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"The Idle Man's Fantasy" is not only, as the author says, a kind of respite from reading the "100 Best Books", it is also definitely a humorous classic that can be included in the ranks of literary masterpieces. Under Jerome's humorous and cold writing style, the ordinary details of social life in England in the nineteenth century become interesting and lifelike. This miraculous observation of life, even today, a hundred years later, we will still use it to compare our own lives without knowing it.

The Battle of Midway in June 1942 was a brilliant example of a weak force achieving a decisive victory. After the devastating damage at Pearl Harbor, an American fleet with only 28 ships faced the arrogant Japanese fleet with 88 ships. The Americans sent wave after wave of planes to bomb the Japanese fleet, but they were all shot down by the Japanese like swatting flies. However, at the end of the war, the Americans created a miracle, which completely reversed the U. S. Strategic posture of defending Japan and attacking Japan, and laid the foundation for the Allied victory in the Pacific battlefield. The Miracle of Midway explains how this happened. It is the commanders and combatants from both sides who witnessed this history who tell this magnificent legendary story. This book is a rare material for studying the history of World War II and the art of combat command.

The work illustrates some of the most destructive and intense forms of love - Ruthalyn/Christie's only daughter. The dangers of the human heart are not limited to murder. The inner turmoil within a family or between lovers alone is enough to make any story thrilling and make you hold your breath as if reading a murder story. The only thing Christy left to the world was what she called herself

"Three Strangers Boating" is a humorous novel that makes people feel relaxed. It was once rated as one of the "50 most humorous literary works in history" by "Esquire" magazine. The novel mainly revolves around a rafting trip by three weirdos and a dog. It is full of exaggerated and unrealistic plots. They fell into the water, lost things, quarreled, made up with laughter, and told each other stories; they all have lofty ambitions and high enthusiasm, but no one can get up in the morning; they all want to be great explorers, but in fact, as long as it rains, they are still willing to stay by the warm fire and sit in comfortable chairs - reading makes people happy and forgets to get tired. In addition to the humor and wit of the story, there is also a kind of love permeated between the lines. The author is obviously sharp-tongued and harsh in every word he speaks, but his satire contains deep tolerance. Like sunshine without impurities, it makes people feel warm and secure, and they can read the truth, goodness and beauty of life while laughing.

"Three Strangers Riding" is also a humorous novel that makes people laugh. The protagonists are still the characters in "Three Strangers Canoeing". This time they are not rafting, but riding bicycles through the Black Forest of Germany. In the introduction to the famous 1957 "Renren Library" edition of "Three Strangers on a Ride", D. C. Browning commented on the book: "Compared with "Three Strangers on a Boating", "Three Strangers on a Ride" is slightly inferior, but only a little bit inferior. For a long time, "Three Strangers on a Ride" has been a textbook used in schools in Germany."

Always wanted to change your lifestyle? Lived a life as free and wild as "Out of Africa"! The original novel of the movie that won 7 Oscars! A masterpiece nominated twice for the Nobel Prize! A beloved reading that inspired Haruki Murakami, Hemingway, and McCullers! Newly included are 7 African plateau paintings by South African artist Pierneef, presenting "the most beautiful love letter to Africa" ​​in a panoramic manner. Translated from the American Penguin Classics 2001 authentic original, the refined translation restores the wild beauty of Africa. Hemingway: I would be even happier if Karen won the Nobel Prize because she wrote "Out of Africa"! McCullers: I read "Out of Africa" ​​every year because it always gives me endless courage and strength! Haruki Murakami: "Out of Africa" ​​is a book that must be read slowly, just like time flowing on the land of Africa. Truman Capote: "Out of Africa" ​​is a work that rarely reaches the pinnacle of beauty in the 20th century! In 1914, Karen, a newly married Danish girl, came to Kenya, East Africa, with her husband to run a coffee farm. Here, she galloped in the wilderness and saw herds of zebras; here, she also experienced divorce, farm losses, and the crash of her beloved... Here, Karen finally discovered her brave and wild soul.

Jason Bourne's old enemy Carlos "The Jackal" finally broke through the blockade and discovered Bourne's true identity: Linguistics professor David Weber. And this time the "Jackal" didn't even spare Bourne's wife and children! In order to protect his family and end the repeated provocations of the "Jackal", Bourne, who has been living in seclusion for many years, must regain his killer instinct and start a final duel with the "Jackal"!

