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General Fiction

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"The Moon and the Campfire" is the last and most important novel of the Italian writer Cesare Pavese, first published in 1949. The abandoned baby "Eel" is tired of struggling in the United States and returns to the northern Italian countryside in search of his lost childhood. Unexpectedly, he learns about the cruel past of his hometown during the fascist occupation, and realizes that the hometown he is looking for has long been broken. In endless melancholy, he embarked on a journey again.

Never Forget

Never Forget

General Fiction

Fence Repair And Chrysanthemum Planting

241K0

This book tells the story in two intertwined lines: main and secondary. The main line is that prosecutor Qin Xiaonan, who was temporarily transferred to the post of minors prosecutor, under the leadership of Prosecutor General Jiang Yiyong and Deputy Prosecutor General Li Xiang, based on the prosecutorial functions of criminal, civil and public interest litigation, carried out supervision of investigation activities, pursued missed crimes, corrected old wrong cases, and issued prosecutorial suggestions on the protection of the rights and interests of sexually violated girls and the comprehensive social management of minors protection and effectively implemented them. It was a series of difficult and tortuous law enforcement processes that were finally recognized by many parties, including the County Education Bureau. The sub-plot is about Xiao Nan's separated sister Xu Hongmei, who has been out of contact for 15 years. Mei Jie, who had plastic surgery and changed her name, went through hardships after being sexually assaulted. With the care of family, love and the care of prosecutors, and after mutual acceptance with her abandoned daughter, she was finally healed and redeemed. After experiencing the rebirth of a phoenix from the ashes, she has a successful career and gives back to her hometown and is an inspirational story of gratitude to the society.

Camel Xiangzi

Camel Xiangzi

General Fiction

Lao She

139K0

"Camel Xiangzi" is set in old Peiping and describes the tragic experience of a rickshaw driver nicknamed "Camel" Xiangzi. It reflects the pain of the working people living at the bottom of the city and exposes the evils of the old society. This work is centered on the main character Xiangzi. There are two clues intertwined around Xiangzi's actions. One is Xiangzi's "pull a cart and buy his own cart". It describes how he worked hard and struggled to be a free driver. In the end, his hope was shattered and he fell into an abyss of more misery. This is the main line. The other is the entanglement between Xiangzi and the opposite sex such as Huniu, Xiaofuzi, and Mrs. Xia. This is a secondary line, but it is integrated with the main line and continuously promotes the development of the plot.

Xingfu Street

Xingfu Street

General Fiction

Horton

348K0

The work tells the story of two generations living in Xingfu Street, their experiences and emotions during the special period and nearly half a century of reform and opening up. Through the fate of the little people, it reflects the social changes of contemporary China in a broad, profound, true and vivid way. He Yong said that happiness is to live with friends and the girl you like; Lin Aya said that happiness is to look beautiful and live beautifully; Chen Manqiu said that happiness is to be able to go to college and change the destiny of oneself and his mother; Zhang Xiaoshan said that happiness is to earn money that cannot be spent in the next life; Huang Guohui said that happiness is to be valued by brothers and others...

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General Fiction

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84K0

Dostoyevsky's "Notes from an Underground" is a classic masterpiece with both profound thought and literary art. It is also the book that opens the door to his literary world. The work revolves around the heart of the "basement man", and the book is divided into two parts: the first part is a long monologue by the basement man, exploring philosophical issues such as free will, human irrationality, and historical irrationality. The second part is the story of the basement man tracing his past. This book can open the door to Dostoevsky's literature and is his literary masterpiece. It is also the beginning of five other novels. It covers all the artistic characteristics of Dostoevsky. Reading this book will help you fully experience the endless charm of literature.

Ruthless Gangster

Ruthless Gangster

General Fiction

Horton

562K0

"Cruel Underworld" is an excellent novel that thinks about human nature and explores society. It records the entire process of a very small number of people accumulating wealth through criminal means during China's transformation period and eventually leading to destruction. The tragedy of a "ruthless" character's self-destructive life is presented in a realistic style. In the 1980s, Zhong Tielong, who came from a poor family, was admitted to the mathematics department of a key university, but after graduation, he went astray step by step. With their ruthless power, by the turn of the millennium, Zhong Tielong and his subordinates had become an unstable factor disrupting the normal order of Changyi City. After repeatedly violating the bottom line, Captain Chen of the Criminal Investigation Brigade vowed to arrest him and bring him to justice. Rise and fall in an instant. The work still has important practical significance for today's society and has profound enlightenment and warning effects. It is a classic worth reading.

Twelve Minutes

Twelve Minutes

General Fiction

Alert

140K0

This book is a novel with ten chapters in total. The main content is that emergency physician Luo Danqing accepted the task from his superiors to improve the efficiency of pre-hospital first aid in the city, get rid of the shadow of unqualified provincial inspections, and go deep into the first aid station to perform duties; in the process of work, he gradually learned about the particularity of pre-hospital first aid, gradually improved the process, and strengthened training. , Trained Chen Haoyan, a young orthopedic resident who was on duty together, to equip him with proficient first aid operation skills; at the same time, he solved the life problems of several colleagues such as first aid station drivers and on-board nurses, promoted teamwork, and improved the level of pre-hospital first aid in half a year. The readers of this article are not limited to doctors and medical students. Because it has the characteristics of a literary work, it is also open to the general public.

Heal the Heart

Heal the Heart

General Fiction

Bai Jianfeng

189K0

"Healing the Heart" is a companion volume to the best-selling medical humanities book "Warm Medicine". This book is divided into six chapters: medical heart, doctor-patient, doctor, medical reform, medical ethics, and medical country, including chapters such as "May every patient be treated tenderly", "Please give the doctor a reason to take risks", "For whom the doctor sheds tears", and "Let the patient see the doctor's face". Through heartfelt comments and touching stories that happened inside and outside the hospital, this book shows the charming style and selfless state of the angel in white, tells the story of the deep friendship between doctors and patients, and has a broad medical vision and profound humanistic feelings. The famous cartoonist Xu Pengfei drew comic illustrations for this book, which makes the book more interesting and readable.

The World Around Me

The World Around Me

General Fiction

Kong Kong

156K0

The East Asian daughter's solo adventure in this world. Within the family: the father is absent and lives in a chaotic symbiosis with the mother. Why is there always hurt in sticky love? Outside the family: There are candies in the third uncle's fists, and there is also a rain of fists falling on the third aunt. Why don't they divorce? Internet world: Everyone climbed into the network to perform. One day, she also tried to type out her own opening remarks. The quieter and lonely you are, the more turbulent your heart is... Taking over the female writing of mother-daughter relationships in Chinese literature since the 20th century, "The World Around Me" tells the story of a girl's growth, outlines portraits of women from several generations, and attempts to explore the new changes in "love and hate" in the mother-daughter relationship. Zhou Wei has been dependent on his mother since he was born. When Zhou Wei was 3 years old, she went to kindergarten and learned for the first time that her father was absent along with "Sorry"; when she was 10 years old, she went on a treasure hunt at home and found her mother's diary, the cave from the prehistory of her life; until she was 18 years old, she was wrapped in maternal love and tried her best to play the role of a good girl. On the eve of adulthood, Zhou Wei decided to embark on a journey of exploration and search on the charge of "stealing his mother's life"...

Chinese Martial Arts

Chinese Martial Arts

General Fiction

Horton

366K01

"Guoshu" is a literary work that uses realistic creative techniques to restore the style of the times and the fate of the characters. The protagonist Liu Qirong has been sick since he was a child. In order to strengthen his body, he began to practice martial arts with a master at the age of 8, and he has continued to do so throughout his life. Chinese martial arts gave him a healthy body, strong will and perseverance, and also led him to pursue patriotism and serving the country as his original intention throughout his life. During the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in the Anti-Japanese War and formed an anti-Japanese guerrilla team. Later, he went to Anhui to fight against the Japanese and served as a martial arts instructor. During the labor reform period, he fought against violence and helped the people with his unique skills. He used special trauma skills and homemade Chinese herbal medicine to set bones and heal the people's injuries for free. In peacetime, he created his own sect, wrote books and taught skills, and promoted and passed down Chinese martial arts.

Female Prisoner Files

Female Prisoner Files

General Fiction

Minglang

151K0

A true story of a women's prison from the perspective of a female prison guard, watch the world of female prisoners! It tells the real-life stories of prison guard Qiao Mu and her colleagues when managing female prisoners in a women's prison. All kinds of female prisoners have their own different life experiences, and a variety of wonderful stories are also being interpreted within the high walls of the prison. As a prison guard in a women's prison, Ming Lang has seen many pitiable female prisoners: a mother who killed her son in revenge, a daughter who was trapped in a casino, and even a heroine who danced like a fairy... Why did they commit crimes, and what drove them to a dead end? If the arrest and trial of criminals are the process of finding answers, then the process of criminals serving their sentences is the process of searching for the answers behind the answers.

Stray

Stray

General Fiction

Mo Zixi

109K0

What does a person experience in his twenties? It was the confusion after failing the college entrance examination, and all the hard work led to failure, and I had to go to a university that was far away from my ideal school; it was the inexplicable fall in love, thinking that love was a utopian love built on my own, but was suddenly brought back to reality by unexpected results; it was the playmate who had been with me since childhood, who suddenly died of illness and was separated from me, and I could never see my old friends again. Yang Xuanyu was originally a lively and cheerful boy in his weak years. He looked forward to the future and always felt that he would do everything well according to his own plan. After he failed the college entrance examination, everything that happened did not go as he expected. He experienced one major event after another, which caused him to experience double torture both mentally and physically. He was trapped in a world with no way out, a world full of confusion, a world that was unfamiliar to him and very scary. He was struggling in this world in a panic. He wanted to get out but couldn't. During the time he was trapped in the lost world, he met other protagonists one after another. They also had their own stories and they had also struggled in the lost world. Fortunately, they defeated themselves in the lost world, successfully came out, and found their own direction in life. At the end of the article, several years have passed, and Yang Xuanyu, who is approaching his thirties, is still looking for an answer in his heart. Until he received a wedding invitation from his former first love girlfriend. After hesitating, he finally decided to attend the wedding of his first girlfriend. At the wedding scene, seeing Lin Jiaxuan's smile, he completely understood what true love was. He completely said goodbye to the past, completely let go of what had happened, and completely walked out of the lost world. From his weakest years to his thirties, he walked very slowly and stumbled. He experienced many things and gained his own unique growth story along the way.

Half of a Yellow Sun (work by Adichie)

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"Half of a Yellow Sun" is a lament written by the Nigerian female writer Adichie about the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s (1967-1970). The 13-year-old Ugu comes from a poor family and works as a valet in the house of Odenigbo, a professor at the University of Nsukka. The learning opportunities given to him by his master gradually help him get rid of ignorance and superstition; Olanna, the daughter of the chief of the Igbo tribe, is Odenigbo's girlfriend. Her family had a prominent reputation and wealth before the civil war. Olanna advocates freedom. But she has always kept a distance from her snobbish and opportunistic family; Olanna's twin sister Kenene has been taking care of the family business, and she fell in love with Richard, a British journalist living in Nigeria. Richard, who hates the hypocrisy of post-colonialism, has always tried to record everything that this country has experienced fairly and objectively.

The Golden Notebook (lesing's Work)

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"She is herself only when she is alone in that big room... Anna sat down at the table, looking down at the four notebooks, just like a general looking down from the top of the mountain at the army ready to go in the valley below." Anna, a "free woman", faced the front half Frustrated, she said: "We have refused to live by the rules, and it is normal for life not to respond to us according to the rules." She wrote her life on the verge of collapse in four-color notes: black to recall the past, red about politics, yellow to examine love, and blue to record reality. Tommy, the only reader of Anna's notes, was supposed to inherit his father's business empire, but he fell into confusion at a crossroads in his life. The young man said: "I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want." One day, he suddenly shot himself in the head... Can the golden notebook that emerged from the four-color notebook rebuild people's inner order? This is an extraordinary woman's detailed and penetrating observations of the world full of contradictions and the relationship between the sexes.

Human World (works by Li Rui)

Li Rui Jiang Yun

100K0

After the story of White Snake has been circulated for hundreds of years, "Human World" begins a new narration. White Snake, who has been cultivating in Mount Emei for 2999 years, met Green Snake in the vast sea of ​​​​people. They transformed into White Snake and Qing'er, and experienced the world together until they met the beautiful man named Xu Xuan... In order to escape Fahai, they fled to the south, and finally both left the world they once longed for. Fan boy Yan Shilin has moved with his parents many times since he was a child, just because he hides a secret that cannot be discovered. After becoming the top scholar in high school, he learned the truth about his life experience - he was the child of the White Snake, and his father was Xu Xuan. On September 25, 1924, Leifeng Pagoda collapsed and the baby girl Qiubai was born. Qiu Bai's mother was horrified because according to legend, the day when the Leifeng Pagoda collapsed was when the White Snake was reincarnated. Throughout his life, Qiu Bai has been waiting for the real "Xu Xuan". In 1999, the "Fahai Letters" buried deep under Leifeng Pagoda were unearthed. It was destined that Qiubai read the letters and met his previous life...

Girl Jenny (classic Translation by Fu Donghua)

(us) Dreiser Compiled By Gao Yan

229K0

"Jenny" tells the story of Jenny, the eldest daughter of the German poor Gerhardt, who works as a domestic servant and falls in love with Senator Blanche. Soon, Bronte died of illness unexpectedly, leaving behind a posthumous daughter. Afterwards, Rest, a rich man, fell in love with Jenny and lived with her, but he could not make up his mind about marriage. Later, he was troubled by the obstruction and opposition from his brothers and sisters. He broke up with Jenny under the pressure of his family, returned to the upper class, and finally married Lottie Bess. The two were in love but their work separated, and Jenny spent her middle age alone. After Rest confided his true feelings to her before his death, he died painfully in her arms. Through Jenny's experience, the novel reveals the miserable life of working people under the capitalist system. At the same time, it praises the excellent qualities of hard work, integrity and self-sacrifice of working people, and lashes out at the various evil realities in a society where material desires prevail and money is omnipotent. Since its publication, this work has been translated into many languages ​​and has had a profound impact on contemporary readers.

