Fact and Fiction

10 books

The Blind Assassin cover
Rating 4.3
The Blind Assassin Margaret Eleanor Atwood Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2016 The Blind Assassin is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 2000, and the first work to win the Booker Prize after her fourth shortl…
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Rating 3.7
Deep in the Great River 东来 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 A small, quiet collection of just over 170 pages and six stories, yet enough to make a name stick in the mind. Dong Lai writes of the small central-Ch…
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Rating 4.5
Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder Writers Publishing House · 2017 Sophie's World is a philosophical coming-of-age novel by the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. First published in Norway in 1991 and brought to Chines…
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Rating 4.0
Brecht's Lover 雅克-皮埃尔·阿梅特 / 周小珊 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Brecht, founder of the "epic theatre"—one of the three great performance systems of world drama—was a great twentieth-century German playwright and a …
The Cheese and the Maggots + The Night Battles (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.7
The Cheese and the Maggots + The Night Battles (2 Volumes) 卡洛·金茨堡 / 鲁伊 / 朱歌姝 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2021 Cheese and Worms: Ginzburg moves through the intricate trial records and between elite and popular culture, weaving a cleverly structured and captivat…
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville cover
Rating 3.5
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville Mandeville, John, Sir 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 …
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Rating 3.1
Among the Mulberries 苏苔 Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 The story collection Sang Jian brings together six novellas and short stories by Su Tai: "Rabbit Hole," "Sang Jian," "The Boat Hanging in the Tree," "…
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist cover
Rating 4.4
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist Orhan Pamuk / 彭发胜 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024 This volume gathers Orhan Pamuk's Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University, in which he discusses his journey as a novelist, the relationship b…
The Story of Dao Tuo Xue cover
Rating 3.2
The Story of Dao Tuo Xue 王平 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Diaotuo Xie is the name of a small alley in Changsha, Hunan. The author grew up there and has many memories of it. As long years passed, the fortunes …
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Rating 3.9
The Goddess of the Lhasa River Ma Yuan Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 The Goddess of the Lhasa River collects eight novellas and short stories by the renowned writer Ma Yuan, written during his years in Tibet, including …