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"The Crab Walk" is the late masterpiece of German writer Günter Grass. The novel is based on real history: In 1945, the German cruise ship "Gustloff" carrying more than 10,000 refugees and soldiers was sunk by the Soviet army, killing nearly 10,000 people, including about 4,000 children. The novel reveals the serious disasters brought by the war initiators to the people of the country. Tula, a pregnant woman on the ship, was rescued, and her son Paul was born on the night of the disaster. Mother and son fled to Germany. The elderly Tula told his grandson Conrad about the shipwreck and other experiences. Conrad developed extreme ideas, founded a neo-Nazi website, advocated racial hatred, and shot and killed netizens who pretended to be Jewish youths. The work explores the tragedy caused by the Nazis and the war, and analyzes the underlying reasons for the resurgence of right-wing racist ideas in Germany.

This book is the most important part of the "Plains Trilogy" created by the author. It won the 9th Mao Dun Literary Award (first edition by Writers Press) because of its profound thoughts and outstanding artistic features. The protagonist "I" in the novel is an intellectual who moves from the countryside to the city, a "person who walks with the land on his back." From the countryside to the provincial capital to Beijing, and then from Beijing to Shanghai, my identity has also changed from a university teacher to a "Beijing drifter" gunman, a trader on the stock market, and the person in charge of a listed company. From his intricate social relationships, we can see the chaotic world between the city and the countryside.

The novel is Cesar's narration to his son Hector, which involves art and statues such as photography, painting and sculpture, the relationship between humans and animals, especially sharks, the history of the world and the contemporary international situation. The novel contains both touching love and detective thrills. It is an excellent and fascinating work.

"Tom and Jerry" is a novel written by German writer Günter Grass, first published in 1961. "Cat and Mouse" tells the story of a period of youth surrounded by the normalcy of Danzig citizens, Nazi ideology and the flames of war during World War II. It tells how people became fanatical Nazi believers and how Nazi propaganda occupied the physical and mental desires of teenagers. Through the protagonist's representative story, it reveals the fate of an entire generation susceptible to the temptation of ideology. It explores the issue of guilt, criticizes the inaction of schools and churches during the Nazi period and even aids in abuse, reveals how the Nazis used the concept of sports for propaganda and ideology, and describes how idealism and heroism were used by the Nazis.

"Dog Years" is the masterpiece of the German writer Günter Grass's novel and the third part of the "Danzig Trilogy". The work is divided into three parts: "Morning Shift", "Love Letter" and "Matern Story", and the writing style is novel and unique. The book narrates the ups and downs of Matern and Amsel, two friends with very different personalities, reflects the social landscape of Germany from the 1920s to the 1950s, and describes the changes in Germany and even Europe before and after the Second World War. Glass's playful language and relaxed writing style contain the dignity of history. The story of the shepherd dog "Prince" who became the pet of the Führer profoundly satirizes the absurd reality of the "Dog Years".

The protagonist Segawa Umatsu is an elementary school teacher with a Burakumin background. In order not to be abandoned by society, he concealed his origin. Uchimatsu has progressive ideas, hates evil forces, sympathizes with the weak, and worships Inoko Rentaro, a thinker who was also a tribesman. He was inspired by Rentaro's writings and wanted to challenge society and bravely reveal his identity, but he was afraid of this ruthless society. As a result, I feel conflicted and full of annoyance and distress. His progressive tendencies and popularity among students aroused the suspicion and hatred of the principal, who attempted to squeeze Chou Song out using insidious means. After Rentaro was killed by a political enemy, Usomatsu made up his mind to reveal his origins and asked the students to forgive him for concealing his behavior. Although he broke the rules, he was not accepted by the society at that time. With the encouragement and comfort of his lover Shiho, Usomatsu is determined to start a new life in North America...

"Jacob's Room: The Haunted House and Beyond" was published in 1922. The plot of "Jacob's Room" is very simple. It mainly tells the short life of a young man, Jacob Flanders. The novel consists of a series of life episodes: studying at Cambridge, traveling in Europe, and finally dying in the war. This book is generally regarded as a turning point in her creative process, the beginning of her attempt to use the stream-of-consciousness technique, and a prelude to her later famous stream-of-consciousness novels.

