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This book is an independent sequel to the "Memories, Sorrows and Thorns" series. The story takes place more than a thousand years ago in "Memories, Sorrows and Thorns (Volume 1) Dragon Bone Chair". It is set in the world of the Osten Yard continent and tells the story of the rise and decline of the Xiti tribe, an immortal nation on the Osten Yard continent. The Siti tribe is ruled by the calm Hakatri and his proud and violent brother Inagi, known as the "Brothers of the Wind". Inanagi, who is as changeable as the wind, will one day become the immortal Storm King. However, he made a bold and terrible decision, and he was bound to destroy the legendary black dragon - Black Duohe Bei. But his move dragged his brother Hakatri into the fatal abyss, threatening the entire family. In the battle with the black dragon, Inanagi was killed by the black dragon due to his own negligence. Although Hakatri united everyone to defeat the powerful enemy and sealed it again, he also paid a heavy price.

The story background of the "Age of Madness" trilogy is set in the fictional world of "The First Law". In the book, two magic masters "Bayaz" and "Kabul" do not hesitate to break the "First Law" and "Second Law" for world hegemony, manipulate the heroes of the world, design a new king to ascend to the throne, and stand at the end of world power. "The Age of Madness" tells the story of the descendants of characters who were influenced by a master of magic. After the advent of the steam age, magic has not disappeared, and the controlled king's son is still cowardly and a pawn of many forces. But Kerry, the warrior who defeated the enemies in the north, with the help of the mountain woman, intends to break all this and change this fateful curse.

This book is the sequel to the "Memories, Sorrows and Thorns" series, and is also the first volume in the "The Last King" series. As the beginning of the series, this book gives a more detailed explanation of the background of the story and the relationship between the main characters. Thirty years ago, the evil power of the Storm King was destroyed by Simon, and his army fled in all directions, unable to fight back. Since then, the continent of Osten Yard has been in a state of peace. Ruled by King Simon and Queen Mirima. However, thirty years later, Simon was over 50 and gradually getting older. John Joshua, his son with Miriam, had been dead for many years, and his grandson Morgan was a waste in the wine jar. On the other hand, in the frozen north - Naqika, the Storm King's ally, the Silver-faced Queen, woke up from decades of slumber and was plotting a plan to destroy humanity.

This book tells the story of eight years after the events of the "First Law" series and five years after the events of "The Cold Banquet". In order to avenge his friend Logan, King Jessel of the Southern United Kingdom declared war on the King of the North, Black Whirlwind. After the armies of both sides went in circles for several months, due to the situation, they launched a decisive battle that lasted for three days around the high ground called Hero's Peak. In this unprecedented but ultimately futile war, countless people demonstrated their qualities. The author Akrobi also threw the definition of "hero" to readers, allowing them to understand it on their own from this war literature. The inner text describes several major battle scenes. In addition to the characterization of the main characters, it also describes the definition of "hero" for the little people from different angles. Very realistic.

This book is the continuation of the "Memories, Sorrows and Thorns" series and the second volume of the "The Last King" series. The story tells that for thirty years, the continent of Osten Yade has been in a state of peace. But now, a new threat of war has begun. King Simon and Queen Miriam begin to face danger from all sides. The ancient and powerful Northern Ghost Queen began a new round of revenge; due to their fanaticism for superstition and their long-term hatred of the residents of Goward City, the ferocious nomads also began to mobilize and prepare to attack Goward. While the countries and people of Ostan continue to fight among themselves, war and dark magic are finding ways to tear civilization into pieces. Hanging over all threats are the secrets of Witchwood Crown, and King Simon, Queen Miriam and their allies must solve the deadly problem of uniting all forces to fight against all threats.

Before being admitted to Trinity College Dublin, Debbie had been living on a dairy farm in the countryside. Her mother captured dreams all day long, and her uncle was addicted to alcohol. Leaving home and going to college was the beginning of independent life and adventure for Debbie. Debbie, who shuttles between dreams and reality, city and countryside, free campus life and complex family problems, is constantly testing and struggling in the new world. She met a girl named Xanthi and became close friends with her. In Debbie's view, Xanthi is so perfect, with a good family background, sweet appearance, and seemingly no worries at all. However, Debbie's family and life are falling into chaos step by step... Is home a cradle full of love? Are there really perfect people in the world? Where is the boundary between reality and dreams? This is a story about growth, friendship, family, and how a young girl survives and finds herself in the adult world. Debbie in the story is just like you and me, she is arrogant and inferior, longs for dreams but is afraid of failure, has a fragile "glass heart", but can face everything bravely.

