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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book is the representative work of the Soviet literary master Platonov. The novel is set in a special historical period when the old and the new change. From the perspectives of two generations, the father and his son respectively show how people are reborn from the collapse of the old era and strive to find a path to build a new world in the new era. A group of visionaries re-opened the world in Chevencourt and built a new world that "eradicates differences". They abolished private property, demolished forests and demolished houses, lived in the open air, did not work, and relied entirely on the energy of the sun to survive. A group of "outsiders" settled here, hoping to develop a "brave new world" here. However, the enthusiasm of the Chevengur people cannot change the laws of the real world. Without production and creation, life here is becoming increasingly miserable. When the enemy attacked, the Chevengur people, who lacked material support, were completely unable to resist the enemy's attack, and eventually Chevengur was reduced to a "human ruin."

Three young people, Berenike, Roman and Stefan, accidentally entered an "evolutionary park" and met the mysterious, knowledgeable and wise guide Senex, starting their wonderful journey through historical time and space. They have personally experienced the birth of the universe, the evolution of human beings, and the development of human civilization. They saw the strange and complicated burial rituals of the ancient Egyptians, and met Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; later they went to Italy and saw Michelangelo working almost day and night on the scaffolding; they took a boat to England, visited the Elizabethan theater, and witnessed The first human flight in a balloon... In the form of light-hearted novels and travel notes, this book leads readers to travel through time and space, to be at the first scene of the evolution of civilization, to come into contact with important figures and events in the history of civilization, and to personally experience the development and evolution of literature, art, philosophy, science and other fields...

This book is a classic literary masterpiece with a high literary status. The novel uses the life of French Impressionist painter Paul as the material. It describes Strickland, an originally ordinary securities broker. From beginning to end, it revolves around the theme of Strickland's strange life and explores what he is pursuing. The story unfolds through the description of such a geek who is obsessed with art and does not understand the world, as well as the characters such as Stroeve, Blanche, and Etta who closely surround him. By narrating this development process, the author deeply explores the contradictions and interactions between life and art, and explores thought-provoking issues such as the relationship between personality and genius, and the contradiction between artists and society.

Kanoko Okamoto said: "Novel is my first love." But before traveling in Europe, Kanoko Okamoto had never been involved in novel writing. Three years before her death, at the age of 47, she began to be active in the literary world as a novelist. In just three years, she has left many popular works. After her death, the fireworks-like creative process triggered an upsurge of mourning in the Japanese literary world, and people re-understood this legendary writer in mourning. Kawabata Yasunari lamented: "After Okamoto's death, her reputation as a writer has increased day by day." "Okamoto Kanoko" is a collection of novels written by Kanoko Okamoto, including 10 short stories and short stories. Kanoko Okamoto's writing style is smooth and delicate. Although modern, it is unique in the era in which she lives. She tells stories that are either warm or gloomy in a calm manner.

"On the Road" tells the story of Sal Parades, Dean Mariadi and others who traveled extensively in the United States, Mexico and other places. It is recognized as a classic work of the "Beats". It was selected into the "Time" magazine's 100 best English novels of the 20th century, the Library of America's 100 best novels in the world in the 20th century, and the British BBC's readers' 100 favorite novels. It is a classic in the history of American literature and even the history of world literature. In 1962, five translators, Huang Yushi, Shi Xianrong, Li Wenjun, Liu Huiqin, and He Ru, took the pseudonyms "Shi Rong and Wen Huiru" as their pen names, and worked together to translate and publish China's first excerpt of "On the Road". The publication was close to the era of the original text, and the language was accurate. Later, Mr. Huang Yisi, Huang Yushi's son, completed the supplementary translation, allowing the work to meet readers in both form and spirit. This collection is included in the "Foreign Literature Masterpiece Series", which is the first time that our company has added this variety to the classic series. In the form of a story, this book vividly and profoundly shows readers the various drawbacks of a confused life, and encourages young people to find the direction of life. At the end of the article, Mr. Huang Yushi, one of the translators of this book, elaborates on the different manifestations of the Beats, investigates the social reasons for their emergence, raises a warning, and provides readers with further correct guidance.

