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Color of Fire

Color of Fire

General Fiction

(france) Pierre Lemaitre

261K0

France's top ten best-sellers of the year! Immediately after its publication, it topped the French bestseller list, with sales exceeding 350,000 copies within half a year. A major new work by Pierre Lemaitre, a must-read contemporary French literary master. A new peak after the French Goncourt Literary Prize work "Goodbye in Heaven". The moment you feel pain is the moment you transform, which makes your life rich and powerful. Well-known translator Yu Zhongxian carefully translated! A story about revenge, as beautiful, exciting and tender as "The Count of Monte Cristo". Madeleine is an ordinary woman, and a series of extraordinary stories will happen to her. Father's funeral heralds the end of an era. The fall of his son opened the prelude to a chaotic life. The betrayal of her relatives, the decline of her family, and the decline of her company, Madeleine was at the mercy of her fate and sank with the collapsing era. Finally, the real pain triggered her counterattack and transformation. Her eyes reflected the color of fire.

Bloody

Bloody

General Fiction

Startled Heron

309K0

Ordinary alleys, palaces and courtyards, broken souls, and ghosts crying. The anointed flag stands, the clouds are like blood, and the East vows to destroy China. The winds and rivers of Shaanxi are flowing, the ancient roads are warm to the heart, the moral integrity is strong, the people are brave enough to take on responsibilities, and have the courage to cope with hardships. Heroes and sons and daughters go to the battlefield. Who can stop the enemy and the same enemy? Regardless of his life and death, his body wrapped in horse leather remains the same. Everyone gathered a thousand waves to sweep away all the Japanese ghosts and bandits, and they were frightened. In the dream, I read the sword with the light on, the cold night is approaching the morning sun!

A Book Story

A Book Story

General Fiction

Leaf

257K0

A picture that reflects the life of old Chengdu people and the changes that industrial immigrants have brought to a city and countryside. The story has ups and downs. Time soon came to the beginning of the 21st century. He Daqiang, an employee who was over eighty years old, accidentally obtained a book about reflecting military workers as a treasure. He decided to write a book reflecting their generation, so he gathered several old employees who had retired long ago and expressed his ideas. Everyone hit it off immediately, and all the stories begin with immigration. When the old factory director Tong Fanqi was buried, the book was finally completed and placed in his tomb.

Survival and Destiny

Survival and Destiny

General Fiction

(soviet) Vasily Grossman

614K01

Summary of the content of "Survival and Destiny": On February 14, 1961, the Soviet authorities sent the KGB to break into the house of writer Vasily Grossman and "arrested" a novel manuscript. Suslov, who was in charge of ideology, judged it "more dangerous than Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago"" and "cannot be published two hundred years later." This is "Survival and Destiny", and later people called it "War and Peace" in the 20th century. In this novel set against the backdrop of the Great Patriotic War, Grossman uses Tolstoy's grand layout and Chekhov's moving writing style to describe the brutal Battle of Stalingrad on the one hand, and the experiences of ordinary people, especially the Shaposhnikov family on the other, giving a panoramic view of Soviet social life during the Stalin period.

The Paradise You Mentioned is Desolate

Ziri Mountain

288K0

Bian Qi is a boy with mediocre qualifications and an average family background. During the college entrance examination, he relied on "means" to get into college. He knew that his academic performance would not make him famous in the university. He used his strengths and weaknesses and used his public relations skills to become the president of the school student union when the school student union changed. Although he encountered strong opponents and strong opposition from the girl's parents on the road to love, he stood out among many suitors and became the boyfriend of the school belle Wu Xu... After graduating from college, the school belle followed him to Jinan, a place he was unfamiliar with, and he became a salesperson for a new company while studying management. Because he had no connections and it was a new product, after encountering countless obstacles and ultimatums from the section chief, Bian Qi successfully won a large order. Not only did he gain a firm foothold, but he also revived the company and became the backbone of the business. At the same time, he used the convenience of doing business to cleverly plunder his roommate's inventions and became the majority shareholder of the partnership company. Just when the happiness he promised to his girlfriend was beginning to dawn, a second-generation official intervened, and his life developed in an unimaginable direction...

Long Live Life

Long Live Life

General Fiction

(japan) Akihiro Dohashi

74K0

The courtroom is packed as Wakamura Mirai goes on trial for abusing his seriously ill grandmother. The sentence "It's better to just die" makes something originally bad become worse, but even bad things can become better, right? Wakamura Mirai, who has experienced many setbacks, fell and got up again, and her grandmother, who is paralyzed on the left side of her body and is deteriorating, will their lives get better in the future?