Since the age of 14, Izawa Shika's spine has been severely curvature due to a muscle disease, and he has to rely on artificial respirators to survive. This life has lasted for 30 years. She relies on the large inheritance left by her parents to live in a group home called "Hearth", while taking online courses at a private university and contributing to an 18-ban novel website. In another account of his, he wrote: "If I am reborn, I want to become a high-end prostitute." Affected by the epidemic, there were problems with staff scheduling in the group home, and Shi Hua was arranged to have a male staff member named Tanaka assist in bathing. When the two were alone, Tanaka suddenly revealed Shi Hua's Twitter account and further proposed a deal: as long as he gave him 100 million yen, he would help Shi Hua get pregnant.

"Akatsuki" is the third part of Yukio Mishima's "Sea of ​​Plenty" tetralogy. Kiyoaki, the protagonist of the previous work "Spring Snow", is reincarnated as a Thai princess in this novel, and reunites with Honda, an old friend from her previous life. Honda has been looking for Kiyoaki's reincarnation, but when he saw the ultimate scene of death in a holy land in India, Honda finally realized that life and death are a cycle and death is inevitable. From then on, he let himself go and gradually turned dark. However, Qingxian's reincarnated body was bitten to death by a snake, starting the next reincarnation. The plot of the novel is simple, but it contains a huge amount of information. It contains forbidden love that accelerates the heartbeat, human torture of life, death and desire, magnificent tropical scenery, and the long and unique humanities and customs of Southeast Asia. At the same time, with the author's strong writing power, he carefully describes the subtle and huge changes in the mood of the people in the story over time, making the whole book feel immersive.

"Melancholy of Resistance" is a novel written by Hungarian writer Krasnohorcay Laszlo in 1989. It is also the original work of Béla Tarr's film "The Circus of the Whales". The novel unfolds a series of fragmented story descriptions around the protagonists, Mrs. Estaire, Mrs. Flaum, young man Valushka and other characters, and presents chaotic events in a Hungarian town from many aspects: a giant whale is transported to the town by the circus, and the onlookers each have different motives and intentions. Soon after, rumors spread around the town that the circus people were quietly hatching a sinister agenda, and frightened citizens seized on any manifestation of order they could find to criticize-music, cosmology, fascism, whatever.

The story of "Satan Tango" takes place in a dilapidated small village. A dozen villagers with nowhere to make a living staged a drama of alcoholism, adultery, voyeurism, betrayal, dreams and broken dreams in the rainy and muddy late autumn season. Indifference and numbness cruelly killed all living things, until the appearance of two liars ignited everyone's hope, leading them to take the repeated dance of death towards the bright future they imagined... The wonderful structure and unique language style of this book make it one of the most mysterious works in the history of literature, and a miracle in the history of translation.

"We all perished, each perished alone." The story focuses on a period of life when Mr. Ramsay's family and several close friends went on holiday to a Scottish island. Mrs. Ramsay hears that the son of the lighthouse keeper across the sea has a hip problem and plans to visit the child the next day. However, the weather did not go as planned. There was a sudden violent storm at night, and the weather in the next few days was not suitable for going to sea. The trip to the lighthouse had to be canceled. Mrs. Ramsay couldn't help feeling that the unpredictable changes in the weather were really unpredictable, just like a marriage that she could not control. Boring mediocrity makes up most of our daily lives. The flash of the lighthouse spire in the distance symbolizes the light of Mrs. Ramsay's soul. Woolf explores how to find self and eternity in a chaotic, impermanent, and perishable life. Perhaps only by accepting the impermanence of things can the world be sober...

To love, to live, to "buy flowers myself." The story focuses on one day in the life of the heroine Mrs. Dalloway. Throughout the day, Mrs. Dalloway made various preparations for the dinner party to be held at home. And this was just an ordinary day in her ordinary life, passed peacefully, as usual. Mrs. Dalloway played her part, refusing to comment but still thinking. She knew that the essence of life was not joy, so she wanted to create joy for others... In our lives, there are many Mrs. Dalloways walking past us. Sometimes it's even our self, but we don't recognize it...

