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"Penicillin" is a collection of novellas written by Yin Xueyun, the winner of the Lu Xun Literature Prize. It is one of the "Youdu Mei Chapter" series of our publisher. It includes five works: "Penicillin", "Dongshan Seal", "Limonium", "Gray Pigeon" and "April is Just Right". Through the description of the marketplace that happened in Xuncheng and Hancun Life and family trivial matters pay attention to the current real life, from the countryside to the city, from intellectuals to officialdom, outline a rich picture of rural characters, narrate the darkness of human nature, narrate the changes in human relationships in the countryside from the changes in the world, and express the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. It can be said that the lives and destiny of these characters are the epitome of contemporary social reality, from which readers can see the social phenomena, life styles, characters' destiny and the changes of the times in China today.

"Out of Control" is a collection of novels, including recent novellas "Out of Control", "Cao Dewan Goes Out to Find Love", "Garcia's Stone", "Adjust Breathing", "Brine to Order Tofu", "Listen to a Widow" and other short and medium-length novels published in major publications, including Lu Xun Literature Award winner Qiu Shanshan's novella "Water and Sky One Color". These works have broad themes, diverse styles, focus on reality, and demonstrate a writer's skillful creative ability.

"Dragon Gate" is the latest novel collection by Hu Wenxue, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award. It has a total of 220,000 words, is hardcover, and contains 11 short and medium-sized novels. "Dragon Gate", as the opening chapter of the novel collection, links together some independent ordinary people through an unsolved case more than 20 years ago. More than 20 years ago, Haiyan Electronics Factory was stolen and employee Pang Youliang was missing and has been listed as the prime suspect. More than twenty years later, Mao Tou's father, a terminal cancer patient, finally surrendered to the police in order to reduce Mao Tou's guilt. The theft case of Haiyan Electronics Factory was finally solved. Where did Pang Youliang go, who was the accomplice, He Hongmei's love life, and the criminal police captain... Were all revealed. The ordinary people in the city are running on their own life track, and it goes without saying that they have ups and downs, joys and sorrows. Although the emotional entanglements of ordinary people in the market are not romantic, their simplicity and pyrotechnic atmosphere make people feel more real. The case is interspersed with the narrative of daily life. The intermittent narrative makes people unable to let go of their curiosity, and the main line of the story is looming.

A crab-like old man, a lady as strong as an ox, a wild cat resurrected from the dead, a wall stained with water to express wishes, a glowing and bouncing watermelon, a singing and dancing leaf, a flickering but undying candle, a monster who stole a knife and returned it specially... The abandoned house in the forest seems peaceful, but those who come here to pursue dreams know the secrets. This book is a collection of Izumi Kyoka's short and medium stories, including four representative works. The work is rooted in Japanese folk customs, inherits the lineage of Edo monsters, and draws on the nested structure of Noh ballads to tell ethereal and bizarre stories, depicting the ugliness, joys and sorrows of the world.

The famous writer Fan Xiaoqing's new novella collection includes five novels, including "Traces Everywhere", "Gui Wu's Journey", "Side A and B", "City Trap" and "Don't Ask Me Where I Am". Fan Xiaoqing is good at structuring the plot in an ups and downs, ups and downs, and the novel is full of interest and waves. The broken time and broken scenes, like a montage, create an urgent atmosphere with a strong sense of picture. The novel is cloaked in suspense and aims to "come from the world and go into the soul", revealing the absurdity of reality in seemingly ordinary daily life, and salvaging the hidden human fluctuations in ordinary people and little people, thus pointing directly at the issue of human subjectivity.

"The Fragrance of Pine Wood" is a collection of Wanma Tseden's posthumous novels. It collects and organizes the representative works of Wanma Tseden that are of great significance in different stages of literary creation as a novelist, such as the unpublished posthumous novel "The Fragrance of Pine Wood", his debut novel "Man and Dog", and the famous Chinese novel "Wandering Song" "The Dream of the Hand", the original novel of the movie "Searching for Wisdom and Beauty", etc... The titles of the chapters were compiled and selected by the young director Kumi Seiretsu, the son of Wanma Tseden, with the preface and postscript of the commemorative articles written by Kumi Seiretsu and Chen Danqing, trying to restore a truly sincere, talented, innocent and compassionate writer and his literary legacy. The exotic sheep that came by plane and were highly anticipated, the street singer who has been looking for the girl of his dreams, the transparent snow mountain elf, the love story of a boy who turns to the sun and the moon, the road movie of pursuit... From the creatures in the snow mountains to the wind and frost in Tibet, from words and sounds to pictures and images, we go upstream and pick up only half of the story. Through words, we once again reach the inner artistic world of Wanma Caidan, and once again see the "lotus with tenacious vitality" in the pure land.

In this absurd world, you can only survive by turning yourself into a madman. "Kappa" is the masterpiece of the Japanese genius writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and it is also the suicide note he wrote to the world with all his efforts. The story uses the country of kappa to reflect the real human society, showing the author's worries and unspeakable confusion about human social life. The book includes six representative works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's gloomy old age, including "Kappa", "A Fool's Life" and "Genkaku Sanbo", leading readers to face the fierce conflict between human nature and realistic choices, and to find the destination of their souls in the gap of despair.

If you are feeling lonely, or you have ever felt that you are invisible; if being alone makes you more courageous, or you are secretly longing for solitude: you are welcome to read this "Collection of Lonely Stories". While talking about loneliness is often taboo and even shameful, there's no denying that we all experience it from time to time. This book invites twenty-one well-known contemporary American writers to write around "loneliness" and share their personal experiences, providing readers with a series of entry points, touching on issues such as loneliness and gender, sexuality, addiction, immigration, insecurity, disease, etc. Particularly worth mentioning are the many articles discussing "female loneliness" in the book. Our society expects women to bring everything together socially and emotionally, and treats women who enjoy solitude as witches or freaks. Therefore, providing more space for women to examine and accept their loneliness is an urgent task. The writing of this book began before the pandemic, but much of it was written during the long period of isolation. During that tense period of isolation, the original intention of writing this book resonated even more strongly, and the healing it provided became more necessary. Twenty-one writers took turns trying to immerse themselves in loneliness, trying not to be addicted to loneliness, and enriching themselves through "self-discovery". Reading their articles can help alleviate some of our loneliness and remind us to be gentle with loneliness.

Colm Tóibín's first collection of short stories focuses on the eternal human topic of the "mother-son" relationship, telling various stories arising from this complex relationship from different perspectives. Each of the nine short stories centers on the relationship between mother and son, capturing a transformative moment. At that moment, the delicate balance between mother and son is broken, or their understanding of each other changes. A man buried his mother and washed away the sorrow in his heart with a night of indulgence; a famous singer conquered the audience, but could not please the son present who had not seen him for many years. And in "The Long Winter," the last and best story in the book, a young man searches for his runaway mother in the snow-covered mountains. Tóibín meticulously, elegantly and fluently depicts men and women of all stripes who are trapped by convention, subject to unspeakable emotions and unable to escape the shadows of the past. Many people are helplessly stuck in the quagmire of life with no other choice. Through these stories, Tobin accurately demonstrates human fragility and longing, which is shocking and unforgettable. Everyone can gain spiritual comfort, inspiration, and courage to face life from reading these short stories.

A complete collection of Nabokov's short stories, the "magician of words" - "these short stories are miracles of English literature". 68 Short stories in different styles, edited by Nabokov's son Dmitry in chronological order. The man at the desk at night is disturbed by an uninvited guest, who turns out to be a wood elf from his hometown; the long-lost son reunites with his mother, but appears at an extremely embarrassing moment; the exiled barber named "Razor" shaves the man who once persecuted him; the groom has to report the bride's death to his father-in-law after the honeymoon; A shy dreamer makes a soul-deal with the devil... In these dark and magical stories, Nabokov perfectly demonstrates dazzling novel techniques, wild imagination and intellectual games, and fascinating insights into the unavoidable ambiguity and loss in life. They are called "the miracle of English literature".

"That Green: A Collection of Gao Bo's Literary Works" is a collection of novels. The author's military career lasted 19 years. In the army, he worked as a news and publicity officer and received a profound education about the Anti-Japanese War and the ten-year civil war. He was deeply moved by the deeds of those brave commanders and fighters back then. I believe that this heroic spirit of sacrifice for the country should be passed down. Through short stories, the author truly restores the scenes of the year, allowing people living in the 21st century to experience the shocking scenes of the year without forgetting history and national humiliation.

"Yi Zi Qing Jing" is a collection of short stories by best-selling author Wu Maoyang. This book consists of 6 short stories. The portrayal of women in this book, whether they are beautiful or not, has a dream-like attraction, like women walking through the mist, pale, sad, absolutely lonely, with a hint of ghostly charm, telling their own touching stories.

Voltaire was a leading figure in the French bourgeois Enlightenment in the eighteenth century and was known as the "King of French Thought." Voltaire was mainly engaged in drama creation throughout his life and wrote more than 50 plays, most of which were tragedies. The most valuable of his literary works are philosophical novels. This is a new genre he created, using a joking tone to tell absurd stories, alluding to and satirizing reality, and elucidating profound philosophies. "Selected Novels of Voltaire: A Collection of Short Philosophical Stories" includes classic novels such as "The World Like This", "Little Big Man", "Menon", "White and Black", "Yeno and Gauland", "Two Comforted People", "The Story of a Kind Brahmin". This book is a public edition, compiled by China Edition Group Digital Media Co., Ltd., And is not an imported edition.

"Selected Short Stories of Hemingway" collects many of Hemingway's most representative short stories, including "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Mountains Like White Elephants", "Indian Camp", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "Cat in the Rain", "The Boxer", "The Doctor and his Couple", etc. Among all Hemingway's works, it was not his novels that made him famous the earliest, but these extraordinary short stories. These short stories are mainly declarative sentences, with precise descriptions, short dialogues, limited revelations, a combination of fiction and reality, and endless meanings. They convey infinite connotations in a limited space and perfectly present Hemingway at his peak: precision, restraint, mystery, and sadness. This book is a public edition, compiled by China Edition Group Digital Media Co., Ltd., And is not an imported edition.

"Rou Shi Short Story Collection" collects Rou Shi's short stories "A Spring Afternoon", "The Executioner's Story", etc. Mr. Rou Shi was actively engaged in the New Culture Movement throughout his life, awakening people's revolutionary awareness of concern for the country and the people. His representative works include the short story collection "Madman", "Hope", "Mother of a Slave", the novella "February", "Three Sisters", etc. Sponsored progressive periodicals such as Chaohua and Yusi. In the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), he was betrayed by a traitor and was arrested by the Kuomintang military police. After that, he and 23 comrades including Yin Fu and Ouyang Li'an were secretly killed.

"Rou Shi's Novella Collection" collects Rou Shi's novellas "Three Sisters", "February", etc. Mr. Rou Shi was actively engaged in the New Culture Movement throughout his life, awakening people's revolutionary awareness of concern for the country and the people. His representative works include the short story collection "Madman", "Hope", "Mother of a Slave", the novella "February", "Three Sisters", etc. Sponsored progressive periodicals such as Chaohua and Yusi. In the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), he was betrayed by a traitor and was arrested by the Kuomintang military police. After that, he and 23 comrades including Yin Fu and Ouyang Li'an were secretly killed.

Macho chauvinism is actually hurting men, and thereby hurting all intimate relationships. The New York Times Book of the Year. 10 Stories, as fathers, lovers or former lovers, the protagonists tell what it means to be a man, and try to answer the shackles and fetters that gender identity brings to men and women. "Becoming a Man": In his country, to become a man, you must first become a soldier, but no one cares how far a boy has to go to become a man. "Juscia on the Roof": After "death" once, he was ignored by his family because of the birth of his grandson. He wanted to become a newborn without the constraints of traditional concepts. "I Sleep But My Heart Is Awake": The daughter inherited her late father's apartment and accidentally "inherited a strange man in her father's apartment." She looked at this strange apartment and found that she had never really known her father.

"Zhaoqiao Village" describes the romance of seasons and nature, and "In Russia" records the millennium of studying abroad life. This time, writer Gu Xiang brings a new novel collection "Honest and Good People", which includes eleven short and medium-length works that she has written in recent years. The swallow seller, the former lover in Peace Park, the old man in the suburbs of Shanghai, friends at the music festival, urban white-collar workers whose rented house caught fire, students in love in a foreign country... These people suddenly appeared and disappeared, like a bunch of mushrooms, a tree, a gust of wind, a planet, just like everything in the universe. They live clumsily and honestly, seeking a little love and comfort in the storms of the world. There are always one or two sad things hidden in their seemingly peaceful daily lives. Gu Xiang's brushwork seems light and comfortable, but it expresses the weight and unwillingness of life.

"I hope that my novel is like a wild fruit, like a wild vegetable. I found it growing there, so I picked it." "Bold Use of Green" is a new and expanded edition of novelist Tan Bo's first work. It contains 53 short stories, 10 of which are new. Each of the original stories has been carefully polished and revised with careful consideration of words and sentences. In these novels, the author writes about the strange people and various aspects of life in the northern towns and cities with passionate, controlled and heartfelt emotions. He captures the subtle moments that make people's hearts tremble, and describes the ups and downs of the lives of people in this world. Under the simple and concise words, there are stories that are still unspeakable, showing the embarrassment and absurdity of life, sadness and humor, plainness and profoundness, down-to-earthness, and seeing all living beings. The author gives full play to the potential of the short story format, manipulates the knife of fiction with his extraordinary imagination, and explores and practices the form of short stories to the extreme. He treats words patiently and humbly. Each piece is exquisitely conceived but light, showing precise control and soul-stirring energy, conveying the profound confusion and truth of life amidst worldly fireworks and market legends.

"Rashomon" collects many short stories by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, represented by "Rashomon" and "In the Bamboo Forest". It uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying Akutagawa's feelings. Ryunosuke's helplessness and despair towards human nature also shows that in a one-dimensional society, people living in it have become one-dimensional people. Such people have lost their freedom and creativity and no longer imagine or pursue another life different from real life.

Every small town has a few beauties who are "household names". In the late 1980s, there were three famous beauties in "my" hometown: He Li, Lina, and Hongxia. They were born beautiful, but they did not receive the favor of fate because of this; they brought the enlightenment of beauty and youthful nostalgia to the small town, and also attracted people's curious prying eyes and rumors. Over the past thirty years, amid the great changes of the times and the twists and turns of fate, the beauties seemed weak and unable to drift with the tide, but they persisted in life and tried their best to pursue their own happiness, settling into another history of the place. "Beauty" is a work by the writer Zhang Huiwen looking back at her hometown after living overseas for more than ten years. It uses the legendary life and series of stories of the beauty in a small town in northern China to reflect the great historical changes since China's social transformation at the end of the 20th century. It traces the unique growth process and life experience of a generation of Chinese women, and awakens the flexible and unbreakable female power that comes from simple vitality.

"Hell Change" collects many short stories by Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, represented by "Hell Change", which expresses the life destiny of a lonely person who pursues art for art's sake, fully displaying the lonely core and death fantasy in Akutagawa's works. From a unique narrative perspective, Akutagawa coldly satirizes the modern social psychology of "others are hell" and is thought-provoking.

"Southern Bach" contains eight short stories and short stories written by Zheng Xiaolu, including "Southern Bach", "Hengyang Brand Tractor" and "The Last Breath". The novel takes search as the theme, is based on the countryside and cities of Hunan, incorporates social reality into the theme of creation, and targets the undercurrents of daily life: It shows the cunning of the adult world, people's secret desires, and the confusion of young people in small towns. It shows the survival dilemma of young girls and discusses the eternal propositions of life and death. It accurately transforms the author's observations of the real world into fictional stories to analyze the times and illuminate the dark humanity. Zheng Xiaolu's writing style is concise, his narrative is vigorous, his cruelty reveals poetry and kindness, and he has the power to directly touch people's hearts.

In the land of China in the 1900s, the lives of women walking and wandering: in late spring in Shanghai, a female college student in the drama department debated her script with others on the rooftop; a woman who came to the town after the summer flash floods to look for her lover, but decided to break up with her; in the increasingly intense autumn, the wife of a foreign crew member who was obsessed with finding her missing husband; in the vast northern city in winter, the daughter chose to give up the past and face her terminally ill father alone. The passage of time and the passage of time have brought about changes in their lives and destiny. Their memories, their actions, and their hidden past form the rich emotional tension of this novel collection, and also converge into the voice of the current era.

"The Pit" is a collection of short stories and short stories by the master of Russian literature Andrei Platonov. The novel "The Pit" of the same name is a landmark novella by Platonov full of ideological depth and artistic innovation. This novel, "Gradov City", "A Beautiful and Furious World" and "Makar with Doubts" are all Platonov's early masterpieces, which combine symbolism and realism. Through in-depth observation and thinking of real life, the writer uses plain language and humorous and joking style to depict allegorical pictures, exploring philosophical issues such as ideal and reality, material and spiritual, individual and collective, etc., Reflecting his thoughts on the fate and future of mankind. "Flo", "July Thunderstorm", "Return" and "The Third Son" are all Platonov's later masterpieces. These novels focus on themes such as love and family affection, reveal a natural, simple and restrained artistic style, deeply explore the subtleties of human nature, and conduct a profound analysis of social changes.

The original story of the film "Fertile Soil" directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. When my grandfather passed away, I was only ten years old. I still have an impression of the scene at that time, but it was just the flowers blooming and falling that I witnessed when I was young. After I turned forty, I felt nostalgic. My grandfather loved me so much, but I often disliked him, which made me regretful. Life and death are so vast, where can I express my thoughts? This kind of knot prompted me to write "Grandpa's Tricks" in one breath. Words are such wonderful things. After writing them, I felt that the worlds of life and death were connected. Death is not such a terrible and decisive thing. In the time and space we cannot see, love continues. It can be said that death is another kind of life.

"The Gift of the Magi" is a collection of O. Henry's short stories, which selects seventeen of O. Henry's representative short stories, including "The Cop and the Hymn," "The Gift of the Magi," "The Child in the Jungle," "The Drunkard's Will," and "The Double Liar." O. Henry's novels display ironic compassion, unique humor and an ending that is never predictable. O. Henry's works can give you an unexpected ending every time, leaving you stunned and leaving you alone to think, cry and smile alone.

Moments, plastic surgery, ambiguity... Labels unique to this era, what do we see in this era? What do you feel? Nowadays, appearance has become the most important thing for young girls. When those legendary Internet celebrities who "become famous overnight" fill our eyes and ears, what kind of heart and belief should we use to calm ourselves? The greenness of first love, the helplessness of not seeing each other for a long time, the beauty of meeting the right person, love nourishes everyone's heart. But sometimes we miss love before we understand what love is. Everyone needs love, everyone can have love, but we need to understand what love is and where it is waiting for you. How do modern urban women evaluate themselves correctly and treat themselves with a normal heart? A polite compliment from others will make you feel happy. As a woman, do you really see clearly what true friendship is and what is an exaggerated appearance? In the chaotic world, the editor-in-chief of YOLO uses his pen as a boat to control the trickle of 24 short novels, leading us through the vanity of friends, the confusion of plastic surgery, and the pursuit of love, until we discover the overlooked beauty in life.

"About Love" - ​​Love and life in Chekhov's works. This book collects ten Chekhov short stories with the theme of love. By depicting the subtle psychology of men, women, old and young when facing love, it explores how love occurs and how it ends. Chekhov described various forms of love that have disappeared, imagined, and are about to come, ranging from expectation and warmth to absurdity and ridicule, as well as powerlessness and embarrassment. In these stories, we can see the dilemmas faced by people's hearts and their perceptions of life under the context of love. Chekhov tells us through his novels that facing love is facing life, and whether the ending is happy or unsolvable has been unpredictable since ancient times. However, the most important thing is whether you can capture the touching moment when love first comes, because that may be the opportunity to seize the opportunity to renovate your life. As to what the answer is, Chekhov leaves it up to the reader to find out.

"The Wall" is combined with three short stories "The Bedroom", "Aerostratus", "Secrets of the Boudoir" and a novella "The Childhood of a Business Owner" to form a collection of short stories and short stories. It tells the story of three International Brigade members who were sentenced to be shot by the enemy during the Spanish Civil War while waiting all night. One of them is frightened to the point of going crazy, the other is barely holding on, and the protagonist "I" has a very complicated mood: I hate the various abnormalities of my comrades, but I can't resolve the melancholy in my heart. During the countdown to life, he truly realized the preciousness of life through intermittent memories, and regretted endlessly for squandering his youth and thinking that he could live forever. The five works put forward a basic proposition of existentialism: people are free, and their destiny depends on their own choices.

This book is a collection of Zhong Ermao's themed novels, including 11 short stories and short stories published by the author in recent literary journals such as "Contemporary", "October", "Writer", and "Yangtze River Literature and Art", some of which have been selected for publication. Novels such as "Good Night", "Two Fathers", "A Gun and a Rooster" and "Fortress", which are concentrated in the novels, penetrate into the depths of urban space from different angles. Through the writing of deeply social themes such as home buying, childcare, elderly care and even euthanasia, it shows how contemporary people are lost in the urban forest. And breakthrough, sinking and redemption; especially looking at the inner dilemma of the "middle class" group - after defeating poverty, solving the problems of survival and food and clothing, and even achieving self-realization to a certain extent, why do they still feel bound, helpless and in deeper pain? While raising questions, the work also uses vivid stories close to the lives of contemporary urban people to arouse readers' inner emotional resonance and self-examination.

This book is titled "Selected Short Stories by Xu Kun (Chinese-English)", including the short stories "Kitchen" and "Encountering Love", and the novella "Young Friends Come to Meet". Xu Kun is the deputy editor-in-chief of "People's Literature" magazine. He has published more than 5 million words of works and won the second Lu Xun Literature Award and the first Feng Mu Award. The translations of the selected works in this book were revised eight times and polished many times by Canadian writer Dougals Roy. They were highly praised by the editor-in-chief of the famous literary journal "Asia Literary Review". It can be used as a teaching material for translation majors in colleges and universities, as a reading list for students taking postgraduate entrance examinations, and as extracurricular reading for students.

This was a concentrated burst of Lu Xun's suppressed romantic passion. He wrote eight imaginative short stories based on ancient myths and historical legends. The protagonists of the novel include heroes from ancient myths, such as Hou Yi who shot the sun, Nu Wa who created humans, and Dayu who controlled the floods, as well as ancient saints and sages, such as Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, and Zhuangzi. They all have some sacred auras about them. Lu Xun had a sudden thought: If such heroes and sages with sacred auras one day walked among the common people and became ordinary people, gods became human beings, and saints became ordinary people, what strange encounters and strange fates would they have? The entire "New Story" revolves around this weird imagination. Lu Xun's leading scholar Qian Liqun interprets each chapter, leading us into Lu Xun's true spiritual realm. To understand Lu Xun is to understand our society and these people!

The novel collection "Late Spring Love Stories" contains 6 short stories and short stories written by Han Songluo from 2022 to 2023, totaling 150,000 words. Three of them have been published by the magazine's current headlines: "A Love Song to Remi Young" and "Late Spring Love Words" are the current headlines of "Tianya" and "Mountain Flowers". "My Father's House of Imagination" was published in "Flower City" magazine and has been selected into various major magazines. It was listed on the 2021 Harvest Literature List, ranking fourth, and is negotiating for film and television rights. "Fish Tank and Sunlight" will be published by "Harvest" magazine in November 2023, and "The Golden Age of Remi Young" will be published by "Fangcao" magazine in January 2024.

"Only Water is Young" is a collection of novellas by writer Lin Sen. It is a "Heart Sea" trilogy that describes the coexistence and symbiosis of the sea, islands and fishermen. They take the "change" and "constancy" of Hainan fishing villages as the starting point, integrate fables, local chronicles, personal history and contemporary experience into a complex integration, telling the life comparison and spiritual dialogue of several generations of fishermen. The hardships of surviving in the sea during peacetime, and the sustenance of family and country coexisting with the island in emergency times. These strong memories of the South China Sea for hundreds of years are vividly laid out by the author, full of human fireworks.

This book is a collection of 43 novels about animals as metaphors written by the writer Yi Shui. Many of them have been published in domestic provincial literary journals, such as "Young Writers", "Chinese Literature", "Western", "Oasis", "Yellow River Literature", "Guangxi Literature", "Anhui Literature", "Shandong Literature", etc. The writer uses rich imagination and humorous and fluent language to construct an animal world. What is said to be an animal world is actually a metaphor for the real world. The in-depth analysis and exploration of human nature in the Clothing and Water Animals series of novels has a distinct contemporary character, and is also more modern and realistic.

In the past thirty years, five ladies have grown old together and entered their octogenarian years hand in hand. They gather together every month to share "ladies' luncheons" where they plan for each other's life difficulties, tell interesting stories about each other's encounters, and develop insights into friendship, aging and death. Sometimes they battle wits with caregivers just to get a bite of bread that is high in oil and sugar; sometimes they try to drive to rescue their companions who are sent to a nursing home in a whimsical way, although in the end they are unable to renew their driver's licenses due to vision problems; sometimes they forget the theme of the party and only find out in the end that it is a funeral. In addition, there is also the overwhelming burden that the dust of history recorded by the author weighs on ordinary people. She experienced World War II at the age of ten and was forced to flee to a foreign country. She was unfortunately infected with COVID-19 in her later years. She wrote about what she witnessed with her own eyes, but it is also affectionate, warm and touching.

