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Poetx

Poetx

General Fiction

(us) Elizabeth Acevedo

59K0

15-year-old Sumela is an ordinary and eye-catching Dominican girl. After immigrating to the United States with her parents, she studied in the most ordinary high school, but because of her hot figure, she often attracted the attention of her classmates. She is also a quiet girl who has always silently endured the confusion of growing up and the demands of her family. Due to the increasingly rigid relationship with her mother, she began to write her heart into a poem. With the encouragement of her teacher, she finally found an outlet to release her inner voice, and also found her complete self amidst all the "questions" from the outside world...

Inspector

Inspector

General Fiction

Lan Jinglin

237K0

This is a novel that goes deep into real social life and is full of righteousness and heroic feelings. It truly reproduces the pain and hardships an ordinary detective goes through to defend the dignity of the law.

One Year

One Year

General Fiction

Zhu Jia

182K0

This book is a reprint of the novel "Pulp Fiction" (published by Qingdao Publishing House in 2008 and won the Yangzhou Municipal Government's Five-One Project Award in 2010), renamed "One Year". The story is about a person's one year, from the summer of 1999 to the summer of 2000, a complete year and four seasons. Over a period of one year, it tells the story of a woman's personal growth. For the "I" in the novel, whether each incident will become a baptism of maturity or a sinking, whether "I" will be completely injured or escape, whether I will sigh alone or gain happiness, is left to the novel to answer one by one. When time is up, the story ends, leaving an open ending, simulating the appearance of real life.

Sunshine in Shower

Sunshine in Shower

General Fiction

Mo Shucai

79K0

"Sunshine in the Shower Rain" is a collection of short stories, which includes more than forty short stories written by the author. Its outstanding characteristics are that it keeps pace with the times, advances with the times, pays attention to small people, conveys positive energy, and denounces the false and the ugly. The language and narrative also have distinctive local characteristics of Lingnan. From the layout of the article to the exploration of themes and character creation, the work appears mature and sophisticated. In the author's writing, the little people at the bottom of society come to life in all kinds of ways. It is through the description of the fate of this group that the author expresses the compassion and compassion of a writer with a sense of social responsibility.

Past Events in Mohe

Past Events in Mohe

General Fiction

Wei Shushan

196K0

This book tells the story of the gold bandits and the anti-Russian struggle that took place in Mohe and other places on the right bank of Heilongjiang in 1900. The novel uses "gold" as a medium that reflects the good and evil of human nature, and depicts artistic images with distinctive personalities such as "Xing'an Hero" and "Ulan". In the guise of "bandits", they galloped among the high mountains of the Greater Khingan Mountains.

A Place

A Place

General Fiction

Pan Xilong

145K0

This book tells the story of Huang Long, a student of the Chinese Department of Kyoto University, and his struggle history after graduation, showing the values ​​​​and views on love of a grassroots literary youth. With the dream of becoming famous in the Chinese literary world, Huang Long completed the novel "Medicine" when he was in college. He was unwilling to publish it hastily, but revised it thousands of times, hoping that his work would become a masterpiece. His love life suffered setbacks. His girlfriend abandoned him because she thought he was poor and impractical. He also suffered setbacks at work. After graduating, a top student in the Chinese Department was unable to make ends meet and had to rely on tutoring to supplement his living expenses. His works were constantly rejected and he suffered psychological blows again and again, but Huang Long never gave up his dream, and he was lucky enough to meet Fengzi, a simple and simple girl who also had dreams. Although the two were financially strapped, they enjoyed sweet love. In the end, Huang Long won the Chunlei Literature Award and had his own place in the literary world.

Brighton Lollipop

Brighton Lollipop

General Fiction

H

199K0

The 17-year-old Pinky climbed out of trouble and wanted to climb to the top of power; he held a sweet Brighton lollipop and completely sacrificed himself to hell. In order to resist the ridicule of the world, he used cruelty to cover up his immaturity, used ambition to decorate innocence, used arrogance to drive away inferiority, and did not hesitate to push those around him into the abyss one by one. Even though he saw death approaching him several times, he showed no remorse. Because, compared to death, he was more afraid of being embarrassed.

The Great Gatsby (english-chinese)

H

144K0

"The Great Gatsby" is a novella written by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is set in New York and Long Island in the 1920s. Through the narration of "I" Carraway, it describes the tragic story of the mysterious rich Gatsby who persisted in love but was eventually abandoned by love and died because of it. With beautiful language and exquisite techniques, it delicately and accurately depicts the social landscape of the United States in the "Jazz Age". It can be called a swan song that shows the disillusionment of the "American Dream" in the 1920s, and is regarded as a symbol of American "Jazz Age" literature. The publication of "The Great Gatsby" established Fitzgerald's status in the American literary world, making him the spokesman of the "Jazz Age" in the 1920s and one of the representative writers of the "Lost Generation". After the 1950s, "The Great Gatsby" has been used as a standard textbook in American high school and college literature courses.

