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By portraying the images of various types of feudal scholars, this book reveals their greedy, hypocritical and ugly mental outlook, exposes the corruption and darkness of the feudal social system, and makes profound criticism and ridicule of the imperial examination system and feudal ethics. The novel's language is concise and expressive, and its writing is humorous, euphemistic and satirical, making it a masterpiece of Chinese classical satirical literature.

No wonder he is Haruki Murakami's idol! Haruki Murakami said: Reading Irving's books will become addictive. Once you start reading, you can't stop. John Irving, winner of the National Book Award and Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay! I have lost too much, and I will live without regrets from now on! This is the story of a person who keeps losing himself and finding himself again. In this story, everyone's life is in a mess, and Patrick's life is even more like a disaster: at work, he is always sent to disaster scenes by the television station, and is known as the "disaster reporter"; in life, he has constant scandals, and he is a stranger to his wife. But this time, he became the protagonist of a disaster news: During an interview, he put his hand into the lion's cage without hesitation, and the lion bit off his left hand! Soon, the reputation of "disaster reporter" spread around the world. But at this moment, he fell hopelessly in love with someone he shouldn't have fallen in love with. For the sake of love, he began to examine himself and start a new life. However, is it possible for him to get rid of the past and start a new life?

The author of "Island Bookstore" is a healing work about native families! At some stage in our lives, we always have to overcome the problem of our parents. "We Are Stuck in the Quagmire" uses an American family to show readers the influence of our original family on our lives. Patsy spent the first half of her life living in the shadow of her parents. When she met someone she liked at school, she was forced by her father to transfer to another school; when she graduated from high school, she was unable to successfully enter another school because of her father; even after getting married, she still could not escape the hurt caused by her father. And her mother's constant indifference made Patsy sink deeper and deeper into the quagmire of life. A sudden accident finally made Patsy understand that she must overcome the problem of her parents and take her life into her own hands...

"Legal Happiness" contains four novellas, which show the lives and psychological states of various different groups of people including intellectuals, officials, and the working class in Romania in a special era, reflecting the hopes and fears, struggles and confusions of an era. Four stories of ordinary people present the scars and memories of an era.

The work describes a typical class in Shanghai after 1949: families of revolutionary cadres and intellectuals, who lived in high-end areas of Shanghai and experienced various political movements and vicissitudes of life. Through the experiences, feelings, and mental changes of each character, a profile of this historical stage is recorded. Some unique classes and experiences in Shanghai culture are revealed in the detailed and profound descriptions of these characters.

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.

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The novel focuses on the municipal construction of a large city in the north, depicts the ecology and mentality of everyone from the mayor to the streets, and reflects the complex face of urban reform. Mayor Yan Honghuan is young and promising, and is determined to improve transportation and reconstruct streets to solve residents' housing difficulties. However, he has encountered various difficulties and obstacles since the start of the project. He fought against all opinions and transformed and constructed the city in compliance with the wishes of the people.

"The Age of Enlightenment" is a novel describing the spiritual growth of a generation. In the mid-1960s, the "Cultural Revolution" broke out suddenly, throwing young people living in a completely different world into one place. The heroes and heroines who came out of the high-ranking cadres' apartments and the market, with youthful enthusiasm, sensitivity, restlessness and confusion, tenaciously and recklessly find reasons for their ideals and lives. It can be said that this is a history of the spiritual growth of the "elder generation". The author has written a period of history that people who have come from that era never need to think of and will never forget.

This book consists of three volumes and contains most of Schnitzler's works, including the short stories and short stories "Death", "A Little Comedy", "Farewell", "The Dead Speechless", "Second Lieutenant Gust", "Blind Geronimo and His Brother", "Strange Woman", "Greek Dancer", "Death of a Bachelor", "Mademoiselle Elze", "The Dream", "The Gambling at Dawn", "Teresa: Chronicle of a Woman's Life", etc.; The plays "Anatole", "Child's Play", "The Green Parrot", "Rondo", "Professor Bernardi" and Proverbs.

