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The Afternoon at the Western Confectionery
CITIC Press · 2025
The Afternoon at the Patisserie is a short story collection by the Japanese author Yoko Ogawa, published in 1998. Its original Japanese title is Reven…
Madhouse of Myriad Worlds
Qidian · 2025
Madhouse of Myriad Worlds is a supernatural mystery novel by web author Feigua, serialized on Qidian with roughly 1.32 million characters across 624 c…
The Will Mystery
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
In midsummer, Tokyo breaks one heat record after another. A woman falls from a rooftop and dies under a bridge beside the expressway. When detectives …
The Silkworm
People's Literature Publishing House · 2015
Private detective Cormoran Strike is hired by a female client to find her missing husband, the novelist Owen Quine. At first the wife assumes her husb…
The Man in the High Castle
Yilin Press · 2017
The Man in the High Castle is a novel by the American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, published in 1962 and awarded the Hugo Award for Best Nov…
Artificios
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2015
Artificios is a short story collection by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published in 1944 and combined with 1941's The Garden of Forking Pat…
The Magus
Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017
The Magus is a novel by the British author John Fowles, published in 1965; the Chinese edition was translated by Chen Anquan. The protagonist, Urfe (N…
Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery, Volume 2
Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery is a four-issue miniseries by writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely, originally published by DC's Vertig…
The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo, Volume 3: Wanshou Temple
Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2006
Wanshou Temple is the last novel in Wang Xiaobo's "Bronze Age," one of his "Age Trilogy," and also his longest and most narratively intricate work. Ar…
The Storytelling Instinct: Why the Brain Loves to Spin Tales
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024
We can never recover the original shape of an event. Something is first seen or lived through, then perceived and interpreted, and finally told and pa…
The Physics in The Three-Body Problem
Hunan Science & Technology Press · 2026
This is a distinctive popular science book. Physicist Li Miao takes Liu Cixin's science-fiction novel The Three-Body Problem as his starting point and…
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …