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The story begins on a ship sailing to Okinawa at the end of World War II. The protagonist Philip Bowman is a young naval officer. Over the next few decades, he returned to New York and became a publishing editor, settling into a life of book deals, literary careers, and one dinner party after another. He married and divorced, experienced new relationships, recurring physical passions, and brutal betrayals. Old friends drift apart, houses are bought and sold, parents die, and loving bonds fade and fade. When we last see Bowman, he has reached an age where he is seriously thinking about death: he wants to return to the Pacific, where "the only brave part of his life was." "All This" is the life trajectory of an ordinary person, and it is also a rich social chronicle. The narrative perspective switches freely between the protagonist and dozens of characters. A large number of insightful details give it an epic quality. The scenes, episodes and characters are as precise and neat as diamond cutouts. The story and the emotions it contains continue to expand and spread, reflecting the outline of the lives of all the characters who appear in the passage of time.

In 2016, Samantha Harvey went from a "sleep-free person" who could sleep peacefully no matter what happened, to an "insomniac" who had difficulty falling asleep or even stayed awake all night. Those waking hours at 1am, 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, 6am, there was not a touch of sleepiness. During this year, there was not a single day when she slept or when she was awake. Along those sleepless nights, she dreamed through writing. She talked about restlessness and anxiety, death and time, science and faith, writing and novels... She also became her own archaeologist, looking back and trying to understand her past, "because it is easier to make peace with life than to count the losses in life." If being able to sleep is a state, then not being able to sleep is another state of life. She writes about insomnia, but also about life itself. With a poetic touch, she writes about existences that are surprising and touching.

In France in the early 1960s, "I" met Philip Dean, a wandering Yale University dropout, a "living idol" in Paris. "I" and Dean drove a Dracchi antique sports car for fun, until Dean met the French girl Anne-Marie, the object of a fiery and burning fantasy, and thus began a love story full of sensual charm. "I" follows Dean and Anne-Marie's romance between voyeuristic fragments and imagination, entering the dizzying depths of desire and emotion like the reader's accomplice. What is love beyond the short time and everything attached to it? Is it merely an artistic conception, an illusion described by others as impossible, created just to somehow understand the coming together and separation in life? A celebrated masterpiece by Paris Review Lifetime Achievement Award winner James Salt, "A Game and a Diversion sets a new standard for literature's primary tool: imagination. A tragic novel about a French love affair that is actually an ambitious and tortuous exploration of the nature and meaning of storytelling itself, and the underlying reasons why we need to create romance." (Sarah Hall)

Suttree gave up his privileged life, his wealthy family and his intellectual past, and chose to make a living by selling fish to restaurants on a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River in Knoxville. The houseboat is located near a shanty town, populated by eccentrics and criminals: hermits, drunkards, thieves, scavengers, gravediggers, clam gatherers and witches. He became friends with Jones, the black man who owned the pub, and Harrogate, who was imprisoned for having a special fetish for watermelons. In this abandoned fringe of society, survive desolation and poverty with dignity with detachment and humor. At the end of the novel, Jones dies in a fight with the police, Harrogate is arrested for attempted robbery, Sutry suffers from typhoid fever and enters an endless dream, finally leaving Knoxville and heading towards a new life.

He had always believed that life was dominated by opportunities until he was frightened by them. One morning at the end of August, tax collector Bjorn Hansen stood at the train station in the small town of Kongsberg, waiting for his son. He is fifty years old this year, and it has been four years since he left Tiride Lammers, the woman who was the reason why he decided to pursue "stolen happiness" eighteen years ago, abandoning his wife and two-year-old son and moving to Kongsberg from Oslo. Over time, the relationship eventually withers and dies. His son, whom he had not seen for many years, moved to live with him because he was studying at university. The shortcomings in the past seemed to have been repaired, but Bjorn Hansen was still not satisfied. To rebel against the futility of life, he devises a bold plan to make his word "NO" come true. Novel 11, Book 18 is a truly existential novel that presents all of Solstadt's fundamental themes in an uncompromising way. "A novel that shows the impossibility of life without a trace of humor, neither black nor any other kind of humor." Considered one of his most important books.