Guihong

Guihong

General Fiction

Song Lingyun Lei Ming

292K0

In the spring of 1949, the Kuomintang regime was retreating steadily on the mainland, and two airlines, China Airlines and Yuanhang Airlines, moved to Hong Kong. The two airlines compete fiercely in Hong Kong, the market is shrinking, and they are facing huge pressure to survive. On the one hand, the corrupt Kuomintang government has driven people crazy, while British and American capital forces are eager to annex the assets of the two airlines. Across both airlines, thousands of employees are homesick and eager to return to participate in the construction of the soon-to-be-established New China. Members of our party's underground organizations at all levels, represented by Nie Yunkai and Shen Xiyan, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, went deep into the interior of the two airlines. With their passion and true feelings, they influenced the top officials of the two airlines who were hesitant at the historical juncture. While gathering people's support, they bravely and strategically dealt with the reactionary forces of the Kuomintang, paying the price of blood, fire, life and death for their success. Finally, in the early winter of 1949, they successfully planned the uprising of the two airlines. Twelve planes carrying the top executives and technical backbones of the two airlines took off from Hong Kong and flew to the embrace of the motherland.

Poetry Night at the George and the Dragon Tavern

(uk) Stephanie Butland

158K0

How should a girl with social fears face her future and hard-won love? It is highly recommended by "Island Bookstore", "Publishers Weekly" and "Library Journal". Lofty is very silent. She would rather read ten books quietly than talk face to face with anyone for ten minutes. She was not born like this. This tranquility came from the past that she wanted to bury. However, the appearance of a flyer broke the tranquility of life: "Poetry Night, George and Dragon Tavern, opening at 20:00 on Wednesday, admission fee 3 pounds. Improvisational party." On the poetry night, everyone can stand on the stage and speak for themselves. Unexpected encounters again and again, poems written by ordinary people, everything that seemed happy only brought uneasiness to Lovedy. Her life, her love, seemed to come to an abrupt end at the moment it was about to begin. The past cannot define the future, and we all have the ability to get out of trouble on our own.

Unfinished Summer

Unfinished Summer

General Fiction

(uk) Ron Coleman

190K0

In the summer of 2007, eight months after her mother passed away, Luna saw a videotape that her mother left for her and her sister Pia. In the videotape, her mother revealed a terrible secret that had been hidden for 30 years. Luna's world was turned upside down. With many questions, Luna and Pia decided to go to their mother's hometown of Brooklyn to find the truth. As a physicist, Luna could not believe what she had experienced. However, time kept going back and forth between the two summers of 1977 and 2007. Luna became friends with her 20-year-old mother and gradually uncovered the horrific secrets in the tape. Luna wants to stop anything unfortunate before it happens, but if she does so, it may mean that she will no longer exist in 2007...

Dawn in Naples

Dawn in Naples

General Fiction

M

150K0

His stubborn father, who was nearly seventy years old and had been kicked out of the house and came to seek refuge, his increasingly picky and restless wife who had been married for ten years, and a job full of depression and struggle, all made Giovanni desperately want to escape. The arrival of his father made Giovanni's life more full of contradictions. His wife Simone took her sons Bartow and Diego back to her parents' home, and Giovanni was forced to get involved in a struggle. At the same time, he met the beautiful and charming Kalman... The young Bartow wanted to go home. He missed the computer with professional software and wanted to complete his ambitious plan - to edit the four-minute and one-second short film "My Family", which was a collection of trivia about family members' lives that he recorded with a camera, telling the story of those stolen lives. Will life get better when everyone is trying to clean up the past and rebuild the base?

Naples Sky

Naples Sky

General Fiction

N

130K0

Michelle is a loose, entangled and lazy young writer. At the age of thirty, he bought a house with difficulty and renovated it carefully, following the same path as his parents who were extremely contemptuous when he was young. The pressure of huge mortgage loans, unstable income, differences with his family and the departure of his girlfriend all hit Michelle hard, and his life began to become fragmented. A job opportunity as a screenwriter for a documentary brought a turn to Michelle's life. After moving out of her parents' house to live alone, her relationship with her family also eased. At this time, the unexpected appearance of the young and beautiful ballerina Cleo brought vitality to Michelle's life, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction...

From the Basement

From the Basement

General Fiction

(germany) Dirk Kobvert

112K0

"From the Basement" is a masterpiece of psychological suspense that exposes the existential threats to modern society. The forty-five-year-old architect Randolph is highly educated, kind and gentle, has a beautiful wife, and a pair of angelic children. He lives in a spacious and bright new apartment and leads a happy life that others envy. In the basement of his new apartment lives alone the forty-year-old tramp Tiberius. He is short, fat and ugly. He was abandoned by his family since he was a child. He is unemployed and has been relying on government relief funds to survive. On the surface, everyone is in peace, but in fact, there is an undercurrent, until the beautiful wife receives a harassing love letter from the tramp Tiberius. The Randolphs are accused of child sexual abuse, which later leads to a murder case... In today's civilized society, if the life and property safety of you and your family is threatened, how should you protect yourself?

Lonely Postman

Lonely Postman

General Fiction

(added) Dennis Theriot

74K0

In Beech Street lived a postman named Bilodeau. He is lonely and silent. After finishing his work every day, he returns to his empty apartment to spend time alone. Until one day, he saw a letter from Guadeloupe. There were only three lines in the letter, which was a short poem: Time is like flowing water, hesitating again and again, falling in love on the rugged rocks. Snooping into other people's letters brought a hidden joy to his lonely life, and it also made him very interested in the sender... Destiny is a red ring, more like a rotating ring of fire. The snake is biting its own tail, and time is slowly devouring itself.

Grayba Inn

Grayba Inn

General Fiction

(us) Curtis Dawkins

97K01

This is an extremely special book. Because the characters described in the novel are all criminals in American prisons. What the author of the novel tells is exactly what is happening in this prison with his fellow inmates. Sin and humanity, freedom and loneliness, despair and hope, power and lies, coldness and joy - the author uses realistic writing to present us with this unique "prison reality show", allowing you to feel the cruelty and bitterness behind the black humor. Of course, you won't be relieved of the unbearable weight of life. If you read to the end and suddenly want to cry.

Soul Labyrinth

Soul Labyrinth

General Fiction

(west) Carlos Ruiz Safon

452K0

1959, Barcelona. The situation after the war was reshuffled. Alicia, a girl who survived the "1938 bombing", has grown into a strong and independent police detective and was ordered to track down the disappearance of the warden of Fort Montjuic. As the investigation deepens, characters who have been imprisoned appear one after another, and the clues buried in the previous game are revealed one by one, all pointing to a chilling truth. The door to the "Tomb of Forgotten Books" is open, and all the answers to the mystery are revealed here.

Prisoners of Paradise

Prisoners of Paradise

General Fiction

(west) Carlos Ruiz Safon

128K0

1939, Barcelona. The craziest period of the Spanish Civil War. Not everyone hates war, and some people use war to hide unspeakable secrets. Those secrets, those wronged souls, were all recorded in the Montjuic Castle prison, and finally disappeared in the silent despair. It was here that Fermin met David Martin, a man who had been tortured both physically and mentally, and a man who had a lifelong mission. Two men in prison vowed that no matter who survived, they would fulfill the wish of the other.

Angel Games

Angel Games

General Fiction

(west) Carlos Ruiz Safon

289K0

1919, Barcelona. The rain never stops. The down-and-out writer David Martin received an invitation from a mysterious publisher and went to the feasting nightclub "Qimengyuan", where he unexpectedly met the characters in his novel. After a romantic night, Martin woke up and found that "Qimengyuan" was actually a ruin that had been dilapidated for many years. In this game of walking with the devil, the boundaries between reality and illusion gradually disappear, and death comes slowly in another way.

Shadow of the Wind

Shadow of the Wind

General Fiction

(west) Carlos Ruiz Safon

290K0

1945, Barcelona, ​​the shadow of the Spanish Civil War has not yet dissipated. Hidden in the intricate streets and alleys of the city is a huge and mysterious library - the Tomb of Forgotten Books. It is said that books forgotten by the world will eventually return here. The little boy Daniel discovers a novel called "The Shadow of the Wind" here, which opens up a sad past between memory and reality, heaven and hell.

Celebrate New Year

Celebrate New Year

General Fiction

Also Me Liu Yizhi (japanese) Yano Kako

220K0

The Beijing-flavored novels of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China not only vividly described the market customs and Manchu and Chinese customs at that time, but also preserved a large number of old Beijing colloquialisms, common sayings and idioms, leaving very precious linguistic historical materials for future generations. In a sense, the language of these Beijing-flavored novels is an encyclopedia of old Beijing dialect. Today, more and more Beijing-flavored novels are being resurfaced. We must not remain silent any longer. We should face reality and history, re-examine the Beijing literary scene in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, vigorously publicize the historical achievements of these Beijing-flavored novelists, and deeply explore the literary and linguistic values ​​of these works. This will provide more nutrients for the future development of Beijing-flavored literature and lay a solid foundation for the research and inheritance of Beijing dialect. This book is one of the books in the series, "Celebrating the New Year", and has important corpus and publication value.

Big Moon at Night

Big Moon at Night

General Fiction

Xia Runhe

188K0

The mountain to the east is the remnant of Longwei Mountain, called Taigang Mountain, and is where the sun rises. Taigang Mountain is steep and majestic, and its cliffs are called Baishi Cliff. The strange rocks on Baishiya constitute various pictographic figures, birds and animals. There used to be a large-scale Huayan Temple on the top of the mountain, which was built in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, Prince Zhanghuai of the Tang Dynasty came here to worship Buddha when he was demoted to Sichuan by Wu Zetian. It is a pity that it was destroyed by a fire during the Republic of China. There is a faint horizontal black mark on the mountainside of Taigang Mountain. From a distance, it looks like a toothless old man yawning with his mouth wide open. There is the Five Buddha Cave. The cave is extremely big. The cave is as wide as five or six basketball courts. The top of the cave is very high from the ground. The highest point of the cave is dozens of feet high. The cave is so deep and bottomless that it is said that it can lead directly to Qiujiabao, which is more than ten miles away. There used to be five golden Buddhas in the cave. The Tathagata Buddha was more than ten feet tall. There were more than a thousand Buddha seats built on the cliffs of the cave walls. There is constant incense in the cave all year round. On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, there is an endless stream of people burning incense and worshiping Buddha. They come and go, and you can smell the incense even on the top of the mountain. Later, after the land reform and the "Cultural Revolution" the Red Guards "destroyed the four olds", the cave was completely destroyed. Otherwise it is a good tourist attraction now.