In the final days of World War II, a strange Jewish guerrilla group set out from Russia, traveled through war-torn Poland and Germany, and fought all the way to Italy. They escaped massacres and came on blood-stained roads, including stragglers of the Red Army, survivors of labor camps, and even actors and violinists. They shouldered the weapons they seized from the Germans, worked hard to earn human dignity, tasted the bitterness of killing many times, and experienced many adventures - bombing trains, rescuing the last survivors in concentration camps, transferring German airdrop supplies... They wrote the motto from the Talmud into the team song: "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?" Through this book, Levi "wants to pay tribute to those Jews, whether they are a few or a large number, they have all found dignity and freedom again in this struggle with great disparity of power." The "Levi's Works" series also includes "The Submerged and the Rescued", "The Trade of Others", "This Is Auschwitz: Evidence 1945-1986", "The Wrench", "Truce", "Uncertain Moments: Selected Poems of Levi", "Moments of Reprieve", "Voices of Memory: Interviews with Levi 1961-1987", "I Talking to You: Conversations between Levi and Tessio", etc.

The acclaimed film of the same name, starring Ryuhei Matsuda, Aoi Miyazaki, and Joe Odagiri, swept the 37th Japan Film Academy Awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The work of Miura Shion, winner of the Naoki Prize, won the NO.1 Japan Bookstore Award. Xuanwu Shufang planned to publish a medium-sized dictionary "Daduhai" for contemporary people. This work was presided over by Mr. Matsumoto, an experienced and meticulous scholar. Unexpectedly, his most valued editor, Araki Koji, had reached the age of retirement and chose to go home to take care of his sick wife. At this time, the only people in the editorial department were the impetuous Masashi Nishioka and the temporary worker Sasaki. Araki and Nishioka searched many places and finally fell in love with Ma Diguangya, a young man in the sales department who was not good at interacting with people but had a keen awareness of words and was extremely dedicated to his work. In the vast ocean of words, Ma Di and his colleagues spent fifteen years building a boat sailing to the other shore. They are willing to be lonely, but they also reap precious happiness...

"In this lonely and helpless world, dancing is the only way out!" "Dance!" Dance! Dance! " Is another important novel by Haruki Murakami. The content of this book is connected with "The Adventures of Sheep Hunting". The protagonist "I" is the same person. The novel is divided into two clues. One is about "my" old classmate Gotanda, a perfect but suffering movie star who suffered from packaging. Unable to bear the burden of reality, he killed two call girls and then threw himself into the sea. Another line in the novel is that "I" got to know the lonely girl "Xue". She and her mother "Yu" were dependent on each other, while "Yu"'s kind-hearted boyfriend Di Ke died in an accidental car accident. The shadow of friends dying one after another continued to hang over "me". "I" lived a frightening time under the shadow of death, and finally fell in love with a hotel maid and gained a sense of security.

The story takes place in Netanya, a coastal city in northern Israel, adjacent to the West Bank. Talk show performer Duare G returned to the stage to give a "only one" performance, which the audience was looking forward to. He told jokes about parrots, advocated a "body tax", and arbitrarily made fun of the female audience members who overdosed on Botox, but suddenly announced that today was his birthday. Childhood memories came flooding back. He talked about his beautiful and melancholy mother, his violent father, and how he walked on his head to avoid being bullied by other children... The audience finally couldn't help interrupting him and asked him to tell the joke again. Retired judge Avishai Lazar stood up and loudly supported Duvale in continuing to tell his story. It was only recently that Lazar remembered that he knew Duvale and wondered if he was missing out on something.

After publishing her last book, female writer Delphine fell into a period of dryness. Delphine is "I", appearing in the first person in this psychological suspense novel. Silence, coming from anonymous letters one after another, accusing the female writer of seriously hurting her family in her previous book, made "me" weaker and weaker. At this time, a woman named L entered the female writer's life. Soon, L handled various daily tasks on behalf of "me" and wrote novels that she wanted to read, even if doing so would inevitably hurt some people. Gradually, "I" seemed to be tied up, sinking deeper and deeper. L took advantage of the female writer's character weaknesses to isolate her from her friends and readers, and finally completely replaced her...

This book contains two novellas by Movassile Sklia: "Marcos and the Cats" (1981) and "Kafka's Leopard" (2000). Marcos, the protagonist of "Marcos and the Cats", is the son of a fur trader. He always hides in the fur warehouse, writing diaries and watching "Little Peter Goes to Brazil". Finally, he had a lover and friends, but because the Nazis were in power, he had to abandon everything and board a cargo ship to Brazil. This was a "black-hearted" ship. The ship sank, and Marcos found that only he and a jaguar were left on the vast sea. The protagonist of "Kafka's Leopard" is a little mouse living in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is a skilled tailor. No one knows that when he was young, he accepted the instructions of his deceased friend and went to Prague alone to carry out a secret mission. In fact, the little mouse, who was traveling for the first time, left the suitcase containing the contact code on the train...

"Reflection in the Golden Eye" is McCullers's other masterpiece after "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". It has been adapted into a movie, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, John Huston and other superstars. The novel is set in an army stationed in the southern United States in the 1930s. It tells the story of a bisexual Captain Pendant whose life was turned upside down by the arrival of Colonel Langton. McCullers' marriage to Leafs was on the verge of collapse at the time of writing, and her second novel illustrates her signature themes of human emotional alienation and unworkable love.

The title of the novel is taken from Eliot's "The Waste Land". The protagonist Tony Rust and his wife Brenda live together in an old Gothic building called "Hutton Manor", leading a quiet, comfortable, almost secluded country life. When Tony went to London on business, he accidentally met John Beaver, who could only be regarded as an acquaintance. Out of courtesy, Tony invited him to his home. John Beaver was a playboy who had nothing to do all day long and soon came to visit the manor. Beaver's visit ended the originally peaceful world of Tony and his wife. He talked to Brenda about all the lively scenes and anecdotes in London's social world. Tired of the boring country life, Brenda couldn't resist the temptation, so she rented a house in London in the name of study, returned to the long-lost social world, and gradually fell in love with John Beaver. The unexpected death of Tony and Brenda's only son, Andrew, led to the eventual breakdown of their marriage. In order to relieve his depression, Tony went to the Amazon forest with an explorer to find a buried ancient city. Unfortunately, he became a prisoner of the local indigenous people and was stranded in a distant land forever.

"Members of the Wedding" is considered McCullers' most mature work, "the loneliest song of the soul", "a small book that cannot add or subtract a word". The novel is set in a southern town in Georgia, revolves around a wedding, and tells the story of the 12-year-old girl Frankie's four-day summer experience. The main theme conveyed is that every lonely person is locked in their own inner space, unable to have any meaningful communication.

The short story collection "Last Holiday" contains a total of nine stories. Most of these stories are narrated from the perspective of teenagers, showing the various embarrassments and struggles of adult life through the eyes of children: in "The Shame", two girls originally tried to help their father get out of trouble. , But plunged him into a new "shame and humiliation"; "Teresa" tells a story about desire, temptation and power control, but it ushered in an unexpected transcendence and reversal at the end; in "Talkavano", it seems brave and wanton The teenagers who became "ninjas" will never be able to escape the shadow of the tragic reality; the heroine in "Forgetting Freddy" is destined to be unable to forget the many painful experiences in life, and can only be "like a stone at the bottom of a dry river" when her body and mind are hollowed out; and in "Last Holiday" "In ", the protagonist makes his own choice between two completely different life paths... Nine short stories, nine cruel childhoods, and nine unforgettable moments of memory lead the narrator through the dark gate between the children's world and the adult world to reach today.

In 1874, the Camarasa family ended their several years of wandering in London and returned to Barcelona, ​​Spain. What makes the 21-year-old family eldest son Gabriel feel incredible is that after his father closed the highly profitable auction house, he actually started a vulgar newspaper - "Illustrated News". Soon after, the conservative-leaning "Afternoon Post" criticized it for corroding people's hearts. Unexpectedly, the "Afternoon Post" office building suffered a fire. During the commotion caused by the fire, Gaudí rescued Gabriel from the hooves of a galloping horse. The two studied at the same architecture school and immediately became friends.

Theo met Noah in South America and returned to Israel with her, settling in the desert town of Telkoda. As a town planner, Theo participated in the planning of the small town, which was very desolate because the nearby oil wells were not very productive. Theo and Noah, a couple with a fifteen-year age difference, are also increasingly estranged. Noah's student suffered a drug addiction and fell off a cliff to his death. The boy's father wanted to build a rehabilitation center in the desert town in memory of his son. Noah was obliged to participate in the preparation plan, but she did not expect how big the resistance would be. Can the two finally understand each other? Can the remaining tenderness in my heart withstand the harsh reality?