In 1835, the young scientist Gus was sent to Northern Europe by the Natural History Museum of Lille to study fauna. In the process, he witnesses a massacre of auks and saves one of them. Little did Gus know that he was saving the last great auk on Earth. He named him Wangwang and sent him home to the Orkney Islands. What he didn't even know was that a deep attachment and bond would soon develop between himself, a researcher, and the great auk, who distrusted humans. They are the only ones left on the island. Sybil Greenbert creates an unforgettable pairing of humans and animals on the occasion of the sixth extinction of the species, and succeeds in creating a trustworthy animal character - its heart, its emotions, its intelligence, while humans are haunted by a question that is both intimate and metaphysical: What does it mean to love something that will never be seen again?

It opens up a dazzling world with detective novels, and is a masterpiece that combines popular novels and serious literature. At the beginning of the 20th century, his grandfather Selaheddin Darwinoglu was driven out of Istanbul by his political opponents, and he and his wife Fatima settled in the Paradise Fortress on the outskirts of the city. Serah al-Din spent his whole life creating an encyclopedia that "can awaken the East", but he could not complete this work until his death. Many years later, his illegitimate son, the dwarf Regipp, lived with Fatima in the ancient and quiet old house as a servant. Like every summer, grandsons Faruk and Metin and granddaughter Nirgin came from Istanbul to visit Fatima. Some of them cannot get rid of their memories and loneliness, some are addicted to the sorrow of history, and some are eager to change their destiny but can't find the direction... The silent house is full of noise and commotion inside and outside, and the empty echoes of history are floating in the gap between three generations.

The protagonist "I" is a young and accomplished writer who has just been diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a hereditary disease related to the heart. He began to worry about an unforeseen death. At the same time, his single female friend Alex is trying to raise a child with him through medical means. At a time when hurricanes are coming frequently, and climate disasters and social crises are part of life, he can't help but wonder why he wants to be a father. But in the process of getting along with the graduate students he mentored and taking care of the immigrant child Roberto, he kept thinking about the meaning of raising offspring, and gradually began to take on his own responsibilities... In the end, "I" and Alex built a new emotional relationship and family model. This is not only a story about becoming a parent, but also a journey of transformation to regain courage and sincerity.

In a manor outside the village, there lived a pair of sisters: the elder sister Constance was overly sensitive and was frightened all day long and could not go out; the younger sister Mary Kate was a willful and energetic girl who believed she could do witchcraft and was usually responsible for shopping in the village. Add to this the frail and delirious Uncle Julian, who spends his days drafting a book trying to make sense of a tragedy six years ago: a dinner in which all other family members died. The murderer was thought to be Constance, the cook, but she was found not guilty. ? Curious villagers kept coming to the manor as guests. Coming to the "murder scene" and meeting the "murderer" made them feel scared and excited. And when cousin Charles arrives unexpectedly, the three people's original peaceful life is completely broken...? "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is the last novel written by Shirley Jackson. She died of heart failure in 1965 at the age of forty-eight.

"I understand," she said. When will she learn not to say "I understand" to things she knows nothing about? The elder sister leaves her destiny to marriage, and the younger sister pursues knowledge and freedom, but neither of them can live a happy life. Is this a human dilemma, or is this only true for women? ? After the early release of the influential "Revolutionary Road" and "Eleven Kinds of Solitude", Yates's creative career went through a period of silence. "Easter Parade" once again demonstrates Yates's extraordinary creative strength. This work contains astonishing breadth and weight. Yates' usual elegant and tragic perspective flows through the plain and restrained narrative, tearing apart the fate and dreams of the two sisters bit by bit. It is "both cruel and heartwarming, heartbreaking and cruel." "This is Yates's best novel." As children, Sarah and Emily were two very different girls. In Emily's eyes, her rational sister is always superior. She is jealous of her sister's relationship with her father (who left them due to divorce) and her sister's seemingly happy marriage. Emily chose a path for herself that was not so safe and unconventional. All the romantic affairs could not really satisfy her. Although the bond that binds the sisters has always existed, the distance between them has grown further and further until, finally, a tragic event throws their relationship into the center of a storm...

"Flatland" was first published in 1884. At that time, the industrial revolution had not yet been completed and modern physics was nowhere to be seen. However, the book had already begun to imagine dimensional space, more than 100 years before "Three Body" discussed the issue of dimensions. Since its publication, it has inspired countless masters and literary creations, been adapted into animation four times, and appeared in popular culture fields such as the movie "Interstellar" and the TV series "Star Trek". Its popularity is evident. ? This is a memoir written by Square, a resident of Flatland. The memoir is divided into two parts. The first part talks about "my country". The two-dimensional square shows his country to us three-dimensional people, including the social structure, climatic conditions, historical events, etc. Of the flat country. The second part talks about "his country". The square is visited by the "celestial sphere" of the same kind in the third dimension, and has the honor to travel with it. The country - the country of straight lines, the country of space and even the country of points. This opened up the mind, made a leap in thinking, and upgraded the cognition. As a result, he was imprisoned. He left this masterpiece in prison in the hope that those of us "citizens of the sky" who are lucky enough to read it will not be limited by dimensions, and explore infinite possibilities while upholding humility.

Sudden silence fell over the earth. This is actually scarier than the noise. For a moment, nothing happened. The huge spaceship hangs motionless in the sky, covering every country on the earth. Before its demise, Earth was first transformed into the ultimate sound reproduction device, the greatest broadcasting system ever built. But what came with it was not a concert, not music, no opening number, but just a brief message. "Earthlings, please pay attention." A voice said. This voice was perfect, as if coming from a four-channel system, so perfect that it had such low distortion that it could make a brave man shed tears. "This is the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Committee. As you no doubt know, the development plan for the remote areas of the Milky Way requires the construction of a hyperspace expressway through your star system. Regrettably, your planet is one of the planets scheduled for destruction in the plan. The destruction process will begin in slightly less than two minutes of your Earth's time. Thank you for your cooperation."

In 1946, O'Connor, who was in his early twenties, published his first short story "Geranium", which together with several early short stories such as "The Barber", "Wild Cat" and "The Crop", demonstrated his vitality and penetrating creative talent. This book "Geranium" selects 12 short stories written by O'Connor. In addition to the early 9 short stories, it also includes "A Festival in Partridge Town" and "Why Do Foreign Countries Fight?" " "You will not be worse than the dead" are three mid- to late-stage works. Among them, "Train", "Peeler", "Heart of the Park" and "Enoch and the Gorilla" outline the prototype of his full-length masterpiece "Wisdom of Blood", while "You Can't Be Worse Than the Dead" is the beginning of the novel "Force to Take".

"Heidi" (including "Heidi's Learning and Wandering Years" and "Heidi Applying What She Learned" published in 1880 and 1881 respectively) has been translated into more than fifty languages ​​and adapted into many film and television dramas and cartoons. The work tells the story of the growth of the young protagonist Heidi. Heidi is an innocent, lively, simple and kind-hearted little girl who loves nature and life. She was sent to the mountains by her aunt at a very young age to live with her grandfather, who was withdrawn and isolated from the world. On the mountain, Heidi gradually influenced her grandfather with her love and innocence, making him accept the people around him again. At the same time, Heidi also used her kindness and optimism to influence the people around her, including her blind mother-in-law, Peter who was tired of studying, and Clara who sat in a wheelchair all day. The whole story is full of warmth and inspirational elements, showing the kind and beautiful side of human nature, while also conveying profound themes about love, courage and hope.

"Red Flowers" narrates the three emotional upheavals of the protagonist Lennan, which occurred in the three periods of his life: "spring", "summer" and "autumn". What connects these three stories is the "red flowers" that frequently appear in the book - the red carnations that symbolize passionate love or strong lust. The story is both touching and sad, real and touching, yet unconventional, with beautiful language and elegant style. Although there are three romances, they are organically connected into one. Although it is a novel, the text is as beautiful as poetry. Mr. Huang Gaoxin is a great translator of English poetry and rarely translates novels, but he has a special liking for Galsworthy's small work: "Somehow, in my memory, no book seems to move me as much as it does."

"Snow" is the representative work of Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. The work takes the four sisters of the Makioka family, a prominent family in Osaka, as the protagonists, and the story of the blind date of the beautiful and quiet third sister Yukiko as the main line, while also touching on local customs, social events, foreign exchanges, etc. The work is like a long painting with bright colors and elegant style, showing the whole picture of the life of the upper class in modern Japan's Kansai region. It is known as the best genre novel with a classical style. Sartre called it the highest masterpiece of modern Japanese literature. "Snowy Snow" is not only a novel describing family entanglements, but also a profound discussion of Japanese traditional values ​​and moral concepts. Through the emotional conflict between the sisters, it reflects the turmoil and changes in Japanese society in the process of modernization, as well as the complex desires and emotions in human nature, making this work a literary masterpiece with profound connotations and touching stories.

David, a young American, is searching for himself in Paris, while his fiancée Hera wanders alone in Spain. David meets an Italian bartender named Giovanni in a bar owned by Guillaume. Giovanni awakens the desire in David's heart, and David enters Giovanni's room, which is cramped, disorderly, and far away from the city. From the beginning of the novel we know that David abandoned Giovanni, that Hera returned to the United States, and that Giovanni was sentenced to death for killing the bar owner. Baldwin moves freely through the timeline, and David oscillates back and forth between man and woman. With a keen and profound imagination, James Baldwin explores the abyss of love and creates a moving story of death and passion that reveals the unspeakable complexity of the human heart.

It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South Korea and North Korea, and a young French-Korean girl works at the front desk of a shabby guesthouse. One night, a rare guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. As the girl continues to defy society's expectations, break up with her long-distance boyfriend, and resist her mother's urging for plastic surgery, she develops a subtle and fluid relationship with the cartoonist. She agrees to accompany him on his search for the "real" Sokcho, and the two travel to snowy mountains and spectacular waterfalls, even to the border. But he had no interest in the Sokcho she was familiar with-the fancy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother worked. She had a secret wish to be like the person in his painting.

Junichiro Tanizaki's short story collection "Mermaid's Sigh: The Magician" consists of two stories: "The Mermaid's Sigh" and "The Magician". The story of "The Sigh of the Mermaid" takes place in Nanjing during the Qing Dynasty. The noble son Meng Shitao had a wealthy family, many wives and concubines, and lived an extremely luxurious life. However, he was tired of his current life and fell in love with the mermaid brought by the Westerners. For the sake of the mermaid, he decided to leave everything behind... "The Magician" tells the story of a man and woman who were originally in love, in order to prove their loyalty to each other, they went to watch the magician's performance, but were impressed by the magician's beauty and turned into a half-man and half-goat god. The two novels are Tanizaki Junichiro's early works. By vigorously describing the beauty of the senses, readers can feel Tanizaki's literary concept of beauty.

The protagonist of "Daddy-Long-Legs", Joshua Albert (later renamed Judy), is a little girl who grew up in an orphanage. She is an excellent writer and was sponsored by an anonymous director of the orphanage to go to college. Judy had never met this director, but saw him by chance, so she called him "Daddy-Long-Legs." As a requirement for funding, the director asked Judy to write him a letter every month, reporting every detail of her life in order to practice her writing skills. This book is composed of letters written by Judy to Daddy-Long-Legs. From it, we can see a girl's growth path of studying hard, finding herself, becoming independent, and finally realizing her dream as a writer.

"Liars in Love" is Richard Yates's second collection of short stories after "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness", which includes seven short stories in total. It perfectly demonstrates Yates's superior powers of insight and description. With this book, Yates once again proves the power of the short story. Yates, who is obviously more interested in describing "failed life", relies on his keen mind and unique perspective of observation, like a collage art, to present the "little people" and their life fragments in the United States three-dimensionally before our eyes: failed artists, single mothers with difficult lives, alienated family relationships, estranged marriages, rebellious daughters, fleeting love affairs, unreliable dreams...

Childhood abuse can last a lifetime. While physical wounds may heal, mental wounds are extremely difficult to repair. Abused children often fall into mental distress. Miyu often draws pictures of herself in a cage. She would put goldfish, newts and hamsters in bottles and boxes, with no memory of them afterwards. Masato always hides behind the curtains, ignores anyone, and is immersed in his own world. Takumi believes that the only relationship between people is "lose or win" and always wants to use violence to make other children surrender. Asuka longed to live with her birth mother even though she had suffered abuse. Because of her biological mother's irresponsible promise, she made things difficult for her adoptive mother just to "go home." Saori was abandoned by her biological parents and never received love from her stepmother or adoptive parents. When she became an adult, she was shocked to realize that she did not seem to know how to love her children... In the family-style care institution "Family House", children who were physically and mentally injured lived with agency operators who acted like adoptive parents and other children who had similar experiences to themselves, learning how to love and trust.

Wandering between a paralyzed aristocratic husband and a healthy and destitute lover, Constance Chatterley fell into a huge marital tragedy and also ushered in a rebirth. Sex and love have nothing to do with depravity. She allowed them to spread wantonly in her body, and she also allowed the chaotic and disordered modern thoughts to grow wildly.