Paper Flowers

Paper Flowers

General Fiction

Zou Rong

161K0

It's the same every winter. I always look forward to a heavy snowfall, not only on the top of the mountain, but also across the mountainside and in the villages at the foot of the mountain. Or, there is only snow on the tile-roofed house, just like the glutinous rice flour made by mothers for the New Year, and it only smells sweet. Such a wish is not easy to come true. The snowflakes only fall on the top of the mountain, and they melt far away before reaching the middle of the mountain. The sun alternates between light and dark rapidly, as if it can only make time lose control and become more blurred. No matter how sunny it is during the day, it's still cold at night, as if it's chilled to the bones. At this time, we either sleep or warm ourselves by the fire. In fact, after living in one place for a long time, everyone's lifestyle is very similar. No one goes to bed as soon as it gets dark. Even if the whole village is plunged into darkness and the room is dimly lit, they still have to warm themselves by the fire and chat until nine or ten o'clock before going to bed.

More People Die of Heartbreak

(us) Saul Bellow

261K0

The famous botanist Bain Krader has made great achievements in his career, but his life is unsatisfactory. He is an idealist, yearning for a kind of pure romantic love and a traditional family sharing family happiness. After his first marriage failed, Bain suffered a lot from pursuing women. He was single for fifteen years and then married a young girl who was twenty years younger than him. But the only daughter of a famous medical family was not his ideal wife, and Bain still felt an insurmountable loneliness deep in his heart. He originally wanted to design life and himself according to his own ideals, but in the end he was designed by life. He had to cry to God in prayer in the dead of night: Oh my God, sorrow is more deadly!

Leftovers

Leftovers

General Fiction

(india) Onprakash Valmichi

97K0

The Indian version of "Les Misérables" - touching the hidden wounds of the untouchable, the broken hearts of the clean and unclean. "The Leftovers" epically shows the poverty, misery and humiliation life experience of the Dalit group living at the bottom of Indian society. Dalits live a life of starvation all day long, and only during major festivals can they take home the leftover food eaten by the upper castes. Dalits are also known as "untouchables" or "untouchables" and are considered a group of unclean people, and are ostracized and insulted by all aspects of society. Therefore, if the entire Indian society is compared to a sumptuous banquet, then Dalits are like the "leftovers" on the table, discarded like rotten chickens and despised by everyone. Om Prakash Valmichi cleverly used symbolism to symbolize this untouchable group with "leftover rice", which showed the cruelty and cold-bloodedness of the caste system and the tragic helplessness of the Dalit group. Although he came from a humble background, with the persistence and encouragement of his parents, Valmichi was able to enter campus, leave the countryside and enter urban life, thus broadening his horizons and increasing his knowledge. Although he was constantly ridiculed and insulted by the so-called upper caste society, the hope and sense of struggle in his heart never went out. He used the pen in his hand to truly record the miserable world of untouchables, in order to inspire broader humanitarian and social resonance...

Bamboo

Bamboo

General Fiction

(kuwait) Saoud Sanousi

180K0

The winning work of the Arab International Novel Award describes the loneliness of people in various states. Issa, the illegitimate son of a Filipino maid and a Kuwaiti man. He grew up in his grandmother's house in the Philippines. When he grew up, he set off to Kuwait, a land full of wealth, to pursue his dream. However, he found that it was not the paradise that others said, but a stubborn, xenophobic and cold society full of prejudice... "Bamboo Pole" uses the narration of the protagonist Issa, the "other", to face the so-called "other" in Kuwait. It depicts the living conditions of foreign workers in the Gulf countries and analyzes the social problems behind them. It also describes the loneliness of people in various states, cares about the living conditions of human beings in modern society, and calls for dialogue, tolerance and understanding between different beliefs and civilizations. The language of the novel is simple and unpretentious. Although it is light, it is light but interesting, light but not too light, and contains profound meaning. The confused true feelings of an "other" are scattered between the lines. Saoud Sanousi (1981-) is one of the most outstanding new-generation novelists in the Gulf region and a leader of Kuwait's "post-80s writers group". He has published novels "Prisoners in the Mirror", "Bamboo Pole", "Mom's Celebrations", "Bathroom", short stories "Bonsai and the Old Man" and other works. "Prisoner in the Mirror" won the Leila Osman Literary Award; "Bamboo Pole" won the Arab International Novel Award (also known as the "Arab Booker Prize"), and was adapted into a TV series of the same name that was popular in Gulf countries, setting a TV series ratings record in the region. He also serves as a writer for many well-known newspapers such as Kuwait's Torch Newspaper.