In the novel, Ayn Rand fictionalized a society in which people did not have their own names and were only distinguished by a slogan and a string of numbers. People did not even know the word "I". Whenever the concept of "I" was meant to be expressed, the plural "we" was used instead. A man named "Equality 7-2521" always had a strong vision of pursuing the truth, but was assigned to be a "scavenger" throughout his life; but still, with his keen awareness of the unknown, he finally found the unspeakable word of the unmentionable era - "I". He used this word to say "I love you" to the name "Freedom 5-3000" that made him tremble. Ayn Rand used the novel "One Person" to pay tribute to a sacred word-self, and every glorious individual who practices his own spirit throughout his life!

Dr. Robert Linderhoff is assigned by his unknown superiors to become the archivist of a strange city, responsible for compiling the city's chronicle. Robert took a train to this city behind the river. In front of him was a ruin. The city was full of catacombs. There were no children's laughter, no beautiful music, and it was lifeless. People in the city have lost their vitality and passion, and are like shadows, performing meaningless, repetitive and even destructive tasks, lost in infinity, and living a puppet-like life. Here Robert unexpectedly met his father and former lover Anna, whom he thought was dead. He seemed to have entered a mirror world, and people seemed to be portraits of souls. In the end, it was discovered that this river actually formed a border, separating the two worlds of Yin and Yang. The other side of the river was actually the City of Death, the middle world where life flows. Robert came specifically to collect the eternal spirit left behind after the expression of life is lost. When Robert became aware of all this, he became a wanderer between two worlds, and his legendary lifestyle outside of time gradually became a legend.

This book tells the story of Ram Muhammad Thomas, an orphan in Mumbai who was suddenly arrested because he won a huge prize of 1 billion rupees in a TV quiz show. The police thought he had cheated. How could a child from a slum be so knowledgeable? Just as he was being brutally interrogated, a female lawyer rescued him. While watching the video of the quiz show at that time, they unfolded Ram's magical experience. From orphanages to brothels, from train robbers to the leader of the beggar gang, every suffering he experienced became the most precious wealth. This book presents a rich picture of Indian society. It not only displays the ethical and moral dilemmas of Indian society, but also discusses the relationship between money and material desires derived from the quiz show. It is full of complex comedies and thrilling tragedies, and is both thoughtful and readable.

I am the living dead, I am the living dead. There is someone living my life about whom I know nothing. This book is the most famous novel by the famous Italian writer Pirandello. It describes the experience of Mattia Pascal, a rural librarian, who abandoned his original identity twice and sought another "self". The bizarre plot depicts the coercive power of absurd social life on people, as well as the contradictions between people and society, people and people, and people and themselves.

This book is a collection of short stories by Shiga Naoya, the "god of novels" in Japan. It contains 21 stories in total and was translated by translator Lou Shiyi. It was first published under the title "Morning Glory" in 1981, and this time it was published again after more than 40 years. "Chao Yan" not only includes the author's personal novels that describe the people, things and things he encounters in daily life from a first-person perspective, but also includes some historical novels and dramas with ups and downs of plots and restrained emotions. Shiga Naoya is a rare master. Natsume Soseki once commented on him: "If you are not confident in your works, you will not publish them." Yu Dafu also said: "His works are few, but his writing is wonderful; his status in the Japanese literary world can be compared with China's Lu Xun."

This book is a collection of novels by the Japanese writer Kyoka Izumi. It includes five representative works: "The Holy Monk of Kono", "The Sleepy Watcher", "Surgery Room", "The Legend of Pipa" and "The Love of Yushima". It was translated by the famous translator Wen Jieruo. Izumi Kyoka's writing style is pure and brilliant, the content is profound and realistic, and the cruel reality is revealed in the dreamlike description. For example, "Surgery" uses unexpected dramatic plots to show the struggle of lovers in love against feudal arranged marriages. "Yushima Love" uses the description of the short life of the geisha Tokichi to reflect the miserable life of the people at the bottom, especially women, under the rule of feudal nobles. The novel's writing is compact and the plot is bizarre. While reading, one can speculate about the origin of ghosts, estimate the elasticity of human nature, and rejoice in one's own mediocrity, accompanied by Izumi Kyoka's clear Japanese voice.

