# La Mare au Diable
***La Mare au Diable*** (*The Devil\'s Pool*) is an 1846 novel by George Sand.
The novel is first in a series of four pastoral novels by Sand, based on her childhood; it was followed by *François le Champi* (1847--1848), *La Petite Fadette* (1849), and *Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré* (1857).
The Père Maurice is talking to Germain, his 28-year-old young son-in-law, about Germain taking a new wife. Germain has been a widower for two years, and his wife left behind three young children. (Père means Father and is used in ancient oral Language.) Maurice wants Germain to go visit his friend, Père Leonard, at a farm about half a day\'s ride away, to visit Leonard\'s daughter, a rich widow who is looking to remarry. Her name is Catherine Guerin and it appears she is a good person. Germain does not really want to remarry, but Maurice tells him that two years is long enough to be in mourning, that he is grateful for Germain having been good to his daughter, and that the children need a mother. He and his wife cannot continue to take care of the three young children, and his son and daughter-in-law are expecting a baby, so will not be able to help. Germain finally agrees. Maurice tells Germain to take a present of game to Leonard and the widow and to leave Saturday, spend the night at the widow\'s farm, and come back on Sunday.
He leaves with his son, Pierre, and Mary, a young and beautiful 16 year old girl who needs to find a job in town. They stop near the Mare au Diable and spend the night. Germain and Mary begin to fall in love with each other, but neither shows it. The next morning Germain goes to see the widow and leaves his son with Mary. When he comes to fetch him, disappointed by the widow, he learns that Mary has fled her employer (who tried to rape her) with Pierre. Germain finds them both at the Mare au Diable and they all go back to the village.
Several months passes. They don\'t talk to each other.


# La Mare au Diable
They finally talk to each other, find out they\'re both in love, and marry.
The novel (specifically, its opening scene) is supposed to have been the inspiration for Rosa Bonheur\'s 1849 painting *Ploughing in the Nivernais*.
A contrasexual, queer reading of the novel was offered by James Hamilton, who suggested that, rather than see Germain as a projection of a male author, Marie could profitably be regarded as an ego-heroine; according to Hamilton, such a reading offers a better explanation of the title (and its explicit reference to a female element, water) and greater depth for Marie\'s two suitors.
The novel has been translated into English seven times between 1847 and 2005, more than any other Sand novel.


# The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (novel)
***The Song of Everlasting Sorrow*** is a novel written by the contemporary Chinese author Wang Anyi. Widely considered to be one of her best works, this story follows the life and romantic encounters of a woman in a changing Shanghai, spanning roughly four decades of the twentieth century.
*The Song of Everlasting Sorrow* was adapted into a 2005 film titled *Everlasting Regret*, and a 2006 TV series titled *To Live to Love*.
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# The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (novel)
The novel has also been translated into Vietnamese by Sơn Lê (as *Trường hận ca*), into Korean by Yu Byeong-rye (as *장한가*), into French by Yvonne André and Stéphane Lévêque (as *Le chant des regrets éternels*), into Spanish by Carlos Ossés Torrón (as *La canción de la pena eterna*), into Italian by Maria Rita Masci (as *La canzone dell\'eterno rimpianto*), into Russian by Maria V. Semenyuk (as *Песнь о бесконечной тоске*) and into Serbian by Ivana Elezović (as *Pesma o večnoj seti*).
The novel has the same name as the poem written by one of the most famous poets in the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi, about the romance and tragic death of the beautiful imperial consort Yang Yuhuan. This novel was initially published in instalments in the 1995 issue of *Zhong shan* magazine and was soon after published as a novel. Initially, the novel did not arouse much interest in the public until it was awarded the prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000. After this recognition, the novel received further awards and saw an increase in sales and popularity across China. Despite many literary critics identifying Wang\'s novel with a wave of nostalgia that China experienced, she denies having written the novel with a sentimentality for Old Shanghai in mind, stating that she \"has simply used Old Shanghai as a literary resource, as a setting for the plot and as a means to imbue the plot with a certain dramatic intensity.\" In a 1996 article published in *Du shu* magazine, scholar Wang Dewei proclaimed Wang Anyi the literary successor of Eileen Chang, as he drew parallels between the novel and Chang\'s work. Regarding this comparison, Wang acknowledged that they both \"share an interest in the minutiae of everyday life\", but feels that she herself focuses more on social realities, while Chang moves between reality and the illusory world \"in an almost nihilistic way.\"
Wang Anyi's *The Song of Everlasting Sorrow* tells the story of a gorgeous Shanghai woman named Wang Qiyao. The timeline of the novel spans from 1946 to 1986, and is separated into three parts. Everything begins with the title of "Miss Shanghai". After being discovered by an amateur photographer, Wang Qiyao competes in the 1946 Miss Shanghai beauty pageant. She becomes the second runner-up and is awarded the title \"Miss Third Place\", marking a moment of stardom in her life that she clings to for the following years after. Starting with Director Li, Wang Qiyao experiences several romantic, yet fleeting relationships throughout her life. When she is middle-aged, Wang Qiyao falls in love with a 26 year old young man called "Old Colour", but their relationship eventually comes to an end despite Wang Qiyao\'s desperation to hold on to it. In the end she is murdered by the scam artist "Long Legs" because of his desire to steal her hidden stash of gold bars. Wang Qiyao\'s final moments seem to echo a similar scene from her youth. Wang Qiyao is a graceful and gorgeous woman who has experienced five relationships but never found true love. *The Song of Everlasting* *Sorrow* is a tragic love story, and the writer Wang Anyi uses the main character, Wang Qiyao, to show the change of Shanghai through the 1940s' to the 1980s'.


