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"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.

In 1989, a group of young people followed the tide and knocked on the windows of the Special Administrative Region. For more than thirty years, they crossed the river by feeling the stones and measured their lives with their own feet. When the bell rang, two "searching" paths appeared in the forest: one was the path of searching for the truth for Professor Bao Baolan of the Department of Dance and Drama. Sister Bao Jianqing commits suicide mysteriously, and Bao Baolan struggles to find the truth about her sister's death. Behind the scenes of the Chinese drama "Golden Lotus", the golden lotus shoes in the sandalwood box are lost in desire, so the chess game moves unknowingly and mistakenly, and eventually overturns; the second is the journey of the young dancer Ruan Xing to find himself. Ruan Xing became famous at a young age because of a dance drama "Ode to the Goddess of Luo", and was nicknamed "Little God of Luo". After failing the college entrance examination, she fell into silence for several years, struggling painfully with memory and reality, and falling into deep chaos. When she finally stood on the stage again under the guidance of her mentor Bolan Lan, she truly understood dance and life. This is a story about the Special Administrative Region, a history of blood and tears of two generations' pursuit of art and ideals, and a history of the contemporary development of Guangdong Han Opera, a national intangible cultural heritage. This is a banana deer dream.

This book was created by Guo Haihong, a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of the Baoan District Writers Association. In the form of "non-fiction writing", this book creates a historical figure respected and commemorated by the people along the Guangdong coast, especially in Shenzhen and Hong Kong - Wang Lairen, the governor of Guangdong in the early years of Kangxi, who was a typical image of integrity, love for the people and diligence.

"The Emptiness of the Afternoon - Childhood in Zhonggong Town" is the latest masterpiece of Lu Ye, a well-known contemporary female poet and writer, winner of the 2011 and 2021 People's Literature Awards and the 2022 Lu Xun Literature Award. The book has about 170,000 words and is divided into four chapters: "Brewery", "Stone Courtyard", "Walnut Tree Primary School" and "South River Beach". In the book, she takes on the perspective of a little girl and travels to Zhonggong Town in the mountainous area south of a provincial capital in the mid-to-late 1970s. She recalls the past years at the interface between urban and rural areas before and after the reform and opening up, and shows the characteristics of people's material and spiritual life in that era. In this work, Lu Ye looks back on his childhood years in a style that is somewhere between prose and novel, and takes it as the center to narrate it, slowly unfolding a picture of life in the north before and after reform and opening up. Overall, the work shows the style of an era in a small and broad way, using microscopic writing. It not only records the social conditions of that era objectively and plainly, but also leaves real materials for historical reference.

This book consists of three volumes: "Temporary Couple 1", "Temporary Couple 2" and "Temporary Couple 3". Since the reform and opening up, a large number of farmers have left their homes where their ancestors have lived for generations and come to the big cities full of hope to work hard to improve their living conditions. They work hard and do the dirtiest, most tiring and dangerous jobs that city people are unwilling to do, believing that as long as they work hard, good times will come slowly. However, who would have thought that unexpected difficulties would come one after another, and even the most basic reunion of a couple would become out of reach... This book tells the story of a working couple, looking at the various situations in the world from the perspective of their parents. Hong Lian and her husband Lai Huo live in a dormitory in the factory. They are close at hand but far away. In order to reunite, Lai Huo frequently visits places, comes up with ideas, and rubs elbows... It can be said that they have tried their best to date Hong Lian, but they make a joke that is laughable... Hong Lian's sister Hong Mai has to go away from home because of her husband's illness, and the longing for her relatives tortures her day and night. Family affection, love, and even the most basic life of a couple are so rare for them... So, can they finally get rid of the fate of a temporary couple?

Jiang Nanchun is a successful female owner of a chain restaurant group with tens of millions of assets. She is also a silly woman who is willing to use her brains and put in effort. After her first love Chang passed away, she married Li Zhiguo, the man she thought was the best to her. Unexpectedly, Li Zhiguo is a scumbag who only wants Jiang Nanchun's wealth. He quietly transferred and cashed out Jiang Nanchun's money, and invested a lot of money and time in Meizi. What Li Zhiguo doesn't know is that Meizi is a scumbag who has captured countless lustful men with her beauty. When Huang Mao suddenly reappeared in her life, she was preparing to clear out her assets and leave for Canada... Meizi's series of trouble-making operations began, triggering a murder case and making Jiang Nanchun determined to end the relationship.