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style. The content mostly involves human affairs and personal relationships between men and women. However, under the cover of all kinds of frivolous jokes and vulgar words, there is no lack of penetrating satire and praise of beautiful human emotions. The translator, Shi Kangqiang, is a famous French translator and writer in China. In this book, Balzac uses Old French. At the request of Xia Wen, senior French editor of the Humanities Society, he translated this strange book in a style that imitates the Song and Yuan dialects. It is both faithful to the original text and consistent in form and tone. It is a rare translation masterpiece.

"John-Christophe" is Romain Rolland's masterpiece novel. It reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the life experience of John-Christophe, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism. The novel describes the struggling life of John-Christophe, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. In 1915 Romain Rolland won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Johan-Christophe". The translator of this book is Fu Lei, a famous Chinese translator, writer, educator, and art critic. The translation is beautiful and fluent. It accurately translates the author's descriptions of various types of music, and uses a vivid translation to present the author's high morale revealed between the lines.

On the Thames River at dusk, Marlowe told his crew friends about his experience of driving a steamboat up the Congo River in Africa to rescue a legendary explorer named Kurtz deep in the jungle. Along the way, he witnessed the desolate and primitive scenes of the African land, and also witnessed the various atrocities committed by the colonists against black laborers; when the mysterious white fog cleared, the steamboat encountered a sudden attack by a savage tribe. What kind of unknown and thrilling stories are hidden in the silent primitive jungle? What kind of shock did Kurtz's last words bring to Marlowe? All the answers lie in "Heart of Darkness".

Perfumer Alice leads a carefree life in London, often entertaining friends at home, but the noise often causes dissatisfaction with her eccentric neighbor Daldry. However, on Christmas Eve, her beautiful life falls apart when a fortune teller predicts that Alice must go on a long journey, during which she will meet six people who will ultimately lead her to find the most important person in her life. Istanbul will be the place where their fates meet. This prophecy plunges Alice into a series of nightmares. Under the persuasion of their neighbor Daidley, they embarked on a journey to Istanbul together. What awaited her was the truth that would subvert her entire life.

Ernault began writing in 1974. Most of her works draw themes from her own experiences, so her writing and life are closely integrated. She has published about 15 works so far, including "The Empty Wardrobe" (1974), which depicts a woman's inner journey; "Position" (1984), a first-person recollection of her father, which won the Renaudeau Prize; and "Reminiscences of her mother". "A Woman" (1987); "Pure Passion" (1992), which recalls childhood; "Shame" (1997), "The Incident" (2000), which recalls abortion, and "Occupy" (2002), which depicts jealousy, etc. As soon as this book was published, it won the Duras Literary Award in France that year. Adopting the method of "untitled autobiography" actually prompts others to recall while remembering oneself, reflecting the evolution of the times with people's shared experiences, thus arousing strong resonance in people's hearts. From big things like international affairs, to small things like food and clothing, family gatherings, and even personal privacy, everything is simple and vivid. Reflecting the process of the world through personal experience actually writes collective memory. The novel spans sixty years, so readers of all ages can find the content they are most familiar with and the clearest memories in it.

"Youth" is a coming-of-age novel that takes the growth experience of a young man who is inexperienced in the world and deeply influenced by Rothschild's thoughts as the main line, and depicts the various conditions of Russian society in the 1870s when capitalism was developing rapidly. In academic circles, "The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment", "The Demons", "The Boy" and "The Brothers Karamazov" are known as the "Pentateuch". These five novels are Dostoevsky's mature works. They not only fully demonstrate his writing talent, but also profoundly and comprehensively demonstrate his world view and outlook on life.

"Chronicles of the Plague Year" is a historical novel published by British writer Daniel Defoe in 1722. The background is the city of London under the attack of the Great Plague in 1665. In this book, Defoe uses H. F., A saddler, as the narrator. Through his personal experiences, he describes the ups and downs and progress of the "Great Plague in London" almost month by month from September 1664 to the end of 1665. "Chronicles of the Plague Years" describes in detail the specific neighborhoods, streets, and even the houses in which the plague occurred. The author also provides relevant data such as plague death statistics and death statistics from other diseases, and discusses and analyzes the credibility of various records and anecdotes. In addition, "Chronicles of the Plague Years" also records a series of measures taken by the British government at that time to deal with the plague, including inspection and treatment, health management, disease notification, isolation and guarding of infected people, etc.