"The New Heike Monogatari" is an epic masterpiece known as Japan's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and one of the two masterpieces of Japanese classical literature, rewritten with modern literary techniques by the Japanese literary giant Eiji Yoshikawa. It details the entire process of the two samurai groups competing for power, the Genji and the Heike, in the middle ages of Japan. "New Heike Monogatari 1" tells the story of the rise of Taira Kiyomori, the leader of the Taira clan. "The New Tale of the Taira" comprehensively outlines the true appearance of various characters during the Genpei Controversy. The history of Japan in the 12th century is slowly revealed in front of readers through the rise and fall of the Taira clan. The author tries to reflect on the meaning of human existence from the perspective of ordinary people in the huge trajectory of history: those who prosper must decline, and prosperity is impermanent. So why must fathers and sons confront each other, and uncles and nephews kill each other to become the "winner"?

This book carefully collects 16 representative works of Chekhov's short stories and plays, presenting the classic charm of Chekhov's writing and fully demonstrating his outstanding literary talent. In Chekhov's writings, some characters, although suffering, always embrace the yearning for a better life and the pursuit of spiritual salvation; some characters stick to their ideals in loneliness, trying to illuminate the darkness around them with knowledge and ideas; some characters support each other in difficulties, showing the warmth and kindness of human nature. With keen insight and sharp writing, Chekhov presents their joys, sorrows, joys and sorrows one by one, making readers feel as if they are in an era full of helplessness and sorrow, deeply feeling the complexity and cruelty of social reality, and inspiring people to reflect deeply on their own behavior and inner world.

The original work of this book was published in 1977. It is Nardos' debut novel. It is also one of the Hungarian novels that has been translated into the most languages ​​in the past thirty years. The narrator of the story is a little boy who lives in a traditional Hungarian family and was raised by his grandparents. The boy's life experience is interspersed with the stories his grandfather told him, completely breaking the linear chronological order and the coherence of the plot, and connecting the whole text with the jumping flow of thinking of the little boy.

A couple engaged in recording documentary work and their two children set out from New York on a journey to the southwestern United States. The wife decided to record the voices of the refugee children, while her husband planned to research the history of the Apache Indians. The family is about to fall apart. On their last trip together, they found that their lives became entangled with the fate of the missing children. These children fled their homeland and crossed the U. S.-Mexico border for a better life. They originally expected to be reunited with their families, but they disappeared and died quietly in the desert. The family picked up cameras and voice recorders to record these forgotten sounds and turned them into layers of archives - heart-wrenching narratives, photos, books, notes...

The novel tells the story of the growth of the girl Niedochka. She has been trapped in a sick family since childhood: her stepfather is addicted to self-deception and delusion, blaming others for all misfortunes; her mother gradually disappears in a hopeless predicament. Love and oppression are intertwined, truth and lies are difficult to distinguish, and a young heart is torn and morbidly attached. After her stepfather passed away, she was adopted into the upper class society and received material things, but she ushered in deeper loneliness and hypocrisy. However, the pain and restraint did not destroy her, but gave birth to the power of reflection and resistance in her heart. Niedochka refused to become a "victim of the male world", pursued the truth with amazing will, and finally moved towards independence and awakening. This is the first truly independent woman in Tuo Weng's works, and it is also a voice that resonates with all readers: origin cannot be chosen, trauma cannot be erased, but fate is never determined by it. Only when you wake up can life truly begin.

This book is a collection of novels by the 19th-century French symbolist master Villiers de Lille-Adam, which includes 12 short stories and 1 novella. Why did the pet dog of an ancient Greek hero have his tail cut off? Can the head under the guillotine still glow with anger? What kind of organization is the Divorcees Association? Why Gold Candlestick Agency Leads Paris Stock Market Rally? There are strange noises in the beachfront hotel late at night? From the jungles of Burma to the coast of Spain, from the southern border of China to the ancient holy city on the Ganges River in India, from the historical scene of the Franco-Prussian War to the chance encounter with the lonely tsar. The author sets up mysterious and bizarre plots in scenes that are close to reality. In the collision of rationality and irrationality, a terrifying and weird atmosphere arises spontaneously.