# The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (novel)
- **Wang Qiyao** () is the tragic heroine of the novel. She was born in Shanghai in around 1930. A young beauty obsessed with the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Wang entered the 1946 \"Miss Shanghai\" pageant, winning third place, which marked the pinnacle of her life. Over the next four decades, Wang struggled furtively to cling to that glorious moment, all the while carrying on numerous fleeting and largely secretive romances. Her sexual partners included one (Director Li) more than twice her age and one (\"Old Colour\") less than half her age. However, Wang was never able to maintain any romantic relationship or non-romantic friendship, just as she failed to bond with her own parents and daughter (Weiwei). Wang was murdered in 1986 by a scam artist (\"Long Legs\") whom she had befriended.
- **Wu Peizhen** () was once Wang Qiyao\'s best friend in high school. She was ugly and had no friend besides Wang, so she did everything to please Wang, including taking Wang to a film set where her cousin worked. They visited the set many times, but after Wang\'s failed screen test their relationship inexplicably cooled largely due to Wang\'s oversensitiveness. Despite that, Wu\'s affection towards Wang remained basically unchanged. During her last visit to see Wang in 1948 (on the eve of the Shanghai Campaign), she announced that she had married an affluent man and offered to take Wang with her family to Hong Kong. Wang was very touched but refused. That was their last encounter.
- **Mr. Cheng** was an amateur photographer who became infatuated with Wang Qiyao after photographing her in his apartment in 1945. An exceedingly nice but shy man, Cheng was too afraid to confess his love for Wang, and Wang thought of him only as a \"last resort\". Jiang Lili, however, fell for him, but their relationship went nowhere as he wasn\'t able to get over Wang. In the early 1960s, Cheng took care of Wang and her newborn dutifully like he was the new father. Wang was ready to accept him in her life, but Cheng was afraid of making a move and stopped visiting Wang. In 1966 during the Cultural Revolution, Cheng was accused of being a \"Capitalist roader\" and was locked up by Red Guards for a month, after which he committed suicide by jumping from his studio on the Bund. He was 44.
- **Jiang Lili** () was Wang Qiyao\'s best friend in high school after Wang\'s fall out with Wu Peizhen. A romantic and idealist, Jiang was sentimental and socially awkward. Her father and younger brother were barely in her life, and she disliked her mother, her eventual husband Mr. Zhang, his rural family, and even their 3 sons who resembled her husband too much. The only 2 people she ever liked were Wang and Cheng, but due to their complicated love triangle, their relationships brought her nothing more than sorrow. After the Chinese Communist Revolution, she turned her devotion to the Communist Party of China, but was denied membership because of her \"bourgeois\" background. In 1965, liver cancer ended her unhappy and unfulfilled life.
- **Director Li** was an influential person in the Kuomintang National Revolutionary Army. He saw Wang Qiyao first during the \"Miss Shanghai\" pageant and later at a banquet, and although not instantly enamoured, found her interesting. After a few meals together, he rented out a place for her in the luxurious Alice Apartments, essentially claiming her as his mistress (he already had 3 wives). With the Chinese Civil War raging on, Li was extremely busy and rarely in Shanghai, but they truly loved each other in spite of a large age difference. In 1948, his spirits became increasingly despondent after successive military defeats. Knowing the inevitability of a Communist victory, he cautioned Wang to never acknowledge their relationship and left her a few gold bars for the future. He died in a plane crash that year.
- **\"Deuce\"** () was the second son of a tofu supplier in Wu Bridge (邬桥, at that time a rural town, now in Fengxian District, Shanghai). A graduate of a Kunshan school, \"Deuce\" planned to attend college in Nanjing but was stuck in Wu Bridge due to the 1949 Communist Revolution. He looked down on the rustic Wu Bridge natives. When Wang Qiyao arrived, her different demeanour and Shanghai background filled his heart with imagination and desire. He treated Wang like an idol, visited her often and brought her books to read. Although Wang regarded his affection as merely puppy love, \"Deuce\" was convinced that if he worked hard he would be good enough for her hand one day, and hurriedly departed for Shanghai to realize this dream. He wasn\'t heard from since.
- **Madame Yan** was a housewife in Peace Lane, where Wang Qiyao moved into in the 1950s. She had led a luxurious life because Mr. Yan had owned a factory before the Communist Revolution. Madame Yan had little responsibility at home, so she visited Wang often as they both enjoyed clothes and fashion. She introduced Wang to her cousin Kang Mingxun, and the trio frequently played mahjong during the Anti-Rightist Movement (1957--1959) along with Sasha. Madame Yan thought Wang had been a taxi dancer, and viewed her with both jealousy and disdain, so their friendship was never extremely close. When she discovered Wang\'s relationship with Kang, she informed Kang\'s family, after which she fell out with Wang. However, she attended the wedding of Wang\'s daughter Weiwei in 1984.
- **Kang Mingxun** () was a cousin of Madame Yan. A jobless college graduate, he lived off his wealthy father. The son of a concubine, he had to call his father\'s principal wife \"Mother\" and his biological mother \"Second Mother\" per strict family rules. Kang was thus keenly aware of the familial pressure on him. When he fell in love with Wang, a woman with a questionable past, he knew their romance would be forbidden. Still they consummated their love, and Wang became pregnant. Wang tried to resolve the issue by sleeping with Sasha and blaming him for the pregnancy, so as to relieve Kang of his responsibility. Kang visited Wang a few times after the childbirth, even resumed their lovemaking, but there was no more love. Soon he dropped off from Wang\'s life.
- **Sasha** (, ) was of both Chinese and Russian parentage. After his father\'s death, his Russian mother returned to the Soviet Union and remarried. Without a family or a job, Sasha wandered aimlessly, hanging out with both Chinese and Russians to fill his emptiness. He befriended Kang Mingxun from playing contract bridge, and came with him to Wang Qiyao\'s apartment for mahjong, almost always empty-handed. After Wang was impregnated by Kang in 1961, she decided to claim Sasha the father due to his special status as \"Heir of the Revolution\", so she began to have sex with him even though there was no love between them. Soon after discovering her pregnancy, Sasha went to Beijing ostensibly to meet his Russian aunt, never to return.
- **Weiwei** () was the illegitimate daughter of Wang Qiyao, born in 1961. Her father was Kang Mingxun, who was not part of her life. Instead, Weiwei was told that her father had died in Siberia, and it didn\'t bother her much. Weiwei grew up in her mother\'s shadow and always felt inadequate, constantly wary that Wang Qiyao would steal her thunder and even boyfriend. With the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the beginning of the Chinese economic reform in 1978, Weiwei closely followed fashion changes so as to outshine her mother, whom she often argued with except when she needed money. Aside from fashion, Weiwei had few pursuits in life. She got married in 1984, and a year later joined her husband in America.
- **Zhang Yonghong** () was Weiwei\'s former classmate and best friend. From a poor family with a tubercular mother and older sister, Zhang was anorexic yet very pretty. She also possessed a great sense of fashion, and it was fashion that she frequently discussed with Wang Qiyao. Suffering from low-esteem in spite of many pursuers, she changed boyfriends fast, never committing herself to any of them. Once she reached marriage age she intended to marry someone rich so that she would no longer remain in poverty. For this reason she stuck with \"Long Legs\", who spent money on her like nobody\'s business---completely unaware that he was a scam artist even poorer than her.
- **\"Old Colour\"** (; Shanghainese: Lau2 Kheh4 Lah4) was a gym teacher who interested himself in older things, especially the \"old Shanghai\" before 1949. Before Wang Qiyao, he never had a girlfriend, spending most of his free time on old jazz records or on the roof alone. That changed when he met Wang, who exuded a nostalgic air he found irresistible. He began frequenting her apartment to learn about the past. When they finally had sex, he was 26, and she around 55. It was then that \"Old Colour\" realized he did not love Wang---his obsession with the past was just a manifestation of loneliness---but Wang desperately wanted to hold on to him. Her pleading backfired, and \"Old Colour\"---who was afraid of commitment---left her for good.
- **\"Long Legs\"** () was Zhang Yonghong\'s last stable boyfriend. He lived in the slum with his migrant family and exchanged currencies on the black market for profit, mostly at night. Despite his destitution, he posed as someone from a millionaire household, frequently footing bills for others and buying expensive gifts for Zhang and Wang Qiyao. A skilled con artist, he lied about almost everything with much success---for a time. His spending habits obviously unsustainable, \"Long Legs\" began cheating his clients, and eventually murdered Wang in 1986 when she exposed him during a bungled burglary. Wang was the only one suspecting his double-life as Zhang, described as relatively worldly-wise, knew nothing about him and even believed him marriage material.
- 1998 **4th Shanghai Literary and Art Award**
- 1999 **Top 100 Works of Chinese Fiction in the 20th century** (39th) --- list published by *Yazhou Zhoukan*
- 1999 **Top 10 Books of the 1990s** --- list published by *China Times*
- 2000 **10 Most Influential Works of the 1990s** --- list published by *Wenhui Bao*
- 2000 **5th Mao Dun Literature Prize**


