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[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! The guild competition has come to an end, and "Big Maple Tree" has become a blockbuster, ranking among the top three! The much-anticipated new section of "City of Eternal Night" is officially launched. This time, the members of Big Maple Tree fought independently and started a fantasy adventure with new comrades. The Night Demon Sword, the Flame Dragon, the Mysterious Tower Master... Faced with many levels, let's see how Maple and her friends successfully pass them!

Maastal is a seaport town in southern Denmark, where people have made a living by the sea for generations. This king-like sea is the background of their lives and the place of their destiny. After men become sailors, they go to many ports in the world. Many of them narrowly escape death and end up buried under the sea. Women will stay on land and live in fear day and night, waiting for their lovers to return. Generations of young souls were drawn to the songs of the sirens, grew up in the absence of their fathers, and then became sailors. In 1848, the town was involved in the First War of Dande, and not everyone who fought for glory survived. Lauris Madsen survived thanks to a pair of mysterious boots, but soon escaped back to sea and disappeared from sight. After his son Albert inevitably became a sailor, he embarked on a long journey alone to find his father. Many years later, he took a head and returned to the town where women increasingly maintained daily life, until he met a boy and a widow. And this woman has made up her mind to end it all and rescue everyone from the unruly ocean... There are ordinary lives in small towns and children's farces, as well as adventures at sea and wars that destroy the human soul. The novel takes readers to witness the lives of three generations, two world wars, and one hundred years; it also sails through a vast world: from the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations of Samoa, from the lamest pub in Tasmania to the frozen coast of northern Russia. This is a coming-of-age story, a family legend, and an elegy dedicated to a bygone era. It outlines for us an eternal picture of the absurdity and cruelty of fate, human violence and love, passion and fragility.

This book is a complete record of the operation of the modern publishing industry in the United States and a practical guide to best-selling books in Europe and the United States. The publishing industry is a fighting industry that creates fame, fashion, and wealth. This book is an inside story of manipulation, fighting, and passionate competition in the industry. Publishers, writers, editors, book agents, marketers, bookstore owners, all kinds of people in the circle are competing in New York, a city where desires and dreams are flowing. In this industry, the core and unspoken rule of the game is whether it is "saleable" or not. Under this rule, everyone's behavior is regulated and divided into detailed links and processes. The planning and acquisition of book manuscripts, the packaging and promotion of advertisements, and the operation and techniques of marketing, the publishing industry is like a precision-operated machine, and works with millions of copies are operated and produced one after another. The author's success lies in being deeply involved in it and writing the true inside story of the American publishing industry.

Moore Flanders was a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison. Before she was born, her mother used her to escape hanging. She gradually grew up with the help of a wealthy family, but was deceived and defiled by the young master of the family. Later, she married the second young master of the family and used her beauty to gain opportunities for survival; when her youth passed away, she became a thief. When she was arrested and returned to the place of her birth, Newgate Prison, her life also formed a cycle full of irony.

A surreal understanding of the Holocaust, Reverse Narrative offers an ambitious and playful way to think about Nazi atrocities. The novel uses a "time inversion" technique to tell the life of Nazi war criminal Todd Friendly. He begins his life like a "video rewind" from the moment he is about to die, to his seemingly decent life as a doctor in his later years, to the heinous crimes he committed in Auschwitz in his youth, to his childbirth, marriage, adolescence, and finally his return to his mother's womb... In a seemingly humorous way, he reveals to us that extremely cruel and shocking dark history, completely subverting the reader's reading experience.

This is a collection of classic short stories by the master of contemporary Irish short stories, describing the web of fate and desire, recreating the uncanny workmanship of "Irish Chekhov". This book collects 12 short stories by William Trevor, which explores the emotional limits of ordinary people in Irish cities and countryside who are concealed in controlled daily life. It is shown in the fact that everyone is voluntarily or unconsciously trapped in the web of fate and desire. Taking a step back means loss, and taking a step further comes with a price. Therefore, these 12 stories seem to have a continuing theme throughout - everyone is a prisoner of life. Whether it is an ill-fated couple who is greedy for inheritance and is fooled by the donor, but is grateful for the shackles, or an uninhibited prodigal who is burdened with the past of a lifetime and refuses to be influenced by money; whether it is a female painter who has been imprisoned by illusions all her life and quietly buried her first love in ignorance, or a white man who The parasitic father who is a prostitute but thinks of himself as his benefactor. As the author traces the source of every pain of the characters in the book, readers will find that there is a flame under every iceberg in the world, and a bullet can be fired from every gentle look. The collected article "The Mystery of Deli Mahren" has been adapted into a TV series by the BBC, which reproduces how people approach and avoid the truth, bury and create the truth of the murderous Rashomon case.