"Hot Night Dreams": In the 19th century, on the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi River was filled with the dreams of all boatmen. Countless steamships chase each other on this arterial waterway, competing for money and honors, with long whistles and white smoke billowing. Just when a snow disaster almost destroyed Captain Abner Marsh's shipping career, he received a letter from a mysterious man. The promise of gold and a magnificent new ship that could make history made Captain Marsh irresistible. Joshua York came to seek cooperation and wanted to cross the majestic Mississippi River. He hoped that Marsh could help him. The only requirement was to respect his privacy and not doubt his decision, no matter how bizarre, arbitrary or abnormal his behavior seemed. Although Marsh instinctively sensed that the proposal was fraught with dangerous secrets, he decided to go all-in. They built a steamboat called "Hot Night's Dream" that perfectly matched all of Captain Marsh's dreams. It wasn't until the new ship made its maiden voyage that Marsh realized what had happened... Along the way, the "Hot Night's Dream" turned the Mississippi into a river of blood; and it itself gradually turned into a blood ship. "The Passing of Light": The protagonist Dirk is summoned by his lover who has left him long ago and comes to the planet Voron. However, Voroun is a world completely outside of Dirk's experience, and Gwen is no longer the woman he is familiar with. Surrounded by conspiracies, Dirk is increasingly unable to distinguish between his allies and enemies... In this unforgettable space opera, George R. R. Martin unfolds a chilling eternal night - a turbulent world filled with cultural conflicts, a lack of honor code, and the identities of hunter and prey are often interchanged.

This book is one of the series "Diary of Akito", among which "The Man Who Can't See His Shadow", "Why Are You Running", "You Are My Prototype" and "Transparent Life" have been published by our company. This book continues the author's consistent writing style, letting the story speak for itself, remaining silent on what readers expect, and allowing readers to resolve their hesitations on their own. This book contains more than a hundred short stories recently written by the author, most of which have been published in newspapers such as "Xinmin Evening News" and "Beijing Literature". The work uses ordinary life details as an entry point to scrutinize the appearance and mentality of Chinese people in a period of transformation and great development. The subject matter covers many fields such as society, economy, and culture, and expresses the appearance of all living beings in Chinese society in the new era. It is helpful to understand and feel the humanistic features of the current reality.

"Smell the Green Plums" is a collection of emotional and inspirational short stories. The book contains six volumes: "Those Beautiful Things", "Rear Window", "The Most Beautiful", "How Far Is Forever", "Because of Love, So Love" and "Peach Blossoms Blooming". Most of the heroes and heroines in the article are familiar figures around us, and the stories they tell are all about each other.

"The Color of Black" is a collection of country-themed short stories. The author takes the countryside in southwestern Zhejiang as the background, captures different scenes, and narrates the struggling life of farmers in the mountainous areas of southwestern Zhejiang during the historical changes of the twentieth century. While paying attention to the fate of the protagonist, the author also expresses his reluctance for his homeland and his humanistic care for the disadvantaged groups. He also pays special attention to the description of the village customs in southwestern Zhejiang. This collection of novels can be understood as the author's collection of memories of a certain period in the countryside of southwestern Zhejiang. The protagonists created in the novel are all new farmers with knowledge and ideals after the reform and opening up, with advanced ideas and challenging spirit. Among them, "Black Color" won the short story gold medal in the Second Lishui Literary Grand Prix.

"The Rose of Love" is a collection of emotional and inspirational short stories. The content includes five volumes: A Flowering Tree, No Going Back, Those Beautiful Things, Those Loves, and Many Years of Love. Most of the heroes and heroines in the article are familiar figures around us, and the stories they tell are all about each other.

Yu Hua's new book! You must go out and compete with the world! Yu Hua became a famous work! Let the 27-year-old Yu Hua begin to enter the history of contemporary Chinese literature. I felt that although the car was covered in bruises, its heart was still sound and warm. I know my heart is warm too. I've been looking for a hotel, but I didn't expect you to be here. The book includes ten of Yu Hua's most representative short stories, including "Going Away at the Age of Eighteen", "Blood Plum Blossoms", "Past Events and Punishment", and "This Document is for the Girl Willow", which comprehensively presents Yu Hua's writing style when he was young. "Going Away at the Age of Eighteen" writes about every young person's ideals, confusion, disillusionment and growth.