I was twenty-six years old that year. He has blond hair, a slim figure, a good job, and an apartment on the Upper East Side of New York. In the eyes of others, I may have it all. No one knew that I was quietly falling apart. I don't particularly want to cry, nor do I particularly want to laugh, and I no longer feel anything about the things around me. And every time I lie down and enter the dark void, the chaotic voices in my head stop immediately. It feels good, almost blissful. I began to fall into longer and longer slumbers. Use your cell phone less. Reduce online shopping. Stop socializing. Stop whitening. Stop brushing your hair. Stop plucking hair with tweezers. Shower no more than once a week. Stock up on endless old movies at home. Every time I wake up, I go to the grocery store on the corner to buy two large cups of coffee, and occasionally there is eye irritation. Once I get enough sleep, everything will be fine. My old life would be nothing more than a dream, and I could start over without regrets. Will I become a new person?

This is the masterpiece of Cheng Yongxin, chief editor and editor of "Harvest" literary magazine. "Humans are the survivors left behind in the world after disasters." The eighteen-year-old Luo Tuo tried his best to escape from home and sent himself to the seaside. Under the guidance of fate, he became a playwright. Times have changed quietly: his trilogy of plays was rejected by the theater company, and his lovers and friends left the country. Only then did he realize that he actually had nothing in the world. The soul of a long-dead person suddenly appears mysteriously. In theater auditoriums, city tour buses, apartment phone calls...

In 1947, the Alsatian girl Mathilde followed her Moroccan husband to the "land of the other". Here, she realizes that escape and running away are just another abyss, and she will always be just an outsider, a woman, and a wife. But even so, facing strangeness, poverty, violence and depression, she will eventually live again and again. "War, War, War" is a new biographical novel by Leila Slimani, winner of the Goncourt Literary Prize. It is one of her "Land of the Other Trilogy" that writes about the true fate of three generations of women in the family. The novel is set against the backdrop of the drastic changes in social life in French Morocco after World War II. It tells the story of a country in deep political identity crisis, an interracial mixed-race family, and how an exhausted woman finds her place in a turbulent world.

This is a full-length novel about Henan spicy soup. It is another masterpiece by Wang Shaohua, a representative writer of dialect literature. The novel begins during the Anti-Japanese War and ends in the early 21st century. It introduces the origin of spicy hot soup and tells the story of the three major schools of hot spicy soup in Xiangfu City, a "suffering place in the Central Plains", from divergence and opposition to integration and development. Finally, they worked together to bring hot spicy soup to the dining table of the banquet hall of the Great Hall of the People, making food for the poor a popular place. A bowl of spicy soup expresses the love and hatred of Henan people for their hometown, and depicts the cultural background of the Central Plains people's barbaric growth and perseverance.

In the first half of the 20th century, Dehua Street, located in the commercial center of the Central Plains, gradually became a battleground for merchants. The Central Plains experienced the baptism of blood and fire. In the economic field, we have also experienced complex and cruel "wars". After Wu Yuguang and his sister Wu Yuying graduated from college, they worked hard to run the "Dong Sheng Xiang" business and launched a fierce business competition with Liu Siqi of "Yuxing Company". After the Japanese invaded the Central Plains, inspired by the Communist Party, they put aside their family grudges and joined forces to resist foreign humiliation. Wu Yuguang, contacted by underground party member Ding Zilong, used his tax knowledge to bravely shoulder the important task of blood transfusion and blood production for the revolution. The novel shows Wu Yuguang's transformation from a patriotic businessman to a director of finance and taxation during wartime, and finally embarked on a revolutionary life trajectory. It creates a group of heroes on the economic front of the Central Plains in modern times, displays the historical changes of Dehua Street in a panoramic manner, and praises the honest, patriotic, righteous and calm spirit of the people of the Central Plains represented by Wu Yuguang and Liu Siqi.