"The Rachel Papers" is Amis's famous work. After the novel was published, it won the Maugham Literary Award in one fell swoop, making the novelist who was only 24 years old a blockbuster. In this novel, the protagonist Charles Heway, like young Amis, is a smart and sensitive literary youth. He is full of great literary ambitions and tries to record the "bad" years that have just passed away - his seduction of the girl Rachel - through memories and imagination. This literary youth image is not only the predecessor of many "bad boy" images in Amis's works, but also a seminal figure in the history of British literature. "The Rachel Files" is a youthful rhapsody full of humor and banter, and it is also a gloomy and surly youth "sacrifice song". Once published, it caused great concern and sensation.

I can't decide my birth, but I can decide whether to become a mother. A women's novel that sincerely explores the meaning of "life" and is full of thoughts. Published and distributed in more than 40 countries, Mieiko Kawakami's new masterpiece confronts various difficulties in life and explores female body autonomy. "The Story of Summer" is the sequel to the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel "Breasts and Eggs" by Mieiko Kawakami, and is divided into two parts. The first half rewrites "Breasts and Eggs", adding new plots and dividing chapters based on the original. The second half tells that eight years later, Natsuko, who aspired to become a writer, finally published a collection of short stories and began to make a living through writing. However, the 38-year-old Natsuko, who had no partner, suddenly "wanted to see her own child" strongly, and she began to look for ways to have a child out of wedlock. Along the way, she met a variety of people, from single mothers to people born through artificial insemination. These people shook Xia Zi's hope and prompted her to have new thinking about fertility and the meaning of life. As a sequel to "Breasts and Eggs", this book inherits the unique literary expression and ideological connotation of the previous work, and provides a more in-depth description of the living conditions of women, especially young women, their emotional world, and the issues they care about, and provides guidance for their careers, families, and futures.

More than 900 annotations and an index of word games place "Lolita" in a broader context. Annotated edition of the first modern novel published during the author's lifetime. "Lolita" is the most allusive and word-playing novel since "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake." The reader must grasp the outline of the story while grappling with the difficult issues posed by the profound material and the richly crafted prose. As a student of Nabokov and an expert on Nabokov's works, Alfred Appel Jr. Wrote and annotated the preface to "Lolita". He also visited the teacher many times with more than 900 interpretation annotations of his own to verify whether it was true. Not only did he not delete the annotation Nabokov denied, he also wrote the process of the discussion between the two, and attached Nabokov's original rebuttal. The notes cover almost every aspect of the novel: translations of French words, dismantling of made-up words, comic etymology, American pop culture, puns, alliteration, symbolism, metaphor, jokes, parody, wordplay, literary allusions, cross-references... Using Nabokov's own In other words: "These are the nerves of the novel, the secret threads, the coordinates that are not easy to detect. This book is developed with the help of this method." This annotated edition not only solves local problems at the level of details, but also shows how these problems constitute the overall design of the novel.

Akutagawa Award-winning writer Nanae Aoyama's collection of short stories about introverts, six short stories, six women, and six atypical life fragments, written for all people who don't need to shine and just want to live in their own little world. Our individuality is reflected in the way we distance ourselves from others and form relationships with them. Yuko is very frustrated when she returns to her hometown town from a big city. She used to be a teacher and is currently working odd jobs in a local doll production company, and her life is dull and dull. By chance, Yuko won the grand prize for a trip to Hawaii, which gave her renewed hope in life. However, the nosy ladies in the company mistakenly thought that Yuko would travel with a male colleague in the company. This atmosphere is like a quagmire trapping Yuko, who is not good at words. What makes Yuko even more overwhelmed is that a student he once taught appeared in front of him...

The twisted and intertwined tragedy of exclusivity and betrayal, the whirlpool of beauty and sin that grow together, is the controversial "private novel" of the master of "demonism" Junichiro Tanizaki. Passion and immorality are entangled to the point of destruction. The twisted love hell described by Junichiro Tanizaki. The story takes place in the third year of the Showa era. Sonoko, the daughter of a wealthy family, obeyed her parents' orders and married her husband Kotaro, who was from a poor family but worked hard. After supporting her husband to complete his studies, she became a lawyer's wife with no worries about food and clothing. After getting married, Sonoko had no common language with her husband. In order to kill the extra time, she attended a private school that cultivated women's skills, and thus got acquainted with the lady Tokumitsu Mitsuko. Sonoko called Mitsuko a "goddess like Guanyin". When she first saw Mitsuko, she was deeply attracted to her, and the two became sisters. Mitsuko's boyfriend Watanuki is a sinister person and is not willing to let Mitsuko marry another person. He devises a series of conspiracies to destroy Mitsuko and the garden that he has become friends with. In order to save Sonoko, Kotaro was also forced to participate. As the situation changed, the four people began to be jealous and suspicious of each other, and were tied into a knot like the character "Swastika"... In the process of entangled with the devil's beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki portrayed the various psychological states and behaviors surrounding jealousy, such as possessiveness, suspicion, dependence, etc., In a real and delicate manner. Whether it is Sonoko, Mitsuko, or Kotaro, they are all born with a lack of love. On the way to the world without jealousy, all love eventually entered the tomb together.