Strange People in the World: Hand-painted Collection (new)

Painted By Feng Jicai

44K0

Tianjin Wei is originally a land and water dock, with residents from all over the place with very different personalities. However, in the hometown of Yanzhao, the blood is strong; the water is salty, the soil is alkaline, and the wind is strong. In the past hundred years or so, China has been the first to bear the brunt of all major disasters, and various weird characters have emerged, not only to show off the upper class, but also among the people. Therefore, I started writing these random thoughts and notes at this time. Each person has an article, each of which is unrelated, and is given the general title of "Strange People in the World". Since the 1990s to the present, Mr. Feng Jicai has created fifty-four short stories in the "Strange People of the World" series. Its style is unified, legendary, full of life, and the characters are vivid. It describes the regional features, customs, and life styles of Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It also shows the exquisite skills of our country's folk culture and the wisdom contained in it. Now "Strange People in the World: Hand-painted Collection" (new edition) is based on the 18 new works in the "New Edition of Strange People in the World" in 2023. It compiles all the manuscripts and drawings written by the author during the creation, and adds more creation and publication materials of the "Strange People in the World" series. It is rich in content, with pictures and texts, and is presented to readers in a hardcover version.

Tales of Cat City (illustrated by Gao Rongsheng)

Written By Lao She And Illustrated By Gao Rongsheng

91K0

"Cat City" is Lao She's masterpiece novel. The novel is written in the first person voice, describing the experience of "I" and my companions falling into an absurd city on Mars - Cat City. Cat City was invaded by dwarves. The people in Cat City were numb, compromised, greedy, and selfish. The Cat Country was dark, ugly, and finally extinct. The novel panoramically scans the bad nature of the people of the Cat Country, reveals the brutality of the invaders, and implicitly implies Lao She's appeal for the establishment of human beings in modern China. The novel has a strong sense of irony and science fiction. Lao She said that "Cat City" is a nightmare. It records several extremely dark pages in the history of a civilization, but it is unique, full of imagination, and has everlasting charm.

Camel Xiangzi

Camel Xiangzi

General Fiction

Lao She

139K0

"Camel Xiangzi" is Lao She's masterpiece and an outstanding classic novel in the history of Chinese literature in the 20th century. The work is set in Peiping under the rule of warlords, and truly depicts the tragic fate of a rickshaw puller. The work is rich in meaning and superb in technique. It not only has the connotation of social criticism, but is also an important part of the general theme of Lao She's novel "criticizing the weakness of national character". Since the book came out, it has been widely welcomed, has been reprinted several times, and has been adapted into movies, plays, etc. In 1981, our company published a new edition of "Camel Xiangzi" with a cover design by the famous printmaker Mr. Gao Rongsheng, which also included 5 woodcut illustrations by Mr. Gao. Mr. Gao's illustration technique is exquisite, with obvious contrast and rich meaning, which is rare. It can be said to be an example of the perfect combination of famous works and paintings. This version of the book has also been included in the second volume of Chinese textbooks for seventh grade compiled by the Ministry of Education. In this reprint, the text is based on the well-edited "The Complete Works of Lao She", and the cover and illustrations remain unchanged. We hope to provide teachers, students, and parents with a variety of choices when choosing books.

Teahouse (illustrated by Ye Qianyu)

Written By Lao She And Illustrated By Ye Qianyu

31K01

"Teahouse" is a masterpiece of Lao She's drama, and it is also a classic play often performed by the Beijing People's Art Theatre. This play was completed in 1957 and first performed by the Beijing People's Art Theater in 1958. It depicts the epitome of modern society and the times through a teahouse. Teahouse owner Wang Lifa's bleak management of the ancestral "Yutai Teahouse", although shrewd, tactful and hard-working, finally failed to prevent the decline, which reflected the trend of Chinese society from the side. The illustrator of this book, Ye Qianyu, is good at creating traditional Chinese paintings focusing on dance and drama characters. He is the founder of Chinese comics and life sketches. This book is listed in the "Illustrated Editions of Masterpieces by Modern Chinese Masters" series.

Cangliu

Cangliu

General Fiction

Tang Dawei

199K0

A rural woman suspected of arson was identified as a mental patient and sent to a mental hospital... A beautiful reporter's news investigation actually plunged herself into a vortex of power and money... The economic environment and living environment of a place are actually the result of calculations and games of multiple interests... Journalist Reporter Su Xiaotang's interview on environmental pollution issues in Qingling City was like opening a Pandora's box - complex power games and huge interest entanglements, deep conflicts between local economic development and environmental governance, conflicts between personal emotions and the reporter's mission, etc., Made Su Xiaotang face a huge crisis. The corruption exposed behind the pollution and the plight of the people at the bottom are beyond her imagination... Who can she believe? Who can she rely on? It's not easy to be a hero in a vast ocean. But there has to be someone to be the hero, there will always be someone to be the hero!

Diamond Robbery

Diamond Robbery

General Fiction

Han Ning

335K0

This book is adapted from real historical events and revolves around the legendary story of China's largest natural diamond "Golden Rooster Diamond" in Jinjiling, southern Shandong. During the Anti-Japanese War, the reactionary forces frequently plotted to seize the "Golden Rooster Diamond" and staged a bloody fight. In the extreme chaos of war, the "Golden Rooster Diamond" was eventually stolen by the Japanese invaders. Faced with the burning, killing and looting by the Japanese invaders, the soldiers and civilians of southern Shandong rose up to resist and formed guerrillas to participate in the war of resistance. Due to the huge disparity in strength, the battle was extremely fierce. The anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians made huge sacrifices. After eight years of arduous struggle, they finally won.