# The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (novel)
In addition, the English translation was awarded Honorable Mention at the 6th Lois Roth Award (for translation of a literary work) in 2009 by the Modern Language Association.
- *Everlasting Regret*, a 2005 film directed by Stanley Kwan, starring Sammi Cheng as Wang Qiyao and main actors Tony Leung, Daniel Wu, Jun Hu...
- *To Live to Love*, a 2006 TV series directed by Ding Hei, starring Huang Yi (who portrayed Weiwei in the film version) as the younger Wang Qiyao, and Maggie Cheung Ho-yee as the older Wang Qiyao
Both adaptations differ significantly from the original, especially the film version. In both versions, Mr. Cheng survived the Cultural Revolution and figured prominently in Wang Qiyao\'s later life.
As early as 2003, the novel was also adapted for stage by Zhao Yaomin (who later co-wrote the teleplay for *To Live to Love*). The first performance at the Shanghai Drama Art Center starred Zhang Lu as Wang Qiyao.
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- Schneider, Nancy (2010). "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: Wang Anyi\'s Tale of Shanghai". *University of Kansas* <https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/7902>
- Bernstein, Lisa (2020) "Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow". *Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai: Cultural Representations from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, 83.*
- Martin-Enebral, Elena (2017) From Nostalgia to Reflection: An Exploration of *The Song of Everlasting Sorrow* by Wang Anyi, Chinese Literature Today, 6:2, 43-51, DOI: 10.1080/21514399.2017.1375284


# Les Chemins de Katmandou
***Les Chemins de Katmandou*** (\"the roads to Kathmandu\") is a 1969 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of a man who joins a group of hippies who live and travel in Nepal, where they take drugs and practice free love in the belief that it will free them from materialism, only to meet disappointment.
The novel was the adaptation of the 1969 film *The Pleasure Pit*, directed by André Cayatte and starring Renaud Verley and Jane Birkin. The film had 1,635,664 admissions in French cinemas.


# The Immortals (Barjavel novel)
***The Immortals*** () is a 1973 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of a grand conspiracy between world leaders in order to hide the existence of a contagious virus which makes humans immortal. It was published in English in 1974, translated by Eileen Finletter.
The book received the Prix Maison de la Presse. It was adapted into the 1989 television serial *Le grand secret*, directed by Jacques Trébouta.


# Future Times Three
***Future Times Three*** () is a 1944 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of two scientists who invent a substance which if swallowed allows a man to time travel. They travel to the future, where humanity has branched into different species with their own particular tasks. The book was published in English in 1958, translated by Margaret Sansone Scouten.
*Future Times Three* is the first novel to present the famous grandfather paradox of time travel.
The book was adapted into the 1982 film *Le Voyageur imprudent*. The film was directed by Pierre Tchernia and stars Jean-Marc Thibault and Thierry Lhermitte.


# The Tragic Innocents
***The Tragic Innocents*** () is a 1946 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of two teenagers, Jean Tarendol and Marie Margherite, who fall in love in occupied France during World War II. The story is set in an imaginary region inspired by the author\'s native Drôme. The book was published in English in 1948, translated by Eithne Wilkins.
*Kirkus Reviews* wrote: \"This is a story of young love, set in war-time France, poetic, passionately written, with much of beauty \-- and yet with an aura of unreality, which perhaps is intentional, in keeping with the mood of the lovers. \... An odd blend of sophistication, of Gallic outspokenness, with a simplicity, almost a naivete, makes this unique in its field. Beautifully translated by Eithne Wilkins, the English text loses nothing of the grace of language.\"
The novel was adapted into a 1980 television serial with the same title directed by Louis Grospierre. The serial ran in four episodes starring Jacques Penot as Jean, Florence Pernel as Marie and Daniel Gélin as Bazalo.


# Die schöne Wilhelmine
***Die schöne Wilhelmine*** (\"the beautiful Wilhelmine\") is a 1965 novel by the German writer Ernst von Salomon. It tells the story of the romance between the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm II and his mistress Wilhelmine Encke during the second half of the 18th century.
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, reviewed the book in *Der Spiegel*: \"The author views his novel\'s hero and heroine completely from their own period. This succeeds in a masterly manner. All recurring characters are presented to us as full-blooded people.\" The prince continued: \"Puritanically inclined readers will problably not enjoy this material with too much pleasure. However, the meticulous erotic passages at the start could also repel some jaded readers. But as the action progresses these descriptions become more and more peripherical and negligible.\"
The book was adapted into a ZDF television serial with the same title. It was directed by Rolf von Sydow and broadcast in four episodes in September 1984.


# Khirer Putul
***Khirer Putul*** () is a children\'s fantasy novel written by Abanindranath Tagore in 1896. Khirer Putul is considered a masterpiece and landmark by writers in Bengali language children\'s literature. Khirer Putul is a simple and touching tale about the sugar doll, the fate of Duorani and a tricky and extraordinary monkey. Aadi Brahmosamaj press first published this book. Later on, it was translated into other languages. The story was adapted into a film of the same name by Indian writer and director Purnendu Pattrea in 1976. *Khirer Putul*, an Indian television soap opera based on the novel aired on Zee Bangla in 2020.
It was also adapted into a play by the Indian theatre group Nandikar in 2017, with Anindita Chakraborty as its director.
The king of Deepnagar had two queens Suo Rani and Duo Rani. The king gave Suo Rani 7 palaces, 700 female slaves, best ornaments from 7 kingdoms, 7 gardens, 7 chariots. He neglected Duo Rani and gave her a broken home, a deaf and dumb maid, torn clothes and a dirty bed.
The work has been translated into several languages:
- French -- *La poupée de fromage*
- Swedish -- *Ostdockan*
- English -- *The Make-Believe Prince*
Abanindranath who was Rabindranath Tagore\'s nephew found this story in Mrinalini Devi\'s diary after her death. The novel is based on the story written in her diary. The illustrations were done by Abanindranath Tagore.
According to scholar Sanjay Sircar, the tale can be classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 459, \"The Make-Believe Son (Daughter)\", a tale type \"widespread throughout North India and other Asian areas, but never found in Europe\". Similarly, German scholar listed four Iranian variants of the same type, which he named *Der Prinz verliebt sich in eine Puppe* (\"The Prince falls in love with a Doll\").


# The Sea Lions
***The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers*** is an 1849 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot revolves around two sealers stranded in the Antarctic ice. The novel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend. Critic W.B. Gates described the novel as taking inspiration from Charles Wilkes\'s *Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of the Years 1838-1842*.
Herman Melville reviewed the novel in 1849 for the magazine *The Literary World*. Melville\'s praise for the novel focuses on the action and adventure of the novel, saying, \"Upon the whole, we warmly recommend the Sea Lions; and even those who more for fashion's sake than anything else, have of late joined in decrying our national novelist, will in this last work, perhaps, recognise one of his happiest.\"


# L'Enchanteur
***L\'Enchanteur*** (\"the wizard\") is a 1984 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It tells the story of the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail from the perspective of Merlin and his relationship with Viviane. Barjavel had studied the material on the Grail legend extensively. He added several new concepts to the backstory of the grail, placing its origin to the time of Adam and Eve. According to the novel, Eve used the cup to collect Adam\'s blood from the wound created when his rib was removed.
The novel was published in 1984 through éditions Denoël. *The Arthurian Handbook* (2nd ed., 1997) describes it as \"among the best of the modern French adaptations of Arthurian legend\".
- Fiction featuring Merlin


# Divorce (novel)
***Divorce*** () is a 1933 Chinese novel by Lao She, written in Chongqing, the temporary Chinese capital during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
It was translated by Helena Kuo as ***The Quest for Love of Lao Lee***.
It was translated to English 2 times in 1948:
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King\'s translation, no longer widely accessible, was unauthorized and heavily altered and abridged. Lao She who was in the United States from 1946 to 1949 had wanted the publication blocked, but his efforts were circumvented when King (pen name of Robert Spencer Ward) established his own publisher \"King Publications\" for the book. Lao She eventually took the matter to court and won the case. Meanwhile, he worked with Helena Kuo for an \"authorized\" translation, which also differed from the original but presumably with his approval. Kuo\'s translation was named *The Quest for Love of Lao Lee* to distinguish it from King\'s version.
- *Divorce*, a 1992 Chinese film starring Zhao Youliang
- *Divorce*, a 1999 Chinese TV drama starring Ge You