Gibraltar Sailor

Gibraltar Sailor

General Fiction

Marguerite Duras

178K0

"The Sailor of Gibraltar" written by Marguerite Duras tells the story of a young man, a murderer and a victim, who briefly encounters a woman on a yacht and then disappears in a certain port. Love arises between a man who wants to change his life and a woman who is obsessed with the sailor of Gibraltar. Together, they search for the missing sailor seriously. If they find him, will that be the end of their love?

Scorpio

Scorpio

General Fiction

Nan Feiyan

219K03

"Scorpion" is a new world love novel, the current "The Scholars", and it is also a book of relationships. The book is full of practical experience and practical elements, allowing us to understand and learn various tips for handling relationships between men and women, relationships between superiors and subordinates, relationships between colleagues, relationships between superiors and even more complex interpersonal and social relationships. Every Chinese who is exposed to the complex Chinese social structure and human relationship structure will have a personal experience with what is written in the book... The story reflects the current workplace struggles and secular life of middle-aged men. "Official career pressure" and "emotional crisis" are both part of secular life. The author presents the "original state" of the delicate human heart and trivial life to the readers in an extremely subtle way. The novel focuses on expressing the protagonist's living state in the entanglement of emotions and career, and writes about the bravery and cowardice, contradiction and helplessness of middle-aged men, a shrewd calculation of offense and defense, and hesitation about gains and losses... Nan Feiyan, born in 1980, is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the vice chairman of the Henan Writers Association, a student of the 8th Senior Seminar of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature, a graduate of the Chinese Department of Zhengzhou University, and a master's degree in creative writing from the School of Liberal Arts of Renmin University of China. He has written several novels and short stories, which have been published in magazines such as "People's Literature" and "October". They have been selected by "Selected Novellas", "Novel Monthly", "Beijing Literature" and other magazines, and serialized in newspapers such as "Dahe News" and "Chutian Metropolis Daily". The novella "Lightbulb" won the "People's Literature" Annual Short Story Award, and the novella "Red Wine" won the "Novelette Selection" Annual Outstanding Novella Award.

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General Fiction

(uk) Hanif Qureshi

63K0

The film of the same name won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. "This is a sad night, because I am leaving here and never coming back." Jay, a down-and-out artist, is about to leave his partner Susan and two sons. In the long night before running away from home, he recalled every moment with Susan. But for Jay, he must create a new life... A strange woman, Anna, comes to Jay's residence... After a brief meeting, Jay wants to know everything about her, and the relationship between the two undergoes subtle changes. Hanif Qureshi, a descendant of Pakistani immigrants, was born in Kent, England, in 1954. His works include stage scripts, novels, essays, radio plays and TV movie scripts, etc. He is also a film director. Nominated for two Academy Awards for screenplay. He is an Asian writer who has achieved great influence in the world literary world. The humor and irony in his early works are world-renowned, and his recent works are full of moving and affectionate explorations of lust and sexual conflicts. With his humorous, refined and avant-garde style, he is recognized as one of the most charming and outstanding writers in the world's literary world today. His representative works include "Suburban Buddha", which won the Whitbread Literary Award, "Intimacy", the original work of the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award-winning film of the same name, and "The Body" and "I Have Something to Say to You".

Tongheli

Tongheli

General Fiction

Wang Chengzhi

182K0

An alley, a father and son, several men and women, their stories will immerse you in the strong pleasure of reading, making you unable to stop laughing and feeling sad. It recreates a Shanghai in the 1960s. This Shanghai has both vivid realistic details and a legendary atmosphere like flying immortals. The novel "Tongheli" is another excellent work about Shanghai after "Flowers". Different from the swaying style of "Flowers", "Tongheli" is characterized by using extremely humorous and Shanghai-specific language to reproduce the vibrant civilian life of Shanghai in the 1960s, with laughter and tears intertwined.

Vice Consul

Vice Consul

General Fiction

Marguerite Duras

77K0

"The Vice-Consul" is an important novel in Marguerite Duras's India series. Duras said: "This is the first book of my life." The story takes place on the banks of the Ganges. The French vice-consul in Lahore fired into Shalimar Gardens late at night. The Vice-Consul awaited a new appointment in Calcutta. In loneliness, he fell madly in love with the ambassador's wife Anna-Mary Street, the most outstanding woman in Calcutta. The monsoon is coming, and the white people in Calcutta are bored. There are whispers everywhere about the madness of the vice-consul and the affair of the ambassador's wife. At the dull reception party, the vice-consul was surrounded by this sound. He was the embodiment of loneliness, going crazy in loneliness. The tiny sounds drowned him, and he left melancholy in a frenzy...