"The sun always has a way of shining on us, no matter where we are." Clara is a solar-powered artificial intelligence robot (AF) specially designed to accompany children. It has extremely high abilities of observation, reasoning and empathy. She sat in the store display window, watching the passers-by on the street and the children who came to browse the windows. She always expects that someone will soon choose her, but when the possibility of permanently changing her situation arises, Clara is reminded not to put too much faith in human promises. In Clara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro observes the ever-changing modern society through the perspective of an unforgettable narrator and explores a fundamental question: What exactly is love? This is the first work published by the British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It is also the first novel he published five years ago. The story takes place in a future where science and technology are highly developed, and the subject matter involves one of the hottest social topics at the moment: the development and ethics of artificial intelligence technology. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece and collection of classic short stories incorporate his own musical life into the Ukiyo-e, and explore how people who start with talent but are trapped by fate can save themselves. Timeless old songs, depressed musicians, singers who have lost their glory, solitary piano music... Kazuo Ishiguro, who determined to be a rock singer at the age of 20, in this collection of classic short stories, created a set of ukiyo-e of musical life through clever copying of reality and self-integration. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

An elegy for the decline of an empire, a passing love; is it worth dedicating one's life to achieving a career, and achieving nothingness? "The End of the Day" is a work by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro that won the Booker Prize in 1989. It is also Ishiguro's most important masterpiece. The novel unfolds with the memories of butler Stevens, telling the various experiences he had during his more than thirty years of service to Lord Darlington. Although he reached the peak of his career, Stevens suppressed his emotions too coldly and pursued perfection in performing his duties. He missed the last time his father was on his deathbed, and then missed love. Through the protagonist's memories, the novel unravels a person's life journey in front of the readers' eyes. It also reflects the international political landscape during the extraordinary period between World War I and World War II. The 1993 film of the same name (also known as "Goodbye"), a remake of the novel, starred the famous British actors Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and six British Academy Film Awards, and became a classic in film history. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's debut novel that shocked the literary world, using sentimentality and irony to depict the trauma of war and inner demons and lies. This is a memory full of mist, both real and illusory. After the war, a suffering mother and daughter in Nagasaki longed for stability and rebirth, but they could never escape the shadows and inner demons brought about by the war. In the end, the mother and daughter successfully immigrated, while the daughter committed suicide. At the end of the play, the remembrancer peels off his disguise, and the story is full of tragedy. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Memory and forgiveness, revenge and peace: what choices should individuals and nations make? In England in the sixth century AD, the war between the native Britons and the Saxon invaders seemed to have come to an end - peace had come to this land, and the two groups lived side by side and lived together peacefully for decades. But at the same time, a strange "fog of forgetfulness" fills the valleys of England, swallowing up the memories of the villagers and making their lives seem like a meaningless daydream. An elderly British couple wanted to find their son who was still vaguely in their minds before their memory was completely lost, so they hurriedly embarked on an arduous journey. They are eager to let the fog dissipate, eager to regain the loving memories of their lifelong companionship - but this quiet fog conceals a dark and bloody past, that is, a giant who was buried decades ago by King Arthur of the British people in a way that goes against their ideals. A mysterious Saxon warrior comes to this seemingly peaceful valley with a mission. What secret motives are hidden behind his humble appearance? Will his mission bring to this country an olive branch of forgiveness or a sword and fire of revenge? Gawain, King Arthur's last knight, is determined to protect the king's legacy with his life, because protecting it means protecting the final peace. Memory and forgiveness, revenge and peace, the fate of the four people are inevitably intertwined, and there is only one ending. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Kazuo Ishiguro's most experimental works explore the human condition of existence under an irresistible environment. Pianist Rhett walked into a small town in Central Europe and also walked into a dream. In this mysterious city, the people he met were all obsessed with ideas and full of strange theories; the things he encountered were all bizarre and full of strange variables. Sometimes he is a bystander, sometimes he is involved. In the process of trying to find the exit from the dream and seeking an explanation for all this, he gradually realized that he was facing the most severe performance in his life. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

A nightmare that is both real and imaginary, the Battle of Songhu and the Siege of Shanghai are described by a Nobel Prize-winning writer. "We Are Orphans" is the fifth novel by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in 2000. London, England, 1930s. The young and successful Christopher Banks is a well-known detective throughout the UK. His legend of solving crimes has long been spread word of mouth in London social circles. However, for many years, an unsolved case has lingered in the mind of the famous detective for a long time. That is the mysterious disappearance of his biological parents in old Shanghai when he was a child. "Chasing the shadow of the disappearance of his parents", our protagonist searches all the way from the rich and luxurious London upper class, and finally returns to Shanghai under the gunfire of the Japanese invaders. This was by no means a tender homecoming. In this city that was once bustling with traffic and is now full of smoke and smoke, what awaits him is a dark secret and a cruel truth, and his Sherlock Holmes-like fairy tale life will be reduced to ruins like his childhood hometown... The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing outlook and growth history in one volume.