Dusk·light Sun

Dusk·light Sun

General Fiction

The Road Is Not Far Away

165K0

When walking in a city with sea, I forget to look at the sea. I walk alone in the sea of ​​people. How many people pass by you, how many people miss you in their lives. It's a journey for one person, but it's also good for two people to walk. A lonely journey, the story of three people, a train that made them pass each other. It is clear that they will not exist in their lives, but they still think of each other from time to time. This is the story of a lonely passerby. This book is for lonely people, telling the salvation of loneliness. Of course loneliness is boring, so the story is also a bit boring, and that may be loneliness.

Digital Siege

Digital Siege

General Fiction

Li Jiusi

174K0

A couple, two children, three families, four elderly people, five crises... A hundred flavors of life. Bai Lu and Jiang Rongfeng, both thirty years old, are the parents of two children and the children of four elderly people. The two young people who are responsible for supporting their family are almost out of breath under the pressure of various bill figures every day. Various numbers build an airtight siege, recording the bitterness of life, but also the sweetness of life.

Have Something to Look after in Old Age

Huayun

281K0

In 1999 in the rural areas of Northeast China, the elderly care story happened to Du Lianshan and his two sons and two daughters. Many concepts such as raising children for old age, remarriage of the elderly and living in nursing homes impacted people's lives. In the past two decades of rapid economic development, people's living standards have been changing, and the issues they face have become increasingly prominent. From the conflicts between children caused by the older generation's raising children to protect themselves in old age, to the new generation's children leaving, and the retirement choices faced by empty-nesters, under the background of the times, this condensed story of two generations of elder care, as well as the changes in the concept of elder care, shows the choices of the two generations when facing elder care issues.

People in the Center of the Earth

Tongmo

206K0

Shortlisted for the 7th Blancpain Utopia Literary Award, Tong Mo's stunning new novel. For centuries, in the mountains of Sipigahuo, in the alpine pastures and vast forests, in eagle's nest-like houses and beside fire pits, these black humans who call themselves Nuosu have lived. They call themselves "people from the center of the earth." In the 1930s, in Daliang Mountain, a slave named "Tieha" decided to escape. From Sipi Gahuo to Shanlinggang, he witnessed the continuous sinking of the mountains and the world. The "Guardian" Enza is gradually lost in the cycle of sobriety and confusion, and the greedy Oche is constantly plundering. The "Daughter of Zmo" is forced to walk into Deblomo with "hope", hoping to arouse the new life of the mountain... The story of Zizinizha is not history, but it will become the mother of history.

Wild Chrysanthemums Falling in a Foreign Land

Wax Man

97K0

Through the adventurous love life experience of a vain woman, it tells a story about the different twists and turns of life that several women experienced in a factory branch, which reflects different changes in humanistic spiritual thoughts, and several women who hold different attitudes towards love and marriage.

Escape from Marriage

Escape from Marriage

General Fiction

Dreams Give Birth To Flowers

317K0

"Escape from Marriage" is set in the early 1990s and tells the story of rural girl Li Xiaohong who bravely escapes from marriage in pursuit of freedom and love. Li Xiaohong originally wanted to change her brother's marriage, but she was unwilling to accept the arrangement of fate and decided to flee her hometown and go to Longcheng. In Longcheng, she and Zhao Qilei supported each other, and at the same time started a tortuous love affair with Ma Mingjie, the second-generation rich man. However, Ma Mingjie's family strongly opposed their being together, and Gao Jiajia's intervention made the relationship full of twists and turns. Li Xiaohong experienced many difficulties in love and career, and was fired from her job many times. Zhao Qilei was always by her side, and their relationship gradually heated up. In the end, with the help of Zhou Haiyan, Li Xiaohong's career improved, and she recognized her own heart, and came together with Zhao Qilei to welcome a new life together.

Howling Miller

Howling Miller

General Fiction

(finn) Ato Pasirina

109K0

Shortly after World War II, a man who called himself Gunnar Hutunen came to a small town in the Lapland region of northern Finland. He bought the local mill by the river and worked diligently there. In the dead of night, Gunnar often couldn't help but imitate animal howls. People in the village could not tolerate his abnormality, so doctors and police teamed up to send him to a mental hospital. In order to defend the freedom of howling, Gunnar went through many difficulties and dangers, and finally escaped to the mountains and forests, becoming a legend in the village. The absurd stories in the village seem to reflect the microcosm of everyone's cramped living environment. After the novel came out, it became very popular in Europe and has been adapted into movies, comics, songs and other art forms several times.

