Love and Loss

25 books

Kimi no Sora (Your Sky) cover
Kimi no Sora (Your Sky) Meijia Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2009 Your Sky is the companion volume to the Japanese phenomenon Love Sky, a cell-phone novel written by the mysterious author Mika and published in Chines…
How Many Blossoms Fell in My Dreams cover
Rating 4.5
How Many Blossoms Fell in My Dreams Sanmao Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2011 Stories of the Sahara's sequel records Sanmao's life as a widow after José's accidental death. Comprising twenty-three essays, it is the heaviest and …
The Argentine Grandma cover
The Argentine Grandma Banana Yoshimoto / 奈良美智 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022 A young girl who has lost her mother follows a clue into a strange house, meets an odd old woman, and also finds her father in hiding. The story is ex…
Every Moment of Love in the Mortal World cover
Rating 3.5
Every Moment of Love in the Mortal World 哈维洛克·艾利斯夫人 / 叶敏 / 魏丹娜 Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2015 What is love? The heart-fluttering thrill of first stirrings, the blazing fervor of growth, the rich and lingering depth of maturity, and the parting …
Hypoxia cover
Rating 2.8
Hypoxia 王静羽 · 2026 After Lin Da, a female white-collar worker drifting in Beijing, passes the postgraduate entrance exam, she goes to Tibetan regions to clear her mind. …
How I Long to See You Again cover
Rating 3.2
How I Long to See You Again Ji Nanfang Jiangsu Kuwei Culture Development Co., Ltd. · 2026 Zheng Shaoyi and Jiang Suiyan grew up together. A gifted young man, Jiang Suiyan is terminally ill. Forced to choose between his personal dreams and l…
The End of August, Like the End of the World cover
Rating 3.8
The End of August, Like the End of the World 天泽夏月 / 陈雪婷 Taihai Publishing House · 2025 When Touko's last heartbeat pierced the cicadas' cry, Seigo's youth shattered forever into two halves. The forty-day exchange diary stopped as well; t…
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Rating 2.9
Winter Has Arrived 莫须 · 2025 "A sharp-tongued boy with a terminal illness VS a warm girl who never backs down. [Dual redemption + the peak of BE aesthetics!] "Bai Xingpo, do you b…
Camus's Love Letters (Complete 2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
Camus's Love Letters (Complete 2 Volumes) Albert Camus / 玛丽亚·卡萨雷斯 / 何润哲 / 马雅 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 This collection brings together 865 letters exchanged between Camus and María over sixteen years, from 1944 to 1959. In these letters they discussed e…
Turning Back Is Love cover
Rating 3.3
Turning Back Is Love 波儿 Jieli Publishing House · 2024 Mom, snow falls on me, on the romping children, on the treetops, on the swings; the whole city is silver-white. Mom, this snow—it drifts, and drifts..…
A Farewell to Arms cover
Rating 4.6
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Miller Hemingway / Lin Yijin · 2024 Frederic Henry, a young American, volunteers for the Red Cross late in World War I, driving an ambulance and rescuing the wounded on the northern Ital…
The Smiley Face on the Cup cover
Rating 3.4
The Smiley Face on the Cup 彭程 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024 This is a full-length work of nonfiction, the author's heart-wrenching memorial to his beloved daughter, an only child who died of brain cancer in the…
Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare Comic Edition cover
Rating 3.9
Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare Comic Edition William Shakespeare / Steve Barlow / Steve Skidmore / 罗益民 Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2024 Enjoy Shakespeare's classic tragic romance, Romeo and Juliet! In Verona, Italy, a young couple falls in love at first sight—but behind them stand two …
The Wind Rises cover
Rating 3.9
The Wind Rises 堀辰雄 / 烨伊 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Beneath the isolated foothills of Mount Yatsugatake, at the beautiful Fujimi Kogen sanatorium, "I" stay by my seriously ill fiancée Setsuko, carefully…
Mourning the Departed cover
Rating 3.6
Mourning the Departed Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Commemorating the dead. After the Jin-dynasty poet Pan Yue's wife died, he wrote three "Poems of Mourning" (Daowang shi), and later generations came t…
Pierre and Luce cover
Rating 3.8
Pierre and Luce Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 Project Gutenberg · 2023 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Adieu cover
Rating 3.7
Adieu Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 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 …
Chita: A Memory of Last Island cover
Rating 3.9
Chita: A Memory of Last Island Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 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 …
Original Novels of Kore-eda Hirokazu's Classic Films (2-Volume Set) cover
Rating 4.3
Original Novels of Kore-eda Hirokazu's Classic Films (2-Volume Set) 是枝裕和 · 2020 This book is the original novel behind Hirokazu Kore-eda's acclaimed film Still Walking. On life's road we keep walking, and there is always something…
The Wind Rises · Naoko cover
Rating 4.1
The Wind Rises · Naoko 堀辰雄 / 刘剑 Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 The Wind Rises is the original novel behind Hayao Miyazaki's final film. The protagonist accompanies his gravely ill fiancée Setsuko to a mountain san…