"Jumping Ship" is a collection of short stories and short stories by writer Qiu Song. This book contains several novels written by Qiu Song in recent years. These works mainly focus on Chinese people who first came to New York for business and work in the mid-19th century. It tells the story of their hard work and hard work in a foreign country. The living environment of these Chinese who traveled across the ocean was extremely difficult, and the entrepreneurial environment was very difficult. Some of them failed to start their businesses, but some of them created a new world, established businesses such as traditional Chinese medicine in foreign countries, and promoted many excellent Chinese cultures to the West. It is from this perspective that this novel tells the story of a group of daring Chinese who crossed the ocean and came to Western society in the mid-19th century to start a business. It is a collection of novels that is highly readable and has a wide range of knowledge.

The collection of novels includes stories based on rural areas in the plains, as well as creations inspired by cross-sections of the lives of overseas Chinese in foreign lands. It describes the social landscape of different eras and countries, with many tastes of sour, sweet, bitter and salty, and further explores the living environment and meaning of survival of people at different levels. In terms of reading perspective, readers have the feeling of traveling thousands of miles away.

Deep in the whirlpool of the times, observe the stories of the small town; review folk crafts and experience the various tastes of the world. This book collects a series of small town short stories and short stories written by Wei Ya in recent years, including 7 stories in total: "Town Dancer", "Town Boxer", "Town Ball King", "Town Navy", "Town Kirin" and "Town Caveman". It focuses on folk craftsmen and uses the cultural migration of small towns to reproduce the tortuous development and persistence of traditional skills in the new era. From it, we can see the spiritual aspirations of small town people and the retrospect and inheritance of folk crafts.

The legendary grandmother of the family is about to pass away, and the secret history of past immigration and the treasured time are intertwined and reappeared. In order to have a tryst and avoid surveillance, a university professor exchanges identities with a similar-looking worker, staging a campus black comedy with suspense and espionage elements. The Chinese students returned to their hometown, but became strangers because of their identity and language. They even launched a speeding chase that was almost as fast as an action movie and filled with a dead end escape. This book fully demonstrates Zhang Guixing's short and medium-length skills "beyond the full-length novel", and also allows people to see another side of him that "doesn't have much Malaysian Chineseness". Diverse scenes and local experiences collide to create a vast paradise on paper, and preciously preserve the fearless exploration attitude of a literary master in his youth.

The latest collection of novels selected by Wang Xuan, a powerful writer born after 1985. Ten stories, ten masterpieces. From the world of fireworks to the magic of cyberspace. Ye Zhou, Di An, Shi Yifeng, and Wang Chunlin unanimously recommended it. Traveling between the abyss of the city and the country roads, it is about the twilight of heroes and the depression of poets. About the release of nature and self-salvation, about cyber technology and the grave soil of hometown. This book is the latest collection of novels by the writer Wang Xuan. It contains a total of 10 short stories. The core theme is: directly addressing the dilemmas and embarrassments in contemporary people's real life, aiming to portray the heavy destiny of all living beings.

"Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2021 Novella Volume" selects more than 20 outstanding novellas in 2021, including works by writers such as Fan Xiaoqing, Ai Wei, Hai Fei, Yao Omei, Sun Pin, Xiao Jianghong, Hu Xuewen, etc., Representing the higher level of contemporary Chinese novella creation. The editor-in-chief is Wu Yiqin, the former director of the Museum of Modern Literature, an authoritative literary research institution in China, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, and a famous literary critic. He uses his professional vision to strictly select novellas that are worth reading each year, and attaches them with professional comments.

"Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2021 Short Stories Volume" selects more than twenty outstanding short stories in 2021, including works by writers such as Tie Ning, Feng Jicai, Chi Zijian, Xu Huaizhong, Xu Zechen, Deng Yiguang, etc., Representing the higher level of contemporary Chinese novella creation. The editor-in-chief is Wu Yiqin, the former director of the Museum of Modern Literature, an authoritative literary research institution in China, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, and a famous literary critic. With his professional vision, he strictly selects the short stories worth reading of the year and attaches them with professional comments. The editor-in-chief of "Chinese Contemporary Literature Classics Must-Read: 2021 Short Stories Volume" is Wu Yiqin, director of the Museum of Modern Literature, an authoritative literary research institution in China, and a famous literary critic. With his professional vision, he strictly selects the most worth-read short stories of the year, and each article is accompanied by professional and exciting comments. It not only summarizes the development and achievements of contemporary Chinese literature, but also brings readers a delicious literary feast.