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In 2006, Paulo Coelho, who was about to turn 60, was already famous all over the world. But he was dissatisfied with his overly stable status quo, and was called by his inner uneasiness. He decided to listen to his inner voice, travel, and re-understand the world. Paulo Coelho visited seven strange places as a way to find answers: In Russia, he met a sensitive Turkish girl and took a train to Siberia with her; on the train, he and her accidentally entered "Aleph", a point where time and space intersect; in Aleph, Coelho suddenly discovered the truth of life that he had never faced face to face...

"The Golden Jar" is the masterpiece of Irish writer James Stephens. It consists of six stories with different themes. This is a unique work that blends philosophy, Irish folklore and the ever-present discussion of gender. The book's writing style is humorous yet elegant. It became very popular after its publication and has been reprinted many times.

Du Daoyi, one of the main characters in this book, a real estate tycoon, wields the magic wand of money to do whatever he wants. He can win everything he wants. He can win over a arrogant and popular beauty writer, but he cannot subjugate an ordinary female teacher who he hopelessly pursued in college and whose prime is now gone. The entanglement and sharp conflict between history and reality between these two characters is full of ups and downs, and the world phenomena revealed in it: the loss of scholars, the frivolity of the rich, the perseverance of idealists, and the unscrupulousness of profit-seekers are vivid portraits of all living beings in the arena of life in the transitional era. "Across the Ocean" continues and expands the story of "Across the World" (published by Writers Press in June 2003). This book expresses the current reality; the writing is lyrical, rich in connotation, and has a strong flavor of life.

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 contains two novels, "Camel Xiangzi" and "Divorce", both written in the 1930s. The characters are distinctive, the details are vivid, and the language is ironic and humorous. It is humorous and relaxed. It is a rare treasure of modern literature.

The famous contemporary French critic Solers once wrote: "Celina relied on his superb skills to leave many masterpieces, such as "One Castle to Another Castle" and "The North". In my opinion, these two books surpass "Wandering in the Dark" and "Suspended Death." In "From Castle to Castle", Selina recounts his impoverished and cursed career as a writer and doctor, his escape from his apartment in Paris to Sigmaringen, Germany, the seat of the Vichy government-in-exile, and his various encounters and life experiences of poverty and illness in a prison in western Denmark, using fantasy The novel depicts the comical appearances of "enemies" and "German devils" including Marshal Pétain, Laval, and other political figures, as well as mainstream French literary writers such as Sartre, Aragon, and Roger Vaillant. Like "Wandering in the Dark", the work truly shows an eerie, ruthless world of ghosts and ghosts, and profoundly exposes the cruelty, madness, harm to life and destruction of human nature of war. "Castle to Castle" is neither a pure novel nor a pure memoir. It keeps a distance from reality but refuses to get close to fiction. This is a major feature of Celina's "German Exile Trilogy". The Chinese translation published this time is the first translation.

This book is a collection of Zhou Lili's short stories, including "Transplantation", "Ice Release", "Chief", "Eight Gates", "Principles of Mechanics", "How to Cross the Four Yuan Bridge", "You Are Old", "Changing Clothes", "East China Sea, East China Sea", "Sinking in the Sand", "Back and forth", etc. The work dares to face reality and contradictions, breaks the long-standing hard shell, and embodies a strong spirit of realism and criticism and thinking from a unique female perspective.

This is the first in-depth exploration of the suffocating living conditions and distorted inner lives of ordinary people in the "era of total control". The Stalinist era (1924-1953) was both the beginning and the climax of an era of total control. The transformed Soviets both feared political power and worshiped it. Almost every one of them has become a "whisperer" - either hiding in a corner and whispering to each other, or secretly pandering and becoming a whistleblower to the authorities. Many historical works about the Soviet Union focus on the horrific external phenomena of the gulag, arrests, sentences, imprisonment and even killings, but almost no one pays attention to the private lives of ordinary Soviet people and what they really thought and felt. "The Whisperer" focuses on the living conditions and inner souls of the most extensive ordinary people. It is the first oral history work to deeply explore personal and family life during the Stalin period.