"The Decameron: A Collection of Stories During the COVID-19 Period" is a collection of stories inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron" that the New York Times invited 29 well-known contemporary writers to write during the COVID-19 period. In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, the New York Times Magazine took "The Decameron" as its theme and invited 29 writers to write short stories to write about the epidemic of this era. Themes include love, life and death, aging, daily life, etc. It not only focuses on the epidemic itself, but the main purpose of this book is that at this moment when the world is pressed on the pause button, all knowledge and opinions may not be so important, and the experience and feelings of life itself are more important. These may only be touched by novels.

"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (The Diamond as Big as the Ritz) is a classic novella by the famous American writer Fitzgerald. The story follows a young Southerner who travels to Montana to escape the summer with a wealthy college classmate. But it turns out that this classmate's family is much more than just rich...

"A Clean Well-Lighted Place" is a short story written by Hemingway in 1933. The story is set in Madrid, Spain after World War I, and through a scene in a midnight coffee shop, it profoundly reveals the nihilistic dilemma of postwar society and mankind's pursuit of dignity.

"The Chrysanthemums" is a short story written by John Steinbeck in 1938. It tells the story of the heroine's desire and disillusionment for freedom in a closed farm life. The novel uses symbolism to show the survival dilemma of traditional women in a patriarchal society.

"Bartleby, The Scrivener" is a representative novella by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of "Moby-Dick". When Bartleby first entered the law firm, he was capable and diligent, but soon he was unwilling to do anything except copywriting. For all the tasks assigned by his boss, he responded with "I would rather not"...

"A Piece of Steak" is a short story published by Jack London in 1909. It depicts the tragedy of boxer Tom King in a realistic way when he is forced to participate in the competition due to hunger and poverty. In the story, steak is not only the food needed for survival, but also a metaphor for the protagonist's gradually disappearing physical strength and dignity.

"The Bear" is a novella written by American writer and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner in 1941. It is included in the novel "Go, Moses" and forms its core chapter. This book tells three hunting stories, using symbolic techniques to metaphor the erosion of nature by industrial civilization.

"The Dead" is a masterpiece of short stories by the famous Irish writer James Joyce. After the Christmas party, intellectual Gabriel falls into a mental breakdown as his wife Greta reminisces about an old lover who died of illness. The image of "it's snowing all over Ireland" at the end sublimates personal emotional crisis into a meditation on life and death, love and national destiny. The image of snow covering the living and the dead has become a classic scene in modernist literature.

"To Build a Fire" is a short story published by American writer Jack London in 1907. It tells the tragedy of a gold digger who froze to death in an extremely cold environment because he ignored the laws of nature. It is regarded as a classic of naturalistic literature. Through the comparison between humans and dogs, the novel reveals the fragility of human reason in the face of natural forces, and criticizes industrial civilization's arrogance towards nature.

"White Fang" is Jack London's classic animal novel about the transformation of a wolfdog. The young White Fang survived the severe cold and was later domesticated as a sled dog by an Indian tribe. He was then trafficked and turned into a fighting dog. When it was about to die, it was saved by the kind-hearted Scott. Because of Scott's patience and love, it gradually lost its wild nature. When gangsters attacked his master, White Fang protected his master with his life and completed his ascension. The novel reveals the good and evil of human nature through the perspective of animals, and shows the power of trust and redemption.