Barrier Against the Pacific Ocean

Marguerite Duras

146K0

"Dike Against the Pacific" tells the story of mother, twenty-year-old Joseph and sixteen-year-old Susan, who are living hard in the dilapidated stilt house in the middle of the leased land, and are constantly threatened by the Cadastral Administration to take back the leased land. Joseph's anger and love, Susan's resignation, a certain Mr. Ruo's plan to seduce a young girl... What to do? The mother never lost perseverance and hope, she calculated with a cautious, cunning and sober enthusiasm, how she feared the final separation from her children - even though she knew it was irresistible.

Stranger (translation Classic)

G

61K0

Nobel Prize winner Camus's masterpiece (also translated as "The Stranger" and "The Stranger"); a new translation by veteran translator Shen Zhiming, with an appendix of Camus's preface when the English version was published. "I refuse to lie and accept to die for the truth." Meursault received a telegram from the nursing home informing him of his mother's death. Meursault attended the funeral in a daze, and within two days, he had sex with his girlfriend. His mother's death seemed to have no impact on him. The ordinary days continued until Meursault got involved in a dispute and shot his friend's enemy. While awaiting trial, Meursault behaves nonchalantly. When asked about the motive for the murder, he replied "It's all the sun's fault" and looked forward to facing execution amidst the curses of the crowd.

Dragon Zhu·tiger Chick

Shen Congwen

124K0

Some of the stories in "Dragon, Zhu, Tiger and Young" are set in cities and some in rural areas. In the city, dancers have the love of dancers, professors have the love of professors, and students have the love of students. Similarly, at the wharves and cottages in western Hunan, sailors have the love of sailors, and the cottage owners have the love of the cottage owners. Ma Yueran would strongly recommend Shen Congwen to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he would also recommend Cao Naiqian's works - the words are as thick as they can be. The reason is that they all talk about the common things of human nature. Only these can transcend cultural barriers and be accepted by more people.

Discipline Inspection Cadres

Yu Yong

342K0

Tianquan City held a municipal standing committee meeting, but the municipal party secretary was still absent. There was news that the municipal party secretary had been kidnapped. The mayor panicked and mobilized the Public Security Bureau to solve the case. The whole Tianquan City exploded, looking for the whereabouts of the municipal party secretary. Three days later, the municipal party secretary returned safely, and rumors spread about the inside story. The news alarmed the higher authorities, and the regional disciplinary inspection commission sent people to investigate the truth, but they were interfered with by all parties and the work was difficult to progress. After hard work, the Commission for Discipline Inspection finally grasped some clues... Through the unremitting efforts of cadres of the Commission for Discipline Inspection at all levels, the mysteries were solved one by one, and the context of the problem was clearly revealed. The person in possession of the secretary's bribery videotape handed over the videotape to the Discipline Inspection Commission as direct evidence after almost being killed. All the truth is revealed, and the corrupt elements are finally imprisoned.

Everything is Fine

Everything is Fine

General Fiction

Xin Yingliang

271K0

With a grand perspective and smooth writing, the novel vividly describes the mining struggle that took place in Shanxi from 1900 to 1937, the fight against floods, the rise and fall of bank accounts, the establishment of Baojin Company, and the rebirth of the ancient city of Taiyuan in the fire of Xinhai. He deeply thought about the future and destiny of the country and the nation. The plot has ups and downs, constant climaxes, and is soul-stirring. The characters are full of flesh and blood, slowly unfolding a historical picture of the changes in Shanxi.

Four Generations under One House Set: Full Book (three Volumes in Total)

Lao She

743K0

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is Mr. Lao She's masterpiece. It is divided into three parts: "Confusion", "Stealing Life" and "Famine". It is one of the most representative works in Lao She's creative career. It reflects the lives and struggles of ordinary people in the occupied areas of Peiping during the Anti-Japanese War, and shows the difficult and tortuous path that ordinary people have traveled in the historical process of the great era. This full text was back-translated by translator Bi Bingbin (Black Horse) based on the English manuscript of "Four Generations Under One Roof" co-translated by Pu Aide and Lao She. It completes the last sixteen stanzas of the lost third volume of "Famine", authentically presents Lao She's writing style, and surpasses the already published version in terms of the three standards of honesty, elegance and elegance.

Ge Fei: Jiangnan Trilogy

Ge Fei

636K05

I accept the badness of life, but refuse the destiny. See desires, see true feelings, see life and death! The work that has won the Mao Dun Literature Award for forty years, a shining pearl of contemporary literature, and Ge Fei's masterpiece! Three honest people, three crazy people. Three loves, three eras. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the Republic of China until now, a family has spanned a hundred years. Struggle in the absurd, reincarnate in the moth's flight to the flame. The dream begins in the flower house, and the dream ends in the flower house. A magnificent and cold epic, reflecting the destiny of the Chinese people for a century. In Huajiashe, in the mountains and rivers of Jiangnan, five generations of a family span a hundred years, going back and forth between sobriety and confusion, pursuing dreams and being broken in the tide of the times. In the end, they cannot surpass the ethics of the world and the love of their children. The flower house in "Jiangnan" is the Macondo in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and the White Deer Plain in "White Deer Plain".