On January 5, 1936, geologist Ding Wenjiang, who had served as a member of the Executive Yuan's Political Affairs Reorganization Committee, died of a lung infection caused by gas poisoning while inspecting the Tanjiashan Coal Mine in Hunan. On this day, he was three months away from his 49th birthday. Ding Wenjiang is one of the founders of Chinese geology. This westward expedition was to explore the coal reserves along the Guangdong-Hankou Railway and plan for long-term resistance to Japan. This workaholic died unexpectedly at the prime age of less than fifty. The news spread, and the academic circles across the country were shocked. Ten years ago, after Ding Wenjiang resigned from the Songhu Commercial Port General Office and left Sun Chuanfang, his first stop was Beijing. Beiyang is about to fall, and Ding Wenjiang, Zhang Taiyan, Chen Taoyi, Zhang Junmai and others are on the wanted list issued by the Southern Revolutionary Army. Later, he found out that the wanted order had not actually been executed, and he felt relieved.

There is a town named Margaret. There is a house called Margaret in the town, and there are five Margarets living in the house. The giggling child Mei, the melancholy girl Mia, the sad young man Maggie, the surly middle-aged Maggie, and the deaf old lady Margaret are the same person but not the same person. A man who deeply loved Margaret was lost on the first day he came to this town. So he devoted his life to reading her heart. There is no magic in this world, we will age until we disappear, but we still firmly believe that love can last forever.

Meng Hualing felt heavy and couldn't figure out whether it was because of the weather or because of his quarrel with Li Yongxiang. Since the beginning of summer, the Huimapo landslide has shown signs of accelerated activity. Cadres in township government agencies have never taken leave, and the cadres are somewhat resentful. Township head Li Yongxiang told secretary Meng Hualing that he wanted to take a weekend off. Meng Hualing said, the weather forecast is for rain tonight, what should I do if it happens? Li Yongxiang said, "I've been slipping back to Mapo for the past few days. I'll cut off the head and make a chamber pot for you." Meng Hualing said, what if? Li Yongxiang said that the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee decided to withdraw the monitoring personnel. What does this mean? Meng Hualing said, isn't it very clear that the monitoring personnel have been withdrawn, but the monitoring work cannot be relaxed? Li Yongxiang said, if we stay like this when we return to Mapo, then we will stay like this for the rest of our lives? Meng Hualing thought for a while and said, let the cadres take a weekend off, and the two of us will sit here.

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In Shanghai during the isolation period, the traitor leader died in an explosion in his apartment. In order to hunt down the assassin, the Japanese army sealed off the apartment and launched a closed terrorist investigation. Hunger and panic enveloped all residents. In order to save himself, a novelist with an imaginative mind used the mysterious woman in his novel as a bait to convince the Japanese soldiers to believe her truth step by step and complete the fatal blow. Xiaobai's story is full of suspense and reversals, recreating a Shanghai that is different from Zhang Ailing's. This book also includes the novella "Agent Xu Xiangbi", which won the 10th Shanghai Literature Award, and takes people into the mystery of twin brothers "exchanging lives".

The first winning work of the Mao Dun Literature Award, the highest award for contemporary literature in China, the film of the same name is directed by Xie Jin and stars Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen. The novel makes a serious review and profound reflection on the nearly 20 years of China's history from the late 1950s to the late 1970s through the experiences of Hu Yuyin, a female vendor in Furong Town, and Qin Shutian, a "rightist" and others in a series of movements from the "Four Cleans-ups" to the "Cultural Revolution." The ups and downs in Furong Town are a microcosm of the history of contemporary Chinese society. The author adopts an almost chronological approach and expresses the true face of various characters in the face of history through the ups and downs of many characters. At the same time, he also sends out a call for humanity and a celebration of beautiful emotions. The novel's use of individual "sexual" psychological motivations to explain historical events is a major breakthrough in contemporary literature.

Ge Liang's urban anecdotes series includes two volumes, "Raccoon" and "Mysterious Crow". "Raccoon" tells the story of our lives, accepting a certain perspective. A pair of eyes from everyday life. A cat or a parrot, even a beetle or a crab. We don't know what it will look like in the next second. What's worse is that it will fall apart when we are most interested in living. There are seven short stories in "Mysterious Crow". Among them, "Mysterious Crow" tells the story of a young couple who, by chance, raise a crow by mistake, and thus fall into a series of bizarre encounters, which even end in tragedy. "The Bankless River", "The Legacy of Love on the 37th Floor", "Private Island", etc. All have a mysterious atmosphere of fate, and the vanity and struggle of urban young people are revealed between the lines. It may be like a dream, or it may be restless, or it may be as trivial as chicken feathers.

"Heart" is the work of Natsume Soseki, a master of modern Japanese literature and a critical realist writer. It is still among the ten works that Japanese middle school students like to read. It is a confession of an egoist, which profoundly exposes the conflict between selfishness and morality. In 1910, Natsume Soseki suffered from gastric ulcer and experienced the experience of struggling on the verge of death. He changed his original humorous and game-like creative style, explored life from the front, focused on the psychological description and analysis of characters, and turned his writing directly to analyzing the hateful, sad, and lamentable lonely inner world of the egoists among the intellectuals in the Meiji era, thus creating the classic work "Heart".

"The Stranger", one of Camus' famous and representative works. In an objectively recorded "zero style", it describes in broad strokes the various absurd things that the protagonist Meursault experienced in an absurd world: from attending his mother's funeral to becoming a murderer by mistake, and then being sentenced to death. Meursault is indifferent to everything, existing indifferently and indifferently.

The author is a master of telling stories, and the sighs and humor she naturally reveals in the story are so extraordinary... From the language to the characters, everything is precise and exudes a certain charm. The narrative is written with numerous family treasures, the succession is smooth and the transition is smooth and impatient, and the movements reveal the ladylike legacy and cultural heritage.

This is a novel that reflects my country's socialist industrial construction. It describes that in the second half of 1960, the employees of the "Northern Machinery Factory" somewhere in my country, under the leadership of the party and driven by advanced figures - the section chief of the casting steel workshop Dai Jihong, the veteran worker Zhang Zili, the young technician Yang Jian and others, implemented the party's policy of self-reliance and hard work, and bravely assumed the arduous task of manufacturing my country's first large-scale steel rolling mill...

"You are on the Plateau (set of 10 volumes)" edited by Zhang Wei is full of shocking and adventurous reading. I can't help but tell you about the spirit Aya, which is a tortuous and profound treasure in my heart. In this era of vigorous awakening, on the road of breathless pursuit, stop and listen to me recount the memories of love and childhood, cruelty and mercy, misfortune and immortality.

Disgusted by people's vanity, sinologist Peter Keane gave up his official position and lived in isolation, spending all his time with books. Unexpectedly, his housekeeper was evil-hearted and tried every means to win his trust and marry him. However, she humiliated him in every possible way after the marriage. Isolated and helpless, Keane introduced a liar as his best friend, was tricked and fooled again, and was even falsely accused of being a psychopath. Although his brother finally drove away the evildoers and recovered his property, Keen, who was mentally stimulated, became frightened. After a daydream, he ignited a collection of thousands of books and threw himself into the sea of ​​​​fire. "Confusion" was written in 1935. It is Canetti's only novel and his masterpiece. His unique and profound insights, wise and pungent language, criticism of vulgar society, and prediction of the rise of totalitarianism are all vividly displayed in this work.

"Setting Sun" (1947) is a very important work in Japan's post-war literary world. It has set a best-selling record for post-war literary works. The term "Setting Sun Clan" is widely known as a pronoun for declining aristocrats. The work shows the declining social status of the descendants of the nobles after the war and the dilemma of losing their glory. It can also be said to be Dazai's elegy to the declining nobles.

"Looking for a Cat Before Dawn" is a Japan Literature Award-winning novel, a youth novel full of humor and helplessness. Twenty-eight-year-old Takahashi had nothing to do after graduating from university. He became a member of the Feit clan and started a band. Now that his music dream was shattered, he began to look for a stable job. His live-in girlfriend Ah Hui works part-time in a bar and asks him to find the lost cat Mary. Takahashi's search for a job was not smooth, he encountered obstacles everywhere, and the situation of his Freeter companions was also in dire straits. The task of finding the cat did not go well, but they encountered all kinds of weirdos: Onishi, a fraudster, and a little girl who said "never trust anyone over thirty years old"... In the end, the cat was found, but it was already dead. Takahashi has also found a stable job, and his dissolute youth seems to be saying goodbye to his dead cat.

The collection of novels by Tsering Norbu, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize, is a hot-selling traditional Chinese version in Taiwan, and the English version is about to be released. Liu Xinglong and Alai, winners of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, and famous critics Li Jingze and Shi Zhanjun jointly recommend Tsampa milk tea, butter, butter, fragrant roasting of mulberry, spinning sutras, listening to raps, and transforming from magical style into daily inner scenery.

During the Anti-Japanese War. Accompany the capital Chongqing. Dark and chaotic, ghosts are rampant. Mr. Ou has been studying all his life and has taught his four children to study hard and make a living using the knowledge they have learned. However, prices in Chongqing have skyrocketed, supplies are in short supply, and people are in dire straits, making it difficult to live on wages. As a result, Mr. Ou's third son abandoned Wen and drove a truck and made a fortune; his second son abandoned medicine and went into business and lived a well-off life; and his eldest son was still a civil servant and was in poverty. The friends, colleagues, neighbors, and relatives around him are all speculative and profit-seeking, working hard day and night to make money. It is truly "tight ahead, tight behind"!

When the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the petals all over the sky are as dense as a torrential rain, bewitching the weak and lonely souls. , A new interpretation of Japanese culture and Japanese aesthetics) (The most terrifying thing in the world is not monsters and monsters, but the human heart with insatiable desires) The magnificent and poignant Japanese ghost stories lead people into a weird and confusing fantasy world.

I don't know what life is, but I just want a better life! This is the story of the life of a man named Garp. Garp has been without a father since he was born, because Garp's mother chose a different life: "I want a job, I want to live alone, and I want a child, but I don't want to share my body or life with others for this." So, she raised Garp in her own way and gave him all the freedom she could. And Garp has been trying to figure out how to live a good life. He couldn't distinguish between love and lust, and was trapped by lust for half his life, which put his marriage in trouble. He cares about his career, but is sometimes arrogant and anxious. He experienced a person's growth and destruction, and also felt the madness of the world and the fragility of people. But he always insisted that everyone must be full of energy and live a better life!

"Eugénie Grandet" is a novel by the famous French writer Balzac. It tells the story of the innocent and beautiful Eugenie, the only daughter of the miserly and shrewd millionaire Grandet. She fell in love with her bankrupt cousin. For his sake, she did not hesitate to anger her money-loving father and spent all her private savings to help him make his way into the world. At this point, the relationship between father and daughter broke down, and the timid and virtuous mother was so frightened that she fell ill. The girl who lost her parents and her youth in the bitter expectation ended up with a heartless man who returned rich.

This is the sequel to the author's famous work "An Angel Looks Hometown", which records the life experience of Eugene Gant from the age of 20 to 25. The novel begins with Eugene leaving his hometown to study at Harvard. It describes his living conditions at Harvard, what he saw when he returned home for a funeral, his arrest and imprisonment, his experience of teaching in New York, his travels in Europe, and his meeting Esta when he returned home by boat. By narrating the growth process of a young man from a remote town in the southern United States, the author attempts to reveal his inner confusion and express his exploration of the meaning of life and his pursuit of happiness and truth.

Manchu youth Ning Boyong studied in Japan for six years. After returning to China, he encountered the Revolution of 1911. He heard that his old classmate was running Dahua Daily outside Qianmen, so he went to find a job and became a reporter. After moving from the suburbs of Beijing to the city, Ning Boyong saw an increasingly changing Beijing. He met Bangzi Xiaohuadan White Peony at Longquan Temple, and organized a group with Peishang Yimin and others to celebrate the white peony. From then on, White Peony gradually became popular, and was later monopolized by Wei Er Ye, who disliked Ning Boyong and others. Ning Boyong met the prostitute Xiuqing again. Xiuqing looked coldly on high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen, but treated Ning Boyong differently, and the two gradually fell in love. Xiuqing unfortunately fell ill and entrusted her mother and younger brother to Ning Boyong before she died...

Can you imagine a beautiful and talented girl traveling across the vast desert on a wheel? In order to find Prince Charming and the ideal in life, she, Jian Lun, began her zero-degree search. Will searching starting from zero return to zero? Chunyi, the author who was born in the Western Gobi, uses the desert wind and poetic language to lead us into the maze of the plot, giving us a reading surprise!

