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If "Big River" talks about our past, then "Big Data Era" talks about our present and future. "Prevent sneak shots": Li Ling is determined to find the hidden camera in the hotel room. Curtains, sheets, carpets, ceilings, socket holes, gaps in wallpaper, hidden compartments in furniture, casings of electronic devices... He rummaged through every suspicious corner and even removed two pillows and the cover of the fire alarm on the ceiling, but still found nothing. "Protecting privacy": In the era of Internet intelligence, Zhou Yinru's sudden fall from a victim to a victim did not happen overnight or by an accident. She flipped through the "Code of Conduct Against Big Data Surveillance", exchanging personal privacy for convenience, and the most common habits in daily life emerged one by one. "Identifying Authenticity and Falsehood": There are four oil paintings placed side by side on the long desk, and the content of two of them is exactly the same as the other two. Du Mianfeng stared at them with an earthy expression. These are not clumsy and mediocre reproductions, but four "authentic works" that cannot be distinguished from the fake after being authenticated by various experts, data institutions, and even himself. "Character collapse": On the other side of the screen, data is currency and code is weapon. Lu Haochuan had never been in contact with that world, but he still became a bargaining chip in transactions and a target for anyone to shoot at. From a tough guy star with many fans to a despised object, all it takes is a set of private data and a simple program code.

If "Big River" talks about our past, then "Big Data Era" talks about our present and future. "Internet Company": Why are there so many Internet startups, but so few survive? The book has to be read from scratch, but the company has to look at the results. Factors that cannot create the greatest benefits for the company are all wrong data. Once they are discovered and predicted, they must be corrected or eliminated immediately. "Privacy-less Generation": Wu Bin and his generation are in an era of rapid development of Internet technology. They are a generation with an unprecedented lack of privacy. It is easy for them to feel insecure. At this time, the trust of family members is their last stronghold in the face of the ruthless Internet. "Big data blind date": In Li Ling's view, online social networking seems to have expanded the social circle, but in fact it has caused more people to give up the idea of ​​making friends in real life, thereby intensifying and expanding the emotional desert. The more tragic side effect is that in the process of pursuing artificial goodwill on social networks, people will become increasingly lost in other people's opinions instead of clearly facing their true selves. "Retirement-style layoffs": The rapid development of data interconnection has resulted in the number of related practitioners worldwide exceeding 100 million. But this group itself has not enjoyed the dividends of the big data era. Due to the "four fast" characteristics of the industry - fast product iteration, fast model iteration, fast technology iteration, and fast talent iteration, most of them will be abandoned by companies in every possible way once they reach middle age.

She is a leading psychiatrist, and he is a renowned crime solving expert. Faced with children who committed mass suicide, a secret room with numerous traps, a teenager with an Internet addiction, and a sexual assault case with stress disorder, the two joined hands in life and death to stage the most thrilling confrontation! The most profound insight into people's hearts! The secrets that have been dormant for twenty years, the farewells that cannot be said in the future, the demented father in the nursing home, the rich man who is deeply hypnotized... If you peel away the inextricable connections between them, will the truth be revealed to the world, or is there a more treacherous conspiracy? Panic is everywhere! Danger is coming! He asked her: Why did you become a psychiatrist? She said: It was a psychiatrist who saved me twenty years ago, and I want to save more people. She asked him: Why do you want to be a psychiatrist? He said: Because you are here.

In that unpretentious and lively era, there was a group of strange and strange people in a remote mountain village who did a series of strange but not strange things, which made the bystanders who were confused and ignorant of the facts look dumbfounded and dumbfounded. I don't know whether I should sympathize with or despise their attitude and actions. Should we approve or oppose it? It's really a confusing question! This book takes Tian Chengye's family as the main line, showing all living beings in rural areas in the new era. For Chinese people, marrying a wife, having children, and carrying on the family line are the most important things in life. Their values, ethics, economic status and even social status are all reflected in this matter. The author started from the marriage problem to express the living conditions and mental outlook of the Tian family and even Chinese farmers in the early days of reform and opening up, and chose the best angle. This book can be said to be an image of Chinese society in the past half century.

