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Peaceful

Peaceful

General Fiction

Guohui

148K0

Twenty years ago, the fate of girls in villages in southwestern Hubei was determined: after completing compulsory education, they would learn tailoring, hairdressing, and help in shops in the county. Only if they had relatives at home could they go to work in big cities such as Wuhan and Guangzhou, and some would become mistresses. An Ning, the poorest girl in the village who was admitted to a key high school, did not want this fate. In order to study, she went on a hunger strike to fight. In high school, when she was in the top grades, she lost her mother when she was young and suddenly lost her grandmother who loved her the most, and her grades plummeted. On the first college entrance examination mock test, she scored 70 points less than the undergraduate score. On the day of the college entrance examination, her stepmother instigated her father to pick her up and take her home for dinner. Because she refused to go back, she was scolded bloody and her performance was abnormal. Finally, he was admitted to the Provincial Normal College's undergraduate program in English, but he didn't expect that he almost died that night when the moon was dark and the wind was high. This time, An Ning was determined to "trade his life for his life."

Time in Sakuragawa

Time in Sakuragawa

General Fiction

Ito Mie Yun Che

40K0

This is an autobiographical novel by Mie Ito. Sakurako Eguchi, a Chinese-Japanese mixed race, came to China from Japan to look for her Chinese boyfriend Li Zichen who left without saying goodbye. I met driver Song Nan by chance at the airport. The two had a quarrel and broke up. Sakurako came to her mother's house, but her mother asked Sakurako to go back to Japan early. Sakurako's childhood sweetheart from Japan, Takeo Fujino, also came to China to isolate her. Sakurako finally found Li Zichen but was separated for unknown reasons. At this time, Fujino Takeo and Eguchi Bin jointly kidnapped Sakurako and returned to the country, but met Song Nan again at the airport and was rescued. Sakurako and Song Nan fell in love, but Sakurako's family strongly opposed it. Sakurako's grandma could only tell the truth. Sakurako learned that her mother and grandma were both Chinese and Japanese, and even her great-grandmother was Japanese. Sakurako learned that this was a story of four generations of Chinese-Japanese mixed blood, and a century of grudges and grudges. The traces left by history will eventually affect the fate of several generations of the family. Can she and Song Nan escape the shadow of history and write a new chapter?

Shameful Post

Shameful Post

General Fiction

Anchang River

244K0

As a symbol of anti-corruption, the Tuzhen Dam was blown up with a loud bang under the spotlight, and the accumulated river water surged and gushed thousands of miles away. The submerged villages, fields, mountains, rocks and trees were revealed one by one. It's just that their bodies are covered with thick dirt, so that all their colors are lost. The sunshine does not change, the river breeze remains the same. The dirt began to curl, crack, and fall off. After a silent drizzle, the trees gradually became green, the grass soon became as lush as before, and the birds and animals also returned one after another. Those who returned a little later than them were the former residents of the earth town. At first, they were a little hesitant about returning to their homeland. But as their hometown got closer, their pace became more urgent. When the town was right in front of them, they were filled with joy and sorrow, and they knelt down and cried loudly.

Once Upon a Time in Little Taoyuan

Jiang Mingming

212K0

The sun shines into hundreds of streets and alleys in Chengdu. The sun shines warmly on you, but there is an obvious chill in the air. There had been a strong wind in the first two days, and the leaves of the paulownia trees and the berries of the French plane trees were blown all over the ground. Families were cooking lunch on the stove, and the air was mixed with the smell of firewood and cooking smoke. The light passed through the branches of the big trees and swayed dully on the road, like all those ordinary noondays that would cause nothing. However, Ancestral Street and Shaocheng Park in the south of the city were built in 1911 and renamed People's Park in 1950. However, the area is rarely lively when something is about to happen, with huge crowds of people and noisy gongs and drums. The Anti-Japanese War has broken out in full force. The Sichuan Army will respond to Liu Xiang's call on a large scale and rush to the front line regardless of the cost. The military, political and business circles in the province are here to send off soldiers from their hometown to join the war in Sichuan. Nearly 10,000 people gathered together to witness this rare scene. The activity is coming to an end, and Hanyang-made Hanyang-made: 88-type rifles are being carried in the park's dam. The square team was queuing up to leave, and an officer who didn't need a loudspeaker at all led everyone to shout a slogan: If you don't succeed, you will succeed! I have lost my land and vow not to return to Sichuan!