Faulkner's Nobel Prize-winning Collected Works: the Sound and the Fury

H

191K0

"The Sound and the Fury" is a novel written by American writer William Faulkner in 1929. It tells the story of the family tragedy of the Compson family, a declining landowner in the South. Readers who like Faulkner's works should not miss this book. Old Compson was idle and addicted to drinking and drinking. His wife is selfish, cruel, and resentful. The eldest son desperately clung to the so-called old traditions of the South. He was filled with love and hate because of his sister's romantic nature and her status as a southern lady, and even committed suicide by drowning. The second son is cold and greedy, while the third son is an idiot. At 33 years old, he only has the intelligence of a 3-year-old child. The full text revolves around the sister's fall through the inner monologues of the three sons. Finally, the black maid's "limited perspective" on the first three parts is supplemented. The work uses multi-angle narrative methods and stream-of-consciousness techniques such as montage. It is a classic work of stream-of-consciousness novels and even the entire modern novel.

Faulkner's Nobel Prize Collection: Light in August

(us) William Faulkner

254K0

"Light in August" is a novel written by American writer and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner, and it is also one of his masterpieces. Through the description of ten days of social life in Jefferson Town, the novel reveals the life of several main characters and their three-generation family history, embodies "the true emotions, love, sympathy, pride, compassion and sacrifice deep in the human soul from ancient times to the present", and shows the writer's attitude against racial and religious prejudice. The story is mainly divided into two clues. One is about Christmas, who was sent to an orphanage as a child. Because he was suspected of being a "mulatto", he lost his "identity" and suffered various abuses from society, which ultimately prompted him to kill the white lover he finally met and was executed by the white people. The other one tells the story of a rural girl named Lina who fell in love with her lover, was abandoned after becoming pregnant, and walked to the town of Jefferson to look for her lover. The work has great influence. Critic George O'Donnell once said: "Overall, "Light in August" is more mature than any other work written by Faulkner, has a broader vision, and is closer to finally and truly revealing human potential."

Faulkner's Nobel Prize Collection: as I Lay Dying

H

103K0

"As I Lay Dying" is one of Faulkner's classic works. The novel tells the story of farmer Ans, who, in accordance with his deceased wife's last wish, led his family to carry the coffin to his wife's family cemetery in Jefferson Town for burial. There were constant hardships along the way: the second son Dahl believed that the corpse was rotten and should be disposed of on the spot, so he set fire to the coffin and was treated as a lunatic and was sent to a lunatic asylum; the eldest son Cash broke a leg in order to save the coffin that fell into the water, and the increasingly heavy body odor attracted a large group of vultures. ; The third son Jewel lost his beloved horse; the daughter Del wanted to take the opportunity to go to the city to have an abortion, but was bullied by the clerk in the pharmacy; the mentally retarded younger son failed to get the toy train he longed for; only the father Ans got a pair of dentures and found a new wife. The literary world calls the novel "As I Lay Dying" the modern "Odyssey", which is an ironic epic and an absurd comedy.

Start with Poetry

Start with Poetry

General Fiction

(korean) Jung Se-rang

121K0

This is a Korean female-themed literary work. This book tells the life story of Shim Si-sun, a Korean female artist who once lived in the United States. Shen Shishan's open and independent world view and two marriages gave her family a unique matrilineal structure. After her death, her daughters and granddaughters creatively used the method of everyone searching for a memory or item related to Shen Shishan, and gathered in Hawaii to share it together, completing this unique sacrificial ceremony. By searching for items, later generations gradually restored the life of Ms. Shen Shishan, an artist and writer who was at the forefront of the times. The novel uses sacrifice, a traditional patriarchal strengthening ritual in Korean society, as a device to imply the deconstruction of patriarchy; at the same time, the novel creatively redefines the ritual of sacrifice, allowing scattered people to reunite in a mobile way. It is not only a tribute to the new women of the 20th century, but also the search and construction of self-identity for the female members of their descendants' matrilineal families. Self-identity, identity value, and gender deconstruction have reference significance for women in the current social field of reconstruction of gender identity.

Night in Duck Town: a Collection of Stories by Wang Kui and Zhang Liang

Cao Kou

145K0

"Night in Duck Town: A Collection of Stories by Wang Kui and Zhang Liang" contains 16 short stories with "Wang Kui" and "Zhang Liang" as the protagonists. The events took place in Baguazhou Town, the hometown of the author Cao Kou, and in urban Nanjing, from the 1990s to about 2000. This collection of novels is rich in content. It is not only a vivid record of a region and an era, but also a valuable literary work. In the novel collection, Wang Kui, Zhang Liang, Li Qian and others are all ordinary young people in small towns. While being squeezed by life, they strive to live freely. Their life situations are written in a simple and meaningful way, which makes people feel a little nostalgic. From this work, we can truly feel the confusion, pursuit, nostalgia and other mental states of young people in an era of rapid development, amidst the vague changes in which villages and towns continue to become part of the city.

Breastfeeding Woman

Breastfeeding Woman

General Fiction

Bi Feiyu

159K0

"Lactating Woman" tells the story of a little boy in Duanqiao Town, whose parents both went out to work, bit the breast of Hui Sao, a "lactating woman", causing an uproar. The author uses poetic brushstrokes to vividly outline a radiant image of a breastfeeding woman. The novel won the National Top Ten Short Story Award and the First Lu Xun Literature Award Short Story Award.