Thirty-five-year-old Nora Hinds decided to die. She lost her job, messed up her intimate relationships, her pet cat died, her dreams became a joke, her relatives and close friends also left her... After experiencing a series of blows, Nora suddenly discovered that she had unknowingly led a terrible life. Already deeply depressed, she was finally overwhelmed by regret and despair and decided to end her life. At the critical point between life and death, Nora came to a mysterious library. Each book here represents a possibility of Nora's life, and Nora's journey of life redemption begins here. What kind of adventures and insights will Nora, who wants to die, have in the midnight library? Can she find a reason to believe in life again and continue to live here? Let's follow Nora on this magical journey of healing. In the cycle of time and space between life and death, re-experience the true meaning of love and happiness.

An American writer who won the Nobel Prize for writing about China, the masterpiece of Pearl Buck, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, a refined translation by famous writers! The book of destiny of a nation, the tortuous journey of three generations of people searching for it. "The Earth": A generation thrives in the land and dissolves in the land. "Thinking of the land lying there waiting for him, and the abundant spring rain, he was full of hope." "Sons": There is no father who does not long for his son, and there are few sons who do not betray his father. "He said to himself many times: 'If spring doesn't come again, I will kill those who rebel against me.'" "Separation of Family": A person who cannot live in the same place with his whole body and soul may not be able to create anything. "I wish the moonlight didn't shine so clear - it makes me long for something, like the home I never had."

"Shameless" is Duras's first novel, and it is also the starting point for a woman to speak out and write herself. Duras said: "This book fell from me: fears and desires, malice stemming from a difficult childhood..." The original title of this book is "The Tanneron Family", and the writing is beautiful, which is very different from the sonorous and powerful later ones. However, the triangle relationship that haunts the author throughout his life is formed here: daughter, son, mother. The son and mother transcended the relationship between good and evil and formed a complex and strange alliance, while the daughter was forever expelled from her mother's love. This strange family, this sticky and protective ball of love and hate, became the theme of Duras's life. Its characters and concepts of love set the tone for future creations.

This book is a masterpiece of short stories by Richard Yates. He focuses on ordinary little people: children who are isolated by their classmates after transferring to another school, young men and women who are anxious about their upcoming marriages, instructors who are serious and responsible but not understood by others, who pretend to be ordinary people after being fired. The middle-aged white-collar workers who work outside the home, the clerks who have lofty ideals but have never been able to realize them... Yates's writing style is gentle and a little humorous, but he profoundly writes about the loneliness of ordinary individuals who are out of tune with the rhythm of the times, and outlines the life outline of the little people who can't help themselves. Eleven different stories, every time you open one, there are shadows of thousands of people, and they are all sighs from the deepest heart. Inadvertently, we all fell into the web of loneliness woven by Yates, unable to escape, just as everyone cannot escape their own lives.

The young Wheelers lived in a house on Revolutionary Road in the American suburbs. Her husband, Frank, is a regular office worker, and his wife, April, raises a pair of children at home and is an amateur actress. When they felt that they were about to enter middle age, the two were tired of the empty and boring life atmosphere around them and quarreled endlessly. Aibo proposed to abandon everything now and go to Paris to find new passions and dreams. The gears of fate began to turn at this moment... The boss said to Frank: You are a promising young man, give you a promotion. And his wife, Ai Bo, is pregnant again. Can "going to Paris", a short-lived dream that once changed their lives, bring them a "revolutionary road" in life?

"The Wall" is a collection of Abe Kobo's early short stories. It includes the 25th Akutagawa Prize-winning work "The Crime of Mr. S. Karma" and the 2nd Post-War Literature Prize-winning work "The Red Cocoon". "The Wall" uses a surrealist approach to demonstrate Kobo Abe's subtle satire and criticism of human society and the material world.