"The Waves" is perhaps the least accessible of Virginia Woolf's nine novels. This is so because we encounter several questions about possibility that do not exist when reading her previous and subsequent works. For example, how could the content marked "So-and-so said" be uttered by the characters; how could six characters come together to talk like this; in addition, what is the relationship between the parts "said" by these characters and the description of the waves, and why can they be interspersed with each other to form such a text...

Katie, a beautiful but vain British woman, accepted the marriage proposal of Walter, a withdrawn doctor, and followed Walter to the mysterious Eastern colony-Hong Kong. After Walter discovers that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins a strange and terrifying revenge plan: Katie must accompany him to the distant mainland of China to quell a cholera plague. ... Struggling in the whirlpool of love, betrayal and death, Katie finally gradually lifted the veil of life from her eyes and embarked on the road of spiritual growth without regrets. "The Color Veil" is Maugham's most controversial work, and the film of the same name received rave reviews.

"The Moon and Sixpence" is one of the three masterpieces of the British novelist William Somerset Maugham, written in 1919. The novel uses a first-person narrative technique to narrate the entire story. The plot is based on the life of French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. The middle-aged protagonist, who was originally a securities broker, gave up everything and went to Tahiti in the South Pacific to live with the indigenous people, where he gained inspiration and created many artistic masterpieces. The theme of escapism revealed in the novel became a popular novel in the 20th century.

"Heavy Wings" is the first full-length novel that reflects life in the early stages of reform. It positively describes the struggle between reform and counter-reform in industrial construction, and enthusiastically praises the correct line of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Party. The novel describes a complex struggle between the Ministry of Heavy Industry of the State Council and its affiliated Shuguang Automobile Manufacturing Plant over the reform of the industrial economic system in 1980.

Long novel. This is Zhang Jie's iconic work with transformative significance. The divergent events and fragment-like structure in the book, together with the sudden and turbulent collision of narrative flow, greatly intrude and confuse readers. The author's intention hidden in the narrative structure is also more simple and confusing, complex and difficult to distinguish.

"Human Bonds" is Maugham's long semi-autobiographical novel and his representative work. It was published in 1915. Although the work was controversial among critics, it has been in print for a long time since its publication and has been greatly welcomed. It has also been remade into film and television works. The novel narrates the confusion, exploration, disappointment, frustration and pain of the protagonist Philip in the first half of his life from a first-person perspective. The theme of the work is the freedom of human nature under the fetters of fate.

"Intermission" tells a story that happened on a June day in 1939 in a village in central England with a history of more than 500 years, showing a picture of rural life. The author uses the method of polyphonic novels to set up two narrative threads. One mainly tells the story of the family of squire Bartholomew Oliver, and the other tells the story of Ms. Latrobe guiding the villagers to perform an open-air historical drama. These two clues are sometimes parallel and sometimes cross, forming an intricate picture. The author uses this method to skillfully combine the past and present, history and reality, art and life, stage drama and life drama.

"Documentary and Fiction" is undoubtedly Wang Anyi's highly autobiographical work. It is a city man's self-explanation and self-tracing. As an "autobiographical" novel, "Documentary and Fiction" is not only a fiction of personal experience, but also a documentary presentation of fictional behavior. That is, it not only tells us what she experienced, but also tells us how to "narrate" it.

Siddhartha, a handsome young man born as a Brahmin, abandoned everything and embarked on the road to find himself. During this journey of seeking truth, he talked with Buddha Gautama and saw the nature of the world clearly; he dated the famous prostitute Kamala and enjoyed the fun of love; he helped wealthy businessmen run their businesses and gained fame and fortune. After experiencing all kinds of worldly life, Siddhartha ran away again and became a boatman. By listening to the sound of the river, he saw the true face of the world and realized that everything in the world flows to its destination in the eternal river of life. Finally, he finally understood himself and integrated himself into the harmony and unity of life.