Island

Island

General Fiction

I

218K0

"Island" tells an epic and moving story about family, romance, war, illness and history that took place in Greece - over the years, Alexis discovered that her mother had always been too guarded about her past, not only burying her roots, but also trampling the soil above them. Alexis decided to open up her mother's dusty past. She came to a small town on the Aegean Sea and landed on a desolate island called Spinalonga. This was once an isolated island where lepers were imprisoned. It was a place that made the town, the Aegean Sea, and even the whole of Europe talk about it. It was also a forbidden place for mothers. The forbidden land is opened, and this seemingly abandoned island reveals unexpected bright vitality, and an astonishing secret that has been dormant for half a century is about to emerge... This is the story of Alexis' great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters. This family is torn apart by tragedy, war and passion. This story is about dreams and desires, but also about a secret that is trying to be hidden, and the indelible impact of leprosy on a family for generations. It tells how those brave people looked for hope in despair, and finally discovered that: we are ups and downs in the world, constantly struggling, just to live a calm life.

Looking for a Couple

Looking for a Couple

General Fiction

Lady Chang Geng

433K0

This book describes in detail from the summer of 1999 to the autumn of 2017, a rural girl from Zhejiang, nicknamed "Heipi", graduated from Shanghai in the east and went to Shenzhen in the south to seek development, and later went to Yunnan to teach. After more than ten years of hard work, she grew from a good girl who just wanted to help her original family get rid of poverty to a strong woman with a deep understanding of love and life.

Northwest Wind

Northwest Wind

General Fiction

Li Xueping

177K0

This is a novel that describes the life of several young people in the Northwest after joining the army in the 1970s and 1980s. It deeply eulogizes their perseverance, bravery and dedication for national defense in the extremely difficult environment of the alpine and remote areas, and used their youthful sweat to create an everlasting military soul. The author vividly describes the little-known aspects of thoughts, emotions and family feelings involved in the growth of soldiers in the military camp. He is deeply loyal, has no trace of the cold moon, does not seek fame or fortune, and is willing to be an unknown hero, which is touching.

House of Light

House of Light

General Fiction

Sugar Bandit

127K0

At the end of winter this year, Zhan Meng boarded a boat bound for Orange Island. Orange Island was not her destination, there was no place she wanted to or could even go. There was no road in front of Orange Island, only the sea, and she was trapped here. Zhanmeng was rescued and taken in by a stranger. Her takers didn't ask about her origins and didn't seem truly prepared for her arrival. Hastily, they decide to get into each other's lives before they even know each other's names. The stranger's name was Ding Mo, and he took Zhan Meng back to his home, a place called "Light House". Astronauts disposing of corpses, a crazy dolphin without a name, a restaurant called the Spare Rib Restaurant. The island that goes to sleep when winter comes... Everything, while accommodating everyone's thoughts, gradually becomes clear in the movement of light...

Wild Color

Wild Color

General Fiction

Sonam Gave Way

115K0

During the grazing transition one year, a cow of Naren, a reckless and arrogant young shepherd, calved on the road and gave birth to a "little demon" with great difficulty - a bull with ominous human eyes and who was intelligent and capable of thinking. Xiaoyao's mother suffered from severe bleeding due to giving birth to Xiaoyao, and was abandoned mercilessly by Naren. The little demon shed tears and sorrow for his mother, felt deeply disappointed for his tribe, had extremely painful thoughts about his own identity, and developed a complex and strong hatred for Naren. In the process of constantly running away and being found again, it gradually understands that the meaning of life is not in the past, but for the present and the future. For Naren, what came with the cow was that he and his friends were involved in an emotional whirlpool with a strange woman they met in a distant place. The earth is vast, the wilderness is boundless, the loneliness is like a shadow, and the desires are hard to fill...

Stagnant Water

Stagnant Water

General Fiction

Li Jieren

136K0

"Still Water Waves" is set in Tianhui Town on the outskirts of Chengdu, and revolves around the grievances, love and hatred of Deng Yaogu, Luo Waizui, and Gu Tiancheng. Deng Yaogu aspired to become a rich wife in Chengdu, but was forced to marry Cai Xingshun, a grocery store owner, due to family circumstances. Cai Xingshun's cousin Luo Waizui was the leader of Pao Ge. He often came to the store and gradually fell in love with Cai's wife and had an affair. Luo Waizui brought back a woman, Liu Sanjin, who defrauded Gu Tiancheng of money, and before leaving, he also matched up with Luo Waizui and Sister Cai. After being hit by this blow, Gu Tiancheng defected to the "foreign religion" and took advantage of the Eight-Power Allied Forces' annihilation of the Boxer Rebellion to frame Luo Waizui. Luo Waizui was forced to flee... The novel revolves around the fate and emotional trajectory of Sister Cai, showing the constraints and growth of the government, Pao Ge, foreigners and other forces. It reflects the changes in the style and customs of the times under the invasion of foreign forces at that time, and can be called a visual "modern history of novels".