# Adarsha Hindu Hotel
***Adarsha Hindu Hotel*** (*Ideal Hindu Hotel*) is a Bengali novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. The novel was first published in 1940.
Hajari Thakur, a middle-aged Bengali Brahmin is the male protagonist of the novel. He works as a cook in a hotel owned by Bechu Chakraborty near Ranaghat railway station. Here customers are often cheated and Padma, a maid at the establishment, steals the hotel\'s food. Hajari is strictly against these, but being just a cook, he does not have right to say anything. Here he is regularly mocked and insulted by Padma, who, though only a maid, is the owner\'s paramour and has immense influence over him. Hajari dreams to start his own hotel, but for that he needs Rs.200. Kusum is a young widow, whom Hajari considers as his daughter. One day utensils of Hajari\'s shop are stolen and police arrests Hajari. Following this incident, he loses his job.
After getting a loan from Kusum and Atashi, a girl from his village, Hajari starts his own hotel. Here he works hard with dedication and sincerity. In just a year his hotel becomes the most popular hotel of the area. Two other hotels of the area: one of Bechu Chakraborty and another of Jadu Banerjee almost get shut down. Hajari also gets a railway tender to manage a government-run hotel in the railway platform. At the end of the novel, Hazari signs a contract to manage a large hotel and goes to Bombay. Before leaving, he appoints Bechu Chakraborty (whose own hotel was sealed recently) as a manager of the market area hotel. He also gives Padma a job, who used to insult him every now and then.
In 1957 a Bengali film *Adarsha Hindu Hotel* was made based on this novel. The film was directed by Ardhendu Sen. In 1989, a 13 episodes television serial was also made by director Raja Sen based on the novel. Actor Manoj Mitra played the role of Hajari thakur.


# Family Life (novel)
***Family Life*** is a 2014 autobiographical novel by Akhil Sharma. Set in 1978, it tells the coming-of-age story of an eight-year old Indian boy named Ajay Mishra living with his recently immigrated family in New York City. The story develops around his older brother Birju, who suffers a life-changing accident, and how the family copes with the incident.
This was Sharma\'s second published novel. It won the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.


# Pani Manidhan
***Pani Manidhan*** (1998) (Alt: *Panimanidhan*, *Panimanithan*) is a children\'s novel written in Tamil by Indian author Jeyamohan. It encompasses themes like adventure story, science, fantasy, mystery and values making it an important creative work in the children\'s literature canon in Tamil.
Jeyamohan had been invited by Manoj, the Editor of Tamil newspaper Dinamani\'s *Siruvar Malar* children\'s weekly to write a serialized novel. Jeyamohan created *Pani Manidhan* for the weekly in 1998 and it received considerable fan support from children as well as adults. Kavitha Publications published it as a book in 2002. Kizhakku publications and Natrinai Pathippagam brought out subsequent editions.
Yeti is the legend of the Snow Man rumored to be found in the mountains of Himalayas. Many consider the legend to be somewhere between truth and lies.
An Indian military officer named Pandian is asked by his commanders to investigate certain mysterious giant footprints found in snow near a remote village. Pandian, who feels it is just the imagination of the villagers, sets out on a trip and encounters strange happenings, native legends and finally, the wondrous truths themselves.
Pandian rescues a boy named Kim from the snow. A doctor who is also out researching the Snow Man joins the group. Together they- military officer Pandian, the Buddhist mountain boy Kim and the Doctor with the Western Scientific views - begin the search for the Yeti in the mountains. The Doctor tells Pandian that the Yeti might be the proverbial missing link in the evolutionary chain to Humans. But Kim, who says he has seen the Snow Man, says the Yeti looks nothing like the monkeys in the pictures shown by the Doctor and he looks more like Homo Erectus.
Along the way, Pandian is surprised to see Kim performing sophisticated breathing and meditation Yoga exercises. Through various adventures, Kim explains his native cultural beliefs and practices that correspond to Pandian\'s and the Doctor\'s statements on nature, humanity, soul, evolution and natural effects.


# Pani Manidhan
The group encounters Bhikshus searching for their Lama. They are led to a fantasy land where it is revealed that there exists a society of Yetis and other creatures. Their world is one of biblical harmony and coexistence of all creatures. In fact, the Yetis have planned and engineered the whole adventure for the group. Kim is the only human who has throughout remained conscious of the actions of the soul. The group leave the land with far greater understanding of nature and the universe.
On their way back, the group again meets the Bhikshus who choose Kim as their head Lama. The Doctor and Pandian pay their respects to Kim. The truth about the legend of the Yeti the Snow Man is preserved as a secret.
Pani Manidhan has themes of adventure mixed with spiritual pilgrimage. Jeyamohan has said that \"..as the children grow up, the story grows with them\". It has a fantasy story that is supported by deep discussions on science and philosophy.
The story begins with the scientific analysis by Pandian and ends with the revelation that the Snow Man is the incarnation of Maitreya Buddha. It explains that Science is not the only way to understand Nature, but without discrediting Science. Pani Manidhan is an effort to simultaneously describe the beauty of both Science and Mythology to young readers, and the ways they work.
Pani Manidhan was written in a style accessible to readers of eight and above. Most of the sentences are only six words in length.


# La Tempête
***La Tempête*** (\"the tempest\") is a 1982 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It is set in a near future during a chemically induced world peace, and follows a woman and a man in Paris who must find a future for humanity.
The narrative is inspired by the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes. The book was published on 10 September 1982 through éditions Denoël.


# Les Dames à la licorne
***Les Dames à la licorne*** (\"the ladies with the unicorn\") is a 1974 novel by the French writer René Barjavel and Irish astrologer Olenka de Veer. It is set in Ireland in the late 19th century and tells the story of five sisters who are connected to a medieval legend.
It was the basis for a 1982 television film with the same title, directed by Lazare Iglesis for TF1.
- *The Lady and the Unicorn*
- *Young Woman with Unicorn*


# Le diable l'emporte
***Le diable l\'emporte*** (\"May the devil take him\") is a 1948 novel by the French writer René Barjavel. It revolves a future world war with devastating weapon technology, which forces the last surviving humans to live deep underground in a secret vault. The book has a pessimistic message about technology and celebrates the down-to-earth man and traditional farmer.


# Scandal of Spring
***Scandal of Spring*** (1934) is a novel by Australian writer Martin Boyd.
Set in a small English seaside village, the novel follows the story of the youth John Vazetti with lives with his parents in a cottage with tearooms attached. John falls in love with a young woman, Madge, who is visiting family in the village. Although their relatives try to push the two apart they eventually run off to London where John is arrested and imprisoned.
A reviewer in *The Courier-Mail* found that this \"is a book of youth, misunderstood and battered by the blindness and prejudice of the hide-bound middle-aged. Put so baldly, it sounds commonplace, but there is nothing commonplace in the beautifully-written story. It tells with that delicacy of touch that is part of Mr. Martin Boyd\'s charm.\"
In *The Age*, the reviewer was rather dismissive, noting: \"Mr Boyd needs a bigger and better theme for the display of his literary talents.\"
- 1934 in Australian literature


# King of the Dead (novel)
***King of the Dead*** is a fantasy novel by Gene DeWeese, set in the world of Ravenloft, and is based on the *Dungeons & Dragons* role-playing game. It was published in March 1996 ().
The story concerns itself with Azalin, the king of the title. Despite the near-limitless powers that are now his to command, he is continually haunted by the death of his son. Unable to find any kind of happiness or contentment, he has begun to hate the dark, horror-filled world that is his to rule. *King of the Dead* recounts the tale of Azalin\'s earlier existence as a powerful mage and the events that led to his current reign.
Andy Butcher reviewed *King of the Dead* for *Arcane* magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10 overall. He commented that \"Gene De Weese is yet another *New York Times* best-selling author who has been persuaded by TSR to write an AD&D-based novel. The experience gained from over three dozen previously published horror, science fiction and non-fiction books has stood him in pretty good stead, and King of the Dead joins the ever-growing number of Ravenloft novels that are genuinely horrific.\" He added that \"Weese\'s clever manipulation of time and the order of events gives the reader just enough information to engender a sense of eerie foreboding and the awful inevitability of fate, without allowing the story to become predictable and boring - thankfully, you never really know what to expect next. *King of the Dead* is a dark novel which relies, for the most part, on its skillfully crafted atmosphere, a technique which lends greater impact to the few graphically disturbing scenes.\" Butcher concluded his review by saying, \"Although the story itself is of little direct use for a referee looking to steal some ideas, it\'s nevertheless well worth a look for any fans of horror games - Ravenloft or otherwise - due to its skillfully crafted atmosphere. There are elements here that could be used to great effect in almost any horror game you care to mention, and you\'ll get an extremely good read into the bargain. Good stuff and highly recommended.\"
- Review by Don D\'Ammassa (1996) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #190 October 1996


# Gimme the Money
***Gimme the Money*** is partial autobiographical novel by Iva Pekárková about her time taxi-driving in New York City. It was published in Czech in 1996 by Nakladatelství NLN (NLN Publishing), under the name *Dej Mi Ty Prachy* (*Gimme the Money).* It was later translated into English by Iva Pekárková with help from her husband, Raymond Johnson, and published by Serpent\'s Tail through a grant from the Czech Ministry of Culture. *Gimme the Money* was also translated into German under the title, *Taxi Blues,* by Marcela Euler and subsequently published in 2000 by Malik Publishers. The novel is about a female Czech taxi driver Jindřiška, nicknamed Gin, and her life of navigating and finding a place in New York City and the taxi industry.
This novel begins with Gin and her roommate, Gloria, in their apartment. Readers learn that Gin makes her money from taxi driving and that she works at a garage under a Russian man named Alex who is constantly sexually harassing her. However, this does not seem to faze Gin, because this is what happened at the other garage where she worked under the dispatcher Kenny.
Several days later, Gin picks up a passenger named Clyde. Clyde and Gin sleep together and Gin is interested in him, but the relationship is broken off when Gloria sleeps with him. Gin is so distraught that she contemplates suicide, but then destroys all of Gloria\'s paintings in the apartment. Because she no longer has a place to live, she moves in with Talibe, her husband from Mali. He and Gin do not get along very well because their different cultural upbringings clash. The only reason Gin married him was so that she could get a green card.
Another day Gin is hanging out with a couple of other taxi drivers at a bar. One of these taxi drivers, Geoffrey, tells her that the only way for a taxi driver to make money is to cheat the customers by messing with the meter and using a book with fake prices. Ginny refuses because she does not want to get fined. Geoffrey and his friend, Sengane, talk about the times they have murdered some aggressive passenger while they were driving.


# Gimme the Money
While she is living with Talibe he asks her to marry his cousin, Ouagadougou, because Ouagadougou needs a green card. Gin initially refuses because she does not want to get in trouble with the authorities and risk deportation herself. However, she gives in because Talibe threatens to divorce her and marry someone else who will agree to marry as many of his family members as he needs. The day after her wedding with Ouagadougou, one of Talibe\'s friends calls Gin telling her that Talibe was shot while taxi driving.
While Talibe is recovering in the hospital, he is distressed because he had a blood transfusion. In Mali culture, blood is very important, and Talibe is disgusted that the blood inside him is not his. He is also confused because he was shot while wearing his protective amulet, and he does not understand why the magic does not protect him. While Talibe could have gotten better, he died because his whole belief system crumbled.
Once Talibe dies, Gin wants to find another place to live because she does not want to go back to their apartment. She goes to her old boss, Kenny, and asks if she can stay with him for a while, but he refuses because, unbeknownst to her, he has a wife and kids. Gin then returns to Gloria to ask to stay at her place, but when she returns to her old apartment and sees Gloria, she realizes that she is still not over the betrayal and runs back to Talibe\'s apartment. When she arrives at her apartment Ouagadougou is waiting for her. Because she is his wife, he argues, they should live together. Gin gives in, and Ouagadougou moves into the apartment with her.
After Talibe\'s death Gin takes a couple of weeks off taxi-driving. When she returns to Alex\'s garage he has a brand-new fleet of taxis. She also visits Kenny, and he gives her a knife to protect herself while taxi driving. However, Gin feels less safe with the knife in her bag.


# Gimme the Money
One night when she was picking up customers, a passenger gets into her taxicab who gives Gin a bad vibe. He is not clear in his directions, but eventually they end up underneath Macombs Dam Bridge next to an abandoned part of Jackie Robinson Park. The passenger pulls a gun on her and starts telling her how he is going to kill her like he killed other people in that spot. While listening to his description of his last kill, Gin realizes that this is the man who killed her husband. When the man asks for her money, she hands it to him through the partition and cuts him with the knife that Kenny gave her. The man pulls his hand back and his gun flies into the front seat. Gin gets out of the car and starts running, but Stanley, the robber, tackles her. When she is falling, she flips the knife behind her and it sinks into Stanley\'s heart; killing him instantly.
Once she has made sure that he is dead she cleans up the scene as best she can and drives away. For the next couple of months, she is paranoid that the police are going to find out who killed this man and arrest her, but nothing happens. She continues to work, and she discovers that Alex\'s new fleet of taxis are stolen police cars. However, because she has killed someone she does not see how breaking the law is such a big deal anymore. She also starts making more money by cheating her passengers using the tricks that Geoffrey and Kenny taught her. The book ends with Gin driving out of New York in her yellow taxi with an unknown lover to see the rest of the United States.


# Gimme the Money
- Gin (Jindřiška): a female taxi driver from Prague living in the not so glamorous part of New York City
- Gloria: Gin\'s Cuban roommate who was born and raised in Harlem
- Randy: a homeless man who is a friend of Gin\'s
- Alex: the Russian owner and dispatcher at the taxi company where Gin works
- Talibe: Gin\'s first husband from Mali who dies while taxi driving by a serial killer
- Kenny: Gin\'s boss at the previous garage where she worked
- Clyde: Gin\'s boyfriend who cheats on her with Gloria
- Geoffrey: one of Gin\'s colleagues
- Ouagadougou: Gin\'s second husband and Talibe\'s cousin
- Stanley: the serial killer who kills Talibe and tries to kill Gin, but is accidentally killed by Gin


# Gimme the Money
*Gimme the Money* was loosely based on Iva Pekárková\'s experience as a taxi-driver in New York City. She said in an interview with The Central Europe Review that she made Gin \"\...more naive than I was, so that she could discover more, so that it would be more shocking for her.\" Pekárková finds that it is easier for her to write stories where cultures are being blended, because she sees that as interesting. Likewise, she finds it difficult to write stories about the Czech Republic, because she cannot find any new or interesting stories from her home country. *Gimme the Money* has both the clashing of cultures and the Czech influence through Gin\'s views on New York.
While the majority of the English translation was completed by Iva Pekárková, in order for the publisher to obtain a grant from the Czech Ministry of Culture, they included her husband, Raymond Johnson, in the translation. While he did not translate the novel, he helped Pekárková with editing the translation. *Gimme the Money* was also translated into German by Marcela Euler under the title: *Taxi Blues*.
*Gimme the Money* was described by Madelaine Hron, Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University for English and Film Studies, as \"Fresh, gutsy, hilarious, the novel is one terrific (and terrifying) joy-ride through New York, propelled by a Czech taxi driver---a woman taxi driver at that.\" She also appreciated how even though the novel was about New York, Gin\'s Croatian roots did not get lost.