Cao Zeyi, former vice minister of the Ministry of Health and former president of West China University of Medical Sciences, and Zhou Xuedong, academic dean of West China School of Stomatology, wrote the preface and postscript to recommend it. "A Destiny Between Teeth" is a healing book that warms life, heart, and society. "Date to the Teeth" describes the wonderful story of a doctor's acquaintance with various dental patients, and presents a cordial and harmonious doctor-patient relationship to the society. In the narrated stories, professional knowledge of oral health care and treatment is vividly promoted, and people are guided to establish a healthy life outlook of scientific brushing, regular teeth cleaning and timely treatment. "A Destiny Between Teeth" integrates science and literature, and is both readable and informative. Whether you are a doctor or a general reader, after reading this book, I believe you will be moved by your heartstrings, firmly believe in the sincere doctor-patient relationship, and will use actions to support and prove it.

My parents-in-law are extremely biased. They use my husband's and my money all day long to support their favorite younger son, and they call it "robbing the rich and giving to the poor." Even though I had been diagnosed with cervical cancer and was about to die soon, they still did not restrain themselves. They even threatened me to give up treatment and wanted to take away all my inheritance.

"Alice by the Fire" is a novella published in 2023 by Nobel Prize winner Yon Fauser. In an old house by the fjord, an old woman, Signe, was lying on a bench, and her young appearance more than twenty years ago appeared in front of her eyes: she stood by the window, looking at the water, waiting for the return of her husband Asler. It was late November, and on that terrible day he took his boat out to sea and never came back. Memories keep coming back to her, to the days they both lived together, and back further: Signe thinks of previous generations of her family, the bonds of a family, their struggle against unforgiving nature, stretching back five generations, all the way to Asler's great-great-grandmother Alice, who lit a fire on the river bank at night. Because since then, no one has ever come back from the fjord.

"So Brilliant" is a novel, the author's ninth novel. The work starts from the real life of Niao Ya, Meng Ge, Tian Tian, ​​Tang Shi and Yu Jing, and uses their life from youth to middle age as the theme of the novel to show their real life and spiritual pursuit. Different from the author's previous focus on realistic creative techniques, "So Brilliant" spans historical time and space, takes the feelings of family and country as the main tone, and shapes the heroic spiritual map as the main line. It is full of idealism and romanticism. The author attempts to break through his existing realistic creation methods, and uses a unique perspective to create a multi-dimensional time and space that belongs to readers, showing the beauty of human nature.

"The Troubles of Wen Banshi" is a collection of short stories by the author Gao Jian. The author has lived with the great poet Ai Qing and his mother Gao Ying in Shihezi, Xinjiang since childhood, and later went to the United States to study and settle down. He has rich life experiences and profound thoughts on survival. Sixteen stories with different backgrounds detail the fate and bonds between people, people and animals, and people and nature, expanding the space of life and the possibilities of various relationships. In this collection of novels set at home and abroad, the author transforms unforgettable life memories and in-depth reflections on real life into simple, plain and affectionate language, presenting a uniquely charming literary world.

One day, the village chief brought two people to Lan Xiang's house. It turned out to be Director Li and his son Li Mu from the city. From this day on, Lan Xiang was responsible for Li Mu going to and from school. Li Mu, who grew up in the city, did not adapt to the life here. Lan Xiang infected him with her kindness and enthusiasm. Time flies, and more than two years have passed in the blink of an eye. Director Li has successfully completed the poverty alleviation work and is about to return to the city with Li Mu. The two people, who had already formed a deep friendship, were inseparable and agreed to enter the same university. What will happen between the two when they meet again?

At dawn, Honglian's cries alarmed everyone around her, but she could no longer wake her husband up. No one knew what happened. An accident happened to the couple, and the cheating was gone. Days have to move on. After the New Year, a group of people left Wang Caiyuan to go out to work. Everyone was also worried about Honglian and made plans to introduce her to a new partner... But this time out, there were constant accidents. They encountered scams frequently. How should the couple deal with it? As the new year approaches, Wang Caiyuan also welcomes new developments...

After the defeat of the Opium War, the Qing government once again mobilized troops from across the country to Guangzhou. Ayang, who grew up in a large ravine in western Sichuan, and seventeen of his companions were sent to the front line. During the three-thousand-mile journey and participation in the Battle of Guangzhou, a story about the Qiang people fighting abroad at the end of the 18th century unfolded around A Yang's search for his father who accidentally killed an officer and fled home, and around the confrontation and battle between the Chinese and British armies.

Along the Qinhuai River, the life of a military family is like a river flowing quietly. At the foot of Jiangjun Mountain, the life of the big courtyard boy is like a blazing fire of friendship, faith, persistence, and choice... There is always a kind of power that touches your heart. In the ancient city of Jinling, several children of the Zhao, Liu and Mas families lived in the same military compound. Different outlooks on life, values ​​and the influence of their families have led them to embark on completely different life paths.

Legend has it that there is a plant called "Two Flowers" that takes root in the soil or floats in the water. They grow side by side, and one of them is destined to wither first, while the other, carrying the desire of two lives, blooms in the wind. The bitter and happy Beipiao family lives in the gap between pain and happiness...

"Jia Ma" is Mo Yin's masterpiece of novels. A horse is not a horse. It is a woodblock print used by Yunnan people to pray for blessings. For Xie Ye's family, a horse is also a "wordless letter to the other side." In the family, those who have the ability to "dream" can use their "armor" to peer into people's past and heal those who are trapped in reality. Nineteen-year-old Xie Ye came to Shanghai from Yunnan to study. Another purpose of his trip was to find his biological mother. By chance, he saw a photo of his grandfather in a family photo taken by university professor Su Huaishu. What is the relationship between the professor and his own family? Why did his mother abandon the family and return to Shanghai as soon as he was born, never to be heard from again? What happened at the Southwest Associated University and Jinghong Farm that year that changed the fate of our fathers? With the help of Jiama, Xie Ye tries to piece together the past and find its connection with the present. And as the past gradually became clearer, family secrets that he had never expected also surfaced...

Shi Ran has lived in seclusion with his master since he was a child, living in a quiet place in the mountains. Although he is full of yearning for the outside world, he is also full of fear. When children grow up, they must face society independently and find a world of their own. Finally, the day came when I had to leave the protection of my master and learn to survive alone. I said goodbye to my master with relief and followed my uncle down the mountain to face the unknown world. Along the way, I met all kinds of people and a complicated world. From this, I can learn to distinguish between good and bad, judge people and affairs, and draw the nutrients I need from all things. I finally put aside all kinds of worries, rejoice and follow the circumstances, and achieve the state of perfection.

You may not believe it, but my most trusted husband personally sold me to northern Myanmar...

"Eight Swords" is due to the disintegration of the word "fen", which also coincides with the disintegration of the big family in the book. This play centers on the ups and downs of the fate of Lan Xuerong, the eldest daughter of a prominent family during the Republic of China. It revolves around the fate and encounters of the three sisters of the Lan family, the nine sons and young ladies of the four generations of the Lin family. Among them are conspirators who are good at calculations, female fighters who cross the sea, and overseas students who have traveled across the ocean... The story has ups and downs, conflicts are intertwined, and climaxes are constantly emerging, recreating the turbulent lives of ordinary people in the historical torrent of that year.

[Social Novel + Reality + Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Relationship] Due to urban construction, Zhengyang Street, an old street in Longhe City, is facing demolition. After learning the news, Aunt Liu, who couldn't stand the foreign daughter-in-law, wanted to put all the houses in her name without telling her daughter-in-law, but she didn't want to fail. So, she encouraged her son to threaten her daughter-in-law to file for divorce. Who would have expected... When interests that can change the direction of life conflict with feelings and family ties, what choices will people make?