The Innocent Years Are Finally Remembered

Yu Kaixiang

290K04

"June 21, 2012. Standing at the crossroads of time, with busy traffic, looking back, I see beautiful and warm memories. Now, I remember that Zixian has changed from wearing a double ponytail to a single ponytail in the past three years. I remember that Diao Man is a girl whose first impression is inconsistent with the real situation. I remember that Ou Yangxuan's smile that has not changed for three years has become somewhat A touch of sadness, I remember that You Su slowly started to have someone he liked but he didn't tell anyone. I remember that Zeng Xiyan always liked to joke with girls, especially the girls he liked. I also remember that Yu Jia is a person who has always been persistent but unwilling to give up. Qiu Lin is actually just a kid who pretends to be mature...

Best Farewell

Best Farewell

General Fiction

Jiang Lin

138K01

This is a long novel that explores the confusion of life, which points to the end of life. The protagonists of the novel are Mr. Ling, a 66-year-old "me" who was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer, and Xiao Ke, a 10-year-old boy who is also terminally ill. When the two of them were about to come to the end of their lives, they came to a hospice hospital by chance. They have completely different lives: one regrets the mediocrity of a fragmented half-life, and the other regrets that he has no chance to live out his future life. But this couple, who have been friends for many years, embarked on a strange ideological journey here: how to find themselves in the ordinary and vivid journey of life, and think about the true meaning of death in life.

Fault Zone

Fault Zone

General Fiction

Anchang River

303K0

Teacher Jiang gave a lot of pertinent suggestions on the role of "Si Hui", and I would like to express my special thanks. The novel involves the details of the incineration of the remains of the victims of "5·12". I would like to thank Mr. Amada for telling me his interview experience. Thanks to Wang Li, Xuemei, Haotian, Zhao Kui, Wang Gang, Chen Ming, De Bing, Cui Er Ge, Tang Hong, Yin Bing, Mao Hua, Chao Ge, Ming Ming... Because of their care and support, I can create calmly and freely. There are also all the teachers and brothers who have walked hand in hand with me on this land, Chunfang, Shu Yan, Lao Tian, ​​Laoshuai, Lin Li, Yao Ge, Lao Peng, Xiao Xi, Debao, Xiao Lin, Wapian, Liu Yong, Abel, Peisong, Chen Zhen, Peifang, Ji Hong, Xiao Leng... I thank them for their understanding and tolerance of me. I would like to thank Xiao Leng for allowing me to quote his poetry in my novel.

Out of Sun Mountain

Out of Sun Mountain

General Fiction

Chen Guobing

250K0

"Out of Sun Mountain" describes the early days of reform and opening up. In a peaceful and peaceful village, a group of hard-working and simple farmers lived. They worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, living a very poor and ordinary life. When the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew across the earth, it woke up the group of people under the Sun Mountain. They are ready to move, full of fantasies and hopes about the outside world. They leave farm work behind and move from the countryside to the city. Then they work in various cities, squandering their youth and blood for the construction of the city, and changing everyone's destiny with their sweat.

Cold Winter

Cold Winter

General Fiction

Tang Huaxian

393K0

This book reflects the real social conditions from the end of the Anti-Japanese War to the land reform period through the grievances and resentments of three generations of Shangtang and Hou people in a small village called Changdianfang in the Daba Mountains. The feud between the two surnames Tang and Hou started when Huguang occupied Sichuan. During the War of Liberation, many of Tang's descendants and relatives served as soldiers and officials. It happened that some of the Hou surnames were bandits. As a result, various and complicated sharp contradictions were intertwined in incidents such as arresting strong men, beating up enemies, setting up traps to seize land, and in the struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, land reform, and suppressing counterrevolutionaries. It shows the different human natures of beauty and ugliness, kindness and evil, as well as the fierce battle between revolution and reaction, justice and evil.

The Story of Hulan River (classic Translation)

Xiao Hong

101K0

On the banks of the Hulan River, there is Xiao Hong's innocent happiness as a child and his grand and desolate life insights. After many years of wandering, she looked back on her childhood at the end of her life and wrote "The Story of Hulan River", a "memory" novel full of childlike innocence, poetry and inspiration. She uses painterly language to present rough, red and green primitive colors against the gray background of daily life, outlining scenes full of childlike images. This work uses Xiao Hong's own childhood life as a clue, stringing together lonely childhood stories, vividly reflecting the social style and human sentiments of the small town of Hulan at that time, thereby ruthlessly exposing and lashing out at the cancer that China's thousands of years of feudal bad habits have formed in society, and the plague-like disaster caused by the cancer's festering and spreading.

Comfort Loneliness

Comfort Loneliness

General Fiction

(add) Yishu

66K0

No, not for this lifelike robot, but for the secret loneliness of this successful woman. Time flies faster than imagined. In the blink of an eye, the menstrual period of giving birth will pass. She will lose one of the greatest joys in the world. She will never see the baby's play. Weizhi covered his face with his hands, frightened and sad. Loneliness is like mellow wine, the more it brews, the thicker it gets. Even if you try to comfort yourself, it will be of no use until it is so thick that it cannot be dissolved... In this world, loneliness is a terminal disease. There is no cure, so you can only comfort yourself.