Michael Davenport was a young man who retired from the European battlefields of World War II. He was ambitious and dreamed of becoming a poet and playwright. He is aloof, lives for art, and does not want to get involved with his wife's money, but he still has to write articles for a business magazine to maintain his hobby of writing poetry. His wife Lucy is extremely rich, but she never knows what she wants. She just feels that others seem to be happier than her. As time went by, the couple's anxiety grew as they watched others achieve success while they themselves remained unknown. Their once happy lives are being swallowed up by adultery and isolation, and the monotony they thought they had escaped lingers like a nightmare. In this novel, Yates once again chose the broken American dream, which he is best at, as his theme. He used the heavy hammer of reality to smash the innocence of the dream, bringing an incomparable dull pain, making people feel the sentimentality of the times and personal difficulties when reading.

Patrice Yuhei, a Japanese-French child born in Paris, accidentally discovered a memoir about family stories written by his grandfather Yutaro Arimori, a physicist who immigrated to the United States after World War II. Patrice decided to learn Japanese with a friend to decipher it, and translated the contents of the memoir into French for her elderly mother Makiko. This mysterious memoir written in Japanese tells the story of the five generations of the Arimori family living at the foot of Mount Fuji, the "Mountain of Fire", from before the Meiji Restoration to Japan's defeat in the Pacific War, until the ups and downs of the 21st century. The novel is centered on this memoir, interspersed with the stories of Yutaro's five sisters, the writings of Yutaro's father, Genichiro Arimori, a geologist who has long studied Mount Fuji, and the phone calls and letters exchanged between Patrice and his friends, showing the lamentable fate of a large family for several generations.

Verne published the novel "Road to France" in 1887. The writing style is bright and simple, vividly reproducing the customs and customs of the Alsace region. The two translators are both senior translators of Verne and have published 7 translations of Verne in our agency. Their language is fluent and close to Verne's writing style.

A man who went to the seaside dunes to collect insects accidentally stumbled into a sand nest where only one woman lived. He was imprisoned there and could only dig in the sand day after day. He tried many ways to escape, but all failed. Later, when the man is finally given the chance to escape, he has given up trying. The novel presents surreal and incredible plots in a realistic way, depicting the boring absurdity of ordinary people's daily lives, as well as the essence and truth of life that exists in it. The novel was published in 1962 and won the Yomiuri Literature Prize the following year. It was adapted into a movie in 1964 and was translated and published in more than 30 countries and regions. Won the French 1967 Best Foreign Novel Award.

Published in 1937, this book was Woolf's last novel published during her lifetime, and it was also her best-selling work during her lifetime. This book tells the history of the Padgett family for more than fifty years, from the unpredictable spring of 1880 to a summer night dance in the 1930s. The personal lives of the characters are placed on the stage, through dialogue and psychological activities, while various historical events serve as the background, looming. Along with the characters in the book, we grow, lose, are moved, regret, endure, and are heartbroken. Completely different from the author's previous novel "The Waves", this book focuses on the description and presentation of reality and deliberately downplays fantasy and poetry. Behind this effort is Woolf's ambition and courage to innovate in her prime years of creation.

This book is Beauvoir's debut novel and is also regarded as an autobiographical documentary novel. Pierre and Françoise are a couple who invite young Xavier into their relationship. The elegant Françoise, the young Xavier, and Pierre, who loves these two women, try to establish a harmonious trio between the three. "Three people who try their best to love each other are more colorful..." But the trio evolved into a "love triangle", full of jealousy, and hidden suspicion and absurdity everywhere. Françoise, who had been tortured for defending Xavier, finally made a decision. Beauvoir spent her whole life practicing the model of lovers described in it, and was criticized for it. In this book, Beauvoir explores a philosophical dilemma that has troubled her since the 1920s: the opposition between self and other.

Published in 1922, this book was the beginning of Woolf's use of stream-of-consciousness techniques and was regarded as the prelude to a series of subsequent masterpieces. The novel is set in England. From a female perspective, it uses scenes and fragments full of symbolic meaning to outline the short life of a sensitive young man, Jacob Flanders: childhood at the seaside, studying in Cambridge, love experience in London, traveling in Greece, and finally dying in the war. With this book, Woolf's reputation as a novelist was further recognized, and her creative characteristics of downplaying plot and action and focusing on the inner world of her characters began to attract people's attention.