The book was inspired by Evelyn Waugh's experience as a war correspondent in Albania. The male protagonist of the novel, William Butt, is a columnist for "The Daily Beast". He lives in seclusion in the countryside far away from London, and lives a peaceful life without fighting against the world. Lord Copper, the owner of the newspaper, mistook William Butt for John Butt, a popular novelist who was eager to escape life in London. William was sent to the fictional East African country of Ishmaelia by mistake, as a war correspondent to report on the raging civil war there. Although William Butt knew nothing about journalism, he was lucky enough to always get blessings in disguise. His simple personality and wise and foolish way of doing things allowed him to deal with fellow reporters, first love girlfriend, consulates of various countries, President Ishmaelia, the Information Bureau, local celebrities and other forces with ease, and skillfully obtained "exclusive news" at the first time. William, who finally completed the mission successfully, transferred all the credit to his uncle Theodore and returned to his pastoral life.

"A Brief History of Portable Literature" is a famous work by the famous contemporary Spanish writer Enrique Villa-Matas. In the 1920s, Marcel Duchamp, Walter Benjamin, George Antheil, Scott Fitzgerald, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Paul Klee... These outstanding artists, philosophers and writers were all members of the Tristram Shandy Society. To join the "Tristram Shandy Society", two conditions must be met: first, all his works should not be heavy and should be easily packed into a suitcase; second, he must be a perfect bachelor machine. From Mirror Street 1 in Zurich (in front of the Tavern Voltaire) to Prague and Seville, the Tristrams went further and further.

"Today, mother died. Or yesterday, I don't know." Camus wrote this famous sentence at the beginning of his first novel "The Stranger" in 1942. Seventy years later, Algerian writer Kamal Daoud wrote in the opening chapter of his first novel "The Meursault Case": "Today, mother is still alive." Camus's protagonist is named Meursault. He killed an Arab on the beach and was tried. The man he killed did not even have a name in the book, nor did he say a word. Kamal Daoud launched his investigation, and his protagonist was the victim's brother. For the first time, the victim had a name, and his name was Musa; for seventy years, only his brother and mother remembered him, searched for evidence, and preserved clues about him. What kind of person was he, and what kind of story happened to him?

This book contains thirty-four short stories by Luis Sepulveda. These stories are about men and women who have never ceased to struggle, including Amazonian Indians, Jewish poets, Genoese across the Pampas, from Patagonia to Norway, from Argentina to Russia, from the Nazi concentration camps to the prisons of Pinochet, from the borders of Lapunia to the islands of the Adriatic Sea. He talked about the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane; the Jewish poet Avrom Suzkevel, whose name and fate are full of uncertainty; the pirate Simon von Utrecht who occupied Elba until 1400; the Ecuadorian trade union activist Vidal Sánchez who was committed to promoting cooperatives; the Italian quarrymen whose life and beauty are thousands of miles apart... They are hopelessly locked with tragedy. It seems that endless stories have one thing in common: the belief that behind an ordinary person, there is always a great deed worth writing.

"Make Up" is a novella documentary novel published by French writer Colomb Schneck in 2012. It won the Tiede Monier Award of the French Literary Association, was shortlisted for the Femina Literary Award, the "Elle" magazine Reader Award and other awards, and has been translated into Italian, Polish, German, Dutch, etc. The novel revolves around the history of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. Colomb Schneck, as a woman, paid attention to the power of women in disasters, which is also one of the brightest and most timeless parts of this heavy theme.

"The Clock Without Hands" is an impressive novel by McCullers, written about people in three age groups: the 80-year-old former member of the House of Representatives, Judge Fox Klein, the pharmacy owner Mr. Malone who suffers from leukemia, the judge's grandson, Jester, a seventeen-year-old high school student, and Sherman, a black man of the same year. The novel connects these vivid characters through two main lines. The first main line is that Mr. Malone, the owner of the pharmacy, was diagnosed with leukemia. From then on, his life became a clock without hands until he calmly closed his eyes forever. Fourteen months passed in between. The second main line is that the blue-eyed black orphan Sherman Puyou is determined to find his biological mother, while the judge's grandson is interested in finding out the cause of his father's death, so the novel has a very thick "racial discrimination" main line. The novel does not have a bizarre and tortuous plot, but the characters are flesh and blood, each one vivid and vivid on the page.

The innocent Ifemelu and Obinze met in a school in Lagos and had similar visions for the future. Like all Nigerian young people, their hometown seemed more like a transit point for their pursuit of the West. The beautiful and confident Ifemelu followed her aunt's footsteps and came to the United States, but experienced for the first time what it meant to be a "black". As she became increasingly poor and unable to continue her studies, she had to betray her love with Obinze in order to survive in this country. After 9/11, opportunities to study in the United States were repeatedly blocked. Obinze, who was not favored by fate, took advantage of his mother's study tour in the UK and came to the UK with her, but he had to face his status as an illegal immigrant. Obinze tried various menial and insecure jobs, but the indifference of British society and the snobbery of his fellow countrymen made him feel inexplicably disappointed with the West he originally imagined. After many years, Obinze has achieved success in a "Nigerian-style" way, and Ifemelu has also achieved great success with his pungent, sharp, and critical blog on American racism. I am eye-opening the bblog. When she feels that returning to Nigeria and starting a new life that is real and full of excitement and contrast with life in the United States, she and Obinze have to face the most difficult choice in their lives.

Elena is a widow, and her beloved daughter Yana is frail and sick. When Yana suffers from an illness, Dr. Henry brings her back to life. In the process of taking care of Yana, Elena and Henry also fell in love with each other, but Henry was actually a married man, and their reason did not overcome their lust for each other. In the end, Yana died of a sudden illness. Elena believed that this was God's punishment for her behavior, so she ended the relationship, remarried, and left Paris, spending the rest of her life in endless regret and memories.

Summer 1946, Jerusalem. The geraniums are in full bloom and the fig branches are empty. Hillel likes to stay in the trees most. His beautiful mother will never come back. He climbs and climbs to the highest place. Yuri uses corks, matchboxes and empty cigarette boxes as battleships, armies and tanks to sweep away the Nazi headquarters. Team; Dr. Nasbohm is writing to Mina. Mina has left her homeland and gone to the United States. She has not left a new address... "The Mountain of Malice", "Mr. Levi" and "Longing", three stories are intertwined with each other: Jerusalem, which is still under British jurisdiction, has a bleak future. Blood and tears, hope and fear, and waiting.

"Daddy" is a collection of eleven short stories written by Vasilis Alexakis. The characters in his novels are often journalists, filmmakers, and professors. Almost all of them face interesting and sometimes absurd extreme situations. In the first story, which is the title of the book "Dad", a strange little boy calls the narrator daddy, but the narrator does not know this boy at all. What will happen? When the narrator sends the child home, the child's mother recognizes him as her husband. This bizarre and absurd situation reflects the most ordinary and basic human emotions and situations in life. The author uses concise and humorous language to tell the adventures of life, and also tells the hidden side of human inner world.

This book tells a detective story with the main line of fighting for gold coins lost during World War II. When the famous traveler Ibn Battuta died, the Sultan ordered one hundred gold coins to be minted and buried under a hundred intersections that the traveler had passed. However, his will was not fully implemented and the gold coins changed hands countless times. During World War II, the last owner died in a German fascist concentration camp, and the gold coin fell into the hands of the Berlin police chief. War-weary German police officers Hans and Ulrich dream of leaving Germany one day and living a free life in Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile. They accidentally discovered the sixty-three stolen gold coins in the cellar, and decided to take the gold coins and escape to Chile by boat via Hamburg. In Hamburg, their actions were discovered by the Gestapo. Hans was able to escape, but Ulrich was captured. Under severe torture for nearly four years, Ulrich never revealed the secret of Tierra del Fuego.

After reading "Moby-Dick", a young man longed for life at sea. He came from Santiago to a strange port in southern Chile, boarded a whaling ship and became a sailor, and saw the seas sailed by heroes in reality and novels. Years later, he became a journalist and joined Greenpeace, living on the other side of the world. When he returned to the places he had traveled, it was for completely different reasons. Several pirate ships hunt marine animals in the frozen sea at the end of the world. He must follow the blood trail at sea, find evidence, and stop this barbaric act. This book collects four of Sepulveda's novellas, showing the characteristics of the Chilean writer as a traveler and environmentalist. By writing about his experiences of traveling to the end of the known world, he calls for a balance between ecology and human dreams. The lines are full of poetry, passion and tenderness.

"Talking" is Evelyn Conlon's latest collection of short stories, which includes 10 selected from previous works and 9 new works that have never been published. These short stories are all set in metropolitan areas and describe all kinds of urbanites whose "life is out of control." Derailment and dissociation are their normal state, and questioning and testing are their strategies. Conlon's language is sharp, direct, and humorous, and she is good at describing the unexpected turns in ordinary life. This collection reflects her style well.