Harry Harrell is a lonely, lonely middle-aged man. By chance, he read a short book "On the Steppenwolf", and he realized that he was a Steppenwolf with both human and wolf nature. In order to get rid of the pain and loneliness, he got drunk in the pub and met Hermina, Pablo and Maria one after another. He was so immersed in sensory play that he seemed to forget all his worries. When Harry is on the verge of collapse, he comes to the Magic Theater. In this place where dreams and reality intersect, he sees various split personalities and repressed selves. Through this experience, he realized that he should not deliberately oppose human nature and wolf nature, but should regard them as a whole. Eventually, Harry escapes despair and returns to real life.

Hans, who was born in a small town, was extremely talented and had excellent academic performance since childhood. After passing the state examination he was able to enter the seminary. In the seminary, the taciturn Hans was a solitary person, often attending classes alone. By chance, he met Hermann, and they had a good rapport. Unlike Hans, who was conscientious and obedient, Hermann was rebellious by nature and frequently had verbal conflicts with teachers, so he was expelled from school. After that, Hans felt lonely and the depressive life made him at a loss. After a serious illness, he chose to drop out of school and go home to become an ordinary worker...

Emile Sinclair has lived in a warm and beautiful world of light since he was a child, but a lie plunged him into a world of darkness. Sinclair, feeling desperate and helpless, longed for relief, but could not speak to anyone. Demian's appearance helped him overcome his inner fear. Afterwards, whenever Sinclair felt uneasy or confused, Demian would always appear in time to help him out of trouble. Demian is not only Sinclair's friend, but also his guide, leading him to overcome his fears and find his true self. From then on, Sinclair no longer hesitated, and moved more and more firmly towards his heart...

It is a famous condemnation novel in modern my country. The book uses the stories of Jin Wenqing and Fu Caiyun (alluding to Hong Jun and Sai Jinhua) as clues to describe various corrupt and dark phenomena in late Qing society, especially in the officialdom and scholars. Because the author "comes from the old fortress" and is familiar with such characters, he writes with a combination of voice and expression, which is lifelike.

In Taipei's night markets, you can find anything - text messages from dead people, aphrodisiacs and hidden secrets. The answers to those unforgettable questions can be found here, and some discoveries may even change the trajectory of our lives. Stories about love and loss, life and death. This is a collection of short stories co-written by Taiwanese writers and foreign writers living in Taiwan. It covers a variety of themes and is as fresh and rich as the snacks at Taipei night markets.

In the voice of a miner's daughter, the author describes the arduous underground work of two generations of miners in the Yuhua Mountain Mine in Qinzhou, Shaanxi Province in the 20th century, as well as the lives of the miners' families. The work takes the life of his father Zhao Zhongxiao and his biological mother as the main line, telling the story of the miners' tenacity and open-mindedness, glory and loss, tears and laughter. The author's narrative is calm and sharp, showing the real circumstances and status of the characters' lives, and is full of sympathy and compassion for the disadvantaged groups. It is a thick and profound novel with realistic themes.

This book includes Osamu Dazai's most representative novels "Disqualification in the World" and "Setting Sun" as well as literary essays "This I Hear". "Disqualified in the World" is Osamu Dazai's last completed work, and it is the pyramid of Japanese "private novels". In the form of a confession, it explores the cowardice deep in the heart and explores the qualifications of a human being. It goes straight to the soul and is inescapable. "Setting Sun" writes about the pain and redemption of Japan's declining aristocracy after the war. "Setting Sun Clan" has become synonymous with declining people, and Osamu Dazai's memorial hall was also named "Setting Sun Hall". "This I Hear" is Osamu Dazai's response to the criticism of him by other writers in the literary world. It includes criticism of some "old writers" in the literary world at that time, as well as a defense for himself. It also states his views and attitude towards writing. It can also be regarded as Osamu Dazai's "Declaration of Independence", which shocked the literary world when it was published.

This article is narrated from the first-person perspective of me (a reporter from the "Public Sentiment Survey" magazine), telling the story of a farmer who met and became friends during an interview and realized his dream of moving to the city safely. When he was 40 years old, he wanted to go to the big city of Xijing to make a living and wanted to buy a house in the city. He successively worked in transportation, riding a tricycle, selling vegetables at the community farmer's market, selling steel and carbon coal, doing charcoal business, selling kebabs, and doing coal business.

This book contains two representative novels "The Five-Storied Pagoda" and "Merry Buddha" by the famous Japanese writer Koda Rohan. When "The Five-Storied Pagoda" was written, the craftsmen were obsessed with technology and devoted themselves to building the tower, overcoming many difficulties, and finally built a perfect five-story tower that could withstand the test of storms. "Feng Liu Buddha" tells the story of a young monk, Zhu Yun, who was determined to carve the most exquisite Buddha statue, so he visited famous mountains and rivers. On the way of exploration and confusion, he accidentally rescued a girl and fell in love with her. However, the girl's biological father betrothed her to someone else. The young monk had nowhere to turn to, so he carved the girl's image into a lifelike Buddha statue. The two novels are in line with today's admiration and exploration of "craftsman spirit". At the same time, their style is similar to ancient Chinese chapter novels. It can be seen that Koda Rohan has profound Chinese culture and is deeply influenced by Chinese classical culture.

The novel describes Grandet's family life - the cunning, greedy, stingy and cruel upstart father Grandet, his daughter Eugenie who longs for love but is indifferent to money, and Eugenie's cousin Charles, a vain, cruel and greedy Parisian swinger. It revolves around Eugenie's love tragedy and tells a story about how money destroys humanity and causes family tragedy. This book is "one of the most outstanding pictures" in the "Human Comedy" series by French critical realist writer Balzac. Grandet is one of the four classic images of a miser in the history of world literature.

Hu Laosan, a lumberjack, encountered a little wolf cub in the mountains during a severe winter, and took in the little wolf cub who had lost his home. The little wolf cub's first teacher was an old yellow dog owned by lumberjack Hu Laosan. From this old yellow dog, the wolf learned to herd and communicate with people... After the old old yellow dog died, the still-growing little wolf became Hu Laosan's life assistant and took on the old yellow dog's work - protecting the home, taking care of the sheep, and hunting... Under the instructions of the owner, this wolf, which grew up with people, ran and jumped in the mountains, fields and valleys, completing the tasks assigned to it by the owner. The mountains and wilderness are so quiet and free for the wolf. It is the guardian of the sheep and the friend of the owner. But the good times did not last long. With the implementation of the grazing ban, the owner sold the sheep he relied on for a living and left his hometown. The wolf wandered with the owner to a human settlement where all kinds of human faces floated, only deception, cruelty, violence and cunning laughter. Faced with human bullying, this wolf will bite and intimidate when appropriate to protect its dignity and the interests of its owner. The owner who wandered in the city spent his last penny and exchanged his companion for many years for a meal for himself. The wolf became the new owner's pet. It was imprisoned in the building by the new owner, and only cursed and hungry every day. In order to survive, the city's trash cans have become its main places to visit. Here it can see pets abandoned by humans, and these abandoned people have become the wolf's friends. In order for this wolf to survive in this strange city, in addition to adapting to various faces, it also has to be like a piece of plasticine that can be kneaded by people, changing its personality according to people's needs. It pleased humans but was abandoned by its new owner. After witnessing all the tricks and depravity of the new owner, one day it never returned to this home where it could only survive. It became a wandering wolf in the city, walking among the tall buildings on moonlit nights; in the garbage dump, this In order to maintain a fair foraging environment for the weak, the wolf used its strength and ferocity to bite and fight... This wolf wandered around every corner of the city. On this day, it met its former owner Hu Laosan; the paralyzed owner had completely lost the ability to beg for food. The reunion with its old master once again aroused the great warmth in this wolf's heart. It foraged for food for its master, begged with him, and dedicated its body heat to him for warmth. "A wolf takes care of a beggar" has attracted the attention of citizens. Someone saw a business opportunity to make money from this wolf. For money, humans once again tied a rope of betrayal around the neck of this wolf. Under the threat of violence, it performed according to human will, in order to please boring humans, and exchanged dignity for money and applause. At the same time, this wolf was full of hatred for humans from then on, and the forest in its memory was calling it. On a moonlit night, the wolf escaped from the city that loved it. It ran towards the place where the moon rose and came to the wilderness. The wild nature swelled in its body. Relying on its unyielding will, it traveled thousands of miles through life and death, and finally returned to the wolves...