Hallucination

Hallucination

General Fiction

(japan) Watanabe Junichi

215K03

Dr. Himiko, who serves as the director of the mental hospital, is from a famous family, is beautiful, noble, and has superb medical skills. However, he was found to have performed unconventional "special treatment" on several patients. The nurse Beitaxiang was obsessed with Himiko. Although he was suspicious of his behavior, he still followed her without hesitation. Is it for financial purposes or to satisfy the "devil's heart"? With the patient's sudden death, the truth was revealed step by step, and Himiko's unknown past gradually surfaced...

Cat City

Cat City

General Fiction

Lao She

88K02

"Cat City" tells the story of the protagonist "I" and my friends driving a spacecraft to Mars, but the spacecraft crashed during landing, and only "I" survived. Unexpectedly, "I" was brought into Cat City by Martians with cat faces. "I" struggled to adapt to life in this strange foreign country, and made profound social observations about these cat people. Here, money is called the "soul of the country", political parties are called "coaxing", benefiting oneself at the expense of others is "freedom", and drug addicts are designated as the "national food"... Cat people are hypocritical, cunning, greedy, and cowardly. The civilization and culture of Cat City are degrading. They tend to fight internally but cannot resist foreign aggression. In the end, they ushered in the complete destruction of civilization in the war with foreign nations.

The Inconsolable Farm

The Inconsolable Farm

General Fiction

(uk) Stella Gibbons

149K0

The well-educated Flora Post was well-informed and had refined tastes. After losing her parents, the 19-year-old decided to seek refuge with relatives in the countryside whom she had never met. In this place called "The Inconsolable Farm", she met the unique Starkard family: the guilty Judith, the missionary-loving Amos, the desperate Reuben, the lustful Seth, the elf-like Elfin, the crazy Ada Doom... Faced with complex interpersonal relationships and chaotic situations, Flora decided to use her special "organizational talents" to Taking over everyone's destiny, a series of hilarious stories happened... This book is a comical imitation of the rural melodramas of D. H. Lawrence and others, playfully dismantling the tradition of a series of late-Victorian novels, and at the same time full of "predicting the future" elements. It has had a profound impact on later generations and has become one of the "most beloved" comedy novels.

Winking Christmas Tree

Winking Christmas Tree

General Fiction

Zhao Ning

104K0

This article is the work of writer Zhao Ning. Our gang is together again. In the past, a group of girls who danced with swords and guns have now become more ladylike with long hair, long skirts, and whistles. Lin Yuanyuan's "other half" was recently sent abroad to study. The sweetheart of our class immediately made ten or eight phone calls, and all his girlfriends scattered in every corner of the capital rushed to her house to gather within one day. "After all, we are girls who came out of the military academy. There is no one who doesn't say, 'Fight when you say it.'" The squad leader still remembered the famous lyrics, so he cleared his throat, and in a tune that was neither high nor low, we sang "Fight when you say it" and "Return from Target Shooting." The squad leader still directed us to sing like a "chicken claw", and every "paw" was "scratching" the accent, which was so exciting! It should be said that these are songs belonging to men and are incompatible with ladies, but who asked us to watch them as soldiers? From the age of eighteen to twenty-two, the best years of our lives were spent singing these "queue songs" and walking with long steps like men.

Ashamed of Being Thin

Ashamed of Being Thin

General Fiction

Jin Mulin

67K01

This story uses a humorous and ironic way to show the career and love history of a kind-hearted fat man Liu Zhuangzhuang. Liu Zhuangzhuang was suffering from obesity and diseases, and the company had a strong culture of eating and drinking, so he had to make a choice between health and career. He tried to get promoted without drinking, thus creating the illusion that he had a background, but he accidentally got involved in an emotional entanglement and power struggle...

Novel: Erma (part 2)

Novel: Erma (part 2)

General Fiction

Lao She

48K0

This book is a novel written by Mr. Lao She. In "Two Horses", through such a ridiculous love story, Lao She laughs and curses, not only strongly criticizes his own nation's sluggishness, laziness, lack of progress, and going along with others, but also condemns the national cultural prejudices in British society and expresses young Lao She's simple and strong patriotism and patriotic ideas. This is an earlier work in which Lao She pays attention to Eastern and Western cultures. This book presents the differences between Eastern and Western cultures through the experiences of Chinese businessman Lao Ma and his son Xiao Ma in the UK, and satirizes and criticizes the weaknesses of Chinese national character.