After a terrorist incident occurred in Paris, a police officer responsible for investigating the case was implicated. His wife disappeared, his children were deeply hurt, and his family was torn apart. He persevered in pursuing the truth, but was criticized by his superiors and laughed at by his subordinates. However, his clear ideas for solving the case were never disrupted... This book is a novel by French novelist Danielle Thierry. The novel tells the story of Le Vere, the captain of the criminal investigation team of the Versailles Judicial Police in Paris, France, who has been pursuing an unsolved case for ten years, even at the cost of defying his boss's ban. The unsolved case involved two families - including his own, which was also destroyed in the unsolved case: his wife disappeared, and his daughter gave up on herself and eventually ran away from home. Years of hard work and mental depression caused Captain LeVert's health to deteriorate. Finally, he suffered from cancer and was sent to the intensive care unit. At this time, based on the captain's investigation report, his subordinates found conclusive evidence that was enough to solve the unsolved case. Even his bosses who didn't like him were moved by the shocking investigation findings. The secret buried under a certain pond and sleeping for ten years proves that the stinging truth behind Captain LeVert's difficult life is so tear-jerking, and his persistent pursuit is even more worthy of respect.

"Half of a Yellow Sun" is a lament written by the Nigerian female writer Adichie about the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s (1967-1970). With an epic structure, the novel uses the changes experienced by several pairs of ordinary men and women in the Nigerian Civil War to interrogate how solid concepts such as identity, national boundaries, love, and friendship survived in the face of the absurd and brutal war... 13-Year-old Ugu comes from a poor family and works as a valet in the house of Odenigbo, a professor at the University of Nsukka. The learning opportunities given to him by his master gradually help him get rid of ignorance and superstition; Olanna, the daughter of the Igbo chieftain She is the girlfriend of Odenigbo. Her family had great reputation and wealth before the civil war. Olanna, who advocates freedom, has always kept a distance from her snobbish and opportunistic family. Olanna's twin sister Kenene has been taking care of the family business. She fell in love with Richard, a British journalist living in Nigeria. Richard, who hates the hypocrisy of post-colonialism, has always tried to record everything that this country has experienced fairly and objectively. When that extremely brutal war broke out, and when northern and southern Nigeria were driven by the curse of post-colonialism and headed towards the end of cannibalism, the fate of these protagonists suddenly changed, and their loyalty to self, friendship and love also faced severe tests...

"The Mortgated Heart" is a posthumous collection compiled by McCullers' sister after her death, including her early and later short stories, essays, critical articles and poems. The impossibility of loving and being loved has always been at the center of McCullers' novels, and the pain of this isolation is ultimately a torture, both physical and mental. In this posthumous work, she is still a paranoid child, still grasping the propositions of "human loneliness" and "inability to love", and indifferently describing the loneliness and alienation in her eyes.

"Redispatch" is Phil Clay's debut novel that won the National Book Award. These twelve short stories have a highly unified theme and focus on the living conditions of US troops who are in or have left the battlefield in Iraq (Afghanistan). Their hellish battlefield experiences left them unable to face life and return to daily life. Phil Clay sharply penetrated the psychological world of different characters in the Iraq War, including ordinary soldiers, soldiers in the funeral department, sergeants, psychological warfare soldiers, and military chaplains. Almost without exception, they detest war indifferently and cannot get rid of the bloodthirsty military honor; their beliefs come from absurd settings and imaginations of the enemy and ourselves. While they are full of shame about the role they play, they also have a strange and fearful sense of alienation towards the enemy.

"The Red Collar" is a novella by Jean-Christophe Lufen, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize. It was published in 2014 and won the Maurice Genava Literary Prize that year. A movie based on it will be released in 2018. The story takes place at the end of World War I. French soldier Morrac was awarded the Legion of Honor during the Battle of Salonika, but openly awarded the medal to a dog during a military parade in July 1919. Is he crazy? Is this a provocation against militarism? Regardless, he went to jail for it. Driven by curiosity, the young military judge kept digging into the case, vowing to find out the real motive for this ridiculous behavior: What is the relationship between Morlak and the dog? Has his love been betrayed? What did this farmer-turned-soldier see about war? Loyalty is a quality shared by humans and animals, but human loyalty is more complex. In this novel, Lu Fen uses fascinating narrative techniques to present us a story beyond loyalty and within human nature.