This book contains two novels by Mr. Lao She, namely "Under the Red Flag" (unfinished) and "Divorce". "Under the Red Flag" is Lao She's autobiographical novel. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest and folk customs were corrupted, and the lives of the banner people became increasingly difficult. During the Gengzi period, with the arrival of the Boxer Rebellion, the seemingly peaceful lives of the obedient people in old Beijing suddenly went into trouble. Faced with the broken rivers and mountains and remaining homes, the old Beijingers who had endured the plunder could only remember this period of history in their hearts forever. "Divorce" reveals the gray lives and humble souls of ordinary people through their comic conflicts on marriage and family issues. The novel shows the uniqueness and profundity of Lao She's realist creation with its specific and vivid portrayal of the ordinary citizens of old Beijing.

This book includes the Nobel Prize-winning work "Snow Country" and Kawabata Yasunari's classic "The Lake". The story begins with a train heading to the snowy country. The dusk scene passing by outside the window reflects the girl's eyes reflected on the glass, making it confusing. Shimamura, a dance art researcher, went to the snow-covered mountain village of the Northland three times. He fell into love entanglement with the local geisha Komako and the girl Ye Zi who met by chance. Love and futility... "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece. The beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sadness depicted in it reaches the extreme\u002F, making people heart-thumping and melancholy.

"I'll Plant Oats in the Next Year": To say that Niu Sixi is a poet, he should have found a talented woman who is as warm and gentle as water. Even if he can't find a talented woman, he should still find an intellectual woman as his companion. The problem is that he won the title of "famous poet" only later, when his second son was seven or eight years old. He couldn't do it at first. After graduating from normal school in 1979, he taught at the county's central primary school. After teaching, he went to the creative team of the cultural center to learn poetry writing techniques from others. People said that skills come from life, read more and write more. Then he wrote and wrote, and sent it to the newspaper as a small piece of tofu for a manuscript fee of 50 cents. At that time, land contracting had not yet become popular in these mountainous areas in the north, and the people were still quite poor, but no matter how poor the young people were, they still had to get married.

Take a look at the four souls of Zhengyi Security: a computer genius who practices martial arts, a big black guy who doesn't like to speak Mandarin, a beautiful woman with a hot body and personality, and a boss who explodes wherever he goes - do you think they are all responsible for being funny? No! They are funny and never delay upholding justice! The seven stories in this book will tell you how they got to the bottom of a case that the FBI did not dare to touch; how the big drug lords who gave the National Drug Enforcement Administration a headache were so angry that they jumped; and why the gangsters who colluded with the city government had to give them three points! There are interesting stories here, twists and turns of the plot, tense yet humorous, allowing you to laugh while experiencing suspense!

"The End of the Day" is a work by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro that won the Booker Prize in 1989. It is also Ishiguro's most important masterpiece. The 1993 film of the same name (also known as "Goodbye"), a remake of the novel, starred the famous British actors Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and six British Academy Film Awards, and became a classic in film history. The novel unfolds with the memories of butler Stevens, telling the various experiences he had during his more than thirty years of service to Lord Darlington. Although he reached the peak of his career, Stevens suppressed his own emotions too coldly and pursued perfect performance of his duties. He missed the last time his father was on his deathbed, and then missed love. Through the protagonist's memories, the novel unravels a person's life journey in front of the readers' eyes. It also reflects the international political landscape during the extraordinary period between World War I and World War II.

"Eugénie Grandet" is the representative work of Balzac, the "father of modern French novels". It is included in the "Studies of Customs" and "Scenes of Provincial Life" in his masterpiece "The Human Comedy". It is regarded as "one of the most outstanding pictures" in this monument in the history of world literature. Through a network structure model, Balzac takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line and Eugénie's love tragedy as the core of contradiction, comprehensively showing the French society in the first half of the 19th century, and at the same time describing the diverse and complex characters. In the work, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people riding horses on the plateau, and the legendary riders of the past are now riding motorcycles. A horse used to sell for 20,000 yuan, but now it sells for 8,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a mid-range motorcycle. It has only been a few years since the motorcycle entered the source area of ​​the Lancang River, and riders on the plateau have already treated it like riding a wild horse. Through TV, the riders quickly realized what those Western motorcyclists had in common with them. They installed rubber streamers on their motorcycles, hung bronze eagle heads, wore sunglasses and traditional felt hats, and their outfits were dusty from the work of herding yaks. They combined modern fashion with primitive ruggedness in an unpretentious, fashionable, accurate and natural way.