Aloma was an orphan, raised by her uncle and aunt, and then sent to a missionary school in the closed mountains of Kentucky. In school, she learned to play the piano and dreamed of using this skill to escape to the wider outside world. After her lover Oren suffered a serious family accident, Aloma moved to the Oren family's tobacco farm, a wild and quiet place. Oren became increasingly alienated from Aloma due to family changes and the pressure to manage the farm independently. Aloma is in a completely unfamiliar environment, adapting to the changes in her identity and everything around her alone. She seems to have just gone from one closed school life to another closed family life. In such loneliness, she seeks change and stimulation...

Elaine, a middle school teacher, is a survivor of domestic violence. She sees signs of harm on her student Theo and decides to help him. Theo and Matisse, whose parents were divorced, became friends and would often hide out and drink strong drinks together. Matisse is an expert at stealing money and lying, and he wants to lead Theo to join the circle of bad boys. As a mother, Cecil was certainly aware of Matisse's abnormality. However, the secrets in her husband's computer defeated her first... Four perspectives intertwined into a thrilling family investigation. In an intimate relationship, who is loyal to whom? Who saves whom from fire and water?

An Irish-American, speaking with an upper-class London accent, studying law at Trinity College Dublin on a U. S. Veterans' scholarship, with a graduation thesis that will never be finished, a family, but no greasy plates or dirty children's butts. In spirit, he is suave like Don Juan and artistic in Bohemian style, but physically he is performing scenes of black farces that are absurd, embarrassing, and even contrary to common sense. This self-contradictory, soulless libertine is like the gingerbread man in the fairy tale who escapes from the oven, flees all the way, and finally falls into the mouth of the fox. Does the impermanence and absurdity of life deprive people of their sense of meaning in existence? This story of struggle and sinking told by Irish writer Don Levy in the 1950s, the style is deeply influenced by Joyce, Kafka, and Henry Miller. More than half a century later, it is still turbulent and glorious. Random House listed it in the "Modern Library's 100 Classic English Novels of the 20th Century", and it is also recognized by critics as a "cult" novel.

This book contains a total of eleven short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. It is a collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's representative works from different periods. It profoundly shows the game between human nature and desire, the choice of good and evil, and the helplessness of life. Among them, "Hell Transformation" tells the story of a highly skilled painter, Yoshihide, who, in order to pursue the highest realm of art, cruelly sacrificed his daughter to complete a "Hell Transformation" screen that shocked the world. Ryunosuke Akutagawa uses a unique layout to push the protagonist in the article to the extreme situation of life and death test, thereby showing readers the opposition between good and evil and conveying his understanding of human nature.

The orphan Pip was raised by his sister since he was a child. He was employed by the noble Havisham and fell in love with her adopted daughter Estella. He wanted to become a "superior". A fugitive whom he kindly rescued when he was young became rich abroad. In order to repay the favor of saving his life, he cleverly arranged for him to go to London to receive a higher education and enter the upper class society. However, fate is not in line with Pip's hope: Estella marries another man, the fugitive is captured, the inheritance is confiscated, and Pip's "Great Expectations" comes to nothing in the blink of an eye. The plot of the entire novel is gripping and touching. The process of hope from birth to disillusionment has aroused the resonance of generations of readers. Many Western critics praise it as Dickens's most outstanding work.

A businessman full of realism in his bones, he made business friends, bought a big house, and married the pasha's daughter, but he did not dare to have the slightest idea of ​​deviating from the status quo. A young man who grew up in a wealthy family did not want to be mediocre and longed for dreams, but he could not find his direction, lost touch with reality, and was eventually drowned in the torrent of realism. A painter who makes a living based on his ideals, he is pursuing his dream on the road of art, but he still has to face the turmoil of complicated life, and is confused and hesitant in reality.

In a Taiwanese village called "Guan Niu Wo", there lived a primary school student "Pa", who was six feet tall and extremely strong. He was adopted by his grandfather Liu Jinfu. In 1940, he was adopted as an adopted son by the Japanese military officer Oni Zhongzo. With a childish and innocent heart, Pa Huai witnessed the entanglements between people, ghosts and gods in troubled times through his psychic yin and yang eyes, as well as the extraordinary experiences of every life as small as dust in the war. A train that can walk without relying on railroad tracks enters the village. The young soldiers never forget to carry their family tombstones wherever they go, no matter they are training, fighting or resting; the old man imprisons himself, and hard leaf buds grow between his toes, spreading into a forest; in the haunted house in the north of the battlefield, Pa sleeps soundly amid the screams of ghosts, and is awakened by the tranquility. "Compared with the injuries and wailing of soldiers on the battlefield, the screams of ghosts are nothing"...