This book collects almost all the short stories that Javier Marías claims to be "recognized and acceptable", showing a series of characters who are anxious in their predicaments, including victims of mistaken identity, amateur detectives, eavesdroppers, professional liars, delinquent bodyguards, etc. In "The Night Doctor," a dinner meeting turns into a nighttime walk through Paris, leading to two similar Italian women, both with unpleasant husbands, and a mysterious doctor who may be able to end their unhappy marriages in a late-night consultation. In "Broken Telescope," an innocent conversation at a racecourse gradually turns into a straightforward discussion of murder and silence. In "Sexy Sunday," a man on his honeymoon looks from the hotel terrace to a woman who may or may not be waiting for him, while his wife is lying on the bed behind him. Marias's novels are uniquely charming, immersing people in a state of wanting to stop and unable to look away, and this book is an excellent entry into the world of Marias' novels.

After experiencing a long and legendary life, Alain Karlsson moved into a senior citizen apartment that he thought would be his last stop on earth. But the problem is, his health refuses to yield. One day, he actually lived to a three-digit age. A gorgeous celebration awaited him, with the mayor and local newspapers in place. But he didn't want to see such a scene, so he unexpectedly climbed out of the window and escaped from his birthday party. In a hurry, he accidentally got a suitcase - originally he only needed to take care of it, but in the blink of an eye, he became the target of criminal gangs and the police because the suitcase contained 50 million in cash! "The Centenarian Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared" tells the story of a month-long pursuit of Alang and his temporary acquaintances, all over Sweden. At the same time, this book also tells a journey through the twentieth century - the life journey of carefree Alain Karlsson. How could Aaron save Franco and have dinner with Truman, who was about to become president? Why did he hitch a ride on former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and be thrown into the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in China? And how did he spend those months crossing the Himalayas? Although Alang is completely uninterested in politics and religion, he seems to have appeared and played a key role in most of the major global events of the last century. In the past hundred years, wherever Alain Karlsson appeared, he would be disturbed. And now, he is gone again...

May Holland, who had just graduated from college, was hired by the world's most influential Internet company. She felt that she was the darling of fate and decided that this was a good opportunity for her to make a big difference. This company called "Ring" is dedicated to analyzing users' network big data, summarizing each person's network traces and inferring people's personality, shopping preferences and other information. Just as Mei slowly adapted to the rhythm of work, the appearance of a mysterious man involved her in a huge mystery...

This is David Almond's modern take on the Orpheus myth. In the myth, Orpheus entered hell with his lyre, survived many difficulties, and finally moved Pluto to let him take his wife back. However, when he was about to return to the human world, he couldn't help but look back, and all his efforts were in vain. In this book, a seventeen-year-old British girl, Claire, is camping on the beach with her friends. During the all-night party, a mysterious wanderer named Orpheus appears with a lyre. Orpheus's performance enthralled everyone. Claire called her friend Ella Gray, who couldn't come, and asked her to listen to the song. Thus began the love affair between Orpheus and Ella. Seeing Ella fall in love, Claire felt sad. The most serious blow was that Ella was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. So she told Orpheus that he sneaked into the afterlife and wanted to bring Ella back, but the ending was as disappointing as the ending of the mythical story.

"Dora Bruder" tells the story: In 1988, Patrick Modiano saw a missing person notice in the "Paris Evening News" on New Year's Eve in 1941: "Missing girl Dora Bruder, fifteen years old, 1.55 Meters, oval face, gray maroon eyes, wearing a red coat, burgundy pullover, navy skirt and hat, maroon sneakers." The people who published the newspaper were looking for Dora. The Jewish girl left Catholic boarding school that winter and never returned. For ten years, Modiano worked tirelessly to search for all information about Dora. Why did she want to escape the school that sheltered her at the height of Nazi rule? Another official reference to Dora is a list of Jews sent from Paris to Auschwitz in September 1942. Modiano gradually discovered that more unknown people, more stories and histories also disappeared in that turbulent era. The story of Dora Bruder also reminded him of his troubled teenage years. Modiano used superb montage techniques to create this classic work about loss and memory that is between fiction and documentary.

13.7 Billion years ago, the universe was an extremely small, dense, and hot strange particle filled with everything from the past. The strange particles were under extreme pressure for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it and exploded. Whales and budgies, you, Julius Caesar and Elvis Presley all came into being. In the darkest places, the devil is born. As the earth's temperature plummeted, despite frequent shifting of the plates, life eventually emerged. The devil finally found the target of venting his anger - the people on earth. The devil has been dormant in the dark hell, waiting for the right time to come, until eleven-year-old Samuel Johnson, with his little dachshund, discovered the secret of the basement of the Abernathy house at 666 Crowley Street before Halloween: The Abernathy couple and the Langfield couple, whose lives were extremely empty, actually opened the door to hell while playing the game of "Summoning Ghosts". The evil and vicious Demon King was finally awakened after dormant for billions of years. He led his men through the gate of hell and began a journey to conquer the earth...