Identity: Milan Kundera Works Series (2022 Edition)

Milan Kundera

67K0

One of Kundera's "Forgetting Trilogy" and the official opening work of "The French Cycle". Identity is fragile, and love is even more unbearably fragile, but this is also the infinite power of love. How can we prove that we are a free and independent individual and the sole master of our soul? In a small seaside town in Normandy, France, Chantal found that men no longer looked back at her, and she told her boyfriend Jean-Marc gloomily. When Jean-Marc was looking for Chantal on the beach, he thought he had found her, but found that the person who turned around was a strange, aging face. After that, Chantal frequently received anonymous love letters, which she hid secretly and secretly observed who wrote these letters. This matter became a knot in her heart... Milan Kundera launched a series of discussions around the issue of "identity" in this book, exploring the issue of the unfamiliar self. Along the path of self-doubt, he carefully reached the depths of consciousness, conducted self-observation and questioning, and gradually extended in the meditative rhythm of the melody, gradually approaching the core of the question - "love" and "who".

Immortality: the Works of Milan Kundera Series (2022 Edition)

Milan Kundera

203K0

"Immortality is an unworthy fantasy, an empty word, a trace of wind that people chase with butterfly nets..." A novel about road and betrayal, accident and necessity, it is a model of Kundera's musical novel. "Immortality" is Milan Kundera's masterpiece novel and a model of Kundera's musical novel art. The novel alternately tells three stories: the first story is about Agnès, a middle-aged woman living in Paris and her hometown in Switzerland, who decides to withdraw from her trivial daily life and entanglement with the past, and prepares to live alone; the second story is about the relationship between the elderly poet Goethe and his young lover Bettina; the third story is about the dissolute life of a man nicknamed Rubens. The three stories proceed alternately and connect one proposition after another: self, hometown, happiness, freedom, inevitability and contingency, big immortality and small immortality, romance and debauchery, image, youth, eternal female worship, etc.

The Record of Laughter and Forgetting: a Series of Works by Milan Kundera (2022 Edition)

Milan Kundera

128K0

Kundera's must-read masterpiece, Kundera's masterpiece of regaining his novel ambitions, a new era of novel art, and the winner of the Lu Xun Literary Award for Literary Translation. "The Record of Laughter and Forgetting" is Milan Kundera's masterpiece novel. It is Kundera's first novel after leaving the Czech Republic and settling in France. "This is a novel about Tamina, and when Tamina is not present, it is a novel for Tamina. She is the main character and the main audience, and all other stories are variations on her own story, and they coalesce into her life as if they were present. It's the same in a mirror." Tamina is from Prague and works as a waiter in a small cafe in a city in western Europe. After her husband's death, she lives alone, quiet and peaceful, but she mobilizes her friends and devotes herself to others, trying every means to get back the eleven notepads and letters she left at her mother-in-law's house in Prague. Husband, mother, homeland... The past has become Tamina's salvation. "If the rickety building of memories collapses like an unstable tent, Tamina will only be left with the present, this invisible point, this nothingness that slowly marches towards death." Tamina wants to get back eleven notepads, Mirek wants to return the love letter from twenty-five years ago... Starting from his own situation, Kundera writes about those who try to resist forgetting and stubbornly retain memories. The content that people hope to preserve or forget is the corresponding eternal theme, just like laughter with joy and irony. "This is a novel about laughter and forgetting."

Living Elsewhere: the Works of Milan Kundera (2022 Edition)

Milan Kundera

171K01

Milan Kundera's masterpiece novel, read Milan Kundera's Book of Youth. A book about pursuing dreams, written for every young person who yearns for beauty and sublimity in mediocrity; a journey of self-pursuit: If we cannot change the world, at least we should change our own lives and live freely. "Living Elsewhere" is Milan Kundera's masterpiece novel and won the Medici Award. "Life is elsewhere" is a famous saying by the French poet Rimbaud. In the eyes of a young man full of longing, the real life is not around him, but always somewhere else. The protagonist of this book, Jaromil, is one of them. He grew up in the meticulous care of his mother. He is sensitive, weak, and shy. His mother takes care of everything about him and always treats him as a child. For him, only by breaking away from his mother's control can he truly have his own life. "Living somewhere else" became his creed growing up.

Farewell Waltz: Milan Kundera Works Series (2022 Edition)

Milan Kundera

128K0

Milan Kundera's most cherished novel, Five Days, Eight People, is a variation on a black love game, the ultimate questioning about the value of human existence, and an endless exploration of the value of human existence. "Farewell Waltz" is Milan Kundera's important novel masterpiece. It was completed in Bohemia between 1969 and 1970. It won the Italian Best Foreign Literature Award. This work is cleverly conceived and full of black humor, and is recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary literature. The novel takes the Soviet Union's invasion of Prague as the political background. Through the twists and turns of eight characters, including a cheating trumpeter, an American businessman, a doctor, a sanatorium nurse, and a released prisoner, the novel deeply explores many complex and contradictory dilemmas and problems in life at a philosophical level, and provides insight into the lives and moods of Czech intellectuals at a specific historical stage. The work adopts the "montage" technique of the movie, and the psychological description of the characters is meticulous, and sometimes reveals "Kundera-style" irony, revealing a rich tragic atmosphere in the seemingly relaxed atmosphere.

I Am the Peacekeeper of the Special Forces

Tan Qionghui

121K0

Liu Wenjian was influenced by his father who was a veteran of the Vietnam War since he was a child. After graduating from college, he resolutely joined the military camp. While participating in an army support activity, he met Qin Xiaobin, who also liked the military. The two met in a military knowledge competition and became good friends. Because Qin Xiaobin was too obsessed with the military, he abandoned his studies because he wanted to be a soldier, which worried his parents. Liu Wenjian was then sent to Country L to participate in peacekeeping operations. What he saw and heard in Country L allowed this stubborn young man to gradually grow up. He eventually successfully completed the peacekeeping mission and received the Peace Medal of Honor from the United Nations. After returning home, he learned that Qin Xiaobin had also entered high school with excellent results, and was therefore dubbed a "Super Boy" by his parents. Two "good brothers", one older and one younger, finally grew into well-known men after going through hardships.

The Scenery Here

The Scenery Here

General Fiction

Wang Meng

573K02

"The Scenery Here" is a novel written by Wang Meng in the 1970s. The novel is set in the rural areas of Xinjiang, starting from the commune grain theft case, using layers of suspense and the unique customs of the Western Regions to show readers a panoramic view of life in the modern Western Regions. At the same time, it also reflects the real life of the Han and Uighur ethnic groups under the special historical background, as well as the mutual understanding and care between the two peoples. This book won the 9th Mao Dun Literature Award.

Fog and Stone

Fog and Stone

General Fiction

Wang Liyun

326K0

The novel tells the story of a place called Stone Street in eastern Zhejiang, where the Lin family and the Wu family, a wealthy businessman, struggled in vain in a turbulent and complicated situation involving gentry, wealthy businessmen, Confucian scholars, civilians, missionaries, officials, gangsters and other classes. It explores why China in the late feudal period missed the opportunity to integrate into the general trend of the world due to the brutal internal strife and the constraints of conservative ideas.

Ninth Hour

Ninth Hour

General Fiction

(us) Alice Mcdermott

136K0

On a short, dark winter day, Jim turned on the gas in his New York home, sparking a fire. His pregnant wife was treated by the nuns who arrived and she worked as a washer in the basement of the convent. Their daughter Sally was born and grew up in the convent and spent a sweet childhood. Sally was deeply influenced by the kind-hearted nuns and hoped to devote her life to helping her poor neighbors. When she grew up, she ignored her mother's objections and embarked on the road to practice in a Chicago monastery alone. However, on this overnight train, she saw the real poverty, ugliness and filth in the secular world. Will the young girl choose to continue to devote herself to suffering, or pursue love mixed with greed and desire?

All Quiet on the Western Front

(germany) Erich Maria Remarque

117K0

This autobiographical novel mainly describes the lives and feelings of eight ordinary soldiers in the trenches on the Western Front during World War I. It is divided into 12 chapters. The story unfolds through the personal narration of the protagonist Paul Boymer. During World War I, 19-year-old Paul Boymer was inspired by "patriotism" and volunteered to join the army with his classmates. However, the cruelty of war and military life was completely beyond imagination. In boot camp, they are forced to abandon their former faith in knowledge and freedom and undergo a radical transformation. After a short training, the recruits were sent to the front line to fight, and what they saw and heard was cruel: the trenches were full of rats and lice; severe infectious diseases threatened the life of every soldier; comrades were killed one by one, or were injured and sent to field hospitals; the field hospitals were poorly equipped and lacked medicines, and the mortality rate of injured patients was extremely high. When Paul returned home on vacation, he found that Germany was still immersed in heroic fantasies about war. Ordinary people could not imagine the disasters suffered by soldiers on the front line. He was completely out of touch with his previous life, and no one could understand his feelings. Paul returns to the front line. At this time, the war is becoming more and more fierce, and the future is confused...

Jing'an 1976

Jing'an 1976

General Fiction

Yufeng

115K0

"Jing'an 1976" uses the four seasons of summer, autumn, winter and spring as its chapter structure. From the perspective of an eleven or twelve-year-old boy (the protagonist Ge Xiaobao), it depicts the dusty life in Shanghai's alleys in the 1970s, as well as the protagonist's self-growth. The novel captures the ups and downs of the Zhu family, the landlord of Jiangning Road, the Wu family, the former capitalist tenants, the protagonists Xiaobao's family, Xiaojing's family, the musician's family, and the "puller" Ma Hongdi's family in the alley. At the end, the protagonist Xiaobao bids farewell to his childish first love seemingly for no reason, and lets an iron train tell Xiaojing: We will move at full speed towards the unknown future... The novel is based on the lives of ordinary citizens in two residential houses on Jiangning Road and North Shaanxi Road. Through the lively eyes of several male and female primary school students in Xikang Road Primary School, it observes the unique life of residents in the central city of Shanghai in 1976; it uses rich and vivid details and texture to restore the faces of citizens of that era. Use the perspective of a teenager to enter an era of frequent political movements, and fill in the blank pages of the era with a realistic past. "Jing'an 1976" attempts to reshape the real 1970s by relying on profound life experience and long-term reflection on the past, such as vintage wine. In Jing'an Shanghai in the 1970s, there was no addiction to sports or culture, only trivial and dusty life itself. What happens in the alley? What can happen in the alley? The alleys bury the people who only belong to the alleys, and spit out those people who are heading towards a broad future... The language style of the novel is light and self-sustained, telling the story in a light melancholy, and telling it eloquently, with a calm and comfortable maritime style.

