Please recommend some thoughtful and thoughtful novels with high scores.

I disagree with the statement "Contemporary novels are really superficial". There are many foreign contemporary novels that are very good

1. "The Kite Runner"

< p>The novel "The Kite Runner" is told from a first-person perspective, telling the childhood past of an Afghan immigrant boy in the United States and his spiritual redemption process for his childhood mistakes as an adult. The plot spans from the 1950s to the 21st century. The whole book is similar to an autobiographical novel. The protagonist's experience and background are very similar to the author's own experience and background. The protagonist was born in the upper class of Afghanistan when he was a child. His father was a good man in business and was very prestigious in the local area. Due to the selfishness of a child, the protagonist really wants to get all the love from his father, and therefore is always jealous of his father's tenderness towards his servant's children. The protagonist had a cowardly character when he was a child, while the servant's child was brave and loyal. The protagonist, who had an unbalanced mentality, later used dishonorable means to frame the servant's family, causing the servant's family to live in a foreign land. Later, war broke out in Afghanistan, and the protagonist's family was forced to leave the United States. Later, his father's partner knew the inside story, and before his death, he encouraged the protagonist to return to Afghanistan to find the child who was the servant back then, and through his own efforts, he could relieve his years of guilt. The protagonist, who has already had a successful career, mustered up the courage to return to his hometown like a man for the first time. Amidst the desolation and the cruel reality of being ruled by the Taliban, he found old friends. After learning the shocking secret, he made atonement. The hard work finally completed the growth of a man in a touching way.

2. "Tears of the Elephant"

Although Jacob never talked about the past, an unspeakable secret still lurked deep in his ninety-year-old soul.

Jacob's simple life with no worries about food and clothing came to an abrupt end when he was 23 years old: his parents died, he was penniless, and he was forced to run away from a prestigious veterinary school. By chance, he became a veterinarian for "the Benzini Brothers' largest circus in the world", touring along the railway lines and experiencing the most bizarre places during the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s. The circus, a world that presents life and death in its own unique way. Here, freaks and clowns take turns to perform, and joy, anger, sorrow and joy are performed at the same time.

For Jacob, the circus is his salvation, but it is also a purgatory on earth, the station of his dreams, and the beginning of displacement... He falls in love with the circus star Marlene Na--the beautiful and pitiful Malena has been mistakenly married to the handsome but cruel circus director August. An elephant named Rosie is a magic weapon bequeathed by a circus owner who lost all his money, but he can't understand even the simplest commands. Whispering, wailing, and howling, Rosie was tortured every day under August's cruel elephant hook. Jacob, Marlena, and Rosie, in the dazzling moments of dancing, leaping, somersaulting, and turning, in order to fight, eat, and