Illusion and Reality

27 books

All Souls cover
Rating 4.2
All Souls Javier Marías Nanhai Publication Company · 2025 The Chinese edition of Spanish writer Javier Marías's novel All Souls (Todas las almas), translated by Xu Lei, is introduced for the first time. The n…
The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: Yang cover
Rating 4.0
The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: Yang Natsuhiko Kyogoku Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2017 The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: Yang is the second short-story collection in Natsuhiko Kyogoku's Night Parade of One Hundred Demons series. Id…
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Rating 4.1
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2009 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of Haruki Murakami's longest novels. The Japanese original was published in three volumes—The Thieving Magpie, The P…
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Rating 3.9
Afternoon Tea Jian Zhen Jiuzhou Press · 2016 Afternoon Tea is a collection of essays by the Taiwanese essayist Jian Zhen. The emotional undercurrent of the whole book is the author's longing to w…
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Daydream 老谭 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 Daydream is a full-length suspense novel by the writer Lao Tan (real name Tan Qionghui), published by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing Ho…
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Harlot's Ghost 诺曼·梅勒 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 Harlot's Ghost is a major novel by the American writer Norman Mailer. Set against the backdrop of the CIA, it unfolds through the eyes of intelligence…
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Rating 3.9
Games from Darkness 李奕樵 Jiuzhou Press · 2025 Long before he was born, he was prophesied to be a girl—so to make the prophecy come true, he became his twin sister; he is asked to reconstruct the d…
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Rating 3.8
Journey's End 里卡多·皮格利亚 / 周妤婕 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 A night journey about a father, memory, and farewell. After news arrives that his father is dying, journalist Emilio Renzi sets out on an overnight tr…
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Rating 3.8
Artificial Girl 龚万辉 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 'Artificial Girl' is the first novel by Malaysian Chinese writer Gong Wanhui. In the near future, the world is destroyed by a plague. An exhausted fat…
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Rating 3.1
One Night Flight 黄惠子 Jiuzhou Press · 2025 The thirteen stories in this collection stand alone, each with its own characters and its own tale, threading through subtle forking paths of time and…
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Rating 4.1
Dance Dance Dance Haruki Murakami / Lin Shaohua Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024 Six skeletons are laid out in a room of death that is at once real and illusory. My old friend Rat has already died in A Wild Sheep Chase. I finally f…
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Rating 4.0
The Art of Suspension 陈崇正 Writers Publishing House · 2024 In the metaverse era, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Dai Youbin emerges as a man of his time. Carrying the romantic dreams ent…
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Rating 3.8
Galaxy's Edge 011: Space-Time Barrage 杨枫 New Star Press · 2023 Galaxy's Edge is a science fiction series created for young readers, fast-paced urbanites, and sci-fi fans. Published in a pocket-sized paperback form…
Dark Piece cover
Rating 3.6
Dark Piece 路魆 Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023 In a virtual courtroom, an audience at the city theater listens to a strange memoir report in order to assign a stage role to the reporter, Sun Shengx…
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Rating 3.3
Lighting the Lamp in Search of the Realm 小森 Chongqing Publishing House · 2022 Zou Yuyue receives a package from a stranger. It contains a notebook, on whose pages, written from back to front, is a story titled Lighting the Lamp …
Li Meizhen cover
Rating 3.9
Li Meizhen 孔亚雷 · 2021 In January 2012, novelist K, mired in writer's block, stumbles upon an old black-and-white photograph at a secondhand book stall in Beijing's Panjiayu…
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Rating 3.4
Fancy's Show-Box Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 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 …
Brain Matter Hell cover
Rating 4.2
Brain Matter Hell 梦野久作 / 刘剑 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2019 On November 20, 1926, a young man in Ward 7 of the psychiatric department of Kyushu Imperial University suddenly regains consciousness to the ticking …
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Rating 3.9
Wind 潘军 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This is an original contemporary novel. It mainly tells of the writer "I," who often heard family elders speak of the legendary Zheng Hai, a man of wi…
A Mystery Writer's Creed cover
Rating 3.5
A Mystery Writer's Creed 王稼骏 New Star Press · 2026 "From the moment you open this book and read the first line of the text, you have already become my accomplice." The meticulously staged crime scene c…