# Marching into Darkness
***Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus*** is a book by the American historian Waitman Wade Beorn, published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. It discusses the participation of the German *Wehrmacht* in the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity during the course of the early stages of the German-Soviet War (1941--45).
The book has received positive reviews for its thorough and convincing analysis of the complicity of the German armed forces in the crimes of the Nazi regime. One reviewer praised Beorn\'s work as (to date) \"the most important to this crucial area of the Holocaust history, of military history, and of Germany history\" in the English language.
*Marching into Darkness* examines the complicity of the German *Wehrmacht* in the crimes committed against Jews and other civilians in Belarus, from autumn 1941 to early in the subsequent winter. The author looks at several military formations and how they responded to orders to commit genocide and other crimes against humanity. Beorn finds that those who refused were only lightly punished (or not punished at all), debunking the claims of German veterans that they had to participate under threat of death.
The author investigates how so-called anti-partisan warfare was connected to the Holocaust via its ideological targeting of \"Jewish-Bolsheviks\". Beorn concludes that, because anti-semitic sentiment was lower in Belarus compared to the territories of Army Group North and Army Group South Rear Areas, the army troops played a significantly larger role in direct persecution of Jews during the period that he studied.
Beorn addresses other aspects of Wehrmacht crimes, such as murder of Soviet prisoners of war and support for Nazi Germany\'s starvation policy, the Hunger Plan. He examines what he calls \"the progressive complicity\" of the Wehrmacht, highlighting the main developments that led to the escalation of violence, such as the Mogilev conference in September 1941. Organised by the commander of the Army Group Centre Rear Area, it brought together the Army, the *SS* and the Order Police commanders for a so-called exchange of experiences, and marked a dramatic escalation of violence against the civilian population.
The historian Ben H. Shepherd comments in *The English Historical Review* that Beorn \"has produced a highly impressive, engagingly written work that significantly advances the understanding of the dynamics that shaped the murderous anti-Semitic actions of Wehrmacht units down to the level of companies and battalions\".


# Marching into Darkness
Commenting on Beorn\'s research into *Wehrmacht* complicity in Nazi crimes in a 2015 review in *The American Historical Review*, historian Thomas Kühne calls the book, the \"most convincing, the most complex, and in the English language certainly the most important to this crucial area of the Holocaust history, of military history, and of Germany history\". He finds that the book will \"serve as a model for similar studies\".
Historian Henning Pieper in *German History* also praises the book for its thorough analysis and concludes:
A review in *Omaha World-Herald* suggests that the book \"ought to be on the reading list of anyone interested in the German army or battles on the Eastern Front in World War II\". Although the book is more scholarly than a popular history book, it should be accessible to the general reader. The reviewer finds that \"one comes away from reading the book with a renewed appreciation for the importance of military ethics, leadership and following the laws of war\".
- 2014 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, Harvard University Press
- Honorable Mention, 2015 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize, German Studies Association
- Award for Best Publication, 2015 International Congress of Belarusian Studies (multiple awarded)
- Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
- *The Myth of the Eastern Front*
- *Hitler\'s War in the East*
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# Massage (novel)
***Massage*** is a 2008 Chinese novel by Bi Feiyu about blind masseurs. It won China\'s most prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011. The novel has been translated into English (by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin), German (by Marc Hermann), Russian (by Natalia Vlasova), Korean (by Moon Hyun-seon), and Japanese (by Yutori Iizuka).
*Massage* was adapted into a 2013 TV series *See Without Looking*, a 2014 film *Blind Massage* (which won Asian Film Award for Best Film and Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film), as well as a successful stage production.


# The Myth of Race
***The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea*** is a book by anthropologist Robert Wald Sussman detailing how race is not, and never had been, a valid biological category in humans. It was published in 2014 by Harvard University Press.
Robert J. Cottrol reviewed *The Myth of Race* favorably, writing, \"With *The Myth of Race*, Robert Sussman gives us a comprehensive history of the idea of race and particularly the rise and not total fall of scientific racism\". Ruth C. Engs was less favorable in her review of the book, writing that \"\...rarely does Sussman compare the interpretation of one historian with that of another in an objective manner or compare interpretations from one time period to those from another, as other historiographical researchers usually do. Researchers in the past, or present, who do not agree with his conclusions are considered "racists" or part of "the eugenics bigot brigade."\" She concludes that \"Sussman's lack of objectivity in this book is disconcerting. For those looking for a work that summarizes the negative side of the hereditarian and eugenics movements, however, this book would be an adequate reference. Also in its favor is its extensive bibliography of contemporary and older works.\" In a mixed review, Kathleen Feyh wrote that \"Sussman\'s book is an elegant genealogy of the myth of race from the Spanish Inquisition through the twentieth-century eugenics movement and its demystifiers among those who study human differentiation.\" She also criticized the book by writing that Sussman\'s \"\...analysis is limited in no small part by his method, which confines him to a history of racist ideas and ideologues rather than one of how racist ideas function in society, leaving the reader with a very well-written debate within the field of anthropology rather than achieving one of his stated goals, namely \"to further\...understanding of why racism is still so prevalent in our society\"\". In a generally favorable review, Jeffrey C. Long wrote that \"*The Myth of Race* rightly points to a critical role for Franz Boas, who formulated anthropology along non‐racial lines, even before biological anthropology adopted the evolutionary principles established by the New Synthesis in the 1930s. This is an important contribution of the book. It clearly establishes that racists and eugenicists in the last century chose their ideologies over superior alternatives.\" In comparing *The Myth of Race* with Michael Yudell\'s book *Race Unmasked*, Nathaniel C. Comfort wrote that \"The eugenics movement - particularly in the United States in the early twentieth century and in Nazi Germany - offers a cornucopia of evidence of scientific racism. But, in focusing on the US movement\'s most egregious leaders, such as Charles Davenport, Madison Grant and Henry Fairfield Osborn, both Yudell and Sussman over-simplify. Eugenics was about much more than just race.\"


# Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré
***Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré*** is an 1857 French historical novel by George Sand.
The work was first published as a serial in *Le Progrès Illustré* in 1857, then was revived in volume by A. Cadot in 1858.
The novel tells a series of romantic and adventurous adventures in the context of religious oppositions during the reign of Louis XIII.
Theatre
The work was adapted to the stage by Sand and Paul Meurice. The premiere took place on 26 April 1862 at the Théâtre de l\'Ambigu-Comique.
On television
- 1976: *The Gallant Lords of Bois-Doré*, French miniseries directed by Bernard Borderie, with Georges Marchal, and


# The Seventh Day (novel)
***The Seventh Day*** () is a 2013 novel by Yu Hua. It was published in China by New Star Press in June 2013. An English translation by Allan Hepburn Barr was published by Pantheon Books in January 2015.
Kirkus Reviews stated that Yu Hua \"is certainly commenting, often acerbically, on how life and death are valued in contemporary China\".
An absurdist fiction novel, *The Seventh Day* finds Yu Hua comparing the real world to the world of death, and narrating the experiences of the main character, Yang Fei, in the seven days following his death. In *The Theory of Yu Hua*, Wang points out that *The Seventh Day* compares the world of life and death. *The Seventh Day* breaks through the world of life and death, and describes the two completely different worlds.