"The Tin Drum" is a masterpiece of novels by German writer and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, and one of the "Danzig Trilogy". The protagonist Oscar's father is German, and his maternal grandmother is the Kashubian, an ancient resident of the Danzig area. When Oscar was three years old, he discovered that his mother was having an affair with his cousin and decided not to grow taller. From his perspective, society and the people around him are weird and crazy. He beats the tin drum and uses his superpower of singing about broken glass to vent his indignation against the deformed society. Later, the girl Maria fell in love with him. After becoming pregnant, she married her father and gave birth to Oscar's son Kurt. Oscar accompanied the dwarf acrobatic troupe to visit the German soldiers. Three years later, the Soviet army captured Danzig, and his father, a Nazi, was shot dead... The novel narrates the dark history of Germany with black humor and absurd writing.

The work "Collected Works of Woolf: Voyages" took nearly nine years from conception to final publication, and went through several revisions. It was finally published in the UK for the first time in March 1915, and received a very good response at that time. In April of that year, the "Observer" published an article congratulating Woolf and making the following evaluation of the novel: "... The humor, irony, and occasionally spicy writing and creative talent shown in the book are impressive..."

"The Waves" is a novel written by British female writer Virginia Woolf in 1931. The author uses a very hazy and symbolic brushwork to describe the inner monologues of six characters: Bernard, Neville, Louise, Susan, Jenny and Rhoda from childhood to twilight. The six parallel streams of consciousness respectively express the six types of consciousness and the growth and experience of the "six eras of human beings".

"The Years" is Woolf's eighth novel and her penultimate novel. In fact, she committed suicide by drowning before she had finished revising her last novel, Intermission. Therefore, "The Years", a work that she repeatedly revised, has an extraordinary status in her novel creation; it not only reflects Woolf's later maturity in novel concepts, but also one of her successful practices of continuous innovation and breakthrough in novel writing.

This book "Idiot" narrates the stage when "I" entered adulthood between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two, that is, between 1958 and 1962. The author's exploration of the female body, the conflicting relationship with the so-called "reality", the tension in each moment of moving toward art and broader humanity, and the continuous impulse of rebellion: resisting "my" beloved father; "I" enlisted in the army and then became a soldier in the Algerian war, resisted military authority, was arrested, accused, tortured, imprisoned, and then sent to a disciplinary department. "My" rebellion at that time and its consequences: running away from home, hunger, theft, guilt, wandering, several blows and imprisonment in the army, the physical manifestations of the rejection of this imposed reality: the reader will read some impressive scenes in the book. Inner tragedies, politics, friendships, comradeship, and funny things are all experienced in the physical impulse of youth.

"Main Street" is the representative work of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. The novel is set in a small town in the United States before and after World War I. It describes Carol, an urban female intellectual, who marries into a small town and becomes the wife of a country doctor. At first she was full of enthusiasm and tried to "transform" this small town bound by traditional conservative forces, but she encountered huge resistance. Her thoughts were so incompatible with the reality of the town that she was forced to leave the town and go to Washington to find a job, but in the end she had to return to the town and continue to face the old traditional forces that she could not change. This book is highly satirical and provides an in-depth discussion of social issues in the United States.

Written in the first person, the novel takes the life and psychological transformation of the protagonist Wu Zhipeng from plain rural areas to cities as the main line, outlines the scene of social changes in the past fifty years, and records the "book of life" belonging to many people. In the author's writing, "countryside and city, history and reality, ideals and desires are juxtaposed, and he tries to find out the relationship between the times and the fate of the characters." The novel completes the examination of the destiny of a generation through the description of a series of life choices and mental states made by intellectuals represented by the protagonist and "Camel" during the period of social transformation, such as graduating from college, entering the "system" job, resigning, and going into business.

"Entrusted" is Zhi'an's first novel. The story of the novel takes place in Beijing in the 1980s. Two young people, Bing Feng and Ye Sheng, who have just graduated from university, meet at a poetry recital. Because of their common hobbies, the two young people started visiting bookstores, walking in alleys, and talking about literature. But as the relationship continues to deepen, what lies between the two are some ancient grievances between their parents. Bing Feng carries such a secret with him every day. Facing the lively and cheerful Ye Sheng, he finds it difficult to let go and continue to interact with each other. The story unfolds in the ups and downs of this entangled emotion and intertwined life. The novel adopts Bing Feng's perspective and tells readers in detail about an unbearable love and a memory that keeps catching up. Although the author's written expressions are calm and restrained, they form a certain tension with the fiery emotions, which adds to the reading experience of the novel, which is both soothing and tense. The novel is also interspersed with a branch line about brother Bingfeng and brother Ye Sheng going south to Shenzhen to start a business, which further expands the novel. In order to truly restore the scenery of Beijing's streets in 1986, Zhi'an went to the library to do research for two years.

"Dream" is the posthumous work of Zweig's novel. The heroine Christina is a female clerk from a poor family. The vacation opportunity provided by her wealthy relatives caused her unchanging life to undergo a "change". This change was actually only "short-lived" and "dream-like." After this short-lived, dream-like change came to an abrupt end, the heroine's real life did not change at all. It was still the hopeless, poor, and monotonous life that she could not get rid of no matter how hard she tried. This was the heroine's fate, which made her resentful, suffocated, and despairing. She complained repeatedly in her heart about this, but in the end she stopped complaining and decided to use real actions to change this fate without hesitation.

An American middle school teacher spent ten years writing a story about his overnight fame. He fictionalized an island near Seattle with green cedars and strawberries, a small world closed by the sea, intertwined with love, war, racial discrimination and suspenseful murders... Two men came to the life of the Japanese girl Hatsue: Ishmael, a neighbor boy, was her first love, and they had the same breath; Miyamoto Kabuto, a Japanese classmate who had a crush on her and eventually became her husband, they were connected by blood. The Pearl Harbor incident broke out, and the contradiction between Japan and the United States intensified unprecedentedly. Japanese residents were deported to concentration camps in the western desert. Men take to the battlefield. The war rudely interrupted love and intertwined fate... Many years later, at the scene of a suspected murder trial, the three protagonists in a love story that could not seek justice reunited at the intersection of fate. The soul of an island and a Japanese suspect face the court trial together: the themes of good and evil, love and forgiveness, justice and prejudice, kindness and indifference are intertwined and played on the keys and strings of every unpredictable heart, forming a magnificent, subtle and soul-piercing symphony of humanity.

By describing an old man's philanthropic deeds, he describes the story of finding relatives on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. The content and theme of the novel are mainly expressed through dialogue, and the form is lively and full of life. The kindness and righteous deeds of the characters convey the fervent hope of one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait for the reunification of the motherland, and reflect the feelings of ordinary people for their family and country and their warm concern for others in the peaceful years. The protagonist Ma Zhonghe, an old man, took his illness to find long-lost relatives for compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Mr. Ma realized the importance of national unity from the simple idea of ​​​​making connections and helping others. Before he died, he asked his confidants to request the government to bury his ashes in an urn on the hilltop of his hometown. The mountain was named "Wangtai Mountain". When will the two sides of the Taiwan Strait be unified? When will the name of the mountain "Wangtai Mountain" be removed, the graves will be flattened, and the urns of your own ashes will be placed in the crematorium.

This book is the last novel in the "Barsettshire Chronicle" series of novels. This book takes a check lost by Mr. Soames as the main line and the love of two young couples as the secondary line. It narrates a civil dispute that occurred in the small British town of Bassetshire in 1841. A poor priest was inexplicably involved in a theft case. This was a trivial matter, but Trollope made a detailed description of the life values ​​​​of the British society at that time around this trivial matter. Although the story is small, and the protagonists are ordinary, and some even have low status, the author uses such an angle and style to capture the readers' hearts. This little incident sticks closely to the British society described by the author, making anyone who reads it feel like they are actually there and resonate strongly with it.

In North London at the turn of the century, people's surnames and first names formed a tangled web that confused where they came from. Aji, a middle-aged white man who was divorced and attempted suicide, accidentally got married to a young black Jamaican girl. His Bangladeshi friend Samad, whom he met during World War II, also came to London with his wife to settle down. Aji has been mediocre in his life and makes decisions by tossing a coin; Samad comes from a privileged background, but can only work as a waiter in a small restaurant. As their next generation grows up, the personal crisis of faith evolves into the unfinished expectations of their parents. The conceptual differences between generations, the confusion and anger of misplaced identities, and the collisions and conflicts caused by different cultural backgrounds gradually condense in the northwest corner of the city, and finally erupt into a ridiculous accident on New Year's Eve... The intersection of Eastern and Western cultures shakes the origin of individuals, envelops the fate of several generations, and writes the desires and fears unique to our era.

"Member of the Wedding" is McCullers' most mature work. In the 1950s, she adapted it into a play that ran on Broadway for 501 consecutive performances. It was a huge success and became a classic in the theater world. Frankie, a 12-year-old girl, has been suffocated by a vague but strong dissatisfaction. Her dream is to attend her brother's wedding, go on their honeymoon with them, fly far away, and become one of them. But in this girl's world, "in that green and crazy summer", every lonely person is locked in their own inner space, unable to have any meaningful communication. In the end, she found that she had no relationship with her brother and her bride, and she was still alone...

The novel begins with pharmacy owner Malone being diagnosed with leukemia and ends with his death. Three characters surround Malone: ​​Judge Fox Crane, a former congressman in his 80s, the judge's grandson, Jester, a 17-year-old high school student, and Sherman, a black youth of the same year. Mr. Malone was diagnosed with leukemia, and since then his life has become a clock without hands; Judge Crane is still obsessed with the glorious history of the past South, and even fantasizes about restoring slavery; the judge's grandson Jester intends to find out the cause of his father's death, and the black orphan Sherman is determined to find his biological mother. This series of stories are intertwined. The novel is framed by the symbolic "clock without hands" and revolves around "death", deriving multiple themes about racial discrimination, growth issues, and intergenerational conflicts. McCullers attempted to combine the personal existential crisis of a dying man with the social crisis of the South stemming from racial conflict.

McCullers was only twenty-three years old when he published "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." This novel was a sensation in the literary world as soon as it came out. It is still a best-seller today. It is an important representative work of McCullers and is listed in the "Top 100 English Novels of the Twentieth Century" in the American Modern Library. The work describes the loneliness and frustration of five abnormal people in a southern town in the United States in the late 1930s - the deaf-mute Singer, the coffee shop owner Biff, the girl Mick, the worker Blunt, and the black doctor Copeland. This group of "small town freaks" compete and struggle with their inner world and real life all day long. They observe and watch each other, and sometimes they interact and attract each other; they repeatedly speculate and try, but they gradually drift away from their dreams. In this poor, dirty town, they were hit hard and bloody on the way to find a way out of life. Even with the deepest love, they could not escape the ultimate loneliness.

Reflection in the Golden Eye is an important early work by McCullers. It inherits the legacy of grotesque literature and Gothic novels in the American South. It compresses the two themes of loneliness and suppressed desire into a limited and closed space - a dull and monotonous military post in the American South. - As a carrier, through a series of incredible daily events caused by these abnormal people who are required to be obedient and abiding by the rules, but almost all of them are deviant and even deviant, until an inevitable murder, in a fable and prose style but full of suspense and Gothic form, it twists and turns to show the deformed people under the squeeze of normal society and the tragic consequences that their long-repressed and unresolved desires may bring. In 1966, McCullers personally served as the screenwriter, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor performed the impossible love of this abnormal person on the big screen.

"War and Peace" is the representative masterpiece of the great Russian writer Tolstoy. It can be regarded as a masterpiece of world literature in the entire nineteenth century, greatly expanding the scope and boundaries of the novel. The novel is set against the background of the Russo-French War in 1812 and revolves around four Russian aristocratic families. More than 500 vivid characters are interspersed in it, comprehensively showing the broad picture of Russian society at that time. The vivid characters and the grand background of the times complement each other to form a glorious and magnificent epic work.

In 1939, Hitler's forces swept across Europe, and "World War II" was about to break out. The young girl Grace and her friend Viv came to the London they dreamed of. By some strange combination of circumstances, Grace became a clerk at Primrose Hill Bookstore. Not a fan of reading, she met the handsome pilot George and started her reading journey with "The Count of Monte Cristo" recommended by him. During the Blitz, devastating attacks nearly reduced London to rubble. Viv went to the battlefield to join the army, and Grace also joined the team of air raid defense inspectors after work. In the rain of bullets, books gave her inner strength and comfort that she had never had before. She began to read to people, and the words brought people together, united as one, and supported each other. When they encountered air raids and power outages again and again, and had to sleep in subway stations at night, they followed the stories in the book to find the light in their hearts, and defeated the dark era of war-torn London. After the end of World War II, Grace's bookstore miraculously survived the storm, and she also gained a happy love and a career of her own. Her bookstore continues to warm and inspire thousands of readers, and people renamed it "London's last bookstore".

A young man went to a remote area to teach, but was accidentally "infected" by some strange local customs. A couple accepted their lovelorn friend, and the three formed a new "family" in a strange way. A game called "Sardine" is becoming popular among children, causing parents to worry. The beautiful princess fell in love with something inhuman. A man who calls himself a "cat person", but there is no cat in his home... The twelve short stories explore the topics of gender, human nature and rights in a novel and dark way, as chilling as a ghost story.

Orchids have a breathtaking charm that seems to be connected to the human spiritual world. They have attracted countless people to be obsessed and crazy for hundreds of years. Successive orchid farmers, orchid collectors, and collectors went deep into the dangerous situation, even losing their money and even going crazy. In 1994, a major orchid theft occurred in a protected area in Florida, USA, which shocked the entire country. The incident attracted the attention of Susan Orlin, a well-known reporter from The New Yorker, and she decided to venture to the local area to find out. Led by a notorious orchid thief, Susan enters the mysterious swampland of the reserve. After going through all kinds of hardships and interviewing many orchid growers, she not only revealed the truth, but also gained an in-depth understanding of a world full of enthusiasm for orchids, discovering all kinds of grievances and hatreds, as well as the answers behind the incomprehensible fanaticism and persistence of orchid thieves. This book is a classic representative of Susan Orlin's nonfiction writing. It is like an all-encompassing encyclopedia of orchids. It uses meticulous investigation, original observation, and extraordinary narrative talent to reveal the breeding and industrialization status of orchids in the primitive jungle, as well as the unique plant crime model. It also narrates the history of orchid collection. More importantly, it reveals the mysteries that are closely related to human beings.

"Great Expectations (Illustrated Collector's Edition)" is a mature work of Dickens's late period, with 26 illustrations by Harry Furniss, an important artist of the British century-old humorous illustrated magazine "Clumsy". The novel tells the story of the growth of an orphan, Pip. He grew up in his sister's blacksmith shop. By chance, he came into contact with the noble Havisham, fell in love with her adopted daughter Estella, and developed a yearning for the upper class society. A few years later, his dream came true. A mysterious man entrusted a lawyer to arrange for him to go to London to receive a higher education and inherit a large inheritance when he became an adult. Various coincidences made him think that he was selected by Havisham and would have a great future from now on. However, fate took another turn: the true identity of the mysterious man surfaced, and the so-called "Great Expectations" was just a dream of Pip...

The work starts from the analysis of how Hua Junlan breaks away from society's definition of "woman" and lives into history as a unique life. It leads to a theme full of positive energy: how to become an independent, capitalized "person" when born as a woman! The language of the work is plain and simple, and the plot is natural and abundant. It truly reproduces the growth path of several typical women, explains the struggle between dependence and independence, and allows readers to discover the true meaning of life and analyze the code of destiny in the tight text tension.

"Canglang Zhuojin" is a novel written by Fang Zhongming, a distinguished researcher at the Zhejiang Rural Development Research Center. The work is divided into two volumes. Through the perspective of those who have experienced it, it closely follows the two major themes of patriotism and inspiration. It is based on Zhejiang's rural areas and describes the passionate and soul-stirring rural revitalization process during the reform and opening up, thus reflecting the reform spirit of Zhejiang. The book mainly tells the entrepreneurial and emotional stories of the "Three Musketeers" farmers in northern Zhejiang, Shi Jiasheng, Shi Jiangen and Bao Xingliang, from the implementation of the household responsibility system in the 1980s, the restructuring of township enterprises in the 1990s, to the new look of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" at the beginning of this century. It explains the Zhejiang farmers' pursuit of dreams, forge ahead and perseverance. "Provincial farmer" Gu Yikang commented that this book "will provide practical reference for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, accelerating agricultural and rural modernization, and achieving common prosperity."