In 1865, the American Civil War was coming to an end, and the South was about to be defeated. Inman, a wounded soldier of the Confederate Army, dragged his broken body and soul, trudging alone in the apocalypse where right and wrong were reversed and ghosts were rampant. He had only one obsession in his heart: Cold Mountain. His home. His lover - Ada. Meanwhile, in Inman's cold mountains, his Ada was on another journey of life and death. The comfortable first half of life has become an old dream. Her father is dead, her lover is nowhere to be found, and her home is in ruins. The only things she can trust are her own hands and Ruby, another girl who meets her by fate. In this cruel world where there is no man to rely on and no hero to save, the two women can only rely on each other to support their own refuge - Cold Mountain. The flowers are gone and the winter is harsh. Everyone is struggling, trekking, and searching in this ice and snow: where is the cold mountain? Where is the Peach Blossom Spring?

"Faith": I am a realist who always likes to say "how much does this thing cost?" People around me didn't understand me, and gradually kept away from me. My younger sister even said nasty things to me: The "reality" my sister believes in is actually a cult, right? Just at this time, an old classmate asked me to form a new religion to make money. In order to live a normal life, I decided to join and asked my classmates to brainwash me... Other included works - "Survival", "Unfinished Novel"... Sayaka Murata told eight stories full of science fiction and absurdity in calm and concise words.

In Jewish tradition, a person dies twice. Once when their heart stops beating, and again when their name is last spoken, spoken or remembered. Only then will the deceased disappear and bid farewell to the world completely. My wife's ancestors were sent to a concentration camp by Norway's most feared Nazi leader. After the war, the family actually lived in a house where the executioner imprisoned and brutally interrogated their compatriots. An unusual twist of fate brings suffering, and the weight of history threatens the relationships between generations. In order to resist forgetfulness, he decided to search in history and retell the stories of the dead and the living.

This book is the sequel to "Brooklyn" and continues Alice's life after she married Tony, had children, and moved to Long Island. Their relationship is in crisis, and Alice returns home to Ireland, unwilling to raise Tony's illegitimate child with his affair partner. There, she reunited with her old best friend Nancy and her old lover Jim, but she didn't know that the two had already planned to get married. Jim and Alice's old love rekindles, and the story becomes more complicated... The story is narrated alternately from the perspectives of the three protagonists, and characters from the "Enniscorthy Universe" appear in turn. The entire story revolves around love, family and personal choices, profoundly depicting the complexity of human nature and the multifaceted nature of emotions.

Is she a villain or a hero? Is he a king or a coward? Is it a curse from the gods or a parent-child tragedy? --Another masterpiece adapted from Greek mythology after "Circe". When the Spartan princess Clytemnestra first saw the exiled Mycenaean prince Agamemnon in the palace hall, she was immediately moved by this forbearing, silent and ambitious young man. She would not have thought that many years later, this young man who had fought back to Mycenae and seized the throne with the help of his father's army, this man with whom she had been so close to each other - her husband - would cold-bloodedly sacrifice her own flesh and blood - their eldest daughter Iphigenia - in order to obtain the east wind that allowed the fleet of thousands of sails to sail on the eve of commanding the Greek army to sail. On that bloody evening, Clytemnestra swore a poisonous oath: She would make this man pay the same price with her own hands...

"Box Men" are a kind of urban fringe characters: they carry cardboard boxes on their heads and build their own kingdoms in small cardboard boxes. They are completely isolated from society, wandering in the corners of the city, and only looking at the world through the peephole. How did "Box Man" come about? Why did they give up everything for what they wanted? What did you see through the peep window? The story is based on the notes written by the "Box Man", and is composed of articles written by other characters, suddenly inserted fables, news reports, poems and other various time and space fragments to form an experimental structure. It explores the invisibility of people living in the city, the relationship between "seeing" and "being seen", human beings' sense of belonging, and questioning of "writing" itself.

This book is a novel published in 2022 by Paolo Giordano, an Italian writer and winner of the Strega Literary Award. This is a rich and profound novel. It follows the protagonist walking on the streets of Rome, Italy, the climate summit in Paris, France, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, and even the distant Guadeloupe. He talks with meteorologists, physicists, journalists and atomic bomb survivors, trying to show the current moment. It explores the complexity of the world, the spiritual crisis of contemporary people, and explores the dangerous future facing human society. It is a literary work with realistic concern and topical significance. It was praised by the media as "a novel that truly belongs to our times" and won the 2023 French André Malraux Literary Award.