This book tells the story from Sal's perspective of four road trips he, Dean and others took across the continental United States. Along the way, they caroused, talked about Eastern Zen Buddhism, and pursued the pure experience of life. They burn themselves and explore the world to their heart's content, pursuing the true meaning of life and the freedom of the soul. As the spiritual autobiography of the soul of the "Beat Generation", "On the Road" is known as the manifesto of the "Beat Generation" literary movement and a spiritual confession of the young generation against the shackles of the world. It caused a sensation in the United States after its publication in the 1960s. It is still a spiritual reading for young people around the world and is a timeless American literary classic.

In postwar Japan, a family of declining aristocrats-a gentle mother, a late father, a seemingly dissolute younger brother, and Kazuko who struggles for love-traveled through their lives in a villa that belonged to them and did not belong to them. Osamu Dazai wrote the story of women's inner emotional struggle and rebirth through Kazuko's first-person narration. The whole book is full of emptiness, uneasiness, decadence and helplessness, but at the end, the author sends a ray of brilliance of life to Kazuko, shining a ray of light in the dark tone of decadence. The entire era is like the setting sun setting in the west. Hezi searched for the rainbow deep in his heart and embarked on the path of pursuing new life and hope alone.

"Chemical Wedding ("Classics and Interpretations" Series)" tells the story of Rosenkreutz being invited by an angel to attend a royal wedding in a strange palace on Easter Eve. In the next seven days, with the witness and assistance of Rosenkreutz, the king and the queen successfully completed the wedding. The novel uses symbolic narrative techniques to express the special combination of spirit and matter in alchemy. The seven days and nights of the chemical wedding symbolize the seven stages of human development. The completion of the wedding symbolizes the completion of the mysterious process of change, through the initial ceremony, trial, purification, death, resurrection, ascension, and finally reaching the secret realm. The novel is full of mysterious metaphors and symbolic meanings and has aroused great repercussions.

"The Ancient Capital" is a novella published by Kawabata Yasunari in his later years in 1962. Through the separation and separation of twin sisters and their respective love entanglements, it weaves an elegant and quiet picture of the times in the dreamlike scenery of Kyoto throughout the four seasons. Japan is undergoing drastic changes at the transition from old to new, but the ancient capital of Kyoto is still flowing quietly in the long river of history with the changes of time as usual. "Ancient Capital" basically expresses the traditional Japanese aesthetic thoughts. Through the interactions between the characters and the inner restrained psychological consciousness shown in the traditional Japanese festivals, it reveals the sorrow and mystery in Japanese culture.

After the death of his father, a tea ceremony master, Kikuji had a relationship with his father's mistress, Mrs. Ota, in order to find his father's shadow. Afterwards, Mrs. Ota felt deeply guilty and committed suicide because of her guilt. Later, Kikuji's longing for Mrs. Ota was transferred to her daughter Fumiko. Another mistress of his father's, Kurimoto Chika, wanted to marry Kikuji and his apprentice Inamura Yukiko. At this time, Fumiko quietly left Kikuji. Finally, Kikuji got rid of Kurimoto Chiko's entanglement and went out to look for Fumiko... "Thousand Cranes" shows the conflict between morality and reality by narrating the abnormal love between two generations.

Shimamura is a freelancer studying Western ballet in Tokyo. He comes from a wealthy family. He went to Yuzawa Town three times to meet the geisha Komako. Yukio, the son of Komako's shamisen master, suffered from tuberculosis and returned to Yuzawa Town to recuperate accompanied by a woman named Ye Zi. He happened to be sitting opposite Shimamura where he went to meet Komako for the second time. The narrative of the novel begins here. Shimamura admired the snowy scenery at dusk through the fogged car window, but when he saw the bright eyes of the leaves reflected on the car window, he couldn't help but feel moved. Dao Cun not only admires Ju Zi's beauty and character, but at the same time secretly can't let go of the simple Ye Zi...

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" was published in Japan's "Literary Times" in 1926. It was warmly welcomed by readers immediately after its publication and became Kawabata Yasunari's famous short story. It has been adapted to the big screen six times. The novel describes Kawashima, a high school student in Tokyo, who encounters a group of six touring entertainers on his way to Izu. The dancer Kaoru has a melodious singing voice and light and graceful dance steps. Kawashima falls in love with her while getting along with her. After a brief reunion, what awaits them will eventually be parting. Kawashima, who has almost used up his travel expenses, will return to his original life, and the touring artist will have to embark on a wandering road of acting again...

The protagonist Shuichi in the book faces the dilemma of salary reduction and job insecurity, as well as problems with his wife, his daughter refusing to go to school, problems with his hometown and his mother, etc. Shuichi, who was caught between career and family, was irritated every day. "Why am I so unlucky?" At this moment, he found a taxi driving towards him. An incredible journey begins... Welcome aboard this mysterious car. It will take you to a place where your luck can change for the better. Can you seize the opportunity to change your destiny and turn your life around again?