The First Half of My Life (original Tv Series Starring Jin Dong, Ma Yili and Yuan Quan)

(add) Yishu

114K8.79

This is not a simple story that begins with divorce and ends with marriage, nor is it a story about marriage and love relationships. It is a corner of real life, showing scenes of brilliance and vanity in front of others, as well as stoicism and forbearance behind the scenes. Shi Juansheng drives away Zijun, but Lin Zhongsi pursues Zijun hard, but is not Zijun's lover. He doesn't know whether to be happy for Zhai Youdao or lament Zijun's good luck. The relationship between one woman and three men is actually very simple. The paradox is that Zijun is a stranger to his mother, but he has a deep love for his two sons, Ping An. So, the story is true to life...

Morning Blossoms Picked up at Dusk (a Movie Starring Xia Wenxi, Fang Zhongxin, Xia Ping and Ye Yuqing)

(add) Yishu

78K02

During a time travel from 2030 to 1985, she met her five-year-old mother and also met Fang Zhongxin, the person she had to meet. For the first time, she experienced the warmth of human beings that she had ignored in her time. He told her that "life only needs to be good, not long." When everything was about to be revealed, the package of chocolates carefully protected in a box full of roses and the small words on the tombstone made her cry loudly in that empty cemetery, with tears streaming down her face, unable to restrain herself.

Xibao (original Movie Starring Guo Caijie and Zhang Guozhu)

(add) Yishu

132K9.117

Jiang Xibao, who lacked father's love and was raised hard by his mother, wanted a lot of love but couldn't get it. However, because of his difficult life, he sold his youth and became the mistress of Xu Cunzi, a super rich man. In terms of money and material things, she got everything she wanted and more, but emotionally, she was always lonely. After Xu Cunzi shot her boyfriend, Xibao was completely desperate and lived a dissolute life. A few years later, Xu Cunzi passed away and she became the richest woman, but she seemed to have lost more... However, the story of Jiang Xibao, who has tenacious vitality, is still long.

Across the World

Across the World

General Fiction

(add) Yishu

75K02

Where is the boat going? He didn't know yet, and he wasn't in the habit of asking questions. Sihai calmly accepts his fate. This is his personality and the national character. More than 10,000 Chinese workers came to a foreign land and made great contributions to the railway, which was the lifeblood of foreigners, for a meager salary. Many of them even lost their lives. However, after their success, there was no word, word or picture recorded. The blood and sweat of the Chinese are just like shadows. Sihai's mother has been waiting for her son to come back, and she is terminally ill. Sihai agreed to get married. He wanted to reassure his mother. Among the many women who proposed marriage, he immediately selected a girl named Cuixian. Cuixian is an extremely common name. But every man who has left his hometown always has a Cuixian in his heart.

Donkey on the Tree

Donkey on the Tree

General Fiction

Zan Wenjiang Wang Fang

126K0

Mao Ergui, the "donkey" who had been away from Yunmenggu Village for more than ten years, suddenly returned to his hometown in fine clothes. He had just performed a martial arts show with his neighbor "Eastern Invincible" during the day, and came to apply for a poor household at night. The first secretary Lin Dawei stayed in the village for a year. When he was doing well in his work, he met such a ruffian. In order to test the reality, he arranged for him to help in the grape greenhouse. Unexpectedly, the "donkey" had great magical powers and could persuade the farmers with his eloquent words. From then on, Yunmenggu Village was in trouble, and troubles came one after another. The old secretary believed that Mao Ergui, a maniac donkey, couldn't climb a tree, so finding a way to coax him away was the right way to go. However, Lin Dawei felt that he couldn't just chase him away. It turned out that Mao Ergui had a hidden agenda when he left home... What did Lin Dawei do to impress Mao Ergui, a stubborn donkey? What did his two-year stay in the village bring to the local area? This book is based on many cases of targeted poverty alleviation and humorously and vividly reproduces the story of First Secretary Lin Dawei's stay in the village. It is an on-site teaching case of the First Secretary and a song of new rural construction in the new era.

Million Pounds

Million Pounds

General Fiction

(us) Mark Twain

129K0

On this day, I started writing as usual, but as soon as I wrote the words "Political economy is the foundation of all good governance...", My work was interrupted. It was said that there was a stranger at the gate downstairs who wanted to see me. I came downstairs and asked him what he wanted, trying not to let my thoughts of political economy run away. Although I was extremely anxious, he remained calm. He said he was passing by and noticed that some lightning rods needed to be installed on my house, so he took the liberty of disturbing me.

Shanghai for Two (original Work of "the World for Two" Starring Guo Jingfei and Wang Luodan)

Zhou Yifei

150K01

Jingfei Guo and Luodan Wang star in the TV series "The World of Two People", which will be broadcast on Dragon TV on November 16, 2021. An ordinary couple born in the 1980s came to Shanghai after graduating from college. They had no backers or backgrounds. The two encouraged each other in difficult situations and worked hard to gain a foothold. Renting, job hunting, buying a house, marriage, wandering and inner struggles. Those vivid plots may still be in your dusty memory of yesterday, or you may be experiencing them right now. The simplest words and the most realistic portrayal of life will resonate with people who work hard on the road. I miss the power of hard work and believe in happiness. Because you have the most real experience, you will be deeply moved.

National Mount

National Mount

General Fiction

Li Xuehui

135K0

This book tells the story of horse households in Liangzhou, located in the northwest, who faithfully performed their duties under the supervision of officials from the Horse Administration Department in the late Qing Dynasty in order to cultivate "dragon colts", the national horses. The plot of the novel is ups and downs, and the language is simple and natural.

Plant Life

Plant Life

General Fiction

Chen Liming

255K0

This book describes what happened in a remote village at the foot of Wushaoling Mountain in the northwest of China in the 1980s.

Walden Pond (masterpiece of World Literature)

(u. S.) Henry David Thoreau

227K0

The book "Walden" records in detail the writer's daily life and thoughts for two years. He cultivated land next to his cabin, planted in spring and harvested in autumn, and was self-sufficient. He is a son of nature. He admires nature, makes friends with nature, talks with lakes, forests and birds, observes animals and plants in the forest, plays the flute on the boat, fishes by the lake, and writes down his observations and thoughts in the cabin at night. He pursued spiritual life and paid attention to the growth of the soul. He proudly declared: "Everyone is the king of his own kingdom. Compared with this kingdom, the Tsarist Empire is just a humble country, like a small snowball in the ice and snow." Thoreau tells us with his practical actions: Most of the luxuries people pursue, most of the so-called comfort of life, are not only unnecessary, but also a great hindrance to human progress.

How Far is it from Beijing to Mabian?

Lin Xueer

198K0

Let's walk quietly. He woke up at five o'clock in the morning, put on the sportswear made by Yuan Ge, trotted along the mountain road, took a look at the mountains, looked at the trees, and even lay on the cement hardened road and kissed the ground, his eyes repeatedly caressing the quiet houses in the morning light. A gust of wind passed by and it began to rain lightly. He did not move and stood like a tree. Suddenly he felt pain in his heart, a splitting pain. As he slowly walked back to the village committee, he saw them, Luo Chunzao, Jimu Rimu, Ayo, and Ayi, standing in the rain, waiting for him. They broke their promise yesterday not to deliver it. He didn't speak, and neither did they. He patted their shoulders, and their heads touched each other. A Yi cried, and several men also choked with sobs and said, "I want to come." Lin Xiu said, "I want to come back." The word "come back" was said firmly, but he and they both knew that coming back was only in the heart.

Savage River - the Story of Shaggy and His Descendants

Golden Boat

211K0

Jin Qi, the grandson of centenarian Sha Huizhu, developed a childhood sweetheart while playing with the little girl Sha Wanyu on the other side of the river. The centenarian also likes this grandniece and wants to get closer to her. However, Jin Qi's parents considered that Wanyu's mother was wearing a peasant hat and her father was classified as a rightist and went to the Qinghai Labor Camp, so they did not allow them to go on. Wanyu's mother was forced to marry Wanyu away from home. After Jin Qi learned the truth, she could not forgive her parents for being selfish and vowed not to go home again. He participated in the national security project in the Gobi Desert and returned home more than 20 years later, contributing his youth to the century-old dream of a strong country. At the Savage River, Wanyu told him a bigger truth: they are all descendants of the famous doctor "Wang Yitie" who was forced to serve in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom military camp to save his neighbors from misfortune.

Shang Zhu's Self-redemption

Jia Hong

191K0

At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, mainland China's values ​​were undergoing radical changes. The dramatic social transformation and the passion of adolescent love draw the idealistic protagonist into a whirlpool of confusion. Who I am? What is the truth of life? The protagonist Shang Zhu, who has realized the "disease of the self", has experienced deep emptiness, anxiety and despair. In the search for self-healing, he has conducted a serious and profound search for independent self, spiritual home, ultimate pursuit and other issues. This is a unique spiritual growth novel that depicts the spiritual crisis brought about by the transformation of the times, as well as the difficult birth of emerging from the crisis and establishing an independent personality in the cultural atmosphere of "obedience".

