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This is Bear Town, where storms, bitter cold, ice, and endless forests are all waiting for an opportunity to kill people. Do you want to understand the people here? Really want to understand? Then you have to know the best of all that we can do - our dreams, our courage, a few little girls who make us proud, a few little boys who make us great. Do you want to get to know the people who live in a small town? Really want to know? Then you have to understand all the worst things we are capable of doing. Fear can make some people heroes, but in the shadow of fear, most of us only bring out our ugliest sides, and good people will do terrible things because they believe they are just trying to protect the people they love. How should we live? How to love? How to win? How to protect those precious things? How to choose and be a better person? Society is the sum of our own choices, and everything that unites us will eventually become our history.

The young Siddhartha was tired of the Brahmin life and chose to leave his hometown to find his true self. He once stepped into the world, enjoyed the worldly life, and indulged in the abyss of desire until he got tired of it. He leaves the world behind and resolves to end his life. By the river, in a moment of despair, he heard the sound of the river and had an epiphany by the river.

That sense of powerlessness that no matter how I live makes me want to live a more vigorous life. Joyce's work of genius! 20Th century short story template! Reading guide by Nankai famous teachers, original and exquisite illustrations. The heavy snow is approaching, and a sense of powerlessness that no matter how you live has long shrouded the city of Dublin. Almost everyone, men, women, and children will be spared. "Araby": The fragile and blind love when you were young, you only dare to secretly hide your love for someone in your heart. "Just the Same": When a person reaches middle age, he has lost almost everything and is tired of the ordinary life. Tragedy is like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger. "The Dead": The wife's first love comes with her memory on a snowy Christmas night, but as a husband, she has always been insignificant. ... Snowflakes fall leisurely between heaven and earth, like a mirror, reflecting and inspiring every one of us who feels powerless and struggling in the quagmire of growth, work, and marriage, to release our own vitality!

"There are only two types of people in the English-speaking world, one is those who have read "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", and the other are those who are ready to read them." The foundation work of Western fantasy literature, the original novel of the "Lord of the Rings" series of Hollywood epic productions and Oscar-winning movies, has been best-selling around the world for seventy years, with a total sales volume of more than 150 million copies. The famous fantasy literature writer and translator Zhu Xueheng has translated the classic and lovingly wrote the introduction to the new edition. For the first time, it includes more than 30 precious illustrations drawn by the author Tolkien. The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is a fantasy epic masterpiece by the great British writer J. R. R. Tolkien, including "The Lord of the Rings", "The Two Cities" and "The Return of the King". The story tells the story of Frodo, a carefree hobbit boy who inherits a ring, only to discover that it is the One Ring forged by the Dark Lord Sauron, which has the power to enslave the whole world. Under the guidance of Gandalf, Frodo and elves, dwarves, hobbits, rangers, and humans formed an expedition to throw the Lord of the Rings into the Crater of Doom and destroy it. Sauron has sent black knights to search for the ring, and the Ring has strong corrosive power that will distort the wearer's mind. Can the power of good defeat the temptation of evil? This is a touching story about survival and courage, about fighting against darkness to the death for a bright future for mankind.

One of the most interesting and delicate novels in the history of Latin American literature, it depicts the upper class society of Lima, the capital of Peru, through the eyes of a child, recalling the past with its delicate brushstrokes. The novel "The World of Julius" is a famous work by Bliss Echenik. This autobiographical work, by describing the life experience of the young protagonist Julius in his family and lower society, shows how the childlike innocence with all kinds of beautiful ideas about the adult world is gradually distorted and falls into the hollow of despair and loneliness. Julius was born into a well-off family and grew up under the love of his family. This experience also made him gradually marginalized in the upper class society to which he belonged. He emotionally identifies with the people at the bottom and is more willing to accept their values, but sadly, he is also a marginal figure in this world. The adult world has implanted countless contradictions in Julius's heart. In the confusing reality, his childlike innocence has gone from confusion to loss; in the face of the strong contrast between ideal and reality, the childhood Eden is vulnerable.