Things like life are by no means all about beautiful flowers and full moon. There are good times and there are bad times; there are the best years and there are certainly the worst years. At the age of eighteen, Yokomichi Seinosuke came to Tokyo from a small town in Nagasaki to study. After graduating from college, he encountered the "employment ice age" and was unable to find a job. At the age of twenty-four, he still relied on doing odd jobs and playing with small steel balls to survive. During this year, he competed for chairs at a small steel ball shop with a girl who aspired to become a sushi chef; he experienced the first overseas trip in his life with Xiao Zhu, a newcomer to the "social animal"; he had a new relationship and entered the life of a beautiful single mother with a three-year-old son... Even if he was frustrated, Seinosuke never changed! His simplicity, kindness and heartfelt love for life continue to infect all who meet him.

A financial institution accumulates trust through mutual trust and cooperation. The office building of Meiyu Group is located at No. 421, Jiangxi Middle Road, Shanghai. This well-known building has a history of a hundred years. It was once the headquarters of the Rong family's Sanxin Company, and the ownership still belongs to the descendants of the Rong family. In the modern history of China, the Rong family is a rare family that can be called a "consortium". Its business footprints cover industry and financial investment, and it has survived the changes of the times and industrial cycles and has stood firm for a hundred years. Perhaps, with the same lofty ideals of a century-old company, Wang Dong, chairman of Meiyu Group, had already fallen in love with this famous building. Before the lease of the previous company expired, he contacted the property manager. In April 2019, Wang Dong got his wish, and Meiyu and its subsidiaries such as Chunxin Assets and Meiyu Yindong moved in together, and a grand housewarming ceremony was held.

If Abe Kobo's "The Box Man" is a "voyeur's novel", then "Secret Meeting" is an "eavesdropper's novel". One summer dawn, the ambulance came to the home and took his wife away. In order to find his wife, "I" sneaked into the huge closed hospital. The deputy director there was rendered impotent due to a "neurosis of human relations." For treatment, the deputy director installed nearly 250 listening devices inside and outside the hospital. I have never been able to find out the whereabouts of my wife, but I have become friends with people such as Ma Er, the vice-president who pretends to be someone else's lower body, and his secretary, a girl with osteolytic disease. In order to rescue the girl with osteolytic disease from the control of the vice-dean, "I" was chased and had no place to stay. Knowing that the vice president could hear it, "I" began to shout into the bug, admitting that he had become a patient... The novel uses a unique method to analyze the relationship between the weak and power to readers, revealing the characteristics of modern human society.

"The Couples" was written in 1968 and is Updike's best-selling novel. The plot of the novel is extremely simple, it is just an affair story of 10 couples. But "The Couples" is not the American version of "The Plum in the Golden Vase"; it is still a serious work of realism. Of course, there are many positive or sideways descriptions of adultery, wife-swapping, homosexuality, etc. In the book, but Updike's original intention was by no means "teaching obscenities", but objectively reflecting reality and providing a relatively comprehensive summary of the life and thoughts of the American middle class in the 1960s. The publication of this book caused a great sensation, and Updike appeared on the cover of Time for the first time, with the cover title "The Adulterous Society."

"Born to Love" is a realistic-themed novel that describes a contemporary criminal policeman who goes deep into a drug-making tiger's den to perform an undercover mission and battles wits with drug dealers. It directly touches on the current reality and is based on the struggle on the front line of anti-drug police in the new era. It creates a new model for anti-drug policemen. Vivid group portraits, especially those undercover heroes who break into drug manufacturing and trafficking gangs, portray their courage and strategy, responsibility and forbearance, and explore their persistence and loyalty. It can be called a masterpiece that promotes the main theme of the new era.

"Times and Dust" presents a magnificent picture of social life in the past century. By describing the family history of the Li family and the Chen family, it creates two female characters with different personalities, which greatly enriches the character gallery of new era literature. The protagonists of the novel, Li Quan and Li Xun, are sisters who have gone through all kinds of hardships and never compromised their fate. In the long history, their different personalities have created different life experiences. Li Xun has been looking for and waiting for love all his life. Li Quan never forgets his original intention to join the revolution and pursues the bright future. Both sisters have their own obsessions, one is for love and the other is for light. The work examines the times and society through the destiny of women, and re-examines the destiny of Chinese women from a historical and cultural perspective.