Millennium Songjing

Millennium Songjing

General Fiction

Yu Yuanpeng

286K0

There are two villages, Longyang and Mei'ao, in Hanyang City, Chaoshan, Guangdong. They are adjacent and do not intermarry. For hundreds of years, there have been constant battles between clans. This is where the legendary Songjing treasure is buried. In the autumn of 2016, Luda Group, a well-known local developer, acquired land on Longyang and Meiao beaches and planned to build Baodi Garden, a high-end residential community. To ensure the smooth progress of the project, Lu Da hired Huang Zhiyang, a native of Longyang Village, as the project manager to oversee the overall situation. The story begins here. In recent years, the legend of the Songjing treasure has returned to the attention of Hanyang people, attracting secret attention from all walks of life. Huang Zhiyang firmly believed that the Songjing treasure originally belonged to Longyang Village. Feeling the threat of the lost treasure, he promoted the Baodi Garden project while taking advantage of the gap to find the treasure, hoping to seize the opportunity to prevent it from falling into the hands of others. Little did they know that the conflict between Longyang and the American and Australian villages continued to escalate, attracting thousands of people to fight on the beach. At the same time, a group of professional treasure thieves intervened to seize the treasure. The treasure hunting journey was thrilling, and where the treasure was buried became even more confusing...

Chen Cangshan

Chen Cangshan

General Fiction

Ni Guilin

298K0

There is an ancient village in front of Chencang Mountain. Two families have been involved in a half-century-long feud due to the marriage of their children. This book uses a simple story to describe the true, kind and beautiful life of the older generation.

Long Years

Long Years

General Fiction

Renkai

63K0

He lives in a family of four, with a prosperous family background, a harmonious and happy family, loving parents, and a happy family. This was originally the happy childhood life of the protagonist Wen Guangding, but the good times did not last long. His father broke the beautiful life with his own hands... Money, emotion, responsibility, family... The entanglement between father and son affected Wen Guangding's life. After experiencing a series of changes, Wen Guangding suddenly realized that a good life must be created with his hands, and his father's mistakes should not continue in his body. Only by looking forward and letting go can we have a better future!

U

U

General Fiction

G

69K0

This book is the masterpiece of German writer Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. This lyrical novel tells the story of the growth, development, and maturity of a gifted Indian young man. Through a lifetime of exploration and discovery, he finally realizes his ideal in his twilight years. It is a well-known "bildungsroman" throughout the world. Regardless of language or expression techniques, simplicity is like sketching or sketching, only seeking to achieve the desired effect. In the 1960s, Hesse gradually replaced Hemingway and became the literary idol of the American public at that time. His works provided postwar American readers with new impetus for spiritual analysis and reconstruction, and had a direct impact on the formation of the American Beat and hippie culture.

Welcome to Danyuan Village

I

107K0

Danyuan Village, an ordinary family. One morning, my son Tony refused to get out of bed. When his mother came to take his temperature, he said, "I'm not sick, I'm just sad. I just don't want to get up." His parents decided to let him rest for a day. Five days later, he was still in bed. Tony is nine years old. He suddenly gave up all sports activities, gave up socializing with friends, and sat down in front of the TV. Senior year of high school. He said, what's the use of having a diploma. This thing is just a fake piece of paper, like a fake treaty. What happened to Tony?

Artists

Artists

General Fiction

Feng Jicai

177K01

The novel "Artists" takes the lives and careers of several young artists such as Chu Yuntian, Luo Qian and Love as the axis, and writes about the growth and choices, perseverance and compromise of a generation of artists in different periods such as the era of art scarcity, the era of rapid social change, and the era of marketization. This novel shows the living conditions and spiritual world of artists from various aspects of life. The various conflicts and problems they encounter in family life, personal emotions and artistic creation are not limited to the group of artists, but are representative. Their respective life choices also show the struggle and spiritual breakthrough of a generation. The whole novel not only vividly and truly depicts the lives and mental states of the artists, but also naturally incorporates the author's own deep perception and understanding of art, literature and life itself.

The Palace of Art (collection of Popular Novels of the Republic of China·zhang Henshui Volume)

Zhang Henshui

282K0

This book tells the story of the young girl Li Xiuer. Li Xiuer comes from a poor family, and her father Li Sansheng used to make a living by performing "ghost fighting" on the streets, but unexpectedly fell ill. Introduced by several neighbor girls, Li Xiuer went to an art school to work as a nude female model without telling her father. She also worked as a model in the Art Palace organized by the school teacher, and her life improved. But when Li Sansheng learned about Li Xiuer's work, he was very angry and abandoned his home. He picked up his old business of "ghost fighting", but died of exhaustion on the street. Li Xiuer met Duan Tiande, a student at school. Duan Tiande fell in love with her at first, but was abandoned by him and eventually went crazy.