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is an early representative work and a shortlisted work for the Booker Prize. In Ireland in the early 1990s, due to the terminal illness of her gay brother Declan, Helen had to reunite with her long-estranged mother Lily at her grandmother Dora's old house by the sea to take care of the terminally ill Declan. Also living with them are Declan's friends Paul and Larry. Helen and Lily have been estranged for a long time, and Lily also has many conflicts with Dora. In the process of facing Declan's illness, three generations with different beliefs and feelings were forced to examine their own past in the shallows of history, listen to each other's hearts amidst collisions and conflicts, and gradually reach an understanding through looking back on the past. Tobin uses soothing and beautiful words to explore the nature of love and the complex emotions within a conflicted family, which resonates deeply: How do you face your family and heal the deep wounds in your heart?

Six food-related short stories present six kinds of joys and sorrows of life. When you are happy, celebrate with food; when you are sad, talk to food; when you are lonely, be with food. Cry as much as you want, live hard, no matter what, eat first. The new generation of Japanese writer Madoka Ayase brings this year's touching "Food Therapy Story", which was selected as a "platinum book that must not be missed" by Japan's "Da Vinci" magazine.

This time Haruki Murakami turned his attention to writing fairy tale novels. "The Sheep Man's Christmas" is a simple story, yet humorous and charming. The main characters include "Murakami Fan"

"Hand over each other's darkest secrets so that we can never be separated." The final chapter of the family trilogy of Italian national writer Domenico Starnone. Pietro and Teresa's love life was full of swords and swords. After another argument, she had an idea: Tell me your darkest secrets and I'll do the same. Then we will be together forever. Of course, they broke up soon after. But the end of one relationship is often the beginning of the next, and when Pietro met Nadia, he immediately fell in love with her passivity and softness. However, a few days before the wedding, Teresa magically reappears. Along with her came the shadow of their mutual confession, which was almost a warning. From that moment on, the "confession" they exchanged will always be a threat: all good deeds in Pietro's life will be based on this dark secret. More importantly, Teresa always appeared on time at every crossroads in his life. Or was he always looking for her? With a gaze that is both complicit and distant, and with the aching lightness that only great narratives possess, "Confessions" depicts a man torn between himself and his ambitions. But it's really about each of us: how dangerous the foundations on which we build our identities are.

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The author who never fails - three novels by Emer Towers. "The Rule of the Top": In the expectation of hopeless love, she finally understood that the "right" choice often involves the pain of loss. "Moscow Gentlemen": Living in the attic of a five-star hotel, you can watch the great changes unfolding in Russia under the wheel of history from a unique perspective. "Lincoln Highway": four teenagers drifting on the road, four destinies unfolding in ten days! Some people have a new beginning, while others fall into a bitter fate.

In June 1954, 18-year-old Emmett was driven home to Nebraska by the warden after serving 15 months in a juvenile correctional farm. His father had just passed away, and the family farm and residence had been confiscated by the bank due to debts. Emmett and his brother Billy decided to leave their hometown and go to California to find their mother who ran away from home many years ago and start a new life. But the unexpected arrival of two friends, Dutchess and Woolley, disrupted the brothers' plans and led them to the completely opposite destination - New York. Ten days later, the story came to an end: some people had a new beginning and became more determined; others fell into the bitter fate and their own shortcomings.

"I am a Cat (Illustrated Collector's Edition)" is the masterpiece of writer Natsume Soseki. The story observes humans from the perspective of a cat and shows the various aspects of the world in Japan after the Meiji Restoration. This cat looked down at the Japanese society at that time and watched the general trend of modern civilization in the 20th century, making all kinds of hilarious satires. Natsume Soseki depicts a group of literati and snobs who love to chat and claim to be aloof. He analyzes the mentality of intellectuals in witty and humorous language, and vividly criticizes the money-oriented society and the lifestyle habits of blind worship of the West. He uses a parody technique to weave a broad vision of humankind.

[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.