No matter how great a screenwriter is, he can't make up a tenth of his life. Life is wonderful enough because desire never stops, and our joys and pains sway with it, swaying into a world of unknown good and evil.
In this issue, Xiaobian recommends 18 non-fiction classics to everyone, which record some real stories, each author's writing is wonderful enough, and the content of the story is enough to shake people's hearts!
The American Trap
by Frederick Pierucci
CITIC Publishing Group
May 2019
When I read this book, I incarnated as Li Jiaqi countless times, and all kinds of "OMG" could not stop at all, because this story was too wonderful, more wonderful than all the American dramas I had watched.
The core of the story is very simple - the US Department of Justice personally hunts down foreign big companies. To accomplish this hunt, the Justice Department took pains to monitor all of the world's large contracts (the kind of more than $200 million) with its intelligence network, and then used sophisticated legal weapons to prosecute the companies.
The protagonist of the book, Pierozzi, an executive of the French company Alstom, is such an unlucky egg, he was first arrested by the US Department of Justice, then abandoned by his own company, and finally became a scapegoat for the whole incident. (Kneeling to the American drama production team, look at this script)
Janesville
By Amy Goldstein
June 2019
"Merry Christmas, friends, from tomorrow your dream of not going to work can finally come true because we are out of business. We are sorry and good luck to all of you! ”
Don't think it happened a long time ago, it actually happened in 2008. Two days before Christmas that year, GM's Janesville assembly plant ended its mission, with more than 9,000 employees walking out of the company, chains hanging from the doors, and darkness in the world.
When the main industry of an industrial town suddenly disappears, how will the people here survive? That's where the story begins. The book has won numerous awards, and various "best of the year" have been soft because it pokes not only tears, but also tomorrow that everyone may encounter.
"Bad Blood"
By John Carreru
Beijing United Publishing Company
April 2019
Chinese superstitious folk remedies, while Americans believe in scientific health, which of these two, which is superior? The former raised Kwon Jian and the latter raised Hilalos. Whether you admit it or not, these two companies are liars.
This book is mainly about how this American scam company was cultivated. This company focuses on "a drop of blood can know your past and present lives, and can better judge your full health", which is comparable to the effect of the story on Fengjie. Although it sounds very unreliable, it can't stand up to its cheapness and practicality.
Coupled with the company's young and beautiful CEO Elizabeth Holmes is very good at marketing, she even pulled the former president of the United States to stand, in just a few years to make herself the most beautiful boy in Silicon Valley. However, no matter how clever the deception, there will always be a time for exposure.
The Black Box: The Shame of Japan
Written by Shiori Ito
"In Japan, women openly admit that it is unimaginable to be sexually assaulted, and I am not brave, but I have no choice."
How scary is the world after being sexually assaulted? Japan #MeToo gives us an answer.
On April 3, 2015, Shiori Ito had dinner with Keiyuki Yamaguchi, then director of the Washington branch of TBS television and biographer of Prime Minister Shinzo, over visa issues, but was sexually assaulted. After being sexually assaulted, Ito felt that she was locked up in a "black box", and she could only desperately struggle in this isolated private space.
And when she wants to uncover this "black box", what is exposed is the even bigger "black box" in the investigative agency and the judicial system - the world is too unfriendly to women who have been sexually assaulted.
The Prayer of Chernobyl
S· by A. Alexievich
August 2018
Recently, HBO's "Chernobyl" has been creepy to read, and with this book, we can see more details about this tragedy.
On April 26, 1986, tens of thousands of civilians were infected or killed by radioactive materials, tens of thousands of acres of land were contaminated, and Chernobyl was reduced to ruin overnight.
10 years later, the famous journalist Alexievich risked nuclear radiation to go to these places to do interviews, and then we saw the stories of 500 survivors, their anger, fear, bravery, sympathy and love...
"Second Hand Time"
June 2016
"What is freedom? Freedom is like a monkey wanting to wear glasses, and no one knows what to do. ”
In 1991, when Xiaobian did not know the dangers of the world and would only cry for not eating enough, the world was undergoing tremendous changes - a superpower called the Soviet Union collapsed, sucking away the faith of the Soviet union's melon-eating masses.
Over the next two decades, an entire generation had to learn the transformation of ideals—the ideals and doctrines of the past, which were no better than today's steamed buns and pickles. But the pain is silent, and when you listen sideways, you hear as if the leaves were crushed. In silence, it shattered silently.
Beauty and Sorrow
By Pete Engelen
November 2017
After the outbreak of World War I, Europe's pride was gone. Falling directly from heaven into hell, in place of goodness, peace and progress, is death. The footsteps of death followed the young man, and several holes were found in the land of Europe.
The vast majority of those who were unfortunate enough to be born in Sri Lanka, like us, had no ambition to step into the world, but only the most basic nostalgia and desire for life. In Pete Engelen's pen, the stories of these ordinary people constitute a war narrative that is not the same as the gunfire movie blockbuster.
23 people, 23 fates intertwined in the same background into a sad movement. It was a generation of young beings, struggling to burn in the arms of the god of death.
This is Auschwitz
By Primo Levy
How far away are we from evil? Auschwitz will forever be a testament to human misdeeds, stuck in the long river of history.
No one wants to face Auschwitz again, but the real ugliness is the Nazis. So, there are always people who come back to that terrible world again and again for the sake of historical evidence, for the sake of reflection and progress. Levi is one of them.
Levi was a chemist whose experiences at Auschwitz turned him into a writer. For the 30 years after leaving the camp, he worked as a chemist while writing novels, essays, and poems related to Auschwitz. The book is a collection of Auschwitz survivor testimonies compiled by him and his fellow inmates.
"The Neighbor"
Yang · By T. Gross
Central Compilation Publishing House
September 2017
"Just give your beloved neighbor a chance, and he won't hesitate to kill your whole family." Have you always wondered how the massacres in war were carried out? Do you think that the people who started the massacre are demons?
When we set the massacre in a small town in Poland, we found that the killers were their neighbors, people they knew, alumni from the past, people who bought them milk, people who chatted with them...
This book asks us to reflect on a lurking danger— when will human bestiality explode?
《Hiroshima》
By John Hussey
Guangxi Normal University Press
August 2014
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a bright light flashed over Hiroshima and the first atomic bomb exploded.
For many countries that are being invaded by Japan, it is hope; for Einstein, it is a lifelong regret; for the United States, it is a perfect speech by big brother on the stage; for the local three hundred thousand citizens who are unaware, it is really miserable.
This book records the ordinary experiences of six ordinary people and their forty years of life trajectory, reflecting the traumatic memories of the "exploded" generation. There is no winner in the war, but it is always the people at the bottom who suffer.
Nanjing Massacre
Zhang Chunru
July 2015
There is no winner in the war, but the perpetrator is very sure. The Nanjing Massacre is a history that Chinese can never forget.
In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the city of Nanjing. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were raped, tortured and massacred. After interviewing a large number of survivors and excavating a large number of documents, Zhang Chunru restored the details of the Nanjing Massacre for us for the first time.
"My Unfinished Suffering"
by Patrick Kingsley
When we are trying to build a better life, there is a group of people who have left their homes in a hurry and have lost their place of peace of mind forever. Their name is Refugee. The story of the escape is always full of cruelty, and the little boy on the beach is an eternal pain in people's hearts.
Kingsley told us the story of the escape, and a man with a different language spoke through his body to tell us how he climbed through the iron net, evaded detection, and finally mixed into the crowd.
At the same time, he also introduced us to the other characters in this picture. The Coast Guard who rescue refugees on the other end, the international volunteers who provide food and shelter to refugees, the policymakers who deliberately hope that refugees are just passing through their own countries.
"Through the Middle East for a Hundred Years"
By Guo Jianlong
February 2016
The problem of the Middle East, on a macro level, is the pain left over from the Ottoman Empire, the scourge caused by the huge oil wealth, and the tragedy caused by britain, France, and the United States as the blind boss...
But for the locals, war means home that can't go back, lost loved ones, and a fate that is faltering. Guo Jianlong walks on this land, through the bullet holes and the desperate eyes of the middle Eastern people, to look back at the roots of the tragedy of this land, politics, religion, geography and oil resources wrapped in the desert, completely submerged this place.
My Promised Land
By Ali Shavit
January 2016
The Jews have suffered so much in history that, in the midst of exile and massacre, they have finally decided to change their destiny and establish a nation of their own.
But when they established their own country, they also became evildoers, and the indigenous Arabs of Palestine did nothing wrong, but they also lost their homes. The Jews suffered greatly from aggression and eventually became invaders.
Two races, two religions, one holy city, one holy land. Without going back in time, we will never know when the first wounds were left behind, and how the specter that hung over both Jews and Arabs dissipated.
Tough Times
By Stez Turkel
December 2016
If your bread has bugs, the only advice is – close your eyes and eat. Because it's a very tough time.
On that Black Thursday in 1929, the stock market plummeted and the bubble burst, all of which forced the rich to the roof, but for the poor, they didn't have time to complain about anything, because they heard that there were jobs in the neighboring cities, and although 200 people grabbed 1 job, they also had to try it.
It was truly a desperate day, and many years later, insecurities still clung to the people who lived through that era.
"Sweeping the Floor Out"
by Matthew Desmond
July 2018
In the sweet air of the United States, there are poor people who can't afford to rent a house, which is really a news that can shock XC's shock department. But in fact, there are many stories in the United States, as long as you work hard enough, then your landlord will always get rich silently.
The author encounters many stories in poor areas. Arlene, a single mother, has only $20 a month left to support herself and her two sons after paying the rent; Lamar, who has lost both legs, takes care of the boys in the community and has to work two jobs to pay the rent; there is no shortage of misguided young people here...
Why is there no American Dream here, just proletarians struggling to fall in the mire? In fact, every place in the world is the same, and there are always two extremes in the news, the happy majority and the unfortunate and the very few who are helped.
"The Sorrowful Song of the Countrymen"
by J.D. Vance
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
The solidification of the class, the closure of the upward passage, turned all our efforts into meaningless struggles. This is true in China, and it is also true in the United States.
In a country that claims equality and freedom, poverty is still passed on through hereditary means. This book is a true story, through the efforts of three generations, finally sent a person into the door of the middle class, but can not adapt to the middle class life.
The author does not provide us with a solution, but only shows us that the struggle that everyone makes with life will never stop.
"Moss Won't Go Away"
Yuan Ling
April 2017
"Even if a person travels the world, he will not see all the hardships, and there will always be some difficulties that are more difficult than the difficulties." Compared with these weight-bearing lives, our daily troubles are really not worth mentioning.
This book selects the most outstanding non-fiction works of Yuan Ling's journalistic career in more than a decade, and records the stories of more than 100 people at the bottom of Chinese society. The book is divided into three parts: "The Humble One", "Birthplace", and "Life and Death Lesson".
Among them, it focuses on the struggle of the low-level characters against the tribulations and dilemmas, as well as the contradictions and struggles of the new and old generations about the homeland. Moreover, from the echoes of countless ups and downs of fate, it presents us with a shocking spiritual and survival landscape.