Drunk and Rich (part 2) (collection of Popular Novels of the Republic of China·zhang Henshui Volume)

Zhang Henshui

241K0

One of Zhang Henshui's representative works. The story takes place in Chongqing, the capital of the Nationalist Government in 1946. Here gathered a group of people who were feasting, feasting, and living in intoxication. Everything revolves around money. Corruption of officials, speculation by businessmen and bankers, and women being swindlers have become a common trend. The novel uses the clues of Wei Duanben, a young civil servant, and his beautiful but vain wife Tian Peizhi as they live together and break up. It takes the opportunity of many characters to rush to buy gold savings certificates to make the country's hard-earned wealth, and unfolds a complicated story. When the Anti-Japanese War was won, everything for the speculators was in vain. The work directs criticism towards the ugly, humble world in the Kuomintang-controlled areas on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It reveals the loss and struggle in the face of human nature and money in a special era.

Drunk and Rich (part 1) (collection of Popular Novels of the Republic of China·zhang Henshui Volume)

Zhang Henshui

250K0

One of Zhang Henshui's representative works. The story takes place in Chongqing, the capital of the Nationalist Government in 1945. Here gathered a group of people who were feasting, feasting, and living in intoxication. Everything revolves around money. Corruption of officials, speculation by businessmen and bankers, and women being swindlers have become a common trend. The novel uses the clues of Wei Duanben, a young civil servant, and his beautiful but vain wife Tian Peizhi as they live together and break up. It takes the opportunity of many characters to rush to buy gold savings certificates to make the country's hard-earned wealth, and unfolds a complicated story. When the Anti-Japanese War was won, everything for the speculators was in vain. The work directs criticism towards the ugly, humble world in the Kuomintang-controlled areas on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. It reveals the loss and struggle in the face of human nature and money in a special era.

Awakening Women: Dai Weina's Guided Edition (she Classics)

(u. S.) Marilyn French

412K0

Let's meet Mira. She is a small-town girl who loves reading. She has been an independent and smart child since she was a child. When she was fourteen, she read Nietzsche and Paine. She finished all the textbooks on the first day of school, and the school had to let her skip a grade. But this was the United States in the 1930s. The most common occupation for women was "typist" and the theme of life was "family." Her mother's greatest expectation for her is to "marry into a good family." In a small, closed place, her intelligence and independence make her an outlier. Over time, she succumbed. She got married hastily like other girls, wore a corset, learned to cook, kept the house in order, gave birth to two children, and tried hard to be a "good wife and mother". Her husband has a decent job and she lives in a big house that many people dream of. She has a graceful manner and is always smiling. And only she knew that beneath the calm surface of life, she was silently collapsing...

The World of Monsters (complete Collection) (collection of Popular Novels of the Republic of China·zhang Henshui Volume)

Zhang Henshui

559K0

Chongqing, the accompanying capital in the middle of the Anti-Japanese War, was around the time when Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. Prices here are skyrocketing and supplies are in short supply. The novel uses the upright and well-read Ou Zhuangzheng family and the Ximende couple who are actually brokers under the guise of a doctorate in psychology as the main and secondary lines, drawing out bankers, bureaucrats, speculators, socialites, civil servants, security chiefs, armor chiefs, bearers, hawkers and other living beings. It outlines the miserable situation of ordinary people who can't get enough to eat, doctors change careers, teachers change careers, and live like cattle and horses. It also depicts the ugly phenomena of the upper class society where officials are also businessmen, businessmen are also officials, speculation, food and wine are expelled, and "the front is tight, the rear is tight".

Locker Babies (collection of Works by Ryu Murakami)

I

241K0

Japanese literary talent Ryu Murakami created a novel based on the "Baby Locker Abandoned Case" that shocked Japanese society. His advanced ideas and keen insight into society make the work still have social significance to this day. Forty years after the work was published (2016), Japan's national treasure musical director Nobuji Kimura put the story on the stage of a musical again. Despair in confinement inspires speed and fantasy, a masterpiece of genius! Aqiao and Aju are two baby boys who were abandoned by their biological mothers in a locker. They spent their childhood in an orphanage, and were later adopted by a poor couple. They spent their teenage years in the ruins of a coal mine, and successively entered the deformed Tokyo society at that time. With his heavenly voice, Ah Qiao was packaged as a pop star and completely lost himself. Aju tried to stop the record company owner from hyping up Aqiao's life experience, but accidentally killed his biological mother in the chaos created by the media. He escaped from prison in a labor camp and went to the Pacific islands with his girlfriend and fellow inmates to search for the poison on the bottom of the sea - Datura flowers that destroyed this dirty city.