Xiangzi is a countryman who has nothing but a passion for struggle. He is diligent, kind and has his own dreams. He believes that through his own sweat and his own food, he can live the life he wants. But life brought about ups and downs in his life. Frustration will eventually turn him into a person he disdains... Youth is beautiful, struggle is bitter. In a cruel world, what is the meaning of hard work?

"Under the Red Flag" is Lao She's masterpiece and a truly great contemporary literary masterpiece. Lao She is a bannerman and belongs to the "Zhenghong Banner" of the "Eight Banners of Manchuria", hence the name of this autobiographical novel. "Under the Zhenghong Banner" is set in the society of Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty. Lao She writes from his birth. It was the late Qing Dynasty and social turmoil. The people's livelihood is in decline. Every little character in the novel is vivid: the honest father, the kind and upright shopkeeper Wang, the acerbic aunt, the smart and capable second brother Fuhai... They all have different destinies in the turbulent history...

This is the growth story of a family of seven brothers and sisters. The eldest daughter of the Wei family joined a team in the countryside and received news of her mother's sudden death. She hurried home and was later taken care of by the factory and recruited back to the city. From then on, she took her younger brothers and sisters to live with her father. Although life is hard and the younger siblings often get into unexpected troubles, people always have to grow and life has to go on. The family lives hard and seriously, trying to seize every bright moment in life...

The post-85s drifted north to find their relatives. A woman who has lived in Beijing for 15 years has written a story about herself, her family members, and her love-hate relationship with this city. I once thought that my birth was a historical mistake. As the only child in my family, the whole meaning of life was to return to Beijing one day. On the train to Beijing when I was 18 years old, my mother took out a simple "family history", which opened up the lost past of two generations and my confused future. From the surrogate mother's search for relatives to the family reunion, while retrieving history, she also discovered that history is just a moon in a pool of water. People are still here and the memories are still there, but Beijing is the Beijing that cannot be returned to. Whether it's me, my mother, or my grandparents, we speak Mandarin, but we have already become strangers in a foreign land. If I cannot return to Beijing, what is the meaning of my life?

"Songs from the Sad Cafe" is a collection of Carson McCullers' finest short and medium-length works. There are 7 works including the classic and handed down Song of the Sad Cafe and Childhood, among which "The Song of the Sad Cafe" is the most famous. The novel tells the weird and absurd love story between Miss Amelia, the criminal Marvin Macy and the hunchback Raymond in a small town. In a weird, mysterious and absurd way, it expresses a human theme as eternal as love - loneliness. Love is not the salvation of loneliness, absurd love confirms the necessity of loneliness.

"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" is Carson McCullers' masterpiece. Ranked 17th in "Modern Library's Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century". It tells the story of a group of people wandering in loneliness in a small southern town in the United States. On a long afternoon in August, in a dreary southern town, there is a mute who always smiles gently, a girl who likes music, a homeless man who is cynical about the world, a depressed black doctor, and people drinking cold beer in a midnight cafe... This is a story of extreme loneliness. Everyone is looking for an exit from loneliness, but no one can escape the fate of loneliness, not even love.

This book is one of the four major condemnation novels in the late Qing Dynasty. The book draws on Lao Can's travels and experiences to expose the tyranny of "honest officials" and points out that the so-called "honest officials" who "don't need money" are actually executioners who are "eager to become high officials" and do not hesitate to kill people to take credit. The author himself is quite proud of this point, saying: "Novel has always exposed the evil of corrupt officials, and some have mentioned the evil of honest officials, starting from "The Travels of Lao Can"." This reflects the author's relatively progressive side that sympathizes with the suffering of the people, but his basic political views are backward, and he opposes the bourgeois democratic revolution and the anti-aggression struggle of the Boxer Rebellion. This is also clearly reflected in this book. Therefore, "Lao Can's Travels" is a book with both flaws and advantages.

