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"Blade", Maugham's long work narrated under his real name, once created a miracle of selling 500,000 copies in one month of publication in the United States. It has been adapted into movies twice and has been nominated for multiple Oscars. Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Zhang Ailing, and Wang Anyi moved to recommend. Reader's Classic Library has a new hardcover illustrated edition of "Blade", which specially includes "The Story Behind "Blade" (Maugham's 1938 Travel Notes in India)" to help you truly understand "Blade". Specially included are 6 representative paintings by Nicholas Roerich, a Russian theosophist living in India, to show you the highest spiritual realm described by Somerset Maugham. It is not easy to cross the edge of the knife, so wise men often say that the road to salvation is difficult. --"Ghatto Upanishad" During a battle, the young pilot Larry saw his friend die trying to save him. The death of his friend caused Larry to rethink the meaning of life. He left his fiancée, refused a decent job, and began to travel around the world, embarking on a path of pursuit...

Alice is your girly heart, making you believe that some happiness can never be lost! A literary classic second only to Shakespeare's works in popularity! A favorite read by Queen Victoria and Princess Kate! Translator Zhou Kexi's new collection of translations comes with a special fan's manual and 108 original hand-painted illustrations in a girly style. A mathematician went boating on a lake with three little girls. The mathematician told the three naughty little girls a wonderful story. A little girl named Alice begged the mathematician to write down the story. Two years later, the author gave the manuscript version of "Alice" to the little girl. Since then, in the history of human literature, the image of Alice in a blue dress has been as ubiquitous as Hamlet holding a bone. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" can be regarded as a collection of puzzles and games connected by stories. A novel that does not involve morality or education, but is full of crazy words. Beethoven, Wilde, Woolf, Shen Congwen, Zhang Ailing... Are all loyal fans of it. As a widely circulated British literary masterpiece, almost every child in European and American countries knows the plot of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by heart. Based on the story of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Disney has put it on the big screen many times and adapted it into cartoons and movies.

Javier Mararino is Colombia's most influential political cartoonist and a legend. "He is a person who can bring about the repeal of a certain law, overturn the judgment of a certain judge, remove a certain mayor or seriously threaten the stability of a certain department, and paper and ink are his only weapons to achieve all this." Politicians are afraid of him, but all the government can do is give him a lifetime achievement award. When he reached the pinnacle of his career and reputation at the age of sixty-five, the world seemed to be at his feet.

"The Mercenary Captain" was written from 1957 to 196. The protagonist Gaspard Winclair has devoted himself for several months to imitating a "Mercenary Captain", which is comparable in all aspects to the "Mercenary Captain" in the Louvre. The original is a 1475 painting by the Italian painter Antonello of Messina. Page 1 begins with Winclair assassinating Madeira. Why was there this murder? Why Gaspar? Winclair failed in his plan to rival Messina's Antonello? What is he looking for in becoming a master of counterfeiting? What does he want in the image of control and energy embodied in the mercenary's face? Why did he view Madeira's murder as a form of liberation?

"Drowning" and "The Story of Sayan" are two parts of the posthumous work "Lieutenant Colonel Mummer" by the famous French writer and Nobel Prize winner Roger Martin Dugar. They can be written separately or read in conjunction with each other. This is the chapter that took the most time and revised several times in the posthumous work. It was called by Gide "the most solid and personal work Martin Dugar ever wrote." In "The Story of Sayan", the protagonist Bertrand de Moumel tells in the first person the story of his relationship with his cousin Guy and his tutor Xavier in his family's castle of Sayan when he was twelve or thirteen years old, and Xavier became the protagonist in "Drowning". The narrator Bertrand interweaves memories and scene reenactments to depict the dual changes in the body and mind of teenagers during adolescence, highlighting the mutual causal relationship between the two and the importance of sex education. It also reflects from the side the way teenagers in the upper class of France are educated and the huge differences between Paris and the provinces.

This book includes two novellas "The Red Sofa" and "Second Hand" by the contemporary French writer Michel Lesbaud. "The Red Sofa" was shortlisted for the 2007 Goncourt Literary Prize and is her tenth novel. The narrator, Anna, takes a train to Russia to find her lover from more than twenty years ago, because he traveled to Siberia a few months ago, and she has not received letters from him for several weeks. She is worried and curious, and wants to see what happened to him; "Second Hand" tells the story of a woman who looked at houses everywhere but never bought one. This was the thirtieth house she looked at. After her beloved father passed away, all that was left to her were some house drawings and a watch. The ticking sound of the watch's second hand accompanied her for many years. Visiting one house after another and listening to the ticking of the second hand, she slowly regained the shadow of her father in her childhood and her inner peace.

This book includes "Pilgrims at Sea" and "The Death of Asverus". It is the author's late masterpiece and has a strong religious flavor, but the author's superb narration turns them into very beautiful stories. These two stories coexist in two lines. The first part of "Pilgrim at Sea" tells the story of the pilgrim Dubias who missed the ship to the Holy Land and had to board a pirate ship; the second story is about Giovanni, a former priest on the pirate ship, who personally tells the story of how he was excommunicated from the church because of love. "The Death of Asverus" seems to be a prequel to the first chapter. The main part tells the story of why Dubias embarked on the pilgrimage. The auxiliary plot is the story of Asverus who was exiled by God.