"Snow Country" is a crystal clear artistic world carved by Kawabata Yasunari's pen. This place, far away from the hustle and bustle, is full of the emptiness and silence of the original state of life. Through the portrayal of the three main characters Shimamura, Komako and Ye Zi, the novel shows the unremitting pursuit of beautiful love, the ultimate yearning for the beauty of reality, and the infinite sorrow for nihilism. "Ancient Capital" is a literary postcard of the city of Kyoto carefully drawn by Yasunari Kawabata. The novel uses light and delicate writing to narrate the joys and sorrows of the twin sisters Chieko and Naeko, and writes about their bitter life experiences, pure love, and their yearning for a better life. Cleverly, the author places the beautiful relationship between the sisters in the four seasons of Kyoto to describe it. The scenes blend together, allowing readers to appreciate the beauty of Kyoto's ancient culture. "A Thousand Cranes" is the Nobel Prize-winning work of Kawabata Yasunari. It is the ultimate masterpiece that combines morality and desire into the tea ceremony. The novel tells the story of Kikuji, who was born in a famous tea ceremony family, and quietly met several women who had a close relationship with his father at a tea party, and was involved in the whirlpool of fate. "The Dancing Girl of Izu" is a poignant, romantic and sad novel written by Kawabata Yasunari based on his personal experience. The work describes a high school student "I" who traveled to Izu alone and met an innocent dancing girl, and then developed a beautiful and regretful innocent love. "Flowers Never Sleep" was written by Kawabata Yasunari after he woke up at four o'clock in the morning. At that time, he found that begonia flowers were still blooming at night, which triggered a series of philosophical thoughts on beauty. He carved a flower and a world with his warm writing style; he used his subtle inner feelings to develop a word and a wisdom; he used his flowing thoughts to spread out an article and a life. "Mountain Sound" is the work of Kawabata Yasunari in his later years. Shingo, who is in his sixties, suffers from the burnout and fatigue of his many years of life. He is deeply aware of the invisible barriers between people and the lack of warmth and love. The sound of the mountain that arouses Shingo's fear of death is the cry of first love that has been buried deep in his heart for decades and has never been satisfied. He always looks for emotional and spiritual solace in his first love and daughter-in-law Juzi, which become a bright rainbow in his spiritual world. "Sleeping Beauty" is the culmination of Kawabata Yasushi's 60th birthday. Through the five experiences of the old man Eguchi to Sleeping Beauty's house, six sleeping beauties, and three dreams, the novel tells the story of people's helplessness towards aging and death in old age, their inferiority complex towards old men and their nostalgia for youth.

Ken Follett, author of "Fall of Giants" and master of all-night novels, has a new work! At the end of the 18th century, the British Industrial Revolution was quietly rewriting the world structure. Machines replaced manual work, factories swallowed up villages, and war spread across Europe. Technology is running wild, beliefs are being torn apart, old systems are collapsing, and a new era has yet to come. In such great changes of the times, a tenacious female textile worker, a small workshop owner who sympathizes with the workers, and a cloth merchant who survives in the cracks - they come from the bottom of society, but they struggle, fight, fall in love, and betray each other, looking for value and dignity under the rolling wheel of history. They failed to change history, but with the power of fighting against fate, they jointly wrote an epic that belongs to mortals. Ken Follett, with his usual profound writing power, outlines the pain and hope of social transformation, and tells how ordinary people struggling in the center of the storm become the masters of their destiny.

For diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the prospect of a better life for his impoverished family. The dream blinded him from seeing the greed and disaster caused by the pearl. Steinbeck's classic reveals the absurdity of the American Dream - where wealth solves all problems - and how we fall from innocence and then back again.

"Lottery in June makes the banker gain money quickly." On a sunny day in June, in an idyllic village, the villagers gathered together to hold the annual lottery event. Children look around for smooth and round stones and put them in their pockets...

One Ring rules all the Rings, one Ring seeks all the Rings, one Ring summons all the Rings, and one Ring binds all the Rings in the dark! A unique and completely authentic Lord of the Rings universe! Awakening from the depths of the well of time, it is rich in detail, extremely entertaining and profound!

"The Hobbit" is a prequel to "The Lord of the Rings". It tells the story of a kind of hobbit who lived in a hole in the ground. Hobbits are people smaller than dwarves, kind, shrewd and law-abiding. Baggins is one of them. That day he was smoking at the entrance of the cave. The famous warlock Gandalf arrived and brought a group of strange guests to Baggins...

"Cannery Row" was published in 1945 and focuses on life in a certain community during the Great Depression: both community prosperity and personal loneliness. Based on his recollections of real residents of the California place, including his long-time friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck portrays many fascinating characters in a difficult time, creating a novel that is both humorous and poignant.

The story takes place in the southern United States and tells the story of a group of people. Apart from being very lonely, they seemed to have little in common. A young girl, a drunken man, and a black doctor are attracted to the gentle, compassionate deaf-mute John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.

"The Lord of the Rings" (The Lord of the Rings), also translated as "The Lord of the Rings", is a long fantasy novel by the British writer and Oxford University professor Tolkien. It is recognized as a modern classic fantasy literature in the West. It is divided into three parts: "The Lord of the Rings", "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King".

"Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories" is a collection of early short stories by the famous British female writer Virginia Woolf. In this work, traditional plot and character concepts are abandoned, replaced by a stream-of-consciousness, almost dreamy, experimental narrative. The short length of each novel in this work makes it easier for readers to access the so-called "stream of consciousness" novels.