"Xiaoyaoyou" is Ban Yu's second novel collection after "Winter Swimming". It contains seven short and medium-length works with different styles and story time spans over thirty years, presenting a more open and rich look. The depressed novelist, the man who raises ants, the sick girl, the lover chasing the comet, the father who disappears in time... They are trapped in a heavy fog, and in the shaky light, they always want to dance clumsily. These stories are immersed in the pain and imprint of people in social changes, writing about our true cowardice, desire, difficulties and struggles between brilliance and darkness, hope and despair. The drowning man wants to go ashore to take a breath, and the lost man waits for a clear night. The dark night will not be bottomless forever, because once we choose to look up, we can see the stars accompanying us.

"Little Hands" Marina, a seven-year-old girl, was sent to an orphanage after her parents died unexpectedly. She was accompanied only by a doll that could not close her eyes. There, she will be loved, hated, desired, and ostracized. As the only girl with memories and a real life, she invents a game that belongs only to childhood - everyone takes a turn... As poetic as Jean Cocteau's "The Terrible Child" and as cruel as William Golding's "Lord of the Flies", Andrés Barva paints a disturbing portrait of childhood. "Legitimate Intentions" is about an anorexic girl who ran away from home, a marathon runner who was in deep marital crisis, a woman who quietly watched her mother die, and a gay old man who suddenly realized the age gap with his young lover. Fear and loneliness, violence and resistance, self-destruction and suffering are all reflected in Andrés Barva's four novellas.

"The Age of Deafness" is a self-healing work by the novelist Shuang Xuetao. It is like telling the past into a tree hole, sealing it with mud, and cherishing it in the future. Different from the sharp and cold style of "Moses on the Plains", he used gentle writing style, energetic and sincere Chinese, and loving and tender eyes to examine the dreams and scars of his youth, to write biographies for people who lived like him, and to tell the stories of those who lost their voices in the deaf-mute era. This novel was written at the age of 28. At that time, he lived a double life of working in a bank during the day and going home to write at night. "The day I finished writing, it was already summer. I knew that I would never be able to write such a thing again. Maybe I became a different person. From then on, I will live as another person."

"Levitation of Celestial Bodies" is a novel by Tian Er. The novel tells the story of how Ding Yiteng and Fu Qiming, a pair of auxiliary police partners who were slightly awkward in the police system, went from being good brothers to turning into enemies. The two of them interacted endlessly with the three religions and nine streams in Jicheng every day. Together they caught prostitutes, gamblers, and fans, and fined them. They also fell in love with college girls and watched stars. They lived an ordinary and fulfilling life. But their different personalities and ways of dealing with problems gradually created a rift between Ding and Fu. The appearance of amateur singer An Zhiyong accelerated their seemingly ordinary life. When the college girl left, they fell in love again. At this time, there was an official quota in the police station. After some competition, the brothers turned against each other. They left the police station and embarked on different paths in life. Fu Qiming used the popularity he gained as an auxiliary police officer to open casinos, karaoke bars, and loan sharks, and soon became the biggest underworld boss in Ji City, while Ding Yiteng became a lawyer. A bizarre case in which a prostitute was murdered made singer An Zhiyong appear before them again as a suspect, and the relationship between the two brothers gradually broke down...

After returning to Beijing after a wedding in my hometown, I had severe pregnancy symptoms. Within a few days, our only residence in Beijing was sold by my father-in-law at lightning speed. Overnight, as newlyweds, we became homeless dogs without any sweetness. In order to survive, we were forced to move out of Beijing and live in the remote Yanjiao. A period of days that seemed like leaving Beijing but not leaving began. From then on, we were running on the road to and back from Beijing...

What does it mean to give up a career that has been held for ten years and is highly respected by society? This story details this somewhat peculiar choice and the many accidents that occurred as a result. The most eye-opening thing is not the career gap from dignity to humbleness, nor the secrets of selling socks, but what it is like to live in Singapore. It is about a profession and the protagonist is a city. And these, as tourists, we will never experience.

