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Through the investigation of the life of women in the Ming Dynasty, the author explains the formation of women's group personality in the closed world of traditional rites and religions. On the other hand, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, people had active thoughts, wide interests and broad horizons. Under the influence of this social ideological atmosphere, women's life in the late Ming Dynasty also had more vitality and diversity.

The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind.

The Answer Blows in the Wind is Bob Dylan's first new work since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan said, "It's important to have something in a song that makes you feel your life."

In this new book, he offers extraordinary insights into the context and nature of content in 66 carefully selected pieces of modern popular music.

By recounting the music of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Little Richard, Cher, The Who, The Temptations, and others, Dylan not only provides readers with a personal set list of modern pop music, but also presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of 20th-century America. You can almost hear Dylan's voice emerge from the pages, a voice that has emotional fantasies and confessions, but also rational interpretations and Revelations.

Crocodile

This book is a magical drama written by the famous writer Mo Yan ten years after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is also Mo Yan's magnificent transformation.

The story of Crocodile revolves around the protagonist Shan Wuzhi and the gift "crocodile" he receives at his birthday party. Knowing that the growth of crocodiles depends on the nature of the degree of environmental restriction, the preoccupied No fear has developed a strong interest in crocodiles.

Over the past ten years, he has constantly replaced a larger fish tank for the crocodile, allowing the crocodile to grow up until it has become a giant beast up to four meters long... Through an infinitely growing crocodile, the story digs into the deep secrets of human nature and deeply explores the theme of "desire".

Through the wonderful Shakespearean dialogue and imaginative dramatic conflict design, the work vividly portrays a series of typical characters, which not only reflects the writer's deep thinking and innovation in literature, but also has profound social practical significance and educational warning.

"Our Fleeting Splendor on the Earth"

A coming-of-age memoir of a Saigon teenager and a poignant family history, it is also a brutally frank exploration of kinship, race, class, gender and self-identity.

"My mother and grandmother fled to the United States because of the war. I took off our native language and put on my English, like a mask, so that others could see my face and then theirs."

"Enlightening, shocking, urgent, necessary" is the right way to describe this book, but the one that lingers in my mind is "naked" : the emotion is so powerful that you will feel it cut to the bone after reading it.

With the precision of a poet, Wang Ouxing examines whether the words of experience can be a bridge through the wounds of generations, and whether they can be heard and seen by those we truly love.

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante, author of the Neapolitan Tetralogy, deconstructs the darkness and lies of marriage.

Thirty-eight-year-old Olga is suddenly thrown into a life of hell: her husband Mario has left her, their young children, and a Wolf dog named Otto for a young woman.

Olga had lost not only a 15-year marriage, but her entire sense of life. She wrote undeliverable letters to her husband in an effort to understand why her marriage was falling apart.

She tried to follow the trail of her husband and lover, even at the expense of public gaffes. She indulges in the humiliation of being abandoned, allowing everything around her to fall into chaos: a minor car accident, a sick child, a poisoned dog, and a ridiculous night with a neighbor.

But Olga did not become the "outcast" she had feared since childhood. In unforgiving self-examination and hyperactive writing, she erases her long-held false projections of her husband and marriage and finally finds herself.

No Relation

Unaffinities is Saul's first collection of short stories. Eight novels, from the beginning of the 20th century to the millennium, travel freely through the real Lingnan and heterogeneous space, across the secret history of southern humanity: The foreign great-grandmother family involved in the Jinshan pig coolies trade, the "Doctor Uranium" who rushed forward, the Cousins who struggled to survive in the clan society, the Ultraman leather actor who was unemployed for ten years, the strange distant relatives who returned from Norway, and the fine uncle of Anita Mui in the provincial capital...

The author disassembles and reconstructs western Guangdong from the perspective of literary anthropology. Keen to catch the dragonfly released in the dusk of The Times, and specimen it. At the same time, he is also exploring the stretch and agitation of the Chinese language against the fashionable discourse of the era.