"Steppenwolf" is the masterpiece of German writer Hermann Hesse, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Harry Harrell, who has never returned home and is always on the road, pursuing the "fun" of wandering, is incompatible with modern society and the world around him. He always nervously pursues classics and the ultimate truth. In extreme fatigue, he breaks down schizophrenia and becomes a community of wolf and human. He wants to commit suicide many times. On the night when Harrell finally made up his mind to commit suicide, he met the beautiful Hermina, and a strange turn of fate occurred. In the interactions with several important figures such as the dancer Hermina, the ballroom musician Pablo, the prostitute Maria, etc., He gradually understood the true meaning of life and art, and eliminated the mental tension and despair; in the end, he was able to make an incredible connection between the ordinary and even vulgar life and the lofty thoughts of "immortals" such as Goethe and Mozart, and understood the true meaning of life and art in the magic theater.

As soon as Brown Leather Shoes left Yongdingmen Railway Station, he bumped into Bigfoot Cuigu, which he never expected. "Young Master!" La La shouted, and Cui Gu reached out to grab the luggage. He didn't see her at first. People are like swarms of bees at dusk, coming and going in groups, noisy and crowded. The rain had just stopped, and the puddles on the muddy ground shone brightly like mirrors. He avoided the puddles and walked, stepping and jumping carefully, trying his best to keep his leather shoes from being stained with mud. He wiped these shoes several times on the train. When driving through Changzhou, he bought a glutinous rice dumpling and used the stickiness of the rice dumpling leaves to smooth out the thin skin on the upper part of his right foot. As he jumped into the last puddle, he was slapped on the ass by a carrying wicker basket.

This book is a novel written by the famous writer Alai for the "Retelling of Myths" series. By telling the story of King Gesar in Tibetan mythology, from his birth as the son of the god, to his subjugation of demons, stabilization of the three realms, and finally his return to the heaven, it shows the history of the Tibetan nation from a primitive tribal alliance to the emergence of a nation, and displays the unique cultural essence of the Tibetan nation. This book was previously published by our company in 2009, and this is the revised version. King Gesar is a heroic figure in Tibetan legends. According to legend, he is the incarnation of the Son of God, Tribagawa. Out of sympathy for the suffering of demons in the world, he specially descended to the world to conquer demons and eliminate them, creating a better life for the world. King Gesar's life was full of turbulent battles with evil forces and drove away the invaders who robbed the people.

"Learning to Speak" is a collection of short stories full of autobiography by British Booker Prize writer Hilary Mantel. The book contains six short stories: "King Billy Was a Good Gentleman," "The disinfecting," "Beautiful Curves," "Learning to Speak," "Four Floors Up" and "The Clean Slate," as well as exciting excerpts from Hilary Mantel's autobiography "The End of the Breath." "Learning to Speak" has a strong autobiographical flavor by Hilary Mantel herself, describing multiple stories related to childhood: "King Billy Was a Good Gentleman" has a child who must overcome the pain of losing his father and the confusion of the disappearing Irish cultural heritage; "Beautiful Curve" is about A tale of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrapyard; the narrator in "Learning to Speak" corrects her northern accent with the help of a has-been actress... With a disorienting lightness, Mantel uncovers a haunting period of childhood transformation.

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This is a deeply emotional work by Martin Walser, the master of German literature. The famous writer Basil Schlupp fell in love at first sight with the goddess Maia Schnelling. He tried to send a letter confessing his love, thus starting a period of love-making. They used letters to complete their betrayal of marriage, but the letters revealed that they were the first to be betrayed in the marriage enclosure. Maya's husband is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Maya accompanies him on the last bicycle ride of her life in the Canadian wilderness. Schlupp began to wait silently...

One is about a woman in troubled times who was thrown into the turbulent times by accident, from opening a tea house to traveling to the Soviet Union and then secretly resisting Japan; the other is about a woman who was forced to petition in peacetime but was forced to petition. As human beings, they also encountered difficulties in life.