I, Alan, am 29 years old, in my prime, tall, strong, and in good health. I was born and raised in Norway. I am living a good life. To say I have it all is an understatement. No external force threatens me. Interest rates go up and down, but I don't think it has anything to do with me. I don't have a loan. Nor did he have a family. The house I rented in the capital was cheap and good. But recently, I often feel empty. Everything I built has never contributed a cent to the gross national product. Nothing I built is meaningful to this society. There are people who work hard for the prosperity of this country. This is obvious. There are people working hard. I always have to do something for Norway. I want to put Norway on the world map. Norway must be put on the world map. In one fell swoop, the world will be brought to an end, and it will be done sooner rather than later. I had to create a theory. Then prove it. This is what is urgent. A serious theory. And a scorching validation. If I want to discover something, I have to discover something. Who else would I be!

"He" standing in the dock killed a total of forty-three people. Among the serial killings that occurred after World War II, this case had the largest number of fatalities. The victims were almost all elderly. In this trial, "he" confessed to the facts of the crime, and there was no possibility of a verdict other than the death penalty. Everything is planned. "He" smiled. Yoko Haneda, a family member of the victim, looked up at "him" in the gallery. Her mother was killed by "him", but to this day, Yoko can no longer feel the anger and hatred towards "him" in her heart. The news that "he" had been sentenced to death reached the ears of prosecutor Hideki Otomo. "He" probably won't appeal. Everything is in "His" plan. Not just killing people. The crime was exposed, and there were court trials, and even the death penalty, that was all. But by the time Otomo realized the truth of everything, it was already too late...

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a collection of short stories. It is the second collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor, winner of the National Book Award and a representative writer of American Southern literature. It is a classic short story collection in the history of foreign literature. The twelve works included in the volume include many famous works. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", "Saving Others Is Saving Yourself", "The Kind Countryman", etc. Have made O'Connor occupy an irreplaceable place in the hearts of literature-loving readers around the world. The translator is Zhou Jianing, a young Chinese writer. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is her first challenge to an American classic after translating "The Corn Girl" by Joyce Carol Oates, a major contemporary American writer, and "Written on the Body" by Janet Winterson, a major contemporary British writer.

In a future where human civilization is about to disappear, a girl and her father live in the shadow of a lonely mountain. They possess some relics of civilization: some books, a piece of glass, a set of flints, a comb. The father teaches the girl the techniques of fishing and hunting, the secrets of the seasons and the stars, preparing her to live in harmony with nature as an adult - for they are the last generation of mankind. Soon, the girl was the only one left in the world. She discovers that if she learns to listen, a bear will lead her across the vast wilderness back home, and this is the greatest lesson she will ever learn...

This book is the eighth novel of suspense thrillers in the "Adamsberg Sheriff Series" by contemporary French writer Fred Vargas. At the scene of two murders disguised as suicides, the police discovered a mysterious symbol similar to a guillotine. The investigation first led Sheriff Adamsberg to an incident in Iceland 10 years ago where travelers were trapped and caused casualties. New clues later led investigators to a research association on Robespierre's writings that was keen on restoring scenes of parliamentary debates during the French Revolution. History, cross-dressing, Iceland, human bones... Withstanding the pressure of not being understood by his subordinates, after peeling off layers of cocoons, Adamsberg finally uncovered the truth about the travel accident 10 years ago and exposed the murderer's tactics. The book sold 700,000 copies in France and won the 2015 French Landino Suspense Literature Award and the 2016 German Crime Novel Award.

"Bang!" Fireworks burst into bloom. "Bang!" A gunshot rang out. It opens with a shooting in New York in 1977. The first person to discover the victim was Mercer, a black man. He came to New York with the dream of being a writer and met the love of his life here. Mercer thought 1977 would be his year, but he didn't expect to spend his first day in the police station. William, who lives with Mercer in a cheap rental house, hides his identity as the heir of a wealthy family, makes a living by painting, hangs out in various punk bars, and lives a decadent life. William's sister, Reagan, was once the apple of her father's eye, but now she is trapped in the dilemma of losing power in the family business, her husband's financial losses, and his betrayal of the family. And husband Keith's young lover Samantha was the girl who fell in a pool of blood on New Year's Eve. The upper class, marginalized people, police, journalists, punks, artists, and motorcycle gangs all have different identities, but their fates are intertwined because of this case. Whether they like it or not, they are all drawn into the same story, desperate to exist on their own terms in the love-hate world of New York City.