One morning, the middle-aged Busmakov was preparing to elope to Cyprus with his young lover. In just a few hours, the absurd life of the past twenty years flashed before his eyes. During these years, he wandered around various lovers and planned to escape several times; at the same time, he experienced blind migration and drift, from party and government agencies to scientific research institutes, from doing business in the sea to working as a parking lot gatekeeper, and finally changed his job to a bank, thereby escaping the turbulent social reality. Just when he had to make a choice between his wife and his lover, he seemed to have remembered something, and was ready to re-determine his fate... In this absurd novel, Polyakov vividly depicts a typical image of "Eskepal" (escaper), who is stuck in the quagmire of life, confused in his heart, his soul is floating, and he is always in a state of nothingness. After Onegin, Pycholin, and Oblomov, he is another new type of Russian superfluous person. The story unfolds against the background of the last years of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the country. It also outlines all living beings in the period of social transformation, showing the embarrassment of survival, the paradox of human nature, and the changes in social landscape.

This is a collection of novels. This book collects ten short stories and short stories written after 2016 by Wang Shanchang, a writer born in the 1970s. Most of his novels use farmers or migrant workers as the narrative objects, using the perspective of small people at the bottom to reflect the mirror image and destiny of the times, paying attention to the individual historical reality beyond the big historical narrative, and revealing the spiritual significance and complex human nature of the bottom ethnic groups. Because the author has rich experience in life at the bottom, his novels can be closer to the lives and inner worlds of small people at the bottom in a more realistic and delicate manner, and stay away from the one-sided, mechanized, flat, and conceptual literary writing of the so-called bottom spokesmen, thus completing the self-expression of the bottom.

Li Er took thirteen years to write "Brother Yingwu". Li Er drew on the narrative method of the Classics and History Collection to record the speeches and behaviors of all kinds of contemporary people, especially intellectuals. The fate of all of us, our fathers, brothers and sisters, revolves around the life of the protagonist, Brother Yingwu. Brother Yingwu also accumulated so much dust and light, so many failures and hopes. Each chapter of this book uses the two or three characters of the first sentence as the title, and then unfolds them calmly and leisurely, either narrating or discussing, praising or satirizing, singing or crying. Each chapter is connected with each other and constantly recombined to produce more diverse forms and meanings. It is rooted in tradition, but what it achieves is a new poetic construction. The emergence of "Brother Yingwu" marks the transcendence of a generation of writers' intellectual subjects and technical means. Li Er initiated a reasonable imagination of history and knowledge and implemented it appropriately in every narrative link. As a result, so many characters, knowledge, words, and details are transformed into an image of a changing era, which is unforgettable. The novel finally constitutes a vast star map of the times, in which the sun and the moon originate, and the stars are brilliant in it. Each of us will find ourselves in this book.

This book describes the story of a group of people delivering food together. Nowadays, delivery people can be seen everywhere in the streets, and food delivery has become an indispensable part of our lives. No matter it's sunny, rainy, hot or snowy; whether it's day or night; whether it's weekdays or weekends, as long as you order food, it doesn't take long for the delivery man to deliver the goods you purchased. The author would like to dedicate this article to all brothers and sisters who deliver food. Any similarity in names in the novel is purely coincidental.

Three extreme sports enthusiasts were preparing for a high-altitude flight in a hot-air balloon they built by themselves. Unexpectedly, the hot-air balloon broke down in the air and accidentally fell into the peach blossom garden. When the people of Taohuayuan saw the three people landing from the sky, they all thought they were gods and were so happy that they decided to take turns entertaining them. The three of them began to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Peach Blossom Spring and experience the local customs and customs of Peach Blossom Spring, but after a while they couldn't stand it anymore and decided to repair the air bag of the hot air balloon. Unfortunately, they lacked needles and threads, so they had to borrow them from the people of Peach Blossom Spring. The people in Taohuayuan were worried that they would repair the hot air balloon and leave everyone, so they refused to lend it out. During this period, they helped the people of Taohuayuan do many good things, reconciled the love of several young men and women, helped the people of Taohuayuan divert water to the mountains, reclaim land, build bridges, cure people who were obsessed with the art of immortality, mutes, people with low self-esteem, cowards, etc., And also cleverly persuaded people who were determined to dig mountains to move away from the mountains. Finally, they finally found a chance to repair the air bag of the hot air balloon, left the Peach Blossom Land, and returned to the current world. And explained to the people of Taohuayuan that they are not gods, but ordinary people in the outside world.

Xiao Hong's masterpiece of novels. After years of wandering, Xiao Hong looked back on her childhood at the end of her life and wrote "The Story of Hulan River", a "memory" novel full of childlike innocence, poetry and inspiration. Xiao Hong uses painterly language to "present bold, red and green primitive colors in front of the gloomy background of daily life", outlining scenes full of childlike images.

Lao She's masterpiece of novels. The novel is based on the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s, with the rough and tragic life experience of rickshaw driver Xiangzi as the main plot. It profoundly exposes the darkness of old China, accuses the ruling class of exploitation and oppression of workers, and expresses the author's deep sympathy for the working people.

The novel is set in the absurd and chaotic times under the old social system as the background, with the love and hatred of a family as the main line, and with the culture of the Ancient Tea Horse Road as the support, it tells a journey of facing the variables of life and death, fame and fortune. There is too much fatalism hidden in the unexpected entanglement, confusion, confusion, and sadness of loss. The whole novel interrogates, soundly or silently, the role of culture, the power of faith, and the true nature of human nature.

The American young man Barnes suffered a spinal injury during the World War and lost his sexual ability. After the war, when he was working as a reporter in Paris, he fell in love with the British Mrs. Ashley. She pursued pleasure blindly, while he could only drink to drown his sorrows. The two went to Pamplona, ​​Spain, with a group of male and female friends to participate in the bullfighting festival in pursuit of spiritual stimulation. The lady rejected the pursuit of the Jewish young man Cohen, but fell in love with the 19-year-old bullfighter Romero. However, after getting along for a period of time, due to the huge age gap between the two parties, and Mrs. Ashley could not bear to ruin the future of the innocent young man, the relationship ended sadly. Madame eventually returned to Barnes, although both parties knew that they could never truly be together. "The Sun Also Rises" is a novel by Hemingway, and Hemingway became the spokesperson of the "Lost Generation".

In the late stages of World War I, American young man Frederick Henry volunteered to drive an ambulance for the Red Cross and rescue the wounded on the northern Italian front. During a mission, Henry was hit by a cannonball and injured. While recovering from his injuries in a Milan hospital, he was cared for by British nurse Catherine, and the two fell in love. After recovering from his injuries, Henry returned to the front line. When he retreated with the Italian troops, he witnessed the cruel scenes of the war. He resolutely left the army, joined Catherine and fled to Switzerland. As a result, Catherine died in childbirth. "A Farewell to Arms" has a strong autobiographical flavor. It is a sad and moving elegy sung by Hemingway based on his own experience in the war, with war and love as the main line. The novel has been adapted onto the screen many times and can be called a classic of modern literature.

The story unfolds in a nursing home called Qingfeng Villa. People who come here to retire must use pseudonyms, intending to hide their true identity and leave the past behind, and start a new life. This plot setting itself has a distinct utopian or idealistic color. The nursing home has hired several consultants, who are retired professors, calligraphers, old Chinese medicine practitioners, successful business people, retired officials, retired preschool teachers, etc. Through the process of the "new life" of these people gathering in Qingfeng Villa, their different life experiences, value orientations, emotional lives, etc. Are deduced. The novel creates several different images of the elderly through re-understanding of traditional culture, intergenerational conflicts, old age remarriage, attitude towards death, family business succession and other plot contents.

"Blood Grassland" tells the story of the difficult evolution of a family of fishermen, hunters, farmers, and herders, and even the entire Northeast grassland, from rise to decline, and from decline to prosperity, in the voice of a descendant of the Han nationality in the Northeast grasslands. Taking the rise and fall of the Wang family and the Hu family on the Tapou beach of the Chagannur prairie as the main line, through the description of the arduous journey of several generations of the Wang family who have worked hard to dream of becoming a strong man and a hero, it has created one after another grassland characters who are unyielding and pursue unremittingly. In particular, the unique image of a grandmother who is optimistic by nature, never gives up, and possesses both strength and softness in the face of suffering is created, which fully demonstrates the living conditions and unique temperaments of the people of all ethnic groups in the Northeast grasslands.

In the suburbs of big cities such as Beijing, many painter villages have been formed due to the natural gathering of artists. This book uses the Songzhuang Painters Village at the end of the last century as the narrative background, and uses typical techniques to shape a group of deviant avant-garde artists. Because the author is also a painter and an insider writes about insider affairs, it is rich in content, authentic and credible. It talks about the hardships of starting a business and survival for artists, about the weird thinking and dissolute behavior of artists, about the self-mutilation process of artists who use their hard work and life to refine their works, about market myths such as art hype and auction manipulation, about the boost and destruction of art careers by money, and the corrosion of artists' souls... They are all deeply described and interpreted, and they are a window for readers to peek into this special group. It also popularized a lot of art knowledge.

This is Wang Song's latest novella collection. They are "The Evil of Plum Blossoms", "Spring Scenery", "Lihua Tower", "Huang Zhonghuang", "Grandma Wang's Test" and "Yiliuertang". The background spans more than half a century, involving the three religions, nine streams, five elements and eight works of Tianjin culture and people's livelihood. These novels describe the ups and downs of individual lives, integrating fragmented daily details into narratives with humanistic value, thereby gaining insight into the mysteries of the souls of all kinds of people. Wang Song went deep into the folk, salvaged history, and incorporated new elements into the novel text, forming a narrative style that is fierce yet refined, wild yet elegant, and eccentric yet wise and transparent.

The novel "The Lost Dreams of Wanliudang" is divided into four chapters: "Ryuudang Yazang", "Literati Style", "Nianhua Collection" and "Floating Life". "Liu Tang Ya Zang" selects five representative works of Xiao Wan Liu Tang and tells the stories behind them respectively; the two chapters "Literati Style" and "Nianhua Collection" tell the story of the chivalrous couple's righteous deeds such as setting up a school, founding a bookstore, and burying Qiu Jin, the heroine of Jianhu Lake; the chapter "Floating Life" is based on the poems left by the Lian couple, focusing on the daily life of the couple.

Zhang Houkun couldn't figure out why he became a dodger hiding from debts. Maybe it was because the Guandi Temple he had invested in to renovate collapsed, or maybe because the wolfberry garden he spent a lot of effort on was flooded. Of course, the main reason was that his company was going bankrupt. He called himself a coward because he chose to end his life to escape everything. Wang Yuanji is a desperado. In order to get rid of poverty and to make others look up to him, he will do anything. While being arrested, Wang Yuanji, who narrowly escaped, rescued Zhang Houkun who jumped into the river. Wang Yuanji was able to save Zhang Houkun, who was confused for a while, but he couldn't save himself who had already been lost.

Lijiacun is a small village with only about 20 households. In order to drive away the Japanese invaders and defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries, the villagers actively joined the army and participated in the war. They actively paid public rations for national salvation, sewed military uniforms and made military shoes, and supported the front line at all costs. Many of them also went directly to the battlefield, carried stretchers, transported military supplies and supplies, and sacrificed their precious lives for the revolution. By describing the most common production and life scenes, the novel creates a group with distinct personalities and a rich three-dimensional sense: Li Junjie, although he has a bad temper, is upright, kind, smart, capable, daring, and courageous; Wang Fugui, although selfish, loves to take advantage of small things, is lively and cute, and has high revolutionary enthusiasm; Lamei, although superstitious and loves to curse, is cheerful, pungent, smart, capable, and caring. In the novel, there are also Ma Shengsheng, Li Junying, Li Junyi, who are loyal, kind, hard-working and simple, and loyal to the revolution, as well as kind, lively, unpretentious peach blossoms, roses, lilacs, etc.

Uncle Jian returned the boat in reverse direction, then floated down the river into a huge whirlpool. The whirlpool of the Tao River is not turbulent, but it is difficult to escape its traces of hidden murderous intent. Just like all the planets in the Milky Way, they are under the control of an attractive force and are difficult to escape from their orbit. Unless a strong wind blows across the river, or there is an undercurrent surging from below, it can accidentally break free from the shackles and fetters of the whirlpool.