In 1996, I had two fathers, one in China and one in France. One is a philosopher, the other is a literary critic, and they almost simultaneously completed the biography of their beloved daughter who lost her life to illness. Niu Niu's father Zhou Guoping wrote "Niu Niu: A Father's Notes", and Polina's father Philip Forrest wrote "The Eternal Child". The two fathers, who have never met each other, speak different languages, and have accepted different civilizations but have the same experience, reveal their common humanity to us. The two books are full of poetry and wisdom, and are best-sellers in two countries with different social systems and cultural backgrounds. This book won the French Femina First Novel Award.

During World War II, Wehrmacht soldiers were the only group of people who saw action on all fronts in Europe and North Africa. As a group of ordinary soldiers, they are unknown in the army; in life, they are husbands, fathers, sons, and the most important people in a family. Their experiences, emotions and expressions are true reflections of ordinary people thrown into extreme circumstances. In the letters they wrote, they were not talking to themselves, reporting to their commanders, answering post-war interrogations, or even telling history; they were talking to the people they loved. These private details of daily life in the battlefield can help us clarify the relationship between the meaning given to World War II in Germany and personal life, and see the complex relationship between war and human nature.

Helen, a tutor who is eager to get rid of her embarrassing life, applies to a marriage advertisement in a New Zealand church, and Givenilla, a nobleman who has to marry far away from New Zealand because of a ridiculous gamble, board a British passenger ship bound for the South Pacific at the same time. Two girls with very different backgrounds but fell in love with each other at first sight, set foot on the primitive and mysterious land of New Zealand together, and began their own different lives. After arriving in New Zealand, Helen, who pursued etiquette and cultivation and exuded a bookish air, discovered that the wealthy gentleman described in the marriage advertisement was actually a small farmer with a rough temper and a decadent family background. The fantasy of having her own happy family was shattered. After marriage, she devoted her body and mind to the education of the local indigenous Maori people; the beautiful and unruly Givenilla entered the manor of the white colonist and sheep tycoon Wharton as promised. Her husband, who was passionate about natural sciences and arts, was incompatible with the prominent farm life. Givenilla's fate had gone through ups and downs due to her husband's cowardly temperament and fatal physical defects.

"Diary of a Little Man" is named after the diary of a clerk named Charles Purtell. It is actually a work of fiction. It was first serialized in the humor magazine "Punch" and later compiled into a book. The protagonist, Charles Putel, is a small employee in a company. He is diligent and conscientious, but he also lives a contented life: he has settled in a new home in the suburbs; his boss takes good care of him; his wife also likes him; and he also has two neighborhood friends who have a good relationship. Complacent with his ambition, Lao Pu began to write a diary. Of course, the parents were short-lived and had nothing new under the sun. Occasionally, I had the opportunity to attend a gathering of high-ranking people. Although it caused a lot of excitement and made a fool of myself, Lao Pu didn't take it seriously. Lao Pu's stereotypes, boring vanity, easy satisfaction, and lack of humor make people both laugh and sympathize. The subtlety of British satirical art is revealed here.

"The Ladies and the Philosophers" is Fitzgerald's first collection of short stories, which includes eight of his published short stories: "The Pirates of the Offshore," "The Ice Palace," "Head and Shoulders," "The Cut Glass Vase," "Bernice with a Short Hair," "The Gift," "The Misguided Daley Rimbole," and "Four Times." This collection of short stories depicts the life scene of American society after World War I with a new perspective and vivid writing style. It expresses the conflict between modern consciousness and traditional concepts, and praises the young generation's rebellious mentality against old culture and old morals as well as their longing and pursuit of a better future. It earned Fitzgerald the reputation of "Poet Laureate of the Jazz Age".

"Silver Head" was published in 1988 and contains 28 short stories by Luigi Maleba. In these stories, Maleba uses dreams, conjectures and hallucinations, uses funny and humorous language, and puts profound meanings into absurdity, creating a world where confusion, illusion and reality are intertwined. While making people laugh, they also make people feel the helplessness, frustration and confusion of people living in a modern society where materialism is rampant. In 1989, this collection of short stories won the Italian Grinzana Carver Literary Award.

"Small Town Sunshine" is the masterpiece of Stephen Leacock, Canada's most internationally renowned humorist, and is a household name in Canada. The book has twelve chapters in total, which are actually six short stories. It tells the interesting and strange things that happened in a Canadian town where pastoral mood and comedy are blended, and depicts a group of small town people who are both ridiculous and cute. With its strong local flavor, realistic character descriptions and unique humorous satire, it is loved by readers all over the world. Canadians like to say that Britain has Dickens, the United States has Mark Twain, and Canada has Leacock. Mr. Lin Yutang talked freely about humor in his early years and praised Leacock as "a modern master". This work established Leacock's unique and unshakable position in the history of Canadian literature. The editorial board of "Canadian Classics Library" called it "a classic - a must-read book for appreciating Canadian literature."

"You'll never write again?" " Is a collection of short stories by Laurence Cosset published in 2006, which won the French Academy Short Story Grand Prix. This collection contains eleven stories, each dealing with the same theme: the difficulty of writing. When we look at the catalogs of those large publishing houses, with the names of all the writers who have been published printed on them, we can't help but feel a chill running down our spines. More than ninety-five percent of the names have been forgotten. Many of these writers published one or two works and then disappeared. What is the rest of their lives like? No one in the world can remember that they wrote, but what did they do and what became of them? Writing has never changed life, nor has it helped anyone escape from a broken human condition. Laurence Cosset uses her sense of humor to record the hidden face of human existence and destiny. It is poignant but touching, full of impact, and inspiring to think about.

"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...