"The Lifted Veil" is a representative novella by the famous British female writer George Eliot. This book demonstrates the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous - delicate realism, keen psychological insight, and idealistic morality. What sets this work apart from all her other works, however, is that it is the only time she uses a first-person point of view.

"We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a masterpiece of gothic novels by the famous American female writer Shirley Jackson. Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and uncle Julian. Not long ago, there were seven Blackwoods on the estate - until one terrible night, deadly arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl. Constance is acquitted and returns home, where Merricat protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers. Their days pass in happy solitude until cousin Charles appears. Only Merricat can see the danger, and she must act quickly to prevent Constance from falling into his clutches.

"Everything That Rises Must Converge" is a representative collection of short stories by the famous American female writer Flannery O'Connor. In the last ten years of O'Connor's life, she used her pen as a torch to write this short story collection "All Things Rise Must Converge", illuminating those weird but real corners of the American South. O'Connor used her unique black humor and strong satire to create eccentric, paranoid, selfish or hypocritical characters on the stage of the American South, a land full of contradictions, and directed scenes of absurd and bizarre dramas. In the end, all the stories came to an abrupt end in a strong emotional impact.

A box of poisoned chocolates, six detectives, seven completely different "perfect" truths - one day, a knight in the club received a box of chocolates, which he gave to another member of the club. Hours later, the member's wife died of poisoning after eating the chocolate. When the police were helpless, six reasoning enthusiasts from the Crime Research Club came forward, but they each derived completely different conclusions - each answer was logically rigorous and pointed to a different murderer. However, each answer can also be overturned by the next answer... Can reasonably arranged clues and seemingly smooth logical reasoning really construct the so-called "ultimate truth"?

"The Poisoned Chocolates Case" is the representative work of British mystery writer Anthony Berkeley. Mr. Bendix took the chocolates sent to Sir Eustace home, and his wife was poisoned and died after eating them. Such a coincidence, who did it? For what? The police investigating this strange case immediately fell into trouble. At this time, the "Criminal Circle Research Society", an amateur society composed of people who love the art of reasoning, came to help investigate the case. Unexpectedly, six of the reasoning fans found six perfect reasoning conclusions. Six different conclusions can effectively explain the case and "solve" the case logically, but there is only one truth...

"The Screwtape Letters" is another masterpiece of C. S. Lewis, author of "The Chronicles of Narnia". In a humorous and insightful exchange of letters between two "devils," C. S. Lewis delves into issues of good and evil, temptation, repentance, and more. Through this wonderful story, the author digs deeply into human nature and satirizes falsehood and noise.

"The Bell Jar" is the representative work of the famous American female writer Sylvia Plath. The novel chronicles the breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, endowed, and successful, but slowly heading towards collapse-perhaps her final collapse. Sylvia Plath deftly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown, making Esther's insanity completely real, even plausible, and as easy to stomach as watching a movie. To reveal the dark corners of the psyche so deeply is a remarkable achievement, and one that has made the novel a classic of American literature.

"The Haunting of Hill House" is the representative novel of the famous American female writer Shirley Jackson. It was voted one of the top 100 English novels of the 20th century by readers of Random House's "Modern Library" and was nominated for the National Book Award. Hill House was a legacy left by a wealthy man to his two daughters. However, in the past hundred years, it has become a lingering nightmare for future generations. Both the original owner and the tenants who moved in later died inexplicably. Is all this really the work of evil spirits, as the rumors say? Or is there something else hidden? A doctor who studies paranormal phenomena, determined to uncover its truth, recruits a man and two women to live in this house. But just a few days after moving in, they felt something was wrong. This mansion seemed to be a living thing, affecting their will. The most unusual thing among them was the baby room... Until one day, a woman who claimed to be able to talk to another world was about to move into that room and face the most terrifying enemy...

"East of Eden" is the representative novel of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. "I seem to have been writing this book forever. I have been writing this book all my life. The early works were just exercises: exercises to prepare the book. That is why I want this book to be well written, because it is first." "East of Eden" is indeed the most important book among all Steinbeck's works. The award speech for the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature praised his work: "It is both realistic and imaginative, as well as socially insightful and humorous." "East of Eden" is the pinnacle of Steinbeck's literary life and also occupies a place in the history of world literature.