# The Seventh Day (novel)
It is believed that some of the characters\' stories (Yang Fei and Yang Jinbiao, Li Yuezhen, Mouse Girl) are based on true stories that were reported in China such as forced relocation, the hospital which treated dead infants as clinical waste, and selling a kidney to buy electronic devices. In the novel, Li Yuezhen exposed that the hospital treated 27 dead infants\' remains as clinical waste which was dumped into a nearby river. This is similar to an event that occurred in the Shandong Province, where 21 dead infants\' remains was found in the Guangfu river in 2010. In the novel, Wu Chao sells his kidney for money to buy Mouse Girl a new cellphone. This was also similar to news reported in 2012, in Hangzhou, a group of illegal kidney-sellers were exposed by an internet blogger, who went undercover in the group as an kidney seller for fifteen days and later, on May 28, 2012, called the police. During the fifteen days undercover in the house, he recorded his conversations with the kidney-sellers and asked them why were they selling their kidneys. One of them said that he sold his kidney so that he could afford to purchase a new cellphone for his girlfriend, and be able to support his family. In a part of the novel, a man disguised as a woman is caught working as a prostitute. This is similar to an incident reported in the autonomous Guangxi region in 2010, where local police in Liuzhou arrested three people who were engaged in prostitution. The prostitutes were discovered to actually be middle-aged men dressed as women.
On the first day, after Yang Fei died, he went to the funeral parlour to be cremated, but no urn was prepared for him and no cemetery, so he left the waiting hall and tried to recall the last scene before he died. He remembered he was sitting in the Tan Jia Cai restaurant when he read the report of his ex-wife, Li Qing, cutting her wrist at home in the bathtub. At this time the restaurant kitchen caught fire, his memory stopped with a loud bang.
On the second day, he met his ex-wife, Li Qing, who rejected many chasers but married him. However, Li Qing divorced him and married a new man because Li Qing wanted to get higher achievement on her business. They brought up the memory and Li Qing told Yang Fei that he was the only husband she had. Finally, she left and rushed to her funeral.


# The Seventh Day (novel)
On the third day, Yang Fei continued to wander on the street, he remembered his adoptive father Yang Jinbiao who found him as a newborn baby at the edge of the railway track. Yang Jinbiao raised him up alone and even rejected his girlfriend because of Yang Fei.
One day Yang Fei\'s biological mother found him and brought him to his original family. However, he returned after few days. When Yang Jinbiao knew his disease could not stay for a long time, he left secretly. Yang Fei kept looking for his father for a long time. When he returned from his father\'s hometown, his nursing mother Li Yuezhen was dead.
On the fourth day, Yang Fei met Mouse Girl. She and her boyfriend Wu Chao were the neighbor of Yang Fei in the rental house. It was a big news when Mouse Girl suicided because her boyfriend gave her the fake Iphone 4S as her birthday gift, she jumped off from the top of the Pengfei Building. Mouse Girl led Yang Fei to the land of unburied, and Yang Fei kept looking for his father there.
On the fifth day, Yang Fei met a lot of familiar people in the land of unburied, including the girl he was gonna to teach and Tan Jiaxin\'s family. Then he met Li Yuezhen there, she told him the truth that his father is the receptionist at the funeral parlour, and his father actually went to the stone where he left Yang Fei once.
On the sixth day, after Mouse Girl heard Wu Chao\'s story from Xiao Qing, she knew Wu Chao sold his kidney to buy her a cemetery. Mouse Girl decided to return to the cemetery Wu Chao bought for her, she became the first person who left the land of unburied. All the deads at the land of unburied baptized Mouse Girl and walked to the funeral parlour with her.
On the seventh day, Yang Fei finally meets his father at the funeral parlour. On the way he back to the land of unburied, he met Wu Chao, who was looking for his girlfriend. Yang Fei told Wu Chao that Mouse Girl went to the cemetery, and Yang Fei brought Wu Chao to the land of unburied.


# The Seventh Day (novel)
- **Yang Fei** -- an honest and reserved man, was born on a moving train. He was adopted by a young switchman and raised with love. At the age of 41, Yang died in a gas explosion in a restaurant while he\'s reading a news report on his ex-wife, Li Qing\'s death. Having no funeral urn nor grave, he then roams around the land of the unburied as a spirit, and encounters his ex-wife, Mouse Girl and her boyfriend, Zhang Gang and Li, Li Yuezhen and 27 infants, and finally his father.
- **Yang Jinbiao** -- Yang Fei\'s adoptive father, was working as a switchman when he found Yang Fei on the rails. He once abandoned little Yang Fei on a rock near an orphanage in order to please his fiancée, but brought him back on the very next day. Since then this devoted and obstinate father had decided to remain single for good. He spent the last moment of his life besides the rock of abandonment. In the underworld, he works as an usher in the funeral parlour.
- **Li Qing** -- a beautiful, ambitious and wealthy businesswoman, was married to Yang Fei but left for a businessman whom she later found a trickster and womanizer. After breaking up with the businessman, she became a high official\'s mistress. She committed suicide by slitting her wrists in her bathtub just before the investigators came to arrest her. Then her spirit meets Yang Fei\'s at the apartment they once had lived together.
- **Li Yuezhen** -- Yang Jinbiao\'s coworker, had been helping to nurse and foster Yang Fei with her husband Hao Qiangsheng. As their daughter Hao Xia has emigrated to and had a family in the U.S., the couple planned to move to America. However, Li was run over and killed in a car accident after she stumbled upon a scandal that 27 dead infants were dumped by the hospital into the river as medical refuses. she then meets Yang Fei in the land of the unburied with the 27 babies around her singing a song.
- **Mouse Girl** -- whose name is Liu Mei, had been constantly changing her work as hairwasher, restaurant server and other temporary jobs with her boyfriend Wu Chao and lives in low-rent places like bomb shelters. She jumped off a building because Wu deceived her, claiming that her birthday gift---an iPhone was a real one but in fact a knock-off. After Mouse Girl died, Wu Chao managed to sell his kidney to buy her a burial plot. Therefore, Mouse Girl is the first to leave the land of the unburied for a resting place.
- **Tan Jiaxin** -- the owner of Tang Jia Cai restaurant. Yang Fei was a frequent customer of his restaurant. Tan Jiaxin\'s family died in a gas explosion accident in his restaurant same with Yang Fei. Tan Jiaxin also opens his restaurant in the land of unburied.
- **Xiao Qing** -- neighbor of Mouse Girl and Wu Chao in the real world. Xiao Qing used the money Wu Chao gave him to buy Mouse Girl a cemetery. Xiao Qing died in a traffic accident of bus 203.