Forgiving the world for its past injustices will not protect you from being hurt again, but stepping hard on its face will. Focusing on the mental traps and social dilemmas that young women commonly encounter, it tells a shocking story of how female power grows in adversity. The author's work was shortlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN Book Award, and won the Michael Printz Honorary Book Award, which honors the most outstanding works of young people's literature in the United States. People expect you to be kind but also vigilant, so what do you do? "The dilemma ultimately caused irreparable harm to the sixteen-year-old heroine Annabell: this book records her transition from being full of entanglements and fears to resolutely determined to take the first step of change. Annabell's change is an exciting shot in the arm for readers, and it shows us the power of female courage.

The story takes place in a small town in Maine, USA, in the 1970s. Robert Carter was introverted and shy, and had been bullied by senior students for a long time. After entering the eighth grade, a boy named Nathan Tilley moved to the town and became his classmate. The appearance of this boy completely changed Robert's original life. Nansen has everything Robert does not have: confidence, courage, enthusiasm, and forward thinking. He is obsessed with a free life, enjoys all new things, and can create happiness for himself and others. Two boys with very different personalities accompanied each other and experienced unprecedented happiness together. They also witnessed each other's families being shrouded in the haze of tragedy. How should they face the various problems and misfortunes that follow in their lives at a young age...

"I" grew up in a small town. I left the small town and went to the big city. Why did I come back to the small town to start a business after going around a lot? When you return to a small town, will your entrepreneurial journey be as smooth as a fish in water? How will family and friendship collide? This book will reveal in depth the driving forces behind today's small town entrepreneurship.

The appearance of everyone in your life may bring something to you. We have experienced too many stories of growing up overnight, and it may take a long time for the men and women in this mortal world to digest those effects. From being confused to feeling lost, this is Daodao's journey of growth, and it is also every boy's journey of confusion and exploration about his body and self. Daodao has a handsome appearance and a little talent. He is a boy that many girls want to knock down. But he couldn't escape the fate of being passionate and narcissistic. Not only did he never forget his first love, he was obsessed with his senior sister after he went to college. Finally, he fell in love with a pure and cute little girl player: and then, not surprisingly, broke his heart. Just like most real-life stories, who says the prodigal son never returns with gold? Good girl, you can never live up to her.

"This kind of love is destined to be destructive." The author of "Lolita" and the novel master Nabokov's masterpiece, the passion, intoxication, madness and fall of a chess genius, using scalpel-like precision to write about the hidden corners behind the genius boy. "Defense" is a masterpiece of Nabokov's novels recognized by the 20th century novel master. It tells the story of a genius boy who gradually becomes insane due to his long-term addiction to chess games. Passion, intoxication, madness and decline are the themes throughout the novel. The protagonist Luzhin was an unattractive, withdrawn and melancholic child when he was a child. Real life always made him feel anxious, so he used chess as a refuge to escape from real life. It turned out that he was a chess genius and became a chess master. However, he also paid a price for this: the chess game gradually replaced his real life, and his real life became a dream. Nabokov devoted great enthusiasm to this early work, outlining the hidden corners behind the aura of genius with anatomical precision.

"The only happiness in the world is to observe, spy, monitor, and examine oneself and others." Nabokov, the master of novels, plays with his techniques in this short novel. It is a short, bizarre and humorous detective story in the style of an allegory. It is a world in the eyes of a "multi-faceted man". "The Eye" is a long masterpiece by Nabokov, a recognized master of novels in the 20th century. It parodies the style of detective novels and tells the life of the protagonist Smurov. Smurov enjoys observing, spying, and examining himself and others. Due to his special identity, he only sees himself and others through the eyes of others, and protects his identity from being discovered. And his existence always depends on the reflection in other people's minds: a liar, a cruel officer, a sensitive young man, a decent gentleman, or a poor man who cannot love. The author weaves wonderful multiple worlds with coded text as crystal clear as raindrops, leading readers into a narrative maze, tracking Smurov's true identity, analyzing the intentions of the mysterious narrator behind it, and experiencing the pleasure of solving a mystery - "doing nothing else, just making a big, slightly glass-colored, slightly bloodshot, unblinking eye."