Infinitely Approximating Transparent Blue (collection of Murakami Ryu's Works)

I

58K0

The debut novel by Japanese literary genius Ryu Murakami won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's highest literary award, and the Newcomer Award for Group Portrait. The origin of Japan's "transparent" literary genre touches the pain of youthful confusion. In the late 1970s, Japan experienced a stage of rapid economic development and began to enter a mature stage of capitalism. However, the unprecedented improvement in material living standards has not brought happiness to a group of young men and women living near the US military base in Fussa District, Tokyo. On the contrary, in their eyes, society is like a huge black bird, casting a shadow over the city that makes people unable to escape, making them breathless. This group of people have nothing to do all day long and indulge in a dissolute life. But after the fanaticism passed, I found that I was still confused about life.

Five Sons Admitted to College (collection of Popular Novels of the Republic of China·zhang Henshui Volume)

Zhang Henshui

207K01

This book describes how after Japan surrendered, officials were sent to Peiping, where they engaged in corruption, fraud, and lived a life of debauchery. The secret behind the "robbing" of "five sons admitted to the imperial examination" was revealed. The so-called "five sons" are: gold, women, cars, houses, and restaurants.

Long Live Huben (collection of Popular Novels of the Republic of China·zhang Henshui Volume)

Zhang Henshui

298K0

This book is a work written by Zhang Henshui in 1945. It describes that the 57th Division of the 74th Army, codenamed "Hu Ben", was surrounded by more than 60,000 Japanese troops. They shared the same hatred and fought against the odds. "One against eight", they fought hard for more than ten days, fought bloody street battles with the Japanese invaders, and were able to encircle the reinforcements and defend Changde. There were more than 8,000 people in the division, but only 83 people survived. The whole story is evocative and majestic.

Creation Novelist

Creation Novelist

General Fiction

Brother Is Comfortable

101K0

The first collection of short stories by young writer Ge Shuyi includes nine short stories and short stories, including "Mockingbird Girl", "Rain Prayer Girl" and "A Moment of Light". Among these stories are the descendants of sensitive but determined robins; a dog who learned to type because of his lonely master, but learned to be lonely because of his master's death; a rain praying girl who has the innate ability to pray for rain, and therefore cannot help but leave the rain city; a wandering painter who sees through the illusory prosperity of the world, and only the real thing remains in his paintings; a human being who struggles to survive on an earth invaded by a virus; and a meteor girl who accidentally fell to the earth but did not fall and saved her life...

Catching Fallen Leaves

Catching Fallen Leaves

General Fiction

(us) Tommy Butler

133K9.0

When humans were born, there was a hole in their hearts. In fact, this was a deliberate design by the human engineer Merriam. She hoped to leave some regrets for mankind's journey on the earth, so that mankind would not be reluctant to go home because of nostalgia for the beauty of the earth. At the time, she didn't realize it might have been a mistake. Elliot is an ordinary little boy who always feels that he is incompatible with the world and constantly wants to escape. Not only that, his experiences as an adult bring no comfort at all: lovelorn, unemployment, investment failure... When he is desperate and confused, he gets acquainted with two people who are also lost - Sasha and Benoir. Sasha is an advertising copywriter who likes to complain about his work and hide his true thoughts in advertising content; Bannoir claims that he can travel through time and space and know the future. The three "weird" people have become dependent on each other, working together to deal with the important task of "living" and finding their own ways to fill the void in their hearts.

Wild Child

Wild Child

General Fiction

Li Pengpeng

237K0

Qin Xi, who grew up in Beijing, returned to Northeast China for his third year of high school due to household registration issues. By some chance, he became roommates with Zhang Yize, the son of his mother's high school classmate. The extreme regional differences at the beginning made it difficult for Qin Xi to look at everything and find it difficult to balance. Zhang Yize was also always troubled by unspeakable family hidden dangers. In the process of getting along, the two frustrated people solved each other's problems from a new perspective. While changing themselves, they also brought some new enlightenment and growth to others. This year of crying, laughing, fighting and suffering is a rare life experience for everyone.

The Era of Returning Home

Yin Ma

402K0

The novel "The Era of Returning to Hometown" takes the "Road to Hometown" of Zhou Chuyang, a young entrepreneur from Nanguang, as the narrative clue. It takes as the main content the journey of a generation that went out to work hard to start a business, full of pain, sorrow and joy, and the selfless approach to support the construction of their hometown. It reflects the reform and opening up of "Nanguang County" in a poverty-stricken area. The achievements in various undertakings over the past 40 years and the ideological transformation and spiritual reconstruction of the people of all ethnic groups; using the difficult breakout of a borderland as the creative background, while depicting all things of the people, showing the people's livelihood, and praising the feelings of the motherland, it serves as a statue for the people, speaks for development, and writes a biography for the times.

