New Arrivals | New Year Chinese Booklist
The ticking countdown to 2023 has less than ten days remaining.
It's time to look back.
Regardless of how your past reading journey unfolded, the new year is always a fresh beginning, opening a brand-new page for the possibilities of reading.
The library has prepared an opening-year booklist for all readers.
(Some books will be presented in a surprise blind box, all readers can attend interactive activity through the WeChat Platform article)
The Elephant in the Universe
Author: Govert Schilling
Call No.: QB791.3 S35 2023 CN
This book is a popular science in astronomy about the search for dark matter and exploring the nature of the universe. The author explores the scientific site of dark matter research and interviews well-known scientists and frontline researchers, taking us on a journey through time and space. Readers with an interest in science and cosmic topics will want to follow the author as he explores dark matter and unravels the mystery of the world.
UNDERLAND: A Deep Time Journey
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Call No.: GN755 M33 2021 CN
"Deep time" is a term for geological time and the chronology of the underworld. UNDERLAND: A Deep Time Journey seeks knowledge underground, allowing us to understand the earth beneath our feet deeply. Though darkness and death are in there, hidden humanity and aged civilization are also in the underworld. We now are both the creators of the times and the ancestors of the future world.
Dance of the Happy Shades
Author: Alice Munro
Call No.: PR9199.3.M8 M86 2023 CN
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award (Canada's highest literary award), this book consists of 15 short stories that tell the ordinary lives of ordinary people, especially women, in rural towns in Canada, with hidden tragedies. The whole work shows the triviality and helplessness of life. Reading it is like looking in a mirror, reflecting the appearance and experience of our lives, allowing us to re-examine ourselves and the world.
Ensaio sobre a Cegueira
Author: José Saramago
Call No.: PQ9281.A66 S27 2022 CN
A kind of infectious disease named blindness spreads rapidly in the city. All people plunge into catastrophe. During the outbreak of the epidemic, food shortage and collapse in social order led people to peel off the cloak of morality. Then, people slip into a terrible situation worse than blindness. The virus is frightening, but human evil is far beyond our imagination.
The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Call No.: PS3573.A425 W35 2023 CN
This book is a story related to race, gender roles, domestic violence, female solidarity and severe trauma. The book tells the tragic but tenacious life of Xili, a black girl from the southern United States in the 20th century, in the form of letters. When you see Xili, does she remind you of yourself who is suppressed by society and secular restrictions? If so, may this book give you the courage and strength to break through the constraints of the heart and the world and truly live out yourselves.
Here are more great books waiting for you in the WKU Library.
HOW TO GET IT?
All of the 20 Chinese books mentioned above have been shelved on the third floor of the SLAC library. Readers are welcome to borrow and join in the challenge to defend and exceed your reading resolutions for the new year. Additionally, anticipate the upcoming release of the opening-year foreign language book list from the library.