I can say: "If I can get all the happiness I want, I will be happy." I can also say: "If I achieve the best self-improvement, I will be happy." - Erich Fromm The first part of "The Art of Existence" clarifies the nature of the two modes of existence, possession and existence. The dominant results of these two modes of existence are for the well-being of mankind. The comprehensive humanization of human beings needs to break through from possession-centered to activity-centered, from selfishness and self-centeredness to solidarity and altruism. The second part of the book offers some practical suggestions that may help humanize the world. To start discussing the art practice of life, we first need to think about what is the goal of life? What is the meaning of human life?

As soon as "Sun of Scota" came out in 2004, it was unanimously praised by the jury, publishers and media of the Prix Goncourt, and won the Prix Goncourt that year in one fell swoop. The novel uses metaphorical writing and hot, dry words to depict the legendary story of three generations of the Scotta family in a small town in southern Italy. This is a family born from the union of "a deceitful man and a woman who accepted his lies". The despicable life background of the predecessor as a robber made the descendants humiliated and marginalized everywhere. However, they resisted the pressure and fought hard to rewrite the family's history. They lived proudly and happily because "under the sun of Puglia, people are as eternal as olives." The novel has beautiful words, beautiful vocabulary, and vivid descriptions of many scenes, allowing us to see a passionate Italy.

A fantastic collection of weird stories from Israel's most popular and acclaimed young author. In this collection of witty satirical short stories, best-selling Israeli author Keret describes the absurdities that plague his characters. These stories are brave, tense, sad, and sparkling. These stories, capable of both pain and pleasure, are brief but cover a wide range of emotions and narratives, establishing his status as the national conscience of Israel. These soul-stirring and humorous stories show that a passionate and intelligent person can also shine in a war-torn environment... We hope that Keret can trigger a craze for reading and a craze for the pursuit of reason. A man's beautiful girlfriend turns by night into a football-loving hunk with whom the man finds himself getting along; a pair of shrinking parents; a world where thoughts turn into shapes; a pessimistic talking Middle Eastern fish. "The Last Story, That's It" is an extraordinary collection of short stories, an Israeli bestseller, written by Etgar Keret, the most outstanding Israeli writer of his generation. "The Last Story, That's It" is about important things: friendship, grief, fear... But it's written in a way that's different from any other writer's.

"The English Patient" author and Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel is about war, about love, about family ties, about identity, about unknown enemies, and about the exploration of the dusty past. Tao Lixia, a popular writer and translator of "Flying to the West", has lovingly translated it

Yakov, a mechanic who was born as an orphan, is a decent man but ill-fated. He has no children. After his wife left with someone else, he went to the big city of Kiev to make a living alone. But it was not easy to open up a new life. While living in an area where Jews were not allowed to live, he was framed for killing a Christian boy. What followed were absurd accusations, an unreasonably long prison life, inhuman physical and mental torture, and Yaakov's consistent insistence on ideals and justice. In a plain yet slightly sarcastic tone, the author vividly describes the atrocities of the Tsarist government that quietly persecuted the Jews on trumped-up charges.

"Honeymoon" was published in 1990 and is Modiano's fifteenth novel. In the summer of August, a forty-year-old man was traveling in Milan and heard that a French woman committed suicide in a hotel room in Milan. He wanted to know more details about this tragedy, but accidentally discovered that this woman looked familiar. He was lost in reminiscing about the past. After returning to Paris, he arranged a disappearance, leaving his relatives and friends to rediscover the traces of Ingrid Tyson and her husband Rigo Tyson. The story of Ingrid's life takes him back in time, when the couple had fled the war and were taking refuge in a hotel on the Côte d'Azur...

This book tells the story of British traveler Isabella Bird's experience of traveling alone to the Rocky Mountains. In nineteenth-century Europe, even men rarely traveled to the American West. Bode took a train from the east coast of San Francisco to Truckee, California, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; then, dressed in Hawaiian riding gear, he rode from California to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and spent an unforgettable time in the stunningly beautiful and isolated Estes Park. Finally, on a harsh winter day, he rode the energetic semi-domesticated horse "Bird" to explore the Wild West alone. During these three months, she lived in farms and mining camps, helped with cleaning and cooking, learned to drive a carriage and drive cattle, and with the help of the outlaw "Jim of the Mountain", she climbed to the top of Longs Peak at an altitude of 4,480 meters. She recounted this legendary adventure in a letter to her sister.