Broken Prism: Exile, Memory and Existence in the Nobel Prize-winning Writer's Writings

"Every Word Sitting with Other Eyes" is a collection of essays that brings together nine articles by Herta Miller on different themes. The author uses cold and surreal poetic language to express his inner feelings about the real environment and his feelings about the displaced living conditions. To sum up, different articles show the author's concern for the true dignity of human nature and the poet's mind. This book was first published in 2003. It is an outstanding prose work by the Nobel Prize winner. It explains the theme of his novel and his life insights in a clear and direct style, allowing you to better enter the author's spiritual world. The author's dual identity as a foreigner and the resulting perspective of an onlooker, coupled with her sensitivity to the language medium, make these articles of hers very enlightening to read.

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The masterpiece of Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. Olga Tokarczuk is a famous contemporary Polish writer. "The Ancient Times and Other Times" is her famous work. The novel has a total of 84 chapters, each chapter is named after "xxx time". It tells the story of various characters in ancient times, even animals, plants and things, from different perspectives: a girl who touches the border of the world, a landowner addicted to puzzle games, a lonely housewife, an old woman who curses the moon, and even angels, water ghosts, pugs, mycelium, small coffee grinders... The life stories of three generations reflect the turbulent historical destiny of Poland in the 20th century. Primeval is a place, located at the center of the universe. Its four borders are guarded by four angels. The world beyond the ancient times does not exist. People who think they have stepped out of the ancient times are actually standing on the border and dreaming that they have entered the outside world. When they wake up, they go home and regard their dreams as memories. Borders also produce ready-made people, as if they came from the outside world...

A masterpiece by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. "House by Day, House by Night" tells the story of a border town, from the first pioneering knifemaker who settled here to the heroine and her husband moving to this countryside, the same land has different historical moments and different life migrations over the millennium. Various legendary figures appear here: a saint with a beard, a monk with a gender inversion, an alcoholic with a bird living in his body, a small-town teacher who transforms into a werewolf, an old lady with a wig who can hibernate, a woman who collects dreams on the Internet... The human world has undergone changes and ups and downs for thousands of years, but for the land, people's joys and sorrows, and the changes in people's generations are just a fleeting dream of the land. This is a wonderful novel that mixes multiple genres and intersperses multiple story lines. Short stories, essays, folk tales, hagiographies, and even recipes and notes are intertwined and presented. Each story is an exquisite short story, and when connected together, it becomes a wonderful novel full of foreshadowing and echoes.

"The Piano Teacher" narrates the love experience of a woman named Erica under the influence of her mother. The book describes a symbiotic mother-daughter relationship. Although Erica is already in her late teens, she is still under her mother's supervision. The appearance of Erica's student Kramer broke the silent life between mother and daughter. Kramer passionately pursues his female piano teacher, but he finds himself trapped in a terrible love trap...

In 1856, three years before Darwin published "The Origin of Species," workers cleaning a quarry in the Neander Valley, about 10 kilometers east of Dusseldorf, Germany, discovered a skull and some bones. A few years later, the remains were identified as belonging to an extinct ancient human species called Neanderthals. Who are they? Did they, who disappeared about 30,000 years ago, mix with modern humans? Do we still have ancient Neanderthal genes in our bodies? The author of this book, Svante Paabo, boldly and rigorously explores the above issues through ancient DNA technology. "Neanderthal" is not only his first-hand industry record of the field of ancient DNA from its rise to its increasing maturity, but it is also intertwined with a scientific researcher's sincere experience of confusion, failure, doubt, success and more unknowns. From ancient Egyptian mummies to obtaining the first Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA sequence, to publishing the first Neanderthal genome draft; from conducting experiments without telling the mentor, to traveling to the Democratic Republic of Germany to obtain samples during the Cold War, to anecdotes of exchanges in the context of global scientific research collaboration - Paabo More than 30 years of exploration in the field of ancient DNA, between the debates between the "Out of Africa" and "Multiple Origins" theories, kicked off the study of how ancient genetic variation affects the physiology of modern humans. It also witnessed the growth of a medical student curious about ancient Egyptology to the organizer of a scientific research project on human evolution. Please follow this book to trace our origins and discover how we became human beings and what makes us human.

In 1945, at the end of World War II, a group of German-speaking Romanians were conscripted into a Russian labor camp. The novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Leopard Oberke. Hunger and fear seeped into his breathing, and every breath brought dizziness and pain like swinging on a swing.

"One-Legged Traveler" contains two novels, the other one is "Man is the Big Pheasant in the World". "Man is the Big Pheasant in the World" tells the story of the Windisch family, who used their daughter Amalie to obtain permission to go abroad after years of waiting. "The One-Legged Traveler" tells the story of Irena's travel experience from Eastern Europe to West Germany, her wandering in a foreign land and her emotional entanglements with men. She misses her hometown and struggles internally.

"The failure of happiness runs flawlessly and brings us to our knees." The third book in the Romanian trilogy. A female garment factory worker wanted to go to a beautiful country where exported clothes could reach, so she stuffed communication notes into the exported clothes, hoping that a foreign man would pick her up. After being reported, she was interrogated for three consecutive days. Then a second batch of notes showed up at the factory, and she was fired. From then on he had to be summoned regularly by the police. The novel begins with a day when I was summoned. "I" took a tram to go to the secret police for interrogation. Along the way, I once again remembered the unbearable past: how I was reported until being fired, my failed marriage, the villains around me, how my close friends died tragically, how my father betrayed my mother... In the end, I realized that the only happiness left - a peaceful life with my lover had been monitored and disturbed.

The second part of the Romanian trilogy. Lola, a college student from a poor rural area, sold her body in order to go to college in a big city, but was suddenly found committing suicide in her dormitory. The protagonist and several of her classmates try to figure out the truth behind Laura's death. Unexpectedly, under the shadow of Ceausescu's totalitarianism, the path to find is confusing, and violence follows them. "The Beast of the Heart" is full of meaning, the "inner beast", told to the protagonist by his singing grandmother, and is used throughout the book.

The first part of the Romanian trilogy. In Romania, which is in turmoil, two friends, Adina and Clara Adina, gradually develop from friends to a friendship that breaks down. The non-linear plot structure and poetic language make the novel slightly rambling, but through the messy, rambling and obscure text surface, the author's deep feeling can be seen.

The Silver Age was the "second birth" period of Russian literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Amid the turmoil of the current situation and under the influence of modernism, poets introduced novel words rich in multiple connotations into poetry, discovering the beauty of unfamiliarity and complexity, reflecting their concern for the meaning of existence. Yesenin, Tsvetaeva, Blok, Bunin, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, etc. All left outstanding works during this period. This book selects and translates 201 love poems from 32 poets of the Silver Age.

"Snow Country: Dancing Princess: A Collection of Classic Works by Yasunari Kawabata" brings together six classic novels by Japanese literary giant and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata: "Snow Country", "Izu Dancing Girl", "Thousand-Feathered Crane", "Dancing Princess", "Beauty and Sorrow" and "Ancient Capital". In the chaotic and complex emotional entanglement, in the endless flow of time and years, in the repeated circulation of lights and loneliness, Kawabata Yasunari depicts the beauty and sadness hidden in the depths, conveying the connotation of "material sorrow".