Twenty Years in Magic City: Internet Storm

Jin Hui

220K0

Shanghai, China's largest city and economic center, is a place full of opportunities. It has the luxury of Xintiandi and the fireworks of Dayangpu. The rapidly rising skyline of Lujiazui and the century-old tranquility of Hengshan Road are also in perfect harmony here. People of all kinds from all over the country and even the world have brought countless changes to the city of Shanghai, turning Shanghai into a magical city, referred to as the Magic City. At the turn of the century, several young people who had just graduated came to the Magic City with their own different goals. They live, work, make friends and grow together here. They witnessed the development of Magic City with their own eyes, and at the same time, they also experienced their own transformation. This was accompanied by the rise, growth, and craze of the first round of the Internet starting at the end of the last century, and even the bursting of the bubble. No one is immune, but life goes on. That period of the Internet industry's first rise and fall should not be forgotten. The people in Magic City and the people who have lived in Magic City are all strong. They have all contributed to this city. At the same time, they are also great, because it is the dedication of thousands of people that has made Magic City this great city.

Destiny

Destiny

General Fiction

Cai Chongda

154K9.334

"Destiny" is a novel that Cai Chongda wrote with great concentration eight years after "Skin". The sentence in "Skins", "Skins are for use, not for serving." It comes from the mouth of the protagonist of "Destiny", Atai. "Destiny" takes the life story of the ninety-nine-year-old as the main line, connecting the life stories, destiny choices and ups and downs of the times of several generations of people in a coastal town in southern Fujian. The book uses five memories of Atai to cut into the essential propositions that people have to face in the long history of time: Layers of Waves: You have no past, only the future - when the original stable way of living is shattered, the traditional order that protects people is split, and how can the frail people who are trapped in the huge impermanence survive? Where to place your inner peace? Sea soil: Inspiration is the soil floating on the sea - bonds and meaning are the ballast stones of the human soul, which will not be overturned when the waves of life hit. Those who lost their ballast in Atai's life were taken away one by one by fate. At this time, she was still only sixteen years old. Flowers in the field: Flowers that want to bear fruit bow their heads early - carrying the destiny prophecy of "die without children, no grandchildren, no children", she got married, had a husband and a wife, and adopted a child. But those who have seen destiny will understand that the torrent of destiny never stops, and people do not know when they say goodbye, it is a farewell. Buddha in the Toilet: A place of decay, a place of gods-how to maintain inner clarity and faith under the huge waves of the times? The easiest way to live in this world is to live for others. And if that person happens to live for you, then life will be as sweet as sweet potatoes no matter how bitter it is. Ceiling hole: Either bury yourself in peace, or shoot into the sky - Atai's story comes to an end, and death becomes her close old friend. She finally gave birth to her own destiny and became the mother of her own destiny. She has been in this world, and she will never come back.

The Call of the Bombe Toad

(german) Günter Grass

148K0

Professor Alexander is a German widower who returns to his hometown of Danzig to visit his relatives. He falls in love with the widowed Polish artist Alexandra and becomes happily married. After their marriage, they established a German-Polish cemetery company to help young people who left home return to their roots. The number of relocations is increasing day by day. Not only the elderly Danzig returned from Germany and entered a nursing home to spend his old age, but the descendants of the "removed" are also flocking here. They built massively on the former German territory, and villas and golf courses sprung up all over the place. Voices such as "Germans are occupying land in colonial ways" were heard in the Polish Parliament. The Alexanders were driving to Naples to escape the stress and heard the sound of bombe toads on the road - which locals believed was a bad omen.

Female Rat

Female Rat

General Fiction

I

275K0

"Mouse" is a novel published by Glass in 1986. The novel maintains the writer's habit of using animals as metaphors for human beings, with strange ideas and bizarre stories. Through the dialogue between the first-person narrator and a female mouse in a dream, it shows the history of mankind from the beginning of creation to the end of the world, and reflects the writer's thoughts and worries about human society in the nuclear age. The novel begins with "I" wanting a mouse as a Christmas gift and getting my wish. The mouse was eloquent and constantly at odds with "I", causing "I" to be first at home and then alone in space, cut off from the earth. However, in a dream, I witnessed the tragedy of the world and experienced the process of human self-destruction.

Olivo Mountain

Olivo Mountain

General Fiction

(french) Maupassant

160K0

"Olivo Mountain" takes the love experience of the heroine Christina as a clue, and faithfully and vividly describes the process of the decline of the feudal aristocracy and the rise of the bourgeoisie. The translator Zhang Yinglun is an expert on Maupassant from the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been cooperating with our agency to translate Maupassant's short stories and short stories. His writing style is humorous and in line with Maupassant's writing style. This "Olivo Mountain" was previously published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House, and the title was translated as "Hot Springs", but in fact the literal translation of the title is "Olivo Mountain". There is no revenue in the "Collected Works of Maupassant" published by our company. This is a brand new translation. Maupassant's works are fast-paced, unique and highly readable, making them very suitable for readers of all ages.