"1984" in the era of bioengineering: If you can see the end of your destiny in advance, should you still work hard to pursue beauty? "Never Lose, Never Forget" is one of the masterpieces of Kazuo Ishiguro, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. In Hailsham School, deep in the English countryside, three good friends, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, grew up here. They were carefully cared for by their tutors and received a good education in poetry and art. However, Hailsham, which seems like a paradise, hides many secrets. After the three Caseys grew up, they gradually discovered that the beautiful growth process in their memories was full of confusion and terrifying questions that could not be traced... "Don't Lose, Never Forget" is a science fiction novel with a dystopian color. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and the American Book Critics Circle Award. It was remade into a movie of the same name in 2010, starring British actress Keira Knightley. It was remade into a 10-episode Japanese drama in 2016, starring Haruka Ayase and Haruma Miura. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Ukiyo-e of the life of the disillusioned generation after the war. Includes the author's preface written for the 30th anniversary of the book's publication. After the war, Japan was in dire straits. Painter Ono's seemingly idle life in his later years has an undercurrent. In order to create a good social relationship for his little daughter to get married, he regained his memories. The past stories of his old friends were connected one by one like an ukiyo-e, and he was depressed and hesitant about where to place the "artist role" on the battlefield where there was no smoke of gunpowder. This book won the "Whitbread Literary Award". It is an early masterpiece by Ishiguro Kazuo, and it is also the most "Japanese" work. In the preface written for the 30th anniversary of the publication of this book, the author analyzes a kind of "fear" in life, that is, he is afraid that despite good intentions, a person may support a cause that has been proved to be wrong or even shameful by the times and history, and waste his most precious time and talent for this. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

"Crazy Love" is the representative work of Junichiro Tanizaki, a master of Japanese aesthetic literature. It tells the story of a working-class man, Rangji, who falls in love with Naomi, a bartender, and wants to train her to become a noble woman and become his wife. However, Naomi is vain, conceited, romantic, and hides a conspiracy under her innocent appearance. Rangji is seduced by her charming appearance and meets her needs at all costs. In the end, she is trained to become her servant and is at her mercy. The novel shows the exchange of love between men and women during training and counter-training, and is an immortal literary classic that has long been hailed as the "Oriental version of "Lolita"". This book also includes Junichiro Tanizaki's short story "Tattoo" with a demonic style and the novella "Shuncho" that pursues ultimate aestheticism.

The salesperson who works at the leather shoe counter in a department store wakes up at the same time every day and washes up at the same time, but one day finds the body of a cat in a neighbor's express box; a soldier who survived the war wears two watches for the rest of his life, waiting for the glory of the past to come again; a man who has never done a bad thing once in his life and has followed the rules suddenly embarks on the road to revenge with a knife, potassium cyanide and dice; possessor Three destitute old men with superpowers followed the illusion to find their boss from many years ago, only to find that their fate had become a perfect black joke; people who were incompatible with the surroundings flew into the sky again and again, and the Big Dipper that illuminated the night sky turned into scars and fell on his forehead; in an abandoned village covered with snow, a left-behind boy watched over his grandfather who could never wake up and drifted in endless time. Everyone in this book is spinning in their own little world and has many worries. In a certain time and space sealed like amber, they are all immortal "youth".

"The Blade" is Maugham's classic philosophical work. Maugham condensed his thoughts on the world and life into this work. Riley served in the Air Force during World War I and flew high in the vast sky. He wanted "power and honor far beyond the world." The death of his comrade made him realize the helplessness and insurmountability of life. After being discharged from the army, Riley refused to go to college, get married, or find a job. He left his relatives and friends behind and traveled to Europe. Later, he went to India, where he was inspired by a Ganesha master's ashram and suddenly realized the true meaning of life. Riley chose to disappear among all living things.

This collection of short stories by Gianni Cerati, the most acclaimed Italian avant-garde novelist after Calvino, uses the eyes of an archaeologist to rediscover the everyday strangeness in modern life on the Po Plain. The thick fog of the Po River plain fills the shots of Antonioni and Wenders, where the author roams and listens, using 30 short stories to form a complete picture. People who develop perpetual motion machines all day long, children who run away to get rid of boredom, women who listen to the passing of time on their commute... In a boring world, watch the lines of time and glimpse the shadows cast by the light that constructs reality. The 30 short stories bring the simplicity and freshness of "The Decameron", through the faint atmosphere of "Dublins", and leap into the miracle of modern daily life. Cerati's stories, like Morandi's still lifes, lack grand landscapes and focus on discovering the strangeness of everyday life. To borrow the words of John Berger, it is filled with "the loneliness of sunlight reflecting between buildings."