Novel: Two Horses (part 1)

Lao She

40K0

This book is a novel written by Mr. Lao She. In "Two Horses", Lao She presents the differences between Eastern and Western cultures through the experiences of Chinese businessman Lao Ma and his son Xiao Ma in England, and satirizes and criticizes the weaknesses of Chinese national character. This is an earlier work in which Lao She pays attention to Eastern and Western cultures. The master is good at using humor to ridicule, using a ridiculous love story, laughing and scolding, not only strongly criticizes his own nation's sluggishness, laziness, lack of progress, and going along with others, but also condemns the national and cultural prejudices in British society, expressing the simple and strong patriotism and patriotic ideas of the young Lao She.

Novel: Two Horses (part 2)

Lao She

56K0

This book is a novel written by Mr. Lao She. It is an earlier work in which Lao She focuses on Eastern and Western cultures. In "Two Horses", through such a ridiculous love story, Lao She laughed and cursed, not only strongly criticized his own nation's sluggishness, laziness, lack of progress, and going along with others, but also condemned the national and cultural prejudices in British society, expressing young Lao She's simple and strong patriotism and patriotic ideas. This book presents the differences between Eastern and Western cultures through the experiences of Chinese businessman Lao Ma and his son Xiao Ma in the UK, and satirizes and criticizes the weaknesses of Chinese national character.

Merrill Lynch Mail

Merrill Lynch Mail

General Fiction

Wang Song

75K0

2018 marks the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, and the zodiac stamps issued by China Post 38 years ago are the product of reform and opening up. It can be said that without reform and opening up, there would be no Chinese zodiac stamps. This is a documentary novel describing the design of zodiac stamps, zodiac culture and economic phenomena. The book starts with the zodiac stamps designed by Han Meilin, and through the author's artistic processing, depicts Han Meilin's artistic talent in designing zodiac stamps, and reveals the profound impact of zodiac stamps on Chinese culture and economy.

Man in the Game

Man in the Game

General Fiction

Liu Yu

407K9.031

The narrative of "The Man in the Game" is different from traditional spy war dramas. It will not focus too much on the grand historical narrative and the love between children. The plot will closely follow the different beliefs and love disputes between younger brother Shen Fang (played by Zhang Yishan) and older brother Shen Lin (played by Pan Yueming). Shen Fang, seemingly unruly, is actually a thoughtful and talented intelligence officer. Affected by many factors such as faith, family affection, love, etc., He has been living in loneliness and danger for a long time. Shen Lin, who holds an important position in the Kuomintang and has a cold appearance, is deeply entangled in family ties and missions, and is constantly facing inner torture. Where will he go?

Surprised at the Second Moment of Filming·wu

(ming Dynasty) Ling Shuchu

53K0

Most of the themes of "The Surprise at the Second Moment" are taken from "Taiping Guangji", "Qidong Wild Words", "Yi Jian Zhi", "Jian Deng Xin Hua", "Jian Deng Yu Hua" and other classics. After reprocessing and re-creation by the author Ling Shuchu, it has been integrated with Ling's own ideological personality and reflected Ling's own artistic conception and style. The stories in this book reflect the broader social life of the citizen class in the late Ming Dynasty, and all themes of human ethics and morality are more or less involved. At the same time, internal and external troubles arose in the late Ming Dynasty, and social conflicts became more complex and acute. This situation is more fully demonstrated in "The Surprise at the Second Moment" than in "The Surprise at the First Moment", such as the psychological tilt caused by the disparity between the rich and the poor, the social unrest caused by bureaucratic corruption, the resistance of young men and women aroused by the feudal marriage system, the challenge of the emerging business class to the order of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and the rebellion of human desires against natural principles and Taoism due to the expansion of lustful world trends, etc., Which outlines a bleak picture of the declining society in the late Ming Dynasty.

The Second Moment of Shooting is Surprising·complete Works

(ming Dynasty) Ling Shuchu

427K0

Most of the themes of "The Surprise at the Second Moment" are taken from "Taiping Guangji", "Qidong Wild Words", "Yi Jian Zhi", "Jian Deng Xin Hua", "Jian Deng Yu Hua" and other classics. After reprocessing and re-creation by the author Ling Shuchu, it has been integrated with Ling's own ideological personality and reflected Ling's own artistic conception and style. The stories in this book reflect the broader social life of the citizen class in the late Ming Dynasty, and all themes of human ethics and morality are more or less involved. At the same time, internal and external troubles arose in the late Ming Dynasty, and social conflicts became more complex and acute. This situation is more fully demonstrated in "The Surprise at the Second Moment" than in "The Surprise at the First Moment", such as the psychological tilt caused by the disparity between the rich and the poor, the social unrest caused by bureaucratic corruption, the resistance of young men and women aroused by the feudal marriage system, the challenge of the emerging business class to the order of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and the rebellion of human desires against natural principles and Taoism due to the expansion of lustful world trends, etc., Which outlines a bleak picture of the declining society in the late Ming Dynasty.

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Ae

General Fiction

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535K0

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Awakening Words·jiu

Awakening Words·jiu

General Fiction

G

48K0

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