My Years Are Quiet

My Years Are Quiet

General Fiction

Yang Zhengguang

74K0

The protagonist of the work is a man named Delin, who prides himself on being a scholar and intellectual, and lives by watching life, including watching himself. He calls watching also a kind of reading, and uses this as a way of life. It can ensure his freedom of life in any situation, including times of danger, and it can vary from person to person. Academics can also find suitable reasons for his actions in a popular way, including watching his neighbor murder someone on the spot, or watching his own home being demolished. And all the incidents happened after his wife filed for divorce. He could actually use the right reasons to make the divorce like a piece of dried meat hanging on the wall, an uncertainty. The academic expression could be "Schrödinger's cat". "Freedom" is both a philosophical concept and a secular expression of comfortable life.

Tampering with Fate

Tampering with Fate

General Fiction

Thing

164K04

Dongxi, whose real name is Rin Tashiro, has representative works such as "A Loud Slap", "Regrets", "Tampering with Fate", "Echoes", etc. Among them, the novella "Life Without Language" won the first Lu Xun Literature Award. Some works have been translated and published in English, French, Swedish, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Czech, Danish, etc. "Tampering with Fate" is Dongxi's third novel. The novel describes a farmer, Wang Changchi, who took the college entrance examination. He reached the required score but was not admitted due to "mistakes" in filling out the application form. After re-study, he still failed to enter college. Because his family owed foreign debt, he had to go to the city to work. Wang Changchi did not want his hard fate to befall his son Wang Dazhi again, so he chose to give his children to people in the city in order to achieve his wish to change the destiny of the next generation. The language of the novel is concise and precise, and very powerful; the structure of the novel is exquisite, the plot has a dramatic effect, and is highly readable.

Caishang

Caishang

General Fiction

Tang Tang

392K0

During the forty years of China's reform and opening up, a group of restless rural youths in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, represented by Si Lai, experienced a great experience of human nature in order to get rid of poverty and change their destiny. "Cai Shang" takes the emotional entanglement between a pair of twin sisters and Silai as the emotional main line, the success and failure of Silai and the rural youth Youcai, Luo Ganqian, and Afajie as brothers to start a business together, and the bloody struggle in domestic and foreign shopping malls as the career main line. It vividly reproduces the ups and downs and wonderful process of China's grassroots people's entrepreneurial struggle. This book has distinctive local characteristics, showing the flexible and changeable "water duck" character of the "spring duck prophet" of Jiangsu and Zhejiang's light textile industry, the shrewd planning of the Shaoxing master, and the cultural characteristics of being brave and courageous, and clearly distinguishing between grudges and grudges. "Colorful Shang" panoramically shows the struggle process of China's textile industry towards the global "New Silk Road", as well as the fighting spirit of "Unbroken Loulan will never be returned", which is the spiritual connotation of "Made in China".

Beiliu

Beiliu

General Fiction

Lindbergh

536K0

The song "Flora" breaks through the barrier between man and nature, and illuminates the world deep in Li Yuedou's memory. From then on, she traveled through the southern Guangdong region in the 21st century, but she also wandered through the coordinates of different eras as if she had escaped. As she moves around and changes scenery, she keeps changing and growing. Relatives and friends who seem to have disappeared and are talking cyclically in the flow of time bring out the changing second half of the 20th century. The floating farm shines with a unique light, and the evolving words illuminate the found homeland. When space and time are closely intertwined with the changing faces, the source and destination of emotion unexpectedly merge into one. All the information came rushing in, and the gap of time became an all-encompassing poem of the South.

Travel Far Away

Travel Far Away

General Fiction

Pang Chunlin

92K0

Pay attention to real life and care for left-behind children! The story takes place in 2004. Jia Mingguang, a junior high school student, grew up with his grandparents. He had to come to live with his parents because he was expelled from school for fighting with his classmates. The long-term separation led to an unusually alienated relationship between parent and child. His parents, who wanted him to be a successful child, originally wanted him to go back to school, but he insisted on going to work in a factory and even ran away from home. Eventually, he went astray because of his friendship with some socially undesirable young people. "A Long Journey" focuses on the psychological description of the young protagonist, depicting a left-behind child's completely different emotional attachment to two generations of elders, as well as his rebellious behavior in adolescence. It has deeply analyzed and interrogated socially sensitive issues such as children's sex education and juvenile delinquency, and has a certain degree of humanistic care and aesthetic interest.

Magpie Bridge Immortal

Magpie Bridge Immortal

General Fiction

Xiao Er

228K0

"Magpie Bridge Immortal" is the latest novel by Hangzhou writer Xiao Er, which was first published in "Harvest Novels 2021 Spring Scroll". The novel recalls the turbulent past of Qizhen, an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River, which is a large wharf by the canal. It is written from the 1960s and 1970s to the new century. A small group of childhood sweethearts left Qizhen one after another. After that, they went through different people and affairs. The string of the kite seemed to be broken, but it did not break... Many years later, the ancient town of Jiangnan, which seemed to be no longer prosperous, once again became the life stage of the childhood. Weddings and funerals, gatherings and separations, all social phenomena are rushing in. It can also be said that "the past has become a heart-warming event, and the passing of time is like another year." It was hailed by Jin Yucheng, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, as "opening up an accurate picture of Jiangnan's heavy colors for readers."

Serotonin (houellebecq's Series)

V

153K0

The 21st century version of "The Outsider"! Capturing the lonely spirit and nihilistic atmosphere of modern society, "looking for hope beyond all hope". The first person in the French literary world after Camus, with annual sales of more than 500,000 in France, twice won the Fu Lei Translation Award, and was translated by the famous French translator Mr. Jin Longge. It is a novel about urban depression, a novel about self-salvation and finding happiness. Depression, the plague of modern society. I am 46 years old, a senior agricultural consultant, committed to supporting French agriculture, with a high salary and a Japanese girlfriend that everyone envies. I had no reason to be depressed, but I knew that life was falling apart. My girlfriend doesn't love me, so my job is meaningless. For more than 40 years, I have tried hard to abide by the middle-class principles step by step, but I found that everything has become ridiculous. In fact, happiness was once close at hand, but I still hopelessly ruined it. So, I played disappearing and started the journey of searching for myself. This is a story about individuals fighting against depression, individuals fighting against social disintegration, fighting sadness with sadness, and mocking depravity with depravity.

Portnoy's Complaint (complete Works by Philip Roth)

H

159K0

"American Library" Top 100 of the 20th Century, "Time" Magazine's Top 100 from 1923 to 2005, and a phenomenon-level best-selling work that has surpassed "The Godfather" in sales. "Portnoy's Complaint" is Philip Roth's third novel and a topical work. When it was released in 1969, it caused a sensation and has been on the best-seller list for a long time. Its sales volume even exceeded that of "The Godfather" published in the same year. Later, he was selected into the "American Library" Top 100 of the 20th Century and "Time" magazine's Top 100 from 1923 to 2005. Some commentators said that the novel, together with Saul Bellow's "Herzog", defined American Jewish literature in the 1960s. The story takes place in the psychiatrist Spielvogel's recliner. The protagonist Portnoy is suffering from neurosis. He finds the psychiatrist Spielvogel and confides to him the difficulties he has faced since childhood: his father's expectation for his son to succeed, his mother's autocratic doting, and the troubles of Jewish identity... Behind the bold and almost absurd confession is the inner moral anxiety of his generation of American Jewish youth. It is the conflict and imbalance between the traditional Jewish moral consciousness and the sense of freedom in American society in the 1960s, as well as the survival anxiety of American Jews in contemporary American society.

Twelve Chairs

Twelve Chairs

General Fiction

(soviet Union) Ilya Iliev Yevgeny Petrov

250K0

A unique and unique work in the history of Russian literature, the Complete Collection of Soviet Jokes is still a best-seller in Russia. It uses the restored version of the archived manuscript first published in 1928 as the translation base to restore the true original appearance of the novel. It has been transformed into film and television dramas dozens of times, bringing laughter and hope to people in countless desperate situations. It has been cited and praised by many well-known writers, including Nabokov, Brodsky, Ellenborg, etc. "The Twelve Chairs" is the masterpiece of Soviet writers Ilya Iliv and Yevgeny Petrov. Before the publication of this book, the two were just unknown journalists. However, "The Twelve Chairs" quickly became the talk of people all over the Soviet Union after it was serialized in the magazine. The two authors even had to create a sequel at the request of the masses and resurrect the protagonist who died in the book. The story revolves around a treasure hidden in a chair. When the revolution came, a noble lady hid some valuable jewelry in one of the twelve chairs. She did not reveal this secret until her death to her son-in-law and the priest who made her deathbed confession. The two men each had their own hidden agendas, and each embarked on a treasure hunt throughout the Soviet Union, triggering a series of absurd events that made people laugh...

A Patient Who Burns Himself Out

(uk)graham Green

132K0

What this book tells is not a fictional story about a distant continent, but the real daily life around you and me. We are all more or less like the protagonist, burning ourselves out hysterically and then falling irresistibly into the void. The architect Querrey suffered from a disease - a disease that burned out his passion for life. The limbs are healthy and sound, but the spirit is incomplete; living tiredly while helplessly looking for a way out. He left behind the glitz and hustle and bustle of the city and exiled himself to the jungles of Africa. Facing dilapidation and poverty, he felt happiness and prosperity for the first time in a long time. He thought he was about to recover, but he didn't expect that everything was just a precursor to the coming storm.

Random Notes on Blindness

I

197K0

The first person suddenly blind appeared on the street, followed by the second, and the third... A contagious blindness spreads in the city, and no one knows why the epidemic broke out and when it will end. Blindness has caused unprecedented panic and disaster, and batches of infected people have been quarantined together. Food was scarce, organization collapsed, and civilization and dignity became fragile. People gradually peel off their moral cloak and fall into a miserable situation more desperate than blindness. Of these people, only one woman can still be seen. Her eyes are the only remaining sanity in this crazy world.

U

U

General Fiction

K

264K0

This is a wonderful story about a man who keeps distance from the era of desire, but lives a fulfilling life. I followed my uncle not only because he was a botanical genius, but also because he had an anachronistic quirk. He was immersed in the world of scientific research and had no intention of seeking power. He longs for happiness more, but suffers a lot in the pursuit of love, calculations and deceptions. He did not dare to endure it, let alone sink. Instead, he lamented: More people died of heartbreak than nuclear radiation. Just escape to the Arctic and spend some time with plants!