# The Seventh Day (novel)
Kirkus Reviews stated that it \"falls short of being a fully realized novel\" and that it is \"episodic\". It stated that the novel is characterized by a \"lugubrious funk\" but that \"compelling moments and black humor\" mitigate this effect.
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore of the *South China Morning Post* stated overall the book \"never quite hits the mark\". She stated that the \"excellently\" done translation of the original Chinese \"poetic language\" partially made up for the negatives in the book, and that it was \"darkly funny\" and \"desperately dark\" at the same time. She criticized how characters \"are often reduced to totems\". She stated that \"If Yu does succeed in *The Seventh Day*, it is in showing a confused society in which the government casts aside its citizens like rubbish and in which people often treat each other no better.\"
Ken Kalfus states in an article in *The New York Times* that the translation is \"workmanlike\" and that it is \"too wordy to deliver its best potential laugh lines.\"
David Der-wei Wang, Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University, suggested that Yu Hua used the narrative technique of \"defamiliarization\" to observe the living world through the eyes of the dead. He also argued Yu Hua didn\'t give full play to the nihilist atmosphere which was the crux of the novel, but only stopped at criticizing social issues.
`Country `
`Publication Year `
`Publication `
`Book Name`
**`China`**` `
`2013`
2013
2018
`New Star Press （新星出版社）`
Rye Field Publishing Co.
（麦田出版社）
New Star Press （新星出版社）
`《第七天》`
《第七天》
《第七天》
**`Japan`**
Translated by 飯塚 容
`2014 `
`Kawade Shobō Shinsha `
`死者たちの七日間`
**`France`**
Translated by Angel Pino, Isabelle Rabut
`2014 `
`Actes Sud `
`Le septième jour`
**`America`**
Translated by Allan Hepburn Barr.
`2015 `
`Pantheon Books `
`The Seventh Day`


# The Seventh Day (novel)
**`Australia`**` `
`2015 `
`Text `
`The Seventh Day`
**`Holland`**` `
`2016 `
`DEGEUS `
`De zevende dag `
**`Norway`**` `
`2016 `
`Aschehoug `
` Den Sjuende Dagen`
**`Czech Republic`**` `
`2016 `
`Verzone s.r.o. `
`Den Sedmý`
**`Slovakia`**` `
`2016 `
`Marencin PT `
`Siedmy deň`
**`Arabia`**` `
`2016 `
`Ebdate Alimayia `
`اليوم السابع`
**`Turkey`**` `
`2016 `
`Alabanda `
`Yedinci Gün`
**`Germany`**
Translated by Ulrich Kautz
`2017 `
`S.Fischer Verlag `
`Die sieben letzten Tage Roman`
**`Italy`**
Translated by Silvia Pozzi
`2017 `
`Feltrinelli `
`Il settimo giorno`
**Romania**
Translated by Luminița Bălan.
`2020 `
`Humanitas Fiction `
`Ziua a șaptea`


# Genkō Shakusho
The ***Genkō Shakusho*** (元亨釈書) is the first Japanese Buddhist history. It was written during the Kamakura period in Classical Chinese by the famous Rinzai monk Kokan Shiren (1278--1346) and in total consists of 30 scrolls.
Kokan Shiren wrote the *Genkō Shakusho* in 1322; the literal translation of the title is the \"Genkō Era Buddhist History.\" In the introduction to the work, Kokan wrote that he was shamed into writing it after the Chinese monk Yishan Yining expressed his surprise that no such history existed in Japan. The book was first published between 1346--1377. It covers a span of seven hundred years in Japanese Buddhist history and biographies from its introduction into Japan until the late Kamakura period. It was accepted into the Buddhist Tripitaka during the Nanboku-chō period.
The Genkō Shakusho has three divisions:
1.  Biographies scrolls 1--19 with four hundred and six titles of monastic and secular biographies
2.  History scrolls 20--26 covering seven hundred years Buddhist history until the late Kamakura period
3.  Gazettes scrolls 27--30 covering ten different other types of histories
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# Transcendent Kingdom
***Transcendent Kingdom*** is a novel by Yaa Gyasi, published in the United States on September 1, 2020 by Alfred A. Knopf (). *Transcendent Kingdom* was found in Literary Hub to have made 17 lists of the best books of 2020.
The novel follows 28-year-old Gifty, a PhD candidate in neuroscience in her fifth year at Stanford University, and her Ghanaian-American mother, who is suffering from a deep depression.
While experimenting on lab mice for her research, Gifty gets a call that her mother is not feeling well. She sends for her mother so she can take care of her and is overwhelmed by the remembrance of the first time her mother fell into a similar depression, when Gifty was 11.
Gifty\'s mother and her father, affectionately nick-named The Chin-chin man, were Ghanaians who met and married late. They had a brilliant son, Nana, and after his birth Gifty\'s mother, seeking a better life for her child, relocated to Huntsville, Alabama where a cousin of hers was studying. Gifty\'s mother was forced to take menial jobs, eventually become a caretaker to abusive and racist elderly patients. Gifty\'s father eventually relocated to America to be with his family but was only able to find unstable work as a janitor.
Gifty was born a few years later, and was an unwanted pregnancy.
The family was anchored around Nana\'s prodigious gifts as an athlete and their mother\'s fervent religious zeal which Gifty inherited. Never settling in Alabama, The Chin-chin man eventually returned to Ghana for what was initially supposed to be a short trip, never to return. Shaken by his father\'s abandonment, Nana quit soccer, a sport which he had been proficient in, and in high school joined basketball. After injuring his ankle in a low-stakes game Nana was prescribed opioids and quickly became addicted, seeking out heroin to allay his cravings. When Gifty is 11 her brother dies of an overdose and her mother falls into a deep depression, taking to her bed and unable to care for herself. After she tried to commit suicide Gifty is forced to seek help and is sent to Ghana while her mother recovers, staying with her maternal aunt and briefly reuniting with her estranged father.


# Transcendent Kingdom
Nana\'s death and Gifty\'s mother\'s attempted suicide push Gifty away from religion. A bright scholar, she attends elite universities and chooses a path in neuroscience studying addictive behaviour. Her past and her continued belief in God mark her as an outsider and she has trouble opening herself up emotionally. In the present, unable to help her mother she finally reaches out to a colleague of hers who supports Gifty as she attempts to help her mother.
In an unspecified future time, after Gifty\'s mother has died of natural causes, a now married Gifty who is flourishing as a scientist and runs her own lab continues to attend church.
The book drew positive reviews upon publication. *The Washington Post* named it \"a book of blazing brilliance\". *USA Today* called it \"stealthily devastating\" while *Vox* gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
- Longlist, 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
- Longlist, 2020 Prix Médicis étranger
- Shortlist, 2021 Women\'s Prize for Fiction
In 2015 in *Guernica* magazine, Gyasi published a short story titled \"Inscape,\" which features some of the characters met with in *Transcendent Kingdom* in somewhat different situations. In \"Inscape\" Gifty is a forty-one-year-old professor of English studying Gerard Manley Hopkins instead of a twenty-six-year-old neuroscientist, her mother\'s mental illness is more severe, Gifty\'s attraction to her friend Anne is more intimate (\"My whole body ached at the mention of her name\"), and she has no brother.


# Groaning Spinney
***Groaning Spinney**\'\' is a 1950 mystery detective novel by the British writer Gladys Mitchell. It is the twenty third in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It was later republished under the title of***Murder in the Snow**\'\'.
While staying for Christmas with her nephew and his family at his house in Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds, Mrs Bradley is intrigued by a local legend about a murdered Victorian village parson whose ghost appears at the entrance to a copse of trees known as \"Groaning Spinney\". She is drawn to investigate when a corpse is found there in imitation of the death of a century earlier.
- Klein, Kathleen Gregory. *Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary*. Greenwood Press, 1994.
- Reilly, John M. *Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers*. Springer, 2015.


# Sanada Taiheiki (novel)
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`is jidaigeki novel written by Shōtarō Ikenami. The novel deals with the Sanada clan during the Warring States period in Japan The stories were originally serialized as a serial in the Japanese magazine `*`Shūkan Asahi`*` between 1974 and 1982. The novel was adapted into a television series in 1985 and a manga series.`
Shōtarō Ikenami Sanada Taiheiki Museum was opened in Ueda, Nagano in 1998.
- *Sanada Taiheiki* (1985)