This book is a realistic novel by the British literary giant John Bunyan. Different from his other two masterpieces "The Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Holy War in the Soul City", this book does not use dreams or foreign lands as the background, but directly tells the real world. Through the dialogue between the "wise man" and the "listening ear", it tells the life of an ordinary British resident named "The Wicked Man". With the help of wise men and attentive ears, Bunyan evaluates the actions of wicked people at various stages of their lives, and exhorts readers not to imitate wicked people but to live a godly life. The unique style of Bunyan's works, the vivid characters with full meaning in them, and Bunyan's profound insight into human nature are all amazing. Bunyan said: I think this book will be a light to many people, because our environment is full of what is written in this book.

After the famous master of allegorical literature John Bunyan became famous in the first part of his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress", he was jealous and slandered by his enemies. These people threatened that the "tinker" could not write such an outstanding work. So Bunyan completed the book he had started writing in prison, published it, and attached a notice to the book, stating that only he could write in this style, and fighting back against the vicious slanderers. Based on the experience of a city, this book vividly tells the wonderful story of a soul that experienced loss, captivity, slavery, and finally salvation. After reading this book, you can deeply understand the spiritual battle in people's hearts. The valuable thing about this book is that it not only tells a story, but also reflects how you and I should live in real situations.

"A Clock Without Hands" is an impressive novel by Carson McCullers. A dying pharmacist, a white judge, his rebellious grandson and two black men live like clocks without hands, frantically searching for themselves. These people, who each have their own privacy, act as bystanders in each other's lives. Their intersection is not because they like each other, but only because of excessive loneliness. Loneliness may be due to the absence of the soul. If there is a soul present, can loneliness be tolerated? There is nothing terrible about losing anything, only losing yourself.

"I am a Cat" is a masterpiece of novels by the great Japanese writer Natsume Soseki. The novel takes an unnamed cat as the protagonist. The cat has seen through human nature. From the cat's perspective and responsibility, it writes about its owner and a series of strange people and things surrounding the owner's family. The writing style of the novel is humorous, funny and spicy, and very interesting. The wisdom of cats contrasts with the stupidity of humans. The owner of the house, Kusama, is a university teacher, but in fact he is pedantic and self-proclaimed, and can only write some incomprehensible poems; Mizushima Kanzuki is a metaphysical science and engineering man who studies topics of no practical significance all day long; the scholar Mi Ting is well versed in Chinese and Western knowledge, humorous, and loves to ridicule; Duxian is an idealist with an impassioned spirit. Even the capitalist Kaneda and his philistine big-nosed lady, and Suzuki Tojuro, who works for Kaneda at his door, are all brought to life.

The Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out and Peiping fell. The liveliness and tranquility of Peiping were broken by the Japanese invasion. The four generations of the Qi family were no longer leisurely and contented. They lived with uneasiness and confusion. All living beings in Xiaoyangquan Hutong were also experiencing the ups and downs of Peiping and the life and death of the country like the four generations of the Qi family. However, when the peace-loving people of Peiping were whipped by the deformed world after the fall of Peiping, they finally chose not to endure the humiliation but to revive their national integrity. They rose up against the iron heel of the Japanese invaders and regained their national soul.

The female appraiser in "Secret Paternity Testing" has participated in the International Human DNA Genome Project and was responsible for the Indian Ocean tsunami rescue in Thailand. He bravely participated in the genetic sequencing of the SARS virus and is now the head of the domestic paternity testing agency. After 8 years of interrogating 16,000 paternity test cases, she witnessed countless divisions and struggles in family relationships: betrayal, deception, lies... Every case in "Paternity Test Secret Files" has a little-known secret, celebrities, stars, criminals... Every commission is a story of ups and downs.