"Just like every madman thinks he is God, each of us thinks he is mortal." The prison version of "The Truman Show" is a Kafkaesque absurd story in which innocent people become the protagonists of farce, trapped in the prison of time, waiting for their belated death. "Invitation to the Beheading" is the masterpiece of Nabokov's novels, which is recognized as the master of novels in the 20th century. It is like a prison version of "The Truman Show". The protagonist Cincinnatus was sentenced to death. While waiting in prison for the execution date to be finalized, he endured the pain of impending death while involuntarily becoming the protagonist of a farce. The warden, fellow prisoners, guards, executioners, relatives, and lovers all seem real but false. The cell, the fortress, and the execution square are actually props for the performance. Death is delayed, and if there is any hope, it seems that there is no hope. The bizarre and comical scenes in the novel are dizzying. It shows the illusion of an irrational world, but behind the absurdity lies a spine-chilling dark daily routine.

Long novel. Jia Pingwa is one of the most famous contemporary writers. It can be said that his novels are the most impactful and influential among today's literary circles and readers.

"The Sleepwalker Trilogy", also translated as "The Sleepwalker", is the first important work published in 1931 by the famous Austrian writer Hermann Bloch (1886-1951). It is highly praised by Milan Kundera and Carlos Fuentes. The novel uses stories from three eras to express the changes of the times from 1888 to 1918. From the perspective of the historical concept of value collapse, it artistically reproduces the death process of traditional Western culture.

The story of the third era took place in 1918. On November 11 of that year, the four-year First World War came to an end. The main plot is the three main protagonists gathered in the third part: Major Passerno, the town guard commander, editor Ash, and deserter Hu Guinao: Hu Guinao, who was originally a businessman, fled the battlefield without permission after being drafted into the army, and fled to the small town of the Electorate of Trier via Belgium. He came to Ash's newspaper because of the advertisement, and then gradually came up with the idea of ​​taking over the newspaper; he happened to meet the major in a hotel restaurant and defrauded him in the name of patriotism. With the trust of the major, he got acquainted with the small town squire, encouraged everyone to invest in the purchase of the newspaper, and then deceived Ash into signing a contract and took the newspaper into his own hands. After his identity as a deserter was exposed, Hu Guinao used the newspaper to spread rumors and cause chaos. Finally, on the day of the chaos, he raped Mrs. Ash, murdered Ash, and kidnapped the unconscious Paseno, and finally returned to his hometown of Colma safe and sound.

The story of the second era takes place in 1903. From 1900 to 1903, another world economic crisis occurred, which resulted in the unemployment of a large number of workers at the bottom of society, intensified the class contradiction between labor and capital, and thus triggered a social crisis. In 1903, August Ash was fired by his boss due to unfounded accounting errors. Later, after being introduced by his friend Martin Guerin, he went to work as an accountant at the Mannheim Mid-Rhine Shipping Company. By chance, he met the manager of the vaudeville theater Alfred Guernat. When he arrived in Ilona, in order to save Ilona, he gave up his job at the Mid-Rhine Shipping Company and returned to Cologne to start a theater business that symbolized his desire for order. However, it ended with the manager absconding with the money. Later, he invested all his property in the theater business and lost everything. He then returned home to Luxembourg and ended his messianic farce as a senior accountant in a large industrial company.

A song of youth filled with heartbreak, shattered dreams and hope. Emilia Moretti, a 17-year-old female dancer, is fed up with the fate of being the middle child. She wants to be the best: the brightest star in the school art festival; the most outstanding child in the eyes of her parents; the only one in the heart of her deep love. However, the results of her efforts were not satisfactory, and she had to start thinking about the meaning of "fighting for first place"... 18-Year-old Nick Glawsky no longer wanted to follow his father's wishes and become a lawyer. He just wanted to prove that he was a natural dancer; he also did not want to be separated from Emilia again because of his father's prejudice...

By describing Chen Zimu, the son-in-law of Xiao Jinzhong, the champion of Chaling Prefecture, Hunan, who lived in the late Qing Dynasty, he cared about people's livelihood, ignored his personal safety, and devoted himself to petitioning for the people, as well as the ups and downs of Xiao Zhuangyuan's life.

The protagonist He Sigou survived the catastrophe and continued to put all his life gratitude into writing. Eventually, he became a nationally famous writer. At a charity book signing, He Sigou was surprised to find that one of the audience members turned out to be his sister who passed away many years ago. He also revealed a secret that had been hidden for ten years: it turned out that in order to stimulate his fighting spirit, his parents made up a white lie: they sent his sister to work in other places anonymously and faked the fact that her sister died...