"The Age of Dreams" is a novel by the young Chinese writer Mao Lishuai. The work tells the inspiring story of Shen Shoucai, who came from a hard-working rural area in Zhejiang Province in the 1960s, despite the opposition of his family, traveled all over the country and started his own business many times, and eventually became a well-known entrepreneur. The work reflects the vigorous spirit of Zhejiang entrepreneurs who were far-sighted, worked hard, and never forgot their original aspirations in the early days of reform and opening up. After becoming famous, the protagonist actively devoted himself to public welfare undertakings and devoted himself to building a poor and backward hometown town. His broad vision, mind and courage are the epitome of the spirit of the vast number of Zhejiang businessmen.

Hesse's journey of self-healing and the inner monologue of "social fear". Harry is a "social phobia". He keeps to himself and does not like to socialize. He often feels that there is a "Steppenwolf" in his heart. This wolf makes him live in isolation, and he is torn between reason and desire every day. After meeting Hermina, his world was opened up, and he began to explore the possibilities of life, learned to return to the crowd, learned to live, and learned to laugh. This book is the masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. It was written during the period when the author was mentally traumatized. Therefore, "Steppenwolf" can also be seen as his journey of self-healing.

Mersault, a clerk in the company, does boring work day after day and leads an unchanging life. He is lonely, nihilistic, and has no interest in the whole world. After orchestrating a murder, he gained vast wealth and was able to escape his eight-hour day job, becoming rich and free. Start traveling and traveling around... Can you be happy if you have money? Can you be happy if you have time? Can you be happy with a lover and love? How can we truly feel self-satisfaction and happiness? Mersault kept thinking about these issues during his journey and explored the joy of living... "A Happy Death" is the debut novel written by Nobel Prize winner Camus at the age of 24. Camus used his own real experience and "absurdity" experience as material to create the protagonist Mersault, which was his initial exploration of the meaning of life. The origin and answer of the questions that Camus has been thinking about throughout his life can be found in "The Happy Death"!

Under the desolate and scorching sun of Mexico, a stained priest fled on the road, and vultures flew by. Along the way, the priest not only has to avoid persecution and pursuit, but also engages in a fierce struggle between desire and morality: should he abandon the power of the priesthood and live a degenerate life, or should he insist on the glory of his faith and struggle on the edge of death? The priest is neither firm nor thorough, but he must make a choice. And power and glory pulled his soul to a higher and more dangerous place.

In the late summer and early autumn of 1993, the aftermath of the Yonekawa Airport had not yet been completely completed. Therefore, from time to time, a group of vicious family members of the victims would come to block and cause trouble. This had seriously affected the daily operation of the bureau. At the beginning of the new week, Secretary Yang from the bureau office came running to Bai Dongfang, which made him somewhat flattered...

Lu Yao is a young police station director. In the more than a year since he took office, the activities of the criminal group "Iron Boss" have been rampant, seriously endangering the smooth flow of the railway arteries. Lu Yao, with his indomitable and strong will, led the police in the police station to fight wits and courage, and launched a life-and-death duel between the police and gangsters. Finally, he uncovered a huge criminal group that had been hidden inside the railway for a long time, captured the bandit leader "Iron Boss", and won true love.

The ups and downs of life of Ouyang Yan, a young nurse who was new to the world, also painted a picture of ordinary "iron ladies" fighting in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital.

The novel uses a child's omniscient perspective and uses a large number of authentic and credible details to present the life of the occupied city, the life experiences and brave struggles of people in the occupied areas, and creatively reproduces the arduous struggles and struggles carried out by the people such as County Magistrate Zhang Wende and Doctor Fang Du. And the heavy price paid for it, eulogized the inherent strength, unyielding, resistance, struggle, and fighting spirit of the Chinese nation, and composed a history of Tengchong people's bloody struggle against Japanese aggression, a symphony of the Chinese nation's indomitable Nirvana and rebirth.

"Returning to the City" is Liang Xiaosheng's masterpiece. It tells the joys and sorrows of several families of educated youth who returned to the city and lived in Harbin in the 1980s. It reflects the struggle and pain of a generation after passion. The novel takes the development and entanglements of the fates of Lin Chaoran, He Ningzhi, Luo Yimin, Yang Yifan, Zhang Jihong and other characters as the main line. It artistically, multi-angle and multi-level shows the hardship, confusion, hesitation, bitterness and even despair of the life experienced by the educated youth after returning to the city. However, they never bowed to fate or surrendered to life. Through struggle and hard work, they finally found their place and belonging.

"Looking to the South of the Yangtze River" is a novel written by Wang Xufeng, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, who spent 26 years in hiding. The novel narrates the ups and downs of the Hang family, a tea family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the fate of the characters during the magnificent social process in the nearly twenty years before and after the founding of New China. Wang Xufeng writes about tea people and tea affairs. In the earth-shaking era, he writes about the choice and openness, integration and advancement of the Chinese people soaked in the mist and rain of Jiangnan; in the excitement and wind and thunder of the times, Wang Xufeng writes about the fragrance and nature of tea, the poetry and power of Jiangnan culture, and the Chinese style, feelings and character. The story of the Hang family is also a Chinese story. It intersects historical memories and emotional imagination. It is not only a reconstruction of the lost time, but also an exploration of the modern inheritance of cultural traditions. This novel provides a new narrative for the dramatic changes and permanence of Chinese life and spirit, and witnesses the century-old China in personal history, family history, and national history.

In the remote Camel Mountain outside the Great Wall, which is still a relatively poor mountainous area, the protagonist Li Weijie grew up here. In the early years, with the tide of reform and opening up, Li Weijie's father also went out to work to make a living. It is not always easy to make money while working. Li Weijie's father was injured and disabled while working in a company, but the company boss did not want to be responsible for paying compensation to the disabled. Li Weijie's father returned to his hometown disheartened and lost confidence in working to make money! Don't let your graduated son go out to work! Xiao Qing was Li Weijie's lover during college. Xiao Qing was attracted by Li Weijie's character. Although Li Weijie's family was very poor, Xiao Qing walked with him without hesitation and took on the responsibility of taking care of Li Weijie's parents when Li Weijie went out to work without telling his parents. By chance, the place where Li Weijie worked was Xiaoqing's mother's company, and the boss who ignored Li Weijie's father's work injury and disability was also Xiaoqing's biological father. The novel has twists and turns, taking you close to Camel Mountain outside the Great Wall, and to Li Weijie and Xiaoqing's family...

Bai Juan suddenly received the news of Wu Hao's death and felt that the sky was falling. They had six children, the eldest daughter was nine years old at the time and the youngest son was only one and a half years old. From then on, Bai Juan took care of six children by herself, became both a father and a mother, learned to pack horses, and plowed fields... Two years later, her father-in-law passed away, and her mother-in-law did not want to get together, so she still lived alone. The kind-hearted Bai Juan couldn't bear it. While she was so busy, she had to take care of her mother-in-law. Ke'er suddenly became sensible when he was ten years old. He felt sorry for his mother who became a widow in her thirties. So while helping her mother to share the housework, she also determined to raise her younger siblings well and said that she would not marry easily. Along the way, the family's situation was unspeakable. Fortunately, there were good policies for targeted poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation. Eventually, the family immigrated to an urban community planned by the state...

Gengsha grew up in a carefree family, but her happy days stayed at the age of 9 - her father died suddenly and her mother left without saying goodbye. She was adopted by her aunt's family, but was harassed by her cousin. Gengsha met Saeki Wen, a college student who was rumored to be a "pedophile" in the park. They lived together for two months. Later, Awen was arrested for kidnapping. Gengsha was unable to defend him due to the "goodwill" imposed by society. Fifteen years later, Gengsha grew up and was about to talk about marriage, but at this time she met Awen again, who had become a coffee shop owner after his release.

I don't remember anyone holding me in their arms. The twenty-one years I have lived in this world have been an empty life. Never experienced a single good thing in my life. Having nothing, accomplishing nothing, feeling nothing... I am a superfluous person who should not have come into this world. However, for me like this, there is someone in the world who is willing to accept me, recognize me, and love me. That's Ayako's mother. Just live your life as you are. The only person who told me this was Ayako's mother. I just want to hug Ayako's mother tightly... I hope Ayako's mother loves me, I hope she hugs me tightly and says to me: "I love you! Child. You are my son... You are my only son, an irreplaceable son... I love you very much, no matter what you have done, good or bad, you are my son..."

The protagonist "I" in the novel wanted to go to the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts and become a painter, but by accident, he came to Lunan and became a breeder feeding cattle to the production team in Fulou Village. He also unknowingly fell in love with the daughter-in-law of "my" partner Chen Xingwang, who came into the Chen family because of his open-mouthed brother. Tian Yuying, Tian Yuying also intended to commit herself... But "I" finally left Fulou Village, and because of my master's degree thesis "Inside and Outside the Painting - A Comparative Study of Luo Zhongli and Miller's Peasant Images Using "Father" as an Example", I was able to stay at the school to teach, and grew into a writer and art scholar. A few years later, "I" was invited to a location less than 30 kilometers away from Fulou Village because a work was going to be adapted for the screen. "I" planned to take the opportunity to visit Fulou Village, and told Chen Xingwang that the "boy" he regretted being born in the wrong child - "I" - had gloriously joined the Communist Party of China.

This book uses the historical events on the eve of the Shaanxi Uprising of the Revolution of 1911 as the writing material. It is grand in spirit, lofty in intention, and profound in its exploration. It reproduces the complex historical situation in which the situation is changing, heroes are everywhere, the country is at a crossroads, and 40 million people are looking around at a loss, not knowing where to go. Reading it makes people feel like they are there from time to time. A distinctive feature of this book is the joys, sorrows, joys and daily lives of ordinary people during the evolution of the revolution, which makes people feel that they are the initiators of the climax of the revolution. The book rarely shows the strategizing of leaders or the impassioned speeches. It uses a lot of pen and ink to describe the thoughts, feelings, knowledge and practices of ordinary people under specific historical conditions, restoring the proper meaning of the word revolution and showing the innovative complex deep in the souls of peasants, workers, soldiers, scholars and businessmen.

In the snowy night, after a long journey, K finally arrived at the inn under the castle. He originally wanted to rest for a while before going back, but the guards repeatedly asked for a permit, so he had no choice but to call the public affairs department. The responses to the phone calls one after another were ambiguous. The owner, waiters, and tenants of the store were like a roller coaster of enthusiasm and indifference. But K always insisted on entering the castle, and for this reason he did not hesitate to fake a marriage with Frieda, who had an affair with the official Klamm... K was exhausted from running around and was always full of yearning, but he wandered outside the castle and kept wandering.

Letters from the Persians is Montesquieu's only literary work. The novel depicts the real life in Paris in the early 18th century through the experiences of the Persian noble Yusbek. The bloodshed, lust and death described in the novel make people read it endlessly. The dialogue between the eunuchs and the imprisoned wives and concubines in the back room, and the loving words of the master in a foreign land make people read it often. "Letter from the Persians" is an important literary work during the Enlightenment period, which pioneered rational criticism. The entire work reflects people's ideological status and changes on the eve of the French Revolution, laying the foundation for Montesquieu to write "The Spirit of the Laws".

At 11 a. M. On May 20, 2015, three epidemiological investigators arrived on the eighth floor of W Hospital in Gyeonggi-do, Seoul. Wearing double-layered gloves inside and outside, they carefully inspected hospital beds, window frames, and ceilings, not even a single hair, trying to find traces of a new type of virus. At that time, the entire Seoul was still bustling with activity. On the eve of MERS sweeping the city, the city was unprepared. Jin Seok-ju, a dentist who has just recovered from lymphoma, is returning for treatment; Li Yihua, an intern reporter who has just seen his late-stage cancer father in front of the hospital bed for the last time; and Ji Donghua, the library manager who is the family's breadwinner. They pass each other in the same emergency room, but they don't know that they will face the same fate in the future. Some of them had permanently damaged lung function and lost 20 kilograms in just half a month. They lost the job they loved, but no one apologized to her; some lost their beloved father, and then lost relatives who came to see their father for the last time, and were left alone in this world; some were tortured by illness in the isolation ward, but always treated everyone tenderly, and were called "smiling boys." They are not just coded patients, everyone in the disease storm has their own dreams and loves, as well as their own past, present and future.