Li Zhifeng knew that he was not worthy of being a top student, so he returned to his village and paid a 900 yuan gift to marry the strong and round Han Yuling. In order to make a living, he came to the sea to earn a living and worked as a stevedore. The loneliness and danger at sea did not knock him down. In the past 20 years, he experienced countless things at sea that people on land could never imagine, and his wife also endured the unbearable bitterness of ordinary people.

She is a sunflower that stands strong under the scorching sun, supporting her brother and helping her father. She is a morning glory blooming in the cracks, clumsily relying on the home as a fence. She is a beautiful red plum in the cold wind. Even after being abandoned by her husband's family, she will still emit a delicate fragrance. She is a cluster of cotton in a peasant quilt, warming a paralyzed husband and a house full of children. "Fragrance" focuses on a brother and sister who grew up in poverty, focusing on the ups and downs of women such as Lie Fang, and depicting the lives of dozens of people from four generations in a large family. The struggle of the little people is written with a pen full of beauty, and their spiritual transformation is recorded; the historical changes of the Central Plains countryside from the 1970s to the present are reproduced with vibrant and vivid details. The author puts into words the affection between families who help each other and whose blood is thicker than water. The deep and simple love and attachment to his hometown in the words are moving.

In 2000, freshmen Li Xiaodong and Xu Ran of the Chinese Department met for the first time on the train to the university. After a small conflict, they both had a bad impression of each other. Neither he nor she expected that this was the beginning of a long relationship or entanglement. Preaching, teaching, and solving doubts... In the university, people behave with clear principles, but outside the ivory tower, they are trapped in a tight siege. Could the tragedy of Juansheng and Zijun in "Sorrow" really be staged in another form in the new century? Hometown, provincial capital, Beijing... The twists and turns of life are nothing more than finding a place to live. It's always when I get tired from running around that I suddenly realize: This place where my heart is at ease is my hometown.

Yao Genzheng, a young man from a rural credit cooperative in Yaoping County, Shaanxi Province, had a consensual and ambiguous relationship with his female colleague Chao Lu during work. As a married woman, Chaolu wanted to enjoy this pleasure secretly. Yao Genzheng was only twenty-five years old, and he had to go on a blind date and get married due to pressure from his parents and society. Later, through someone's introduction, he met He Xiaomin, a daughter of a wealthy family. Although he did not love He Xiaomin, the wealth behind He Xiaomin allowed him to go against his own heart and get married to her. After their marriage, their emotionless relationship gradually showed its fragility in their trivial lives, with constant quarrels and resentment, and the two parties began to drift apart. When Yao Genzheng had achieved some success in his career, stepped into the position of director, and was preparing to move to a higher level, the accumulated conflicts between him and He Xiaomin also broke out. Yao Gen was attacked from inside and outside, and once again fell into a miserable situation...

"The Bonfire of Others" is a new novel by Alati Asmu. The story takes place in Ili in northern Xinjiang and Hotan in southern Xinjiang. The protagonists are "I" and two translator friends. "We" at the wine table are the iron triangle that can start brainstorming at any time. In the witty words and the collision of ideas, the character traits and wisdom of the Uyghur people are flashed. The jade merchant in the novel, as a clue and background, is related to other characters in the story, and through the words and deeds of these characters, it shows the good and evil, repentance and redemption of human nature. The greatest feature of this novel lies in its way of expression, "showing one's spiritual world to readers in an unvarnished roughness and frankness."

The Lixia River Basin in northern Jiangsu is a place where lakes crisscross. Dazong Lake, Desheng Lake, Wu Jin Dang, Flagpole Dang... The so-called "five lakes and eight lakes" have settled the homesickness of generations of people in Xiahe. The author tells the breeze by the lake, the chirping of birds by the lake, the delicious snacks, and the childhood stories in his writing. The waves of the gurgling water, the scenery of the Lixia River deep in the beautiful scenery, the smell of cooking smoke deep in the taste buds, and the simplicity and kindness of the folks are all presented in the words. The hardships of the years, the warmth and warmth of human relationships, and the connection between things and ourselves are shown in every work. The hometown has become the poetry and distance in everyone's heart, where the bells of memory echo, warm and long, making people unforgettable.