Shuri No Horse

Shuri No Horse

General Fiction

(japanese) Takayama Haneko

62K0

The protagonist, Minako, has lived in Okinawa for a long time. She is engaged in a special job, communicating with lonely practitioners at the end of the world through online Q&A, in order to help "these lonely practitioners receive regular spiritual care and emotional resonance." At the same time, Minako is also volunteering at the Local History Museum, which records and preserves Okinawa historical materials. This is something she has been doing since she was in middle school. Ms. Shun is the founder of the Local Historical Archives. As a folklore researcher, Ms. Shun has traveled all over Japan in her life. As she grew older, she made Okinawa the last stop in her life and moved there. One day, a Miyako horse accidentally entered the courtyard of Weimingzi's house. Miyako horses are native horses bred on Miyako Island and are considered a natural monument of Okinawa Prefecture. Weimingzi named the horse "ヒコーキ". The appearance of Miyako Ma gradually changed Wei Mingzi's life...

Dreaming Back to Tie Lichuan

Wang Xuzhi

508K01

The novel mainly tells the story of an ordinary worker from a mountain village, his turbulent life on the road to starting a business, and the story of how he shouldered the burden to support his hometown after gaining financial freedom. Although the protagonist is a prototype, other characters in the book are purely fictitious, so please do not take them for granted.

Grinding Iron Classics Volume 8: Death of Spring

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83K0

Regarding power, George Orwell wrote "1984" and Rodoreda wrote "The Death of Spring". In the village she built with literature, cruel customs and inertial suffering repeat themselves in cycles, dragging the spring of revival of all things into a reincarnation that will eventually wither. Rodoreda's sensitive brushwork blends the repressive and gloomy undertones of Franco's regime and Nazism into a vibrant greenery. However, repression does not mean submission, but rather a smaller and more powerful rebellion.

Beautiful World

Beautiful World

General Fiction

Tianpin

95K0

"Beautiful World" can be said to be a beautiful symphony of Beethoven's music. This book uses musical expression to stir up and down the fate of a group of people in the passage of time. In the excitement, it interprets the emotions of life and the pulse of the ups and downs of fate. Reading this book can make people's hearts bloom.

Zeno's Confession

Zeno's Confession

General Fiction

(italian) Italo Svevo

284K0

"Zeno's Confessions" is a novel that interweaves psychology and literature. The masterpiece of Italian author Italo Svivo. Through the perspective of the protagonist Zeno, the novel deeply explores people's fantasies, illusions, impressions, thinking, consciousness and behaviors, revealing the crises hidden under the appearance of reliability and the anxiety that harasses people's existence. The structure of the novel is quite ingenious. The author pretends to be a psychiatrist and announces the privacy of his patient Zeno in the preface. Because the aging Zeno no longer followed the doctor's orders to write his memoirs, the doctor's psychological analysis was forced to stop. In retaliation, the doctor disclosed Zeno's medical records. In this lengthy autobiography, the protagonist Zeno introspects in an extremely serious and detailed manner, and at the same time full of pain and self-deprecation.

Sergeant Lao Su's Marriage

Wang Shenchun

107K0

Su, a peasant girl from a mountain village, went to the city and joined the army with the dual mission of defending the motherland and changing her personal destiny. In the process of solving personal marriage problems and working hard to enter urban life, he adhered to the bottom line of life and experienced a series of emotional tests and joys and sorrows. Finally, after many hardships, he finally found the true love that suits him...

The Tide Swallows up the White Sand

Ahsen

142K0

When a person is about to die, will what he saw before his death appear before his eyes? She seemed to be dying. Eye pain, nasal cavity pain, chest pain, and heat in the back of the head. The body was dragged down heavily, pulled down, and pressed tightly. The salty and bitter water poured in from the nose, mouth and ears, eroding the body bit by bit and eating away the flesh. All this is as painful as living. The danger turns out to be so close to oneself, making one unable to guard against it. No one wants to believe it. Who pushed her here? Those are the people who brought her here, and those are the people who pushed her here. All sins have their traces.

Let Us Fall in Love

Let Us Fall in Love

General Fiction

Hainan

158K0

This work is the latest novel by Hai Nan, a famous contemporary Chinese writer. The author uses poetic writing style and first-person narrative perspective to easily describe the life story and spiritual growth of an ordinary Chinese woman from childhood to youth to middle-aged and elderly people. The work carries not only a simple personal history, but also illuminates every important moment in China's development over the past few decades. From studying hard as a boy and dreaming of becoming an educated youth like his elder brother, to leaving his hometown alone in his youth and working in the county town to survive, to starting his own business after experiencing the renovation of the old city, and then having children, time gradually advanced to the Internet age and the smartphone age, and the protagonist "I" also unknowingly entered the second half of his life. Through the story of "my", it can awaken readers' common memories of the times and make the past years emerge clearly again. At the same time, "I" grew from a rebellious girl to the mother of a new generation of rebellious youth, which also showed intergenerational conflicts, understanding and care. It can be said that the author recorded the youth of three generations with one main line.

Narrative of Paste Mine

Zhou Fang

124K0

The story in "Gaster Mine Narrative" begins in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He Xiaoguo, Qiu Hongbing, Liu Qingsong and other characters live in a state-owned gypsum mining area. During this period, state-owned enterprises were reformed and a wave of migrant workers emerged. The once independent and self-consistent life in the mining area is also facing various ups and downs and conflicts. Running away and staying behind, love and desire, faith and money. Everyone experiences the storms of the times. They both have a clear mark of the times and their own distinct personalities. Although different characters have different personalities and destinies, their pursuit of ideals, love, and beliefs are the same. The faint light of humanity always shines. Each era has its own nostalgia, and each era has its own destiny. In "The Narrative of the Paste Mine", the author writes about the changes of the times and the characters in the changes: their living conditions, life courses, and spiritual temperaments.

Water Man

Water Man

General Fiction

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232K0

"Water Man" is the story of a "frustrated person". The protagonist Trimpel is "not established at thirty": he got divorced and lost his wife and best friend at the same time; he delayed his graduation and muddled through his thesis; he suffered from a hidden disease, but he was timid and did not dare to undergo surgery. He seemed to be careless and uncaring, and continued his frustrated life heartlessly, becoming a hollow man filled with straw. However, after leaving without saying goodbye again, he no longer wanted to be a member of the paralysis. He wants to slap the moldy pillow and let the dreams fly out of the feathers again.

Northeast Prison Experience Record

How Happy Is Life

99K02

This is a semi-autobiographical novel. The author mainly wants to give a warning to all those who wander on the edge of the law by describing his three-year prison sentence. Once imprisoned, he will regret it for life. This novel has nothing to do with romance, nor does it want to attract people's attention. It only uses joking language to record the author's real prison life.

Getaway

Getaway

General Fiction

Ban Yu

138K0

"Xiaoyaoyou" is Ban Yu's second novel collection after "Winter Swimming". It includes seven short and medium-length works with different styles and a story time span spanning thirty years. In Ban Yu's works, the down-and-out novelist, the man raising ants, the sick girl, the lover chasing the comet, the father who disappeared in time... The adventurers in fate and life, inhabiting the thunder, wading into the clouds, walking at night with candlelight, illuminating the mountains, seas and wind. His works have won the first short story award in the "Harvest" literary list, the annual short story in the Huadi Literature List, the first prize in the novella at the Chinese Young Writers Award, the short story award at the Cao Xueqin Chinese Literature Award, and the 6th "Golden Short Story" Novel Award in "Writer" magazine.

My Struggle (six Volumes in Total)

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2.4M0

Norwegian writer Carl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel "Mein Kampf" has nothing to do with Hitler's ambitions. It is the author's autobiography of his growth and life for more than 40 years. The themes of the six volumes are death, love, childhood, youth, dreams, and thinking. The book uses a flowing style to describe ordinary life, which is straightforward and frank, with "masochistic truth and triviality", and also shows touching sensitivity in the daily details.

My Struggle 6: Finale

My Struggle 6: Finale

General Fiction

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777K0

Norwegian writer Carl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel "Mein Kampf" has nothing to do with Hitler's ambitions. It is the author's autobiography of his growth and life for more than 40 years. The themes of the six volumes are death, love, childhood, youth, dreams, and thinking. The book uses a flowing style to describe ordinary life, which is straightforward and frank, with "masochistic truth and triviality", and also shows touching sensitivity in the daily details. This book is the last part of the "Mein Kampf" series. Like a falling boulder, it completely stirs up the reader's memory and understanding of the first five parts. Beginning with the unhappiness and controversy that aroused among family and friends when the first book was published, and ending with his wife Linda's treatment and recovery from depression, it includes four hundred pages of meditations on Hitler, Nazism, and the nature of evil, as well as a close reading of a poem by Paul Celan about the Holocaust. The book intersperses between the individual's external world and the internal world, exploring the irreconcilable tension between literature and reality, private and public boundaries, and individual life and social forces.

Four Generations Living under One Roof (part 1)

Lao She

367K0

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is a novel written by the Chinese writer Lao She. "Four Generations Under One House" tells the story of the era when the Marco Polo Bridge Incident broke out and Peking fell. It takes the lives of four generations of the Qi family under one roof as the main line. It vividly and vividly depicts the ups and downs, life and death of people from all walks of life and all kinds of people represented by the residents of Xiaoyangquan Hutong. This book narrates the tragic experience of the vast number of civilians under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders in the abnormal world after the fall of Peiping. The uneasiness, panic and shock after the ancient and peaceful life of the school was broken. It lashes out the ugly souls of the perpetrators who are attached to the enemy, exposes the brutal crimes of Japanese militarism, and reflects the common people. The heroic and fearless resistance in the face of a powerful enemy eulogized and promoted the great patriotism and steadfast and noble national integrity of the Chinese people. It epically demonstrated the outstanding contributions made by the Chinese people to the world anti-fascist war during the Second World War. It was magnificent and evocative.

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