Dostoevsky's novella "White Nights" is a beautiful and poetic novel that received unanimous praise from critics when it was published in 1848. The novel tells the story of four nights of heart-to-heart exchanges between a man who lives by fantasy and Nastenka, a girl whose parents died when she was young, who lives with her grandmother and has a lifelong private contract with her tenant. The pursuit of love has closely linked them together, turning them from strangers into confidants and even lovers. However, the commitment and care for love have made them return to their respective places. The former is still living in fantasy, while the latter is getting married to the one he loves. "White Nights" is Dostoevsky's most important early work and his most acclaimed novella. "White Night" uses the translation by the translator Mr. Cheng Shi, and adds timeless and fresh illustrations created by famous Russian painters, making the book rich in pictures and text.

London Stock Exchange broker Sturt Creland hides the soul of a talented artist beneath his dull appearance. He originally lived a prosperous and stable life, but one day he suddenly abandoned his wife and children and ran away from Paris to pursue a painting career. He lived in a shack and lived a life of material poverty and spiritual burning: driven by an inexplicable force, he devoted himself to creation day after day as if possessed by a ghost. However, he was unable to paint what he felt due to lack of training and basic skills. During this period, he also had an emotional entanglement with the wife of his only painter friend who appreciated him, which led to tragedy. Later, he escaped to the island and concentrated on creation in an environment isolated from modern civilization. Finally, when he was sick and dying, he found the ideal expression for his inner fantasy.

"The Story of a Donkey's Skin" has a magical and realistic color that is rare in Balzac's works. It is a classic philosophical novel that combines criticism, reality, and symbolism. At the beginning of his creation, Balzac aimed to bring together his personal life experience and philosophical thoughts to respond to the changes in society at that time - "Money is the only God." The book visualizes the contradiction between desire and life as a donkey skin. With this donkey skin, all your wishes can be fulfilled, but each time the donkey skin shrinks a little, until it disappears and your life is over. The person who owns the donkey skin is lucky, he can get everything, but he is also unlucky, because in the face of death, he dares not ask for anything. "Donkey Skin" made Balzac, who had been writing silently for 10 years, become a best-selling author in one fell swoop. Three years later, we began to build on this "Human Comedy", which is truly a foundation work.

"With a house, can I live like a human being?" The latest masterpiece of "Kim Ji-young Born in 1982" author Zhao Nanzhu shows everyone's unavoidable ordinary desires. The story revolves around a fictional place, Xuyingdong, and connects various characters in Xuyingdong in the form of multiple short stories. Through the interplay of these characters, a condensed social landscape of East Asia is depicted. Among these characters are young couples with hugely different family backgrounds who love each other but always find it difficult to understand each other; there are elderly people who have retired but still work without dignity but with meager income for the sake of their sons and grandchildren; there are stay-at-home mothers who quit their jobs for the sake of their children but are helpless when their children are hurt by problem children in the class; there are fathers who look down on powerful and selfish fathers but rely on them to live. There is a female white-collar worker; there is a tutoring school principal who is dependent on her son and mother, but the generation gap between her and her son is getting bigger and bigger while neglecting her mother; there is a middle-aged couple who has been working hard all their lives for a better house but feels that the house is both a source of happiness and a source of misfortune because of the noise problem in the neighborhood; there is a young man who is working hard in a big city and has no fixed place to live but has a firm belief in his dream. When a house becomes a lifelong proposition for people, does owning a house mean happiness? The story that happened in Xuyingdong is also the story of each of us.

The female version of "Letter from a Strange Woman" is the first Chinese version of the novel by MacArthur Genius Award winner and overseas Chinese writer Li Yiyun. Navigates the two levels of grief and resilience, loss and rebirth, with great candor and insight. Lilia has been married three times, raised five children, and is currently looking forward to the birth of her seventeenth grandchild. She spent her whole life helping people around her to understand themselves. At the age of eighty-five, she became fascinated by the diary of her old friend Roland - they had a romantic relationship when they were young - and she wanted to see what she could leave for future generations. The diary records Roland's love affairs in detail. Lilia took the trouble to add footnotes to everything. A secret relationship that lasted for decades was slowly revealed, including the existence of his daughter Lucy, whom even Roland himself did not know about. Flame-like passion, annihilating sorrow, the human heart goes back and forth between these two poles, but has to find a destination and exit to continue cruising. Li Yiyun gives a dazzling tribute to life in the novel, not only about Lilia, but also about everyone who comes and goes in our lives.

Did you know that the speed of cherry blossoms falling is 5 centimeters per second? How fast do I have to live to see you again? Director Xin Hai of "Journey to Suzuya" and "Your Name" wrote his first novel, looking for an unforgettable green love in the passing time. "5 Centimeters per Second" is based on a young man, and is composed of three consecutive short stories "Sakura Copy", "Astronaut" and "5 Centimeters per Second" that are gradually unfolded to form the complete "5 Centimeters per Second". This work is the first novel written by Makoto Shinkai himself. Through delicate brushstrokes, he sensitively and delicately depicts the indescribable character of him and their mood swings in the animated film "Five Centimeters Per Second" he directed. This is a story that quietly and slowly penetrates the heart, depicting the unchanging and changing love, as well as the wandering of the soul. The world is so beautiful and youth is so gorgeous, but the protagonist in the story only wants to talk to himself. What is the "farthest distance in the world"? For a young man who has been living in yesterday, walking out of the room in his heart is the longest distance... The simple story is extremely real, and it arouses the deepest silent emotion in his heart.

In the summer when my mother turned into salt, the thick cumulonimbus clouds on the other side of Mount Andatarai were like a huge bomb, bringing the whole world to an end. In the final world of complete silence, only the chirping of cicadas is left, and my heart is empty from now on. The appearance of the shaking moon is like a beam of light, dispelling the haze in my life. She would grab the noses of bad children with her delicate fingers that played the piano keys, and she would work silently to respond to her mother's excessive expectations. I stared at the moon from a place closer than anyone else, and I was deeply attracted to her without knowing it. After graduation, Yaoyue shined on the stage as a talented pianist, but her destiny came to an abrupt end during a piano competition. The ring finger of Yaoyue's left hand suddenly broke off, and the cross section of the fingertip was as pure white as salt. This is a story that begins and ends with tears.

Time suddenly shifted and everyone was forced to go back ten years ago, but the reality didn't seem to have changed much. The wrong bet was made again on the horse race, the wrong lover was chosen again when getting married, and the atomic bomb was dropped again. War, famine, the gap between rich and poor, entertainment to death... How much misfortune is yet to come! Don't you think this planet is a cosmic madhouse?

In 1839, a Japanese woman named Tsuneno fled her hometown and walked from the countryside to the capital Edo. She was 35 years old this year and had been divorced three times. Her family was eager to marry her off again, no matter who it was. In Edo, life was much harder than in the countryside. Tsuneno could only live in a room the size of three stacks (about 5 square meters), without even a change of coat. As a foreigner, her life is as fragile as duckweed. Fire, famine, shogunate reform... Any disturbance may destroy her hard-won new life. Everyone in her hometown wanted Changye to admit defeat and go home, but she didn't.

[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! The leisure time has come to an end. This time, Maple faces a new challenge - the guild competition! The members of "Big Maple Tree" are gearing up and waiting to show off their talents. But everyone seems to only care about the powerful showdown between "Holy Sword Gathering" and "Fire Emperor Kingdom"... "Big Maple Tree" has been marginalized! In order to overturn the situation, "Big Maple Tree" has a trump card and makes a high-profile appearance! Maple finally let herself go, heading towards the title of "The Strongest Girl"!

Martin Amis's unique masterpiece, ranked first in the "Sunday Times", describes the eternal love, desire and summer of young people. Unparalleled and ambitious excellence in English writing, brilliant and fearless alternative writing. A novel about sexual trauma, a vacation that "ruined Keith's twenty-five years of good life." In the summer of 1970, Keith, a 20-year-old nerd, a literature college student, and his friends were on vacation in a castle in Italy. At this time, new trends of thought were surging and in full swing. At this unprecedented historic moment, new trends of thought were flooding in. In everyone's mind, girls act like boys, and boys act like themselves. Keith is caught between the three women, and his friends are in a state of ecstasy, their true nature revealed but unresolved and unbearable. But they soon discovered a very disturbing fact, that is, in the change of social order, there will always be a threshold of purification, and this is the "pregnant widow" once described by the great Russian thinker Alexander Herzen - between the death of one and the birth of another, she will spend a long night of chaos and loneliness, struggling and being baptized.

A clever and evil black farce, a self-destructive carnival of death, the work of Martin Amis, a representative British contemporary literary writer as famous as McEwan and Julie Barnes. In a humorous and satirical style, the author faithfully presents the radical liberal social storm that arose in the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s to readers. This storm broke through the bottom line of Western moral tradition, caused huge impact and harm to a generation, turned innocent and kind-hearted young people into "civilized savages", and became a countercurrent in the long river of human history.

A female family history, it is the difficult survival of women in different eras that has shaped our history. A novel about love, lost innocence and struggle, a celebration of the lives of Maltese women, revealing their resilience and close family bonds. The first Maltese novel introduced to China, covering its different historical stages: colonization, war and immigration boom. A full demonstration of girl's power, an excellent example of girls helping girls. This is a story about a grandmother's grandmother-a female family history. Five generations of women from a Maltese family appear one after another, spanning a century and taking place in Malta, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. They make a living in troubled times, raise children on their own, are teased again and again by fate, fight against the ruthless world, and struggle with their own desires. The dessert shop is not only a place for them to struggle, but also a place to protect everyone. Gudita, Licia, Frances, Claire, and Daphne, they encountered completely different hardships in different eras and countries, but the unique qualities of women allowed them to endure, adapt, survive, and care for each other. In the end, the youngest girl returned to Malta and continued the story where it had been interrupted. There were Malta's unique hooded cloak "Faldetta", the public oven "Shava", the hammock cradle "Benena", the black monster "Baba"...

Dazai Osamu's masterpiece. "Disqualification in the World" (1948) is the most outstanding work in Dazai's literature. It was written before committing suicide. It is his last work and is also the "most profound reaching point" of Dazai's literature (Okuno Keno). The work depicts a young intellectual with an eccentric temperament, who suffered from the harshness of the world, indulged in wine and sex, and finally destroyed himself. "The Setting Sun" (1947) is a very important work in Japan's post-war literary world and has set a best-selling record for post-war literary works. The work shows the declining social status of the descendants of the nobles after the war and the dilemma of losing their glory. It can also be said to be Dazai's elegy to the declining nobles. The term "Xiyang Clan" is widely known as a synonym for declining nobles.

In the evening of early spring, on the busy beach of Utashima, the boy Shinji saw a beautiful and quiet face, and the girl Hatsue saw a pair of sincere and bright eyes. This silent encounter sparked the spark of love in their hearts. The tide is rolling, the fishermen are singing late, and the innocent and ignorant boys and girls fall in love with each other on the peaceful island. Although there are many tests waiting for the two of them in the near future, they will eventually reap happiness with their kindness and courage...

Young Jerome and his cousin Alyssa were childhood sweethearts and spent their innocent childhood together in the picturesque countryside. One evening, he accidentally bumped into his aunt's love affair, and then saw Alyssa kneeling in the afterglow, grieving for her mother's behavior. This moment sealed his fate: he was determined to protect Alyssa for the rest of his life. Jerome and Alyssa fell in love with each other and believed that only by becoming better would they be worthy of each other. When Alyssa saw through the real worldly face of marriage, which was far from the eternal pure love in her dream, she kept retreating and escaping from Jerome: she hoped to find the narrow door to happiness by abandoning worldly pleasures. Two people who love each other are drifting apart like this. A few years later, Jerome suddenly learned of Alyssa's death and received the diary she left for him...

This book selects 21 representative short stories and short stories by Mark Twain, including "One Million Pounds", "The Cannibalism on the Train", "A Dog's Story", "The Famous Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and other classic humor novels. Open this book and let you see the essence of human nature clearly while laughing!

The great detective Sherlock Holmes encountered an unprecedented problem - a hundred years ago, the Baskerville family had a vicious ancestor. His sins brought about a curse, and the ghost hound from hell ended his life. Since then, the shadow of misfortune has enveloped the entire family, and many descendants have not had a happy ending. Now, the mysterious ghost hound is wandering the wasteland again. Sir Charles Baskerville died mysteriously in the night, and his heir Sir Henry is about to come to the wasteland and inherit the cursed manor. This time, will Holmes face an opponent from hell?

Michelle, a young scholar, has always dealt with books and lived a regular life. During a honeymoon trip, he became seriously ill and his wife Marceline's careful care brought him back from the brink of death. When he first recovered from his illness and felt the sunshine, springs, oases, and deserts of a foreign country, he seemed to discover the beauty of everything in the world, and his long-sleeping senses awakened: he was shocked to realize that he had never truly lived. Michelle is determined to get rid of the mediocre life of the past and have fun. When he lets go of his morality, can he find his true self...

In the 1950s and 1960s, the American publishing industry was bathed in the light of the "Golden Age", but its shadow was slowly expanding. It was undergoing various mergers and industry giants becoming bigger and bigger, but independent publishing houses were struggling. The protagonist of the novel, Paul Dukach, is the editor-in-chief of an independent publishing house in New York. He has been obsessed with the legendary female poet Ada Perkins throughout his life. In the process of sorting out Ada's manuscript, Paul discovered a major unknown secret...

The novel "The Fish King" is Astafiev's most unique masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Russian literature. The book is composed of thirteen "narrative short stories" with relatively independent contents, all centered on the relationship between man and nature. It depicts Siberia full of mysterious temptations in depth and detail, as well as the people living there, and their reflections on life. The desolate, bitter and cold natural environment is at the same time a place where nature shows its majesty, vastness and richness. Although human footprints are like claws in snow and mud, they still carry the dignity of endless life. These chapters show a unique style in terms of ideological content and artistic form, downplaying the plot, and describing the details delicately and vividly. They "integrate novels, novellas, lyrical essays, and moral discussions into one" (Wang Xiaobo). They reveal coherent content and images from different angles and methods, just like a string of pearls strung inadvertently, each one reflecting dazzling light with its own beauty.

Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize (2008), and selected into The Guardian's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century (2019). An architect built a dream summer villa on the lakeside outside Berlin, but he had no idea what this land had and would experience: a young woman went crazy and drowned in the lake; Jewish neighbors sold their property at a low price and then disappeared; the advancing Red Army requisitioned the house; fled the Nazi government The author Quan returned from exile and wanted to drag out an ideal home that could last for a long time from the ruins; decades after the reunification of the two Germanys, her granddaughter was forced to give up the property rights, and the successor was the heir of its original builder... In the same place, residents of different eras separated and came. The huge invisible force of history continues to erode mankind's efforts to establish lasting values, and above all passion, pain, reconciliation and destiny stands a landscape that no amount of madness or turmoil can truly change. The "iceberg-like transcendence" poetic narrative of "A Guest" is an echo of Germany's centuries-old vicissitudes. From the Weimar Republic to the years after reunification, twelve fragments of life form a mosaic in which the past and the future collapse. The real teller of the story is time. "Eternal life has existed in the lifetime of an individual human being."

George and Lennie are a pair of homeless people who work everywhere to make ends meet. They have a dream to own a small piece of land of their own, with a small windmill, a small shed, a chicken coop, a pig pen, an orchard, and an alfalfa field so that Lenny can raise his favorite rabbits. However, all this is a dream. But George and Lennie did not give up. This time, they came to work on a new farm, hoping to work hard here and save more money, but they didn't want Lennie to get into trouble again...

Another mysterious masterpiece by Pavich, the author of "Khazar Dictionary" and "The Romance of the Fish-scale Hat". It is a masterpiece for imagination lovers and a literary giant that reinterprets Greek mythology. A tragedy of pure love. In a parallel universe, the couple with the same name as the Greek mythological characters suffered a more tragic fate than Hero and Leandre. The story comes from ancient Greek mythology: Hero is the priestess of Aphrodite. Leander swam across the Dardanelles every night to meet her. Hero used a torch to guide Leander every night. On a stormy night, the torch was blown out by the storm. Leander was lost and drowned. Hero was so sad that he jumped into the sea. This fantasy lyrical novel has a special funnel-shaped structure, consisting of two legendary stories. The first half of the book, following the convention of ordinary books, tells the story of Hailuo. Turn over the book and start from the beginning, that is the story of Leander. The stories of these two people are connected together by fragments of Greek mythology. Leander of Pavich was born in the 17th century and was a trader between Belgrade and Constantinople. He was inspired to become a monk, and later he built a magical castle at the Sava Gate in Belgrade and gained great fame. The landscape gradually became desolate as Austrian and Turkish armies looted and burned, and Leander was killed in a bloody battle. The story of Hero took place between 1920 and 1930. It tells the story of a Serbian chemistry student who was eventually killed by her jealous lover. Like Leander, Hero had a premonition of his own death.

Works by Nobel Prize winner Gide, a work of fiction in the true sense recognized by Gide. The translator Sheng Chenghua is the first person in China to study Gide, and he once had contacts with Gide. Penal accidentally discovered his identity as an illegitimate child and ran away from home. By chance, he became the secretary of the writer Edward, who was also the uncle of his best friend Olivier... The novel truly records the confusion, doubts and resistance of young people, and how they continue to explore and get lost in a society with sinking morals and lost values. "Counterfeit money" has rich meanings; tracking down counterfeit money means exposing all kinds of lies, disguises and false appearances woven through words and actions. The world constructed in the novel "The Counterfeiter" is composed of three parts: family, religion, and literature. "Counterfeit money" is their common feature. Together, they form a very absurd world.

The work of Gide, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, is a ridiculous scam that reflects the weaknesses of human nature. It has been translated by veteran translator Gui Yufang. In fact, each of us is trapped in our own cognitive world and has become a prisoner of ourselves.A masterpiece of Gide's novels, the humorous and absurd plot reveals the essence of human nature. It all stems from a secret: the Pope was kidnapped and imprisoned in the Vatican cellar. What is currently on the stage is a puppet and false Pope. The church is in urgent need of funds for rescue operations and looks forward to the generosity of believers. Rumors spread quietly among the people, some were frightened, some were suspicious, and some believed. Three brothers-in-law with different personalities-a scientist who converted to Catholicism, a writer with limited talent, and a timid businessman-were involved in this fraud case one after another. Their originally unrelated destinies converged in Rome, and then deviated from the normal track, eventually leading to a murder...