In Paris in 1819, the Napoleonic era had just come to an end. Behind the prosperity of the upper class, ladies were worried about lovers and debts, nobles were weighing wealth and love, and wealthy businessmen were planning speculation and business. In a low-income apartment in the lower society, various characters are inextricably linked to the upper class: the upstart old man Gao was drained by his two daughters and died desolately in a shabby corner; the mainland young man Rastignac is determined to rise to the top and urgently needs to learn many rules of the upper class; the gangster leader Mufu Tolen is dormant in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to declare war on secular society... In "Petro Goriot", Balzac depicts the unique spirit of the times during the period of social transformation: moral decay, social tension, confusion of values, and poverty of the lower class. At the same time, society is rarely full of mobility. Human relationships and world affairs in society during the period of transformation are taking turns to be staged in this human comedy.

"Prisoners" is the author's first published work, which has special literary value and significance. The novel creates three main characters: a depressed teacher, a sensitive and lonely daughter of a suspected war criminal who committed suicide, and a young engineer. The novel presents the lives of people who experienced the Nazi Holocaust and fell into the totalitarian rule of Ceausescu. They were suppressed, doubted and distorted by the power of the underworld, and became injured, weak and failed. The characteristic of the language of the manuscript is that it combines reality with dreams, and the writing style of both reality and fantasy is like a monologue or raving. As Manea's first work, this book basically has the prototype of his literary language to become a world-class writer.

Hatano Yasuhiko, a student at the Art University, was fascinated by a portrait painted by the famous painter Ogiyo Sentaro. He was fascinated by the girl's eyes in the painting, which seemed to be staring into the abyss of death. Banano did not expect that the painting would be sent to him soon after, and he only needed to accept a task - to participate in an auction under a false identity, and no matter how high the bid was, he had to get a painting. And that painting is an identical portrait of a girl. Hatano felt the conspiracy, but couldn't help but want to touch the secrets in the painting... Seven short stories reveal the calculations of modern people hidden behind social masks, and reveal the dark areas obscured by city lights.

"The Scholars" is a long satirical novel depicting portraits of intellectuals. The work describes various absurd and hypocritical behaviors of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by stereotypes. It belittles and satirizes fake Confucian scholars and fake celebrities, criticizes the corrupt secular atmosphere at that time, and creates the image of a few true Confucian scholars and real celebrities who stay away from fame and pursue freedom, in which the author's ideals are embedded. The Scholars is a model of ancient Chinese satirical literature, the first of its kind to use novels to directly evaluate real life. It can be compared with the works of Boccaccio, Cervantes, Balzac, Dickens and others. It also has a profound influence on the world's modern literature and can be called a world literary masterpiece.

"Generals of the Yang Family" tells the touching story of four generations of the Yang family guarding northern Xinjiang and serving the country with loyalty. The great spirit of succession and loyalty to the country condensed in the legend of the Yang family generals has been a kind of sustenance for the Chinese people for thousands of years to resist aggression, protect their homeland and pursue peace in the face of foreign invasion and bullying by Western powers.

"Lao Can's Travels" is a work handed down from generation to generation that is highly praised by Hu Shi, Wang Guowei, Lin Yutang and others. The novel takes the travels of a quack doctor as the main line, and humorously depicts the social beings in a specific environment. The opening chapter uses symbolic writing to point out the subtle relationship between individuals and times, and then goes on to write about the scenery of Daming Lake, Wang Xiaoyu's storytelling, the hatred of honest officials, a strange case, the frozen Yellow River, love and enlightenment... It has the fantasy of worldly novels, the insights of psychological novels, and the passion of martial arts novels. Some people think that its chapters are like bricks and tiles of Qin and Han Dynasties. They look exquisite individually, but together they do not make a full story. But if you read the content carefully, you will find that the beauty of it is that it is unconventional, written in a willful and unrestrained way. The innovative descriptions of sights and sounds are still textbook level today.

"Nie Hai Hua" is one of the four major condemnation novels in the late Qing Dynasty. The whole book takes the experiences of Suzhou champion Jingou and the famous prostitute Fu Caiyun as the main line, showing the historical changes in China's social, political and cultural life from the early years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty to the 30 years of the Sino-Japanese War of 1898. It has a strong spirit of the times and has certain political significance. The publication of this book caused a sensation in the literary world in the early 20th century. It was reprinted more than ten times in a short period of time and sold about 100,000 copies, setting a unique record.