X

X

General Fiction

H

72K0

A deliberately hidden diary; a long and silent quarrel; a mother and daughter who clearly wanted to get closer but were pushed further and further apart by misunderstandings and conflicts... Looking back on the past under the elm tree in the old house, I realized that the boredom, withdrawal and worry when facing my mother turned out to be proof of growth - and I discovered that I also have the life I want!

Psychiatrist (volume 2)

Summer Solstice

237K0

She is a leading psychiatrist, and he is a renowned crime solving expert. Faced with children who committed mass suicide, a secret room with numerous traps, a teenager with an Internet addiction, and a sexual assault case with stress disorder, the two joined hands in life and death to stage the most thrilling confrontation! The most profound insight into people's hearts! The secrets that have been dormant for twenty years, the farewells that cannot be said in the future, the demented father in the nursing home, the rich man who is deeply hypnotized... If you peel away the inextricable connections between them, will the truth be revealed to the world, or is there a more treacherous conspiracy? Panic is everywhere! Danger is coming! He asked her: Why did you become a psychiatrist? She said: It was a psychiatrist who saved me twenty years ago, and I want to save more people. She asked him: Why do you want to be a psychiatrist? He said: Because you are here.

Psychiatrist (volume 1)

Summer Solstice

203K0

She is a leading psychiatrist, and he is a renowned crime solving expert. Faced with children who committed mass suicide, a secret room with numerous traps, a teenager with an Internet addiction, and a sexual assault case with stress disorder, the two joined hands in life and death to stage the most thrilling confrontation! The most profound insight into people's hearts! The secrets that have been dormant for twenty years, the farewells that cannot be said in the future, the demented father in the nursing home, the rich man who is deeply hypnotized... If you peel away the inextricable connections between them, will the truth be revealed to the world, or is there a more treacherous conspiracy? Panic is everywhere! Danger is coming! He asked her: Why did you become a psychiatrist? She said: It was a psychiatrist who saved me twenty years ago, and I want to save more people. She asked him: Why do you want to be a psychiatrist? He said: Because you are here.

Cat World

Cat World

General Fiction

Liu Gubai

152K01

The prison where Andy served his sentence was small and medium-security, mainly holding prisoners with sentences of no more than 15 years. In addition to the necessary production labor, Andy also has another task - feeding the cats. There are feral cats in prison! Although there are people taking care of them, the cat life is still difficult, and the biggest threat is the dogs kept in the kitchen. One stormy night, a fierce fight broke out between cats and dogs without warning, breaking the peace among the three realms of cats, dogs, and humans in prison.

Worldliness

Worldliness

General Fiction

Fang Lei

108K0

Mrs. Fang (my grandma), a well-educated and courteous young lady from a wealthy family in the old days, has gone through years of ups and downs and turned into a sloppy and dirty old lady with a sharp mouth and a tofu heart. Although her family was in decline, she still did not forget the family motto of "be kind and charitable". Under the dilapidated roof of her home, she took in a group of people who had nowhere to go. Beggars, opera singers, fortune tellers, circus performers... As long as they were living on the streets, she would always go home to pick them up. Regardless of the opinions of others, she always did what she felt was right. Whenever there were dangers or difficulties, she relied on her life experience and strong heart to resolve them one by one. These people wandering in the world have gone through vicissitudes of life and their faces are blurred, but they have their own faces and identities under the roof of Mrs. Fang. With the help of Mrs. Fang, intentionally or unintentionally, they slowly find their own places to go.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

General Fiction

Jiu Mo

154K0

This book is set in rural areas and rural schools around the year 2000. It revolves around the story that happened around the 16-year-old protagonist Lu Sang, describes the living conditions of left-behind women, left-behind elderly people, and left-behind children in rural areas at that time, and tells the growth story of a group of rural high school students in a rebellious period. Through the growth experience of the protagonist Lu Sang, it shows the development and changes of rural areas in Northeast Sichuan since the reform and opening up, especially since the 18th National Congress, and is full of confidence and hope for the future development of rural areas.

From the Quiet Shallow Sea

(ireland) Donal Ryan

85K0

Three sad men, with different ages, classes, and nationalities, play different roles in society, and play them very badly... They have to accept the heartbreaking reality. They need to face the dilemma head-on, and still have to live in a world full of love and hate, hope and despair...

Go Out West

Go Out West

General Fiction

Lao Yun

205K0

From Yangzhou, Jiangsu to Xinyuan, Xinjiang, the seven-member Xinjiang aid team has devoted three years of true devotion. Here are Chen Dawei, the commander-in-chief of the Xinjiang aid command group who retired from the armed police; Li Mingchuan, the deputy commander-in-chief who was a teacher and former deputy mayor of a county-level city; Shi Cong, a cadre of the Transportation Bureau who signed up to go to Xinjiang when his daughter was less than 100 days old; Zhang Jun, a cadre of the Committee of Agriculture who has given birth to his second child, Tang Le, a cadre of the Construction Bureau who has aided Sichuan and signed up to aid Xinjiang, Zhou Yi, a cadre of the National Development and Reform Commission who has been in the army for twenty years and whose son is in college... A group of mortals with flesh and blood, emotions and desires, merits and demerits, living extraordinary lives in ordinary times.

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