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

General Fiction

J

125K0

"Jerusalem" is a classic novel adapted from real events by Selma Lagerlöf, the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and Swedish national treasure novel master. It was sold well in Europe a hundred years ago and lit up a spiritual light for the Swedes who had left their hometown. This is a story about the ultimate choice in life. At the end of the 19th century, the world was undergoing turbulent times, and Swedish rural areas could not stay out of it. New trends of thought from abroad quietly penetrated this land. People became confused. It seems that my hometown is no longer a peaceful and pure land. Some people claim that the Holy Land Jerusalem is the final destination. When the choice of fate comes, everyone stands at a fork in the road: stick to your hometown for the sake of reality, or believe in your ideals and go to the distant place?

Hello, Chinese Military Doctor

Nalan Xiang Weiyang Jokes

305K01

This is a novel that vividly interprets the heroic complex and dedication of contemporary military medical workers. A film and television series of the same name is in preparation. There are beliefs in war years, and there are pursuits in peace times. This book focuses on recording the growth process of the new generation of military doctors represented by Zhang Xuechuan and Fang Qiaochu. It records a series of touching stories about them fighting the Ebola virus with the peacekeeping troops and going to southern Tibet for rescue and rescue. It depicts the professional spirit of "never forget the green military uniform under the white coat".

General's Daughter

General's Daughter

General Fiction

Nalan Xiang Weiyang

212K0

Zhang Xuecheng is a girl who comes from a military family. Her ancestors, fathers, and relatives, including herself, were all uniformed men in different eras. Her special family background and life experience have always inspired her to dream of chasing heroes. She wants to search for and discover heroes in the dust of history, and bring the image of heroes back to the world through her pen. She captured the life trajectory of Gao Zhihang, a famous air force hero during the Anti-Japanese War, and used this as a starting point. She visited the hero's old sites many times, and got acquainted with Gao Liliang, the daughter of General Gao Zhihang. She gradually cleared away some of the fog that shrouded the hero, and got closer to the hero's feelings and spirit time and time again. Medical staff, pilots, library and information workers, professors... People from different professions show their own style in the article. The family atmosphere and emotional entanglements of a military family also reflect the distinct background of this era...

Love Hate Vancouver

Love Hate Vancouver

General Fiction

Ashwagandha

160K0

"Love to Hate Vancouver" is a novel describing the life of Chinese immigrants in Canada. The trend of skilled immigrants, investment immigrants, and self-funded study abroad began in the 1990s and continues to this day. Across the Pacific, a group of Chinese compatriots live in Vancouver, Canada. They have a yearning for a new life, a melancholy about leaving home, a lack of adaptability to the new environment, and a deep nostalgia and attachment to their motherland and hometown. The work describes the joys, sorrows, joys, loves, and hatreds of a group of Chinese immigrants and international students in Vancouver, and restores the true life of Chinese immigrants studying abroad and immigrating abroad.

Christopher and His Ilk

J

203K0

"Christopher and His Kind" is the autobiographical masterpiece of the famous British-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. It was adapted into a film of the same name by the BBC, starring "Doctor Who" Matt Smith. The novel records Isherwood's experiences traveling in Europe in the 1930s. From the calm and marginal perspective of a "foreigner" and "minority", it records the chaos from the inception to the outbreak of World War II. It includes the apocalyptic scene of Berlin, which was seething with all kinds of evil, chaos, and violence under the shadow of the Nazis; a sweet but hopeless relationship with the worker boy Heinz; the battlefield experience of walking with Auden, life and death in China hanging by a thread; and interesting anecdotes in the literary and film circles during his travels in Europe, and his interactions with celebrities such as Maugham, Forster, Woolf, Thomas Mann's family, and Brecht. Isherwood is extremely good at capturing personality traits accurately, all of which form a unique character map unique to him. His works are richly autobiographical and constitute wonderful social satirical fables. Isherwood and the famous poet Auden were lifelong friends, and this book also records the unique bond between the two.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

General Fiction

(uk) Charles Dickens

302K0

Dickens ushered in a new era of realism with his outstanding achievements in fourteen masterpieces. "Oliver Twist" (1838), also translated as "Oliver Twister", is Dickens's first social novel. Through the tragic experience of the orphan Oliver, the work revealed the miserable life of people at the bottom of society, which aroused great repercussions at the time.

Young Cao Cao

Young Cao Cao

General Fiction

Tu Xiaoqing

142K01

How did Cao Cao become a master in "war, politics, and art" after becoming an eunuch? What kind of Warcraft actions and heroic qualities does he have in Free Time? How did he get out of trouble after causing a murder? Why did it get to the point where you were forced to drop out of school? And who gave him guidance and helped him cross the "single-plank bridge"? Why did he, who had just become "Cao Qingtian", have to live in seclusion in his hometown? What was Cao Cao's little-known real life and wonderful heart in his first twenty years? Let's hear Tu Xiaoqing explain in detail how Cao Cao became...

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