The representative Japanese healing writer Ogawa Ito wrote the sequel to "Camellia Stationery Shop"! Don't wait for "someday," convey your feelings to the people who matter most now. For those unspeakable feelings, Kamakura's Shancha Stationery Store is still here to express them for you. What can be preserved for a long time is, after all, paper letters. All emotions are bonds. Each ghostwritten letter gently soothes the lonely, angry, and helpless moments in life. At the foot of a hill in Kamakura, Hatoko runs a ghostwriting house. Recently, she was busy with housework and childcare, and finally reopened the store. Unexpected ghostwriting commissions appeared in front of her one after another. Among them, there were resignation applications from employees who had been unfairly treated and were forced to resign, letters from a mother who had just died to her daughter who was about to get married, and letters to an elderly father who refused to return his driver's license... These were all things that could not be said directly in person and would become boring in emails, so they could only be conveyed through letters. At this time, she accidentally discovered the secret love letter hidden by her former ghostwriter..."

Such a cute Keigo Higashino is really rare to see! Raising cats × skiing × writing × complaining, this book is an autobiographical novel by Keigo Higashino, a work that breaks through the dimensional wall! This is Higashino's "Wonderful Cat Story"! Lazy\u002F Poisonous tongue\u002F Stubborn\u002F Cuteness\u002F Tsundere\u002F Timid... "Cat Detective" Monkichi, the character that Higashino has put the most effort into, appears! A strange dream that makes people laugh! When he woke up, Dongye's pet cat suddenly turned into a young man. One person and one cat embarked on a "wonderful journey" that made people laugh: In order to get the cat to participate in the ski competition, Higashino used all means: seducing beautiful team members, seducing with Olympic gold medals, and pouring out all the grievances of being a senior ski fan... Talking about this autobiographical novel, Keigo Higashino complained that it is easy to write novels, but it is difficult to thank yourself, so he could only write about himself in novels, and vowed never to write about himself again. Do those weird dreams have such a big impact on our lives?

An elderly woman who has lived a life of elegance, gentleness, obedience and obedience. After her husband died, her children arranged her widowed life without authorization. However, she resolutely cut off contact with her children and rented a house in a remote place to live by herself. She recalled the ideals of her youth and enjoyed her own complete freedom.

Marquez is the best in writing fantasy, and his Nobel Prize-level imagination makes the entire fantasy world fall into admiration! 23 New dark and fierce modern fantasy classics: chicken coop angel × drowned giant × humble god × man-controlling evil spirit × haunted house demon × man-eating goblin... "The Old Man with Giant Wings" by García Márquez: The old angel who was locked in a chicken coop became a tool for human beings to make money. J. G. Ballard's "The Drowning Giant": The corpse of a giant was discovered on the beach and was dismembered by the entire city. "Round Valley" by Paul Bowles: Possessed by a ghost, she finally kills her husband on a cliff. Amos Tutuola's "My Ghostly Jungle Adventure": A boy strays into the world of evil spirits and turns into a cow and horse, unable to return to the world. Jack Vance's "Liana the Roadblock": A robber who committed all kinds of crimes fell in love and died on the butcher's plate. ... Drag the gods into hell, decorate the city with corpses, peel off the skin and bones of humans, and play with the world as the devil does!

"That Night in August" is the sequel to the best-selling "Island". It is also a novel with rich emotions and ups and downs of plot, telling the tragedy and secrets of the Vandorakis family on the island of Crete. It begins after Maria's sister Anna marries Antonis in "The Island". Anna's marriage to her husband Andreas is bright on the surface, but in fact it has an undercurrent. Her secret love affair with her cousin Manolis and her fear of her sister Maria's return from the leprosy quarantine constitute an important conflict in the story. At a family celebration, Anna is murdered, and the murderer turns out to be her husband. The incident shocked the entire community and revealed long-hidden family secrets. The story uses a dual-line narrative. On one side, it tells how Anna's lover Manolis escaped from Crete after Anna was killed by her husband, spent a long time digesting his longing for Anna, and finally went to Australia. At the same time, it also tells how Anna's sister Maria slowly forgave her brother-in-law who killed Anna and insisted on visiting him in prison, so that the brother-in-law finally got the salvation of his soul and reconciled with his family. It expressed the need to use love and courage to overcome inner uneasiness and fear, and explored the themes of love, betrayal and redemption.