A decent embarrassment and an unpredictable ending! "The Female Spectator" is the first volume of Sverak's "Prague Stories" series. It is the first collection of novels published by Oscar-winning screenwriter Sverak at the age of 72. It contains 10 short stories. "Female Spectator" includes ten stories: "Tracking", "Letter from the Court", "Tateshev", "Female Spectator", "Ruslan and Ludmila", "Lenin's Smile", "Vltava River", "Temporary Actor", "Liar" and "Photographer". The protagonists of these stories include a single father who lives in embarrassment, a truck driver who cheated on his wife, an old man who was dumped by his girlfriend when he was young and became deaf, an old lady with rich emotional experiences, a lady with special powers, a liar who has been jailed several times, etc. They are all ordinary people in this city. The problems, dilemmas, embarrassments and confusions these people face will also give readers a sense of deja vu. In fact, this fate may befall anyone.

The seven stories included in "The Lost Bloody Gift in the Sea Breeze" all take place in the harsh landscapes of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. There is a young man who longs to get rid of his family's fate of mining coal on the island for generations and leaves home when he reaches adulthood. Some people talk about a middle-aged university teacher recalling his great ambitions as a boy but being trapped on the island to fish. On the occasion of my grandmother's 96th birthday, my father made a living, and members of my extended family scattered all over the country gathered together at the corner of my grandmother's widowed home. Dust-laden past events also emerged in my heart... These stories outline the close ties and insurmountable gaps within the family, as well as the common fragility and tenderness of people when facing their fate. The seven stories in the book not only reflect the rough and affectionate blend of people and the natural world, but also implicitly and restrainedly outline the complex, mysterious and simple human hearts of Cape Breton.

Lalao, a farmer from Shangfengdi, Xifu, opened a clothing store in the county town. When he went to the provincial capital to purchase goods, his money was stolen, so he had to work at a scrap station to earn money for his journey home. Inspired there, he and his wife went to the provincial capital to open a scrap station. While Lalao was starting a business, he attracted the attention of educated youths who had joined the queue in Shangfengdi. As a result, competition, speculation, crackdowns on counterfeiting, "leak picking", and anti-corruption incidents occurred around the scrap station. The relationship between Lao Lao and the educated youths and their children has also undergone a series of changes... The work has strong story telling, novel subject matter, unique perspective, vivid text, and strong regional characteristics.

Where is the gun? The dark night is like a prostitute's lies, bottomless... Maybe my loneliness is born. Just like this lingering smoke, it will eventually dissipate in the corners of this city. "He writes ordinary detective novels and has struck a literary gold mine." - The Times

When we were young, we first met. At that time, Clementine was lively and generous, while Erica was sensitive and lonely. With the encouragement of her mother, Clementine hesitantly walked towards Erica... As adults, they are still each other's best friends. Erica has become a calm and steady working woman, who leads a controlled and healthy life, but refuses to speak her mind easily; Clementine is a romantic and gentle cellist, who has a lively and happy family, but no one can solve her worries. When Erica, who had been holding back for a long time, made a request to Clementine that only she could fulfill, Clementine was shocked! She couldn't accept it anyway. The hesitation and hesitation in ordinary days became more and more intense, and finally broke suddenly on an unusual day. None of them could have guessed what would happen next, and what they couldn't predict was their own thoughts...

Fear fills the streets and alleys, death occupies every corner - the real enemy is his brother! A tragedy of jealousy, betrayal, and fratricide unfolds between brothers. Why? "Brothers of Enemy" invites you to uncover the mystery and tell this gripping and thrilling story.

Zadig is the representative work of Voltaire's early philosophical novels. It is the first work of Volde's writing philosophical novels. The content is humorous and witty. "Zadig" is set in the ancient East. Through the life experience of the protagonist Zadig, it shows a world full of philosophy but a blend of reality and reality, which is very mythical and exotic. The content in the book is composed of more than a dozen seemingly independent but interconnected stories, connected by Zadig's life experiences. Mr. Fu Lei's translation is beautiful and smooth, which adds a lot of color to the book.