Winner of the 2020 Medici Literary Prize. Forty-six-year-old Adelaide works in the publishing industry. She just broke up with her partner of seven years and moved into a 30-square-meter one-bedroom apartment in Paris to live alone. She tried to enter the love market again, but was horrified to find that at the age of forty-six, she was greatly reduced in the emotional market of meeting a man and marrying him as soon as possible. The thought almost drove her crazy. The four close girlfriends around her have also fallen into a mid-life crisis, trying to tame the single life...

Sakumi's father died suddenly of cerebral thrombosis, and her sister Mayu died in a car accident while drunk driving after taking sleeping pills. Therefore, she formed a strange new family with her mother, her half-brother Yuio, her cousin Mikiko, and her mother's childhood best friend Junko, living under the same roof. One day, Sakumi hit her head on her way to work and lost part of her memory. After that, she began to date her sister's boyfriend Ryuichiro, but the memory of her sister Mayu always lingered around them. At the same time, her younger brother Yuono starts to skip school for some reason, her mother has a new boyfriend, and her long-lost student friend Eiko suddenly breaks into her life... Although sadness is inevitable, Sakumi gradually discovers that time is as beautiful as nectar.

This book is a famous work by Osamu Dazai, and it is also an epistolary novel. "Skylark", a young man who went to a mountain health sanatorium due to tuberculosis, was terrified of his impending death. On the other hand, he was fighting the disease in the company of friends with distinctive personalities and backgrounds, striving to become a "new man." There, the sweet and sour relationship with the two vital nurses - Sister Zhu and Azheng, and the sudden grief caused by the death of his partner due to illness, all made him emotionally ups and downs. He continued to meticulously record these daily mental fluctuations in letters to close friends. However, "Skylark" has always maintained a positive worldview similar to Greek mythology - in the corner of Pandora's box, which spreads misfortune to the world, a small gemstone engraved with the word "Hope" was found. "Pandora's Box" is the sunny side of Osamu Dazai's writing.

This book is a new novel by the famous contemporary German writer Bernhard Schlink. It tells the story of Birgitte, a female college student in East Germany who ran away from home with the help of her boyfriend Kaspar in the 1960s for the sake of love and freedom. She later married Kaspar... It was not until Birgitte passed away suddenly that Kaspar discovered how much his wife had paid to hide her secrets. He read the diaries and novel manuscripts left by his wife, tracked down her secrets, and searched for her relatives and friends in what is now eastern Germany. There he finally found the daughter's family that his wife had hidden for many years, and he and his "granddaughter" Siglen began a new life. The novel tells the fate of small people in the torrent of history, the dialogue between people who live in a world where they are strangers to each other, the current ideological differences in Germany and Europe, and the path of young people.

If you were given eternal life, would it be a blessing or a curse? In the Middle Ages, Fosca, the monarch of the Italian city-state, was a ruler who worked hard to govern, but he felt that he could not govern a country well in a short life and hoped to live forever. He accidentally got the elixir, and after taking it, he got rid of the threat of death. He sang all the way and made his country the overlord of Italy, but instead it attracted the invasion of France. He felt that a divided country could not last long and must control a unified universe, so he dedicated his country to the Holy Roman Empire and acted as the emperor's counselor. But instead of building a super-empire as he wished, the emperor was busy suppressing rebellions everywhere, and eventually the empire fell apart. Fosca later came to America and Canada, and also participated in the French Revolution and the British labor movement. Finally he realized the true meaning of life...

This book is a legendary novella. Felipe Montero is a 27-year-old young historian in Mexico who is fluent in French. One day, he happened to read a newspaper and got a monthly salary of 4,000 pesos through an advertisement. The job content was to help the 109-year-old Mrs. Consuelo Llorente, the widow of a general, organize the general's memoirs written in French. In the old lady's secluded house where she never saw the light of day, he fell in love with the old lady's niece, the young and beautiful Ola. A series of strange things happened after that, making the whole story shrouded in an atmosphere of mystery, darkness, and confusion. As Felipe learned more about the general's manuscript, he discovered that Aura was Consuelo's own youth copied by witchcraft, and Felipe was the general himself...