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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...

"The Man Who Drinks the Horizon" follows "The Sword and the Spear" as prisoners of war are boarded for Portugal, where they are displayed along the coast and in Lisbon to show the colonial empire's victory. Then Imani and the Gaza royal family were exiled to an island in the Atlantic Ocean, where King Gaza died. Imani returned to Mozambique in his later years and lived there with his children and descendants such as Sergeant Mello.

"A wonderful American play about novelty, imagination, and love." The master of postmodern novels writes about the emotional entanglements of contemporary literary youth. When the marriage tradition no longer works, how should love end? Pulitzer Prize winner, author of "The Virgin Suicides" and "Neuter" is a novel masterpiece. It was selected as the best novel of the year by North American independent bookstores and selected as the annual novel read by the National Book Critics Circle. "Marriage Change" tells the story of the twists and turns and confusion experienced by three liberal arts students from Brown University in the United States before and after graduation, who are world-famous as writers. "Marriage plot line" is the topic of English major Madeline's thesis. In her thesis, she elaborates on the importance of marriage plot to traditional novels. In reality, she is also trapped in a marriage and love dilemma. Despite their completely different backgrounds and personalities, Madeleine and the talented Leonard are still an enviable campus couple. Unexpectedly, Leonard suffers from manic depression due to family inheritance and a damaged childhood, and their relationship is overshadowed. Falling in love with Leonard, who suffered from mental illness, made her both painful and unable to let go. She even gave up thinking and working on the future for this reason. Madeleine grew up under the wings of her parents and was unlikely to act out of line like her rebellious sister. However, she was deeply influenced by the atmosphere of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and she longed for independence in her heart. She originally wanted to get rid of her parents' control and live with her lover after graduation, but Leonard's illness made it impossible for her to refuse her parents' help. On the other hand, Madeleine's academic path is equally confusing...

A classic among classics of World War II novels, a masterpiece that removes the last fig leaf of war, the Iron Curtain, and human nature. The Naked and the Dead is considered to be the greatest of all novels about World War II (and some even think of all novels about war). Mailer was only 25 years old when he wrote this work, making him one of the most classic American writers of the 20th century. The novel is set on Anopope Island, a fictional tropical island in the South Pacific during World War II. It tells a panoramic story of how the U. S. Military, under General Cummings's strategic planning, broke through the Japanese defense lines and completely captured the island. The novel focuses on describing how a group of soldiers from the reconnaissance platoon, who came from grass-roots backgrounds and were almost social outcasts, succumbed to the iron curtain of the army. When they were ordered to complete a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines that was difficult and dangerous, with little hope, the most instinctive and naked side of human nature was exposed. The novel also creates an opposing camp represented by two middle-class officers, Major General Cummings and Second Lieutenant Horn, and explains the laws and nature of war and the development of human society. The work also uses a special narrative technique to give a biographical appearance to each character in the book, thus forming a wonderful and real microcosm of American society, making this work beyond the scope of ordinary war novels. The work uses a Tolstoyan-style sympathetic approach without losing its seriousness. Through this group of losers on the battlefield of life who won the battle to attack the island, the work ponders whether the morbid and degenerate society has reached the point of despair? Can power theorists manipulate the course of historical development at will?

"Carousel" was first published in 1905. It is Maugham's masterpiece of early novels. It has an exquisite structure and shows the complex relationship between love and reason through a charming trio of stories. Through the protagonist's eyes, readers witness the short but happy marriage of a dying poet, a woman's unethical love for a shameless man, and a noble man's efforts to practice virtue to the extreme.

The second volume of the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer Gurner's works focuses on the situation of refugees in the gap between different cultures, focuses on the immigrant identity crisis, and continues to write about the loneliness and struggle of those wandering in a foreign land. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech, giving a glimpse into the secrets of growth and writing that span two continents and blend with multiple civilizations. "2021 Nobel Prize Writer Gulnar's Works (Second Series)" includes 5 representative works of the Tanzanian British writer Abdulrazaq Gulnar: "Dotty", "Memory of Farewell", "Pilgrim's Road", "Abandonment" and "Gravel Heart".

Through the perspective of Anna Frith, a country woman who lost all her relatives, the novel truly and vividly reproduces the terrible plague and the various characters in the disaster, especially depicting several flesh-and-blood women. It is full of humanistic care, praises life, and is deeply touching. The rational light of the Enlightenment shines between the lines.

[Original work of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! ]After the second event, Maple once again became the center of the topic. But she herself had no idea about this and continued her daily adventures with Sally. Building a guild, collecting materials, shearing sheep... She was active in the game and spent a peaceful and fulfilling day. Until - Do you accept the mission "Knights of Charity"? So, she appeared in "angel costume", and the road to becoming a god officially began.

Coming from a country that no longer exists, being taught a language that was fragmented, I stuck out my tongue like a dragon in a fairy tale, and it bifurcated: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian... Can a language so painful, a language that has never learned to describe reality as complex as one's inner experience of reality, be able to tell a story? It was always like this in the beginning. Or that. They did that, went there, and then came to Holland. The exile narrative is undated. Too many things happened in the short "post-war" period, and their psychological clocks broke under the pressure. Everything is broken. Place and time are divided into "before" and "after", life is divided into "here" and "there". They are suddenly without witnesses, parents, family, friends, or even the usual people with whom they can reconstruct their lives. Without these reliable intermediaries, they are thrown back into themselves. In a mediatized world, nothing is real. Memories pass through many intermediaries, taking the form of a Juliette Binoche or a red, white and blue woven bag, translating my personal pain into my language. Only this one thing is true. Pain is silent, useless, but the only true witness.