"The Idiot" is one of the important novels by the famous Russian writer Dostoevsky in the 19th century. It takes the epileptic Duke Myshkin's adventures after returning from Switzerland as the main line, depicts the various ugliness of the Russian upper class after the serfdom reform, and reveals moral and ethical issues. The tension between the tragic fate of the heroine Anastasia and her refusal to succumb to fate, and the difference between the hero Myshkin's attitude towards her and the attitude towards her by ordinary people add endless charm to the plot of the novel. After reading this novel, it will be difficult for you to tell who is the idiot. This novel vividly depicts the characters and left the classic images of Myshkin and Anastasia in the world literature gallery. At the same time, it caused generations of readers to think about the relationship between spiritual pursuit and material desire. It is highly ideological.

In the mid-19th century, the California gold rush spurred the development of Panama's shipping. The far-sighted Holland and Aspinwall Shipping Company decided to build a railway on the isthmus connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This was a grand project that exceeded everyone's expectations. The protagonist and his team faced challenges such as the harsh natural environment, disease, business competition, and lack of funds. After five years, the railway was finally completed in January 1855. This golden horse carrying the dream of gold began to run, sending countless gold diggers with dreams of gold to California. However, the protagonist of the story could not wait until this day came. This is a story about railway construction, and also a hymn about great dreams and fighting spirit. However, speeding along the railway is not only the tempting dream of wealth, but also unforeseen tragedy.

When I reach middle age, I have a successful career, a big villa, a husband who has become a bad temper, and a son who doesn't know what he is busy with all day long. I was finally alone and free again. I must say that loneliness is the best gift in the world and the only haven in life. But one night, masked men broke into my house and raped me. This accident split my life in two. On the surface, I continued to deal with a miserable life: my son was a naughty old man and wanted to marry a girl who was pregnant with someone else's child; my mother insisted on marrying a pretty boy who was younger than her; my ex-husband had a new date, and I was having an affair with my best friend's husband. Secretly, I want to find out the true identity of the masked thug. I used an iron fist and cold blood to keep my daily life running as usual, and at the same time I had to deal with the rapist until the accident happened again...

The steak and burger restaurant "JUJU" was inherited from Mitsuko's grandfather and later run by her parents. It is a nostalgic store with sizzling burger patties, and the food and atmosphere are memorable. Mitsuko's mother's favorite comic is "Salome, Princess of Hell". After taking over the burger shop, her mother changed the name of the shop to "JUJU" based on the name of the burger shop where Salome worked in the comic. When her mother died suddenly, Mitsuko took over and ran a burger restaurant with her father. However, she did not know how to cook and had no confidence, and she was not as good at dancing as her mother. With the help of his father and first love boyfriend Shinichi, a wonderful transformation happened...

My father is still alive, but he is socially dead. He lost his job due to a work injury and became a "lazy guy" in the eyes of politicians and a "trouble" in the eyes of his bosses. My relationship with my father is not good. I am not a manly son in my father's eyes, and he is not a qualified father in my eyes. He drank heavily, was violent, and spent all night in bars with his friends until my mother kicked him out. In the process of visiting my father again and again, I began to try to understand his past and break the silence and barrier between father and son. My father was also in his prime, but eventually fell into the quagmire of fate uncontrollably. I use his life experiences to reveal social issues. People often talk about politics eloquently, "For rulers, politics is just an aesthetic matter: a way of thinking about oneself, a way of looking at the world and constructing individuals. For us, it is life or death."

In a future world, the glass bead game is a symbol system evolved from music and mathematics, and is all human knowledge and spiritual wealth. Due to numerous political turmoil and wars, human civilization is facing the threat of destruction. In order to save and promote this spiritual culture of mankind, a certain religious group is making unremitting efforts. Knecht was an orphan who was raised by this religious group. He was talented and intelligent. With his outstanding talents and superior organizational skills, he continued to rise and rise in this elite group until he reached the top of the group and became a master of the glass bead game. But as he grew older, he was no longer satisfied with this isolated spiritual kingdom and felt that it was impossible to contribute to the people in this ivory tower. He came to the real world and tried to use education to improve the whole world. However, before his career was completed, he unfortunately drowned while swimming.