Welcome to Paradim Cinema! It was once the largest theater on the south bank of the Thames, attracting celebrities from London's West End to stop and watch. Now, there are only popcorn, depressed cinema managers and a group of moviegoers with different personalities in the dilapidated hall. They touch each other and shape each other's destiny. Among them are Mark, a cynical intellectual young man who pursues sensuality and spirituality; Mark's girlfriend Claire, a former novice nun who has lost her faith but found passion; Father Kipling, who regards the cinema as a "place of greed"; and Harry, a boy who vents his malice in unknown corners... In his first novel, David Lodge uses keen observation to describe the lives of 17 people of different ages and social backgrounds. Their hopes, confusions, frustrations, dreams, joys and sorrows are staged at the Paradim Cinema along with the dream world on the big screen.

This is a novel based on the growth history of private bookstores. The novel tells the story of the protagonist, Lin Zhiguang, who opened the "Light of the Left Bank" bookstore with his love for books. With the ideal of making the "Light of the Left Bank" bookstore the largest private bookstore in Jin City, he constantly innovated the business model and encountered setbacks. In the changes of the times, he developed from a single store to a chain store, then reduced it from a chain store to a single store, and finally adhered to the ideal of the book industry as an online bookstore. The work also portrays characters such as Wang Qingshan who runs an educational bookstore, Xie Dajun who runs a second-hand book business, newspaper reporter Shen Mo, book collector Hu Yang, and Zhuo Hui who marries a mentally retarded person in order to change her destiny. It uses the changes of the times as clues to tell the characters' respective entrepreneurial journeys and emotional entanglements, and finally find where they belong.

The novel is based on the growth of two generations of Yang and Zhao families. It tells the historical reality of the employees of state-owned enterprises from desolation to prosperity. It is a history of the Chinese people's hard work and passionate entrepreneurship. It is a history of the Chinese people's struggle to overcome difficulties and forge ahead. It is a history of the Chinese people's exploration of a new industrialization path with Chinese characteristics. It is also a history of innovation in which the Chinese people are determined to reform and stride forward. The work explains that if a nation wants to survive and develop, it must have a high-spirited spirit of struggle and dedication. This spirit is not only an important measure of comprehensive national strength, but also an important part of the Chinese national spirit. No bloody storm can stop the Chinese people from advancing in history, and it always spurs workers to promote the historical process through indomitable struggle.

This book tells the story of the changes in Qingluo Island in Zhoushan during the period of reform and opening up and the transformation of fishermen's production: Xiumei, Haisheng, and Zhiping, a group of fishermen's sons and daughters, under the devastation of disaster and snobbery, went from sluggish to vigorous, actively seeking new production mechanisms, and through the practice of contradictions, internal friction, and mutual assistance in independent production, they improved their cognition and moved towards unity. In the process, some emotional entanglements also occurred. This book reflects that fishermen face the specific natural geographical environment of the island and face the ups and downs of life. With kindness, optimism, and open-mindedness, they have the courage to forge ahead, work hard for the construction of new fishing villages, constantly create new businesses, and eulogize the principles and policies of reform and opening up and the spirit of the fishermen's children to keep up with the development of the times and make unremitting efforts.

This book tells the story of the living conditions of a group of Shanghai youths from the 1960s to the 1980s, struggling in the gaps between individuals and times, individuals and groups. It has a certain cultural significance based on literary significance.

This book is a full-length campus novel, describing the story of the young girl Ye Xiaoqing and the young boy Liu Dazhu growing up together. The fierce conflict with his "stepmother" made Ye Xiaoqing depressed and his academic performance declined. His father Ye Jianguo had no choice but to take his cousin Liu Dazhu, who was a top student in the countryside, to his home as a companion. After a period of getting along together, Ye Xiaoqing's academic performance improved significantly, but the family conflicts still could not be alleviated, so Ye Xiaoqing left Shanghai and lived in Liu Dazhu's hometown, and the two became classmates in the township middle school. Life in the countryside slowly cleared away the haze in Ye Xiaoqing's heart, allowing her to get out of her predicament and regain a new life.