With unique wisdom and the power of narrative, Dubravka leads us from Russia to Japan, from the Balkan minefields to the American highway, from the 1920s to the present, exploring many topics such as the power of narrative and literary creation, the identity and situation of immigrants, women and their writing, the sequelae of war, and the situation of literature in today's era. The book is divided into six chapters, interweaving and jumping between history and regions, but it is easy to read with ease. Dubravka takes the "fox" that exists in ancient myths in various cultures as the prototype, and reveals the mystery of "story as story" layer by layer.

To disappoint you, reader, a quick glance at these few lines of text will not help you understand the content of this book. If you really want to know what it's about, you'll have to put in more effort. But maybe you are so disappointed that you don't even want to read this book. Can you really do this? No regrets? Just because you're unhappy? If that's the case, then your temper is simply worse than the protagonist of this book. At least he'll decide whether to stay or not after reading the first page. So, for the sake of caution, would it be more appropriate for you to take the same cautious approach? Wu Libo's literary classic, a companion chapter to "Why I Didn't Write a Book of My Own". A letter of challenge to all experienced readers, a reading adventure full of ups and downs. It contains a large number of quotations, allusions, allusions, parodies, and word games, making it highly informative, playful, and enjoyable to read.

Here are 11 bad news and 11 good news, as well as countless farces in between: Bad News 1: The single woman Nell was induced by a successful woman to become her stand-in and sneak into her marriage. Good news 1: Nell has become the new mistress and has a cow that loves to escape, a lamb that loves to bump into people, and a pony that loves to be lazy. Bad news 2: The doctor told Nell that her sister suffered from schizophrenia and asked her to take special medicine. Good news 2: Another doctor told Nell that as long as she stopped taking these special drugs, her sister would recover immediately. Bad news 3: Nell's mother gradually became blind and deaf, and began to avoid everything in reality. Good news 3: In her memory, my mother never seems to have lost anything: her youth, her wreaths, her wild horses, and the boys in the laboratory...

The human body is grief. It is filled with depressions, soft places, and easily injured places. Arms, armpits, chest, between thighs. This body was born to embrace people and to be embraced by others. Don't you think it's weird sometimes? Our bodies have eyelids and lips. They are occasionally closed from the outside and can also be locked tightly from the inside. Without any reason or warning, a woman becomes speechless. The first time was in the winter when she was 17 years old. She felt that the sentences emitted from her tongue and hands were tied up like white spider webs, and she was very ashamed. She could hear and read every word clearly, but she couldn't open her mouth to make a sound. What made her speechless lips tremble again was a strange foreign language-a French word. Her mother passed away half a year ago and she got divorced a few years ago. After three lawsuits, the woman finally lost the custody of her nine-year-old son. After sending the child away, she suffered from insomnia. The unbearable weight of the crystallization of words was placed in the middle of her beating heart like cold explosives. She sees a psychiatrist once a week. The psychiatrist who was over fifty years old judged that she was temporarily aphasic due to the stimulation of recent life circumstances, but she just wrote "No, it's not that simple..." Over and over again on the table. The man was 40 years old. His eyesight was gradually weakening due to fate, and the doctor declared that he would lose his sight forever in one year. He left his family in Germany and returned to Korea alone more than ten years later to teach Greek. Among the students at the academy, he noticed women who didn't speak or smile. When the silence of a woman who is gradually losing her language meets the light of a man who is gradually losing his light, everything may be allowed to change.

He was called Balthasar, the Seven Suns, because he could see things in the light; she was called Blimunda, the Seven Moons, because she could see things in the dark. He has the iron hook growing out of his broken arm, and she has eyes that pierce everything; their bodies and minds love each other, and love makes people dare to go against the grain. It was a time of little imagination. The great king wanted to build a unique monastery, and the 31-ton boulder was moved purely by manpower; the crazy priest and the young lover wanted to build a machine that could fly into the sky, but people said flying was a sin. Eventually, the craft crashed, the body was burned, and the monastery was built. In the end, the divine power was deposed, the royal power was reduced to ashes, but love and will remained forever.

"Kindness" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Hungarian writer Krasnohorkaj Laszlo, which includes eight stories including his masterpieces "The Trap of Ruz" and "The Barber's Hands". His works are obscure and have gloomy themes, and are often classified as postmodern novels. The sentence structure in the story is weird, the location is ambiguous, the meaning is elusive, the plot is extremely jumpy, the structure is often radioactive, the narrator is always unclear, and the ending is full of mystery. In addition, the preface written by teacher Yu Zemin for the work is also very exciting. It not only details the author's creative process, but also analyzes Laszlo's almost crazy "Chinese complex" with first-hand information based on his own experience. There is no doubt that this will shorten the distance between readers and the work.

Various life stories that unfold through food. Slowly savor the power and meaning of rebirth that each delicacy brings to people. The mother actually called grandma Xiaohua, saying that grandma had returned to the state of a child. Grandma first erased my mother's existence from her memory. Not long after, Mayu was also forgotten by her grandmother. Grandma, who became strange, suddenly remembered the natural shaved ice that looked like Mount Fuji. The boyfriend, who is about to be transferred to Canada, takes his girlfriend to visit an inconspicuous but delicious restaurant that his father frequented during his lifetime. Here he will confess to his girlfriend the most important thing in his life. The couple who were about to divorce decided to arrange a farewell trip, enjoy delicious matsutake dishes together, and go to hot springs separately. ...Food plays a down-to-earth and reliable role in these people's lives. Food is an important emotional nutrient, a comfort that can't bear sadness, an addition to happiness, and a force that supports people to go on bravely.