of portraits of "pen-holders" in the new era, vividly depicts their complex psychological world, and truly reflects the living conditions of the little intellectuals living at the bottom of society at the end of the last century. The protagonist of this book, Zheng Xicheng, is a son of a peasant family. After graduating from university, he went to towns and counties to engage in news writing. He became a "local reporter". He wanted to praise virtues, but he got into unexpected trouble time and time again. The tortuous life experience seems to have made him smarter and more sophisticated. But the complex social reality did not change his innocent heart. In the face of justice and evil, he still took risks and spoke up for the villagers. The county leaders disliked him and even lost his job, but in the end he was favored by the superior news unit and was hired by a local evening newspaper as a temporary reporter.

This is a novel with a strong Chinese flavor. The novel begins when the Chinese New Year is approaching and a family of three returns to their hometown to celebrate the New Year. It does not shy away from the vulgar or the local, and is close to the entangled world and human relationships. Among the relationships between husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter, brothers, father-in-law, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts and nephews, the true emotions and true situations of people determined by the blood relationship within the family are thus highlighted...

When the boss finished his work, it was already dark, but fortunately there was a meager moonlight tonight. Although he walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the rhythm of the plowshare on his back was a bit disordered, the boss still found it useful. In his own words, the person who sits in the office loves his pen, and the person who works in the field has no reason not to love the "guy" who eats by himself. When the boss crossed a field ridge, his five toes failed to catch him. His feet slipped and his body sank. He fell into the field, and the plowshare hit the field ridge with a thud. The boss got up, stretched his back, and twisted his waist, which hurt a little. The boss scolded me fiercely, your mother is still having trouble with me at this time of year. The boss is very busy these days. During the rice transplanting season, we have to harvest and plant. The fields for his family of five and the fields for the second son's family of four are still waiting for him to plow.

"Rebirth: The Third Anniversary of the Wenchuan Earthquake" was written by Guan Renshan, the famous writer and chairman of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association, to commemorate the third anniversary of the "5.12" Wenchuan Earthquake. This book tells the story of a person who traveled thousands of miles to deliver love from Tangshan to Wenchuan to Yushu. It shows the spirit of the Chinese nation that when one side is in trouble, all sides support it, expresses the brilliance of human nature and the power of love from a higher level, and praises the spirit of the times of gratitude and forge ahead. Guan Renshan, a Manchu, was born in Fengnan City, Tangshan, Hebei Province in February 1963. After graduating from Hebei Changli Normal School in 1981, he worked as a teacher, township cultural director and county government secretary. He is currently a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association. Together with the famous writers He Shen and Tan Ge, he is known as the "Troika" of Hebei in the literary world.

Wu Tiantian, Jin Zi, Lao Xu, and Sun Yihao are college classmates. Different family backgrounds and differences in temperament and ideals make their lives after graduation from college very different. Wu Tiantian originally had the opportunity to get a stable job, but he chose to start a business because he could not bear the nine-to-five life. Jin Jin, who only knew how to go to bars and play yachts, encountered the pain of emotional failure, prompting him to reflect on his life. Lao Xu gave up the opportunity to work in a big city for his beloved teaching career. Can the ideal plumpness withstand the challenge of skinny reality? Sun Yihao was born in a poor family and vowed to make a difference. After a period of success, he ended up in complete failure. How will he get out of the situation of failure with nothing?

It arose in the golden age of Hungarian capitalism. It is a special social class including aristocrats, celebrities, capitalists, bankers, middle class and dilapidated nobles. It is the "citizen class" in the novel. This is the confession of a "citizen", this is the last elegy sung to the bourgeoisie, this is a picture of the life of the emerging citizen class in Eastern Europe between the two world wars, this is a period of exile, loneliness and determination. As the representative work of Malloy Sandor, in terms of literary and artistic standards, "Confessions of a Citizen" is completely comparable to Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" and Thomas Mann's "The Buddenbrooks".

Pei Qian ran out of Teli Industrial and Trading Company in tears. She had specially dressed up that day, wearing a professional suit, solemn and elegant. She majored in secretarial studies at university, and was selected as one of the five golden flowers in five secretarial classes at the same level. The blush on her cheeks captivated so many handsome men. But she didn't attach a few photos in addition to the job application letter like some female college students. She relied on her ability to never get into the top five in every exam in school. During the four years of college, in addition to studying homework, she spent almost all her time reading literary works, a habit she had developed since she was a child. But during her high school years, she almost gave up on the hobby. In college, she was able to roam freely in the ocean of literature. Her literary hobby created her kind-hearted and considerate character, but it also gradually made her introverted and sentimental.

Pirandello represented the thinking generation of the 1920s, not only in his own country, but also in the entire Western world. This generation was the first to be influenced by Freud and was the generation that began to revalue the mystery of personality in the modern environment. Pirandello's works focus on portraying the conflict between an absurd and unknowable external world and the inner world of modern people full of various anxieties.

"Box Man" is a novel full of experimental spirit. "Box Men" are urban wanderers who are covered from head to waist in cardboard boxes and only observe the world through a peephole. The work takes the "Box Man"'s notes as the axis, interspersed with fragmentary records from different time and space: articles by unknown authors, abrupt fables, newspaper news, poems, photos, etc. The protagonist of the novel, "I", wanders around the city and records everything in cardboard boxes. In the records of "I", there are the process of "I" becoming a box man, the entanglement between the fake doctor C and the drug-addicted military doctor, and the young boy D who was caught using a homemade multi-angle peepscope to spy on the female teacher next door while using the toilet... The whole work is scattered in form but inseparable in spirit. It is full of surrealism throughout, but it is a true portrayal of the absurdity of modern life.

A group of all kinds of men and women gathered at the lottery station. They flirted and joked. The lottery station was like a blind peeking into their lives. A complex map of interpersonal relationships, entangled and ambiguous passions. The joys, sorrows and joys of little people, the noisy and trivial life of the city. Looking down from a high place, people look like ants, but no one will give up. Everyone is taking a gamble, just like the last game of stud. You want to know the character's ending, but life has no ending. After stud, the so-called winning or losing is just the position where you start again.

Everyone hopes that their life will be both vigorous and legendary, until suddenly one day, I die... But when I looked at the crying faces of my relatives and friends, and saw myself being pushed into the crematorium... Everything changed. Maybe what I pursue is just to return to my roots, return to my original nature, and start all over again? A masterpiece of realism about little people, a literary work that faces reality and oneself, and continues to be down-to-earth.

Fitzgerald once described the United States in the 1920s: "It was an era of miracles, an era of art, an era of extravagant spending, and an era of ridicule." As Fitzgerald's first short story collection, "Tales from the Jazz Age" well explains the meaning of this sentence. The stories collected in this collection of novels have vivid plots, profound meanings and strong artistic sense. In these stories, American young people all have the same dream as Gatsby: to be born in a prestigious school, marry a beautiful rich girl, and dominate the upper class society; if they are not born with all these, they will dress up as social elites and attend social dances to seek opportunities to enter the upper class society. Or simply join the gold mining army and make a fortune. However, behind these flashy, noisy and even bizarre stories, there is a lot of absurdity and sadness.

The original novel of the popular American drama "The Handmaid's Tale" defeated "Game of Thrones" and "Westworld" and swept the Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Offred is a handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She was one of the few fertile women in the country and was assigned to the families of commanders who had no offspring to help them give birth to children. Like other women in this country, she had no freedom of movement and was deprived of property, the right to work, and the right to read. Except for some special days, the maids are only allowed to go shopping together once a day, and their every move is monitored by "eyes". What's worse is that in this crazy world, humans not only have to face problems such as ecological deterioration and economic crisis, but also fall into a chaotic situation of mutual hostility, class differentiation, and wanton killing. Women are not the only victims of oppression in this catastrophe. Everyone is a victim in this seemingly absurd world.

"White Snake" is one of the self-selected editions of Yan Geling's classic short stories and short stories, including "White Snake", "Also Adam and Eve", "Magic Dan", "White Sparrow" and "Stories in School". Main article "White Snake": During the Cultural Revolution, the famous actress Sun Likun was "suppressed" for starring in "White Snake" and was imprisoned in a dilapidated set room. She who once captivated all sentient beings gradually became vulgar and numb due to long-term mental oppression and harsh living conditions. In October, a young man wearing an old yellow woolen military uniform came and often stopped under her window. Soon the girl who was guarding her informed that someone from her superiors would come to investigate... Yan Geling told the story in poetic and exquisite language, giving a new interpretation to the ancient relationship between men and women; the indescribable and faintly painful love revealed the secluded human nature in extraordinary times.

This book is the first novel in China that exposes the living conditions of immigrants. The book takes Ye Zi's search for her mother as the main line and the love between Ye Zi and Andre as the auxiliary line. It comprehensively and profoundly reveals the French style and the living conditions of immigrants.

This book is included in "The Insult" by Georges Simenon, "Memories of Anais", "Magret's Worries" and "The Black Ball". Never insult others! This is one of George Simenon's many warnings. He did not express this idea directly, but it appears in all his works. In "Memories of Anai", readers will get to know a repressed character who lacks masculine courage and ability. This person knows that he is incompetent in all aspects, is despised in his interactions with others, and is deceived and exploited at work. The only way he could save himself was to talk to a psychiatrist after killing someone. In "Magret's Worries", after two murders occur, all suspicions point to a young doctor who has a special liking for psychiatry and grew up in an aristocratic family in the context of the new era. But McGregor used his sharp professional instincts to clear his name, and to find out who could not stand the contempt of the victim, he locked in the murderer.

The small town called Liuwan, the old street called "Yinsheng", the narrow streets paved with granite, the Duzi Bridge where the shadow of the setting sun falls into the water, the Chuanyang River that flows continuously for many years, the houses with white walls and black tiles, the courtyards that exude the fragrance of wintersweet and osmanthus, and those who want to live an ordinary life as ideally as possible. In fact, they are just a group of ordinary people with no motto in life and no noble pursuits, but they still have to pursue positions and status, worry about beautiful women, worry about being needed by others or needing others, and find reasonable reasons for an emotion that should not arise but accidentally arises... This is a life that can be called "warmth" to some extent, although it is mixed with many desires.

India's best-selling novel of 2011. It is the last novel written by the author at the age of 96. The novel describes the forty-year friendship between three elderly people with different religious beliefs (one is Islam, one is Sikh, and one is Brahmin). They gather and chat on the bench in the park every evening (hence the name "Sunset Club"). Although they have different religious beliefs, different hobbies, different origins, different native languages, and different life trajectories, these differences just reflect the different wisdom of life that these three old people have gained in their long life experiences. They have unique and broad insights into their love, family, and the past and present situation of India, a country with a long history and profound cultural heritage. In particular, the private lives of the three men when they were young are passionate and bold. Readers can not only taste the beautiful and interesting words and poems from the author's profound literary skills, but also have a brand-new exploration of the citizen life of contemporary India.

Lao She is a famous modern Chinese writer and a representative figure of Beijing School literature. His works have a unique humorous style and rich flavor of life, and are deeply loved by readers. This book collects many of his works. The three-act drama "Tea House" is a classic in the history of Chinese drama. Each character's lines are designed to be very vivid, expressive, full of personality, concise and concise, and have profound meaning. It is still a standing repertoire of modern theaters. Mr. Lao She's works are wise, concise, simple and humorous. The chapters selected in this book are all representative works praised by experts and readers, allowing readers to appreciate the writer's unique literary characteristics.

"The Rest Belongs to You" is Xu Xing's only full-length novel, and it is also a rare "tramp novel" with critical spirit and ideological depth in the Chinese world. The novel describes two unemployed youths who first rode bicycles south from Beijing and met the village party secretary, a down-and-out director and a "passionate bitch". Later, they traveled to Tibet and abroad, and experienced various absurd, ridiculous, tender and helpless stories along the way. The novel is based on the author's real experience, reflecting the bizarre real society at that time, and also foreshadowing the life that has come now, with "nothing left".

After "White Night Walk", Keigo Higashino's most popular work. The work goes beyond the scope of mystery novels, but is more exciting than mystery novels. It won the Central Public Literature Award the same year it was published. There is a grocery store next to a secluded street. Just write down your worries and throw them into the letter slot at the front door of the store, and you will get the answer in the milk box behind the store the next day: Because her boyfriend is terminally ill, the young girl Jingzi is wandering between love and dreams; How will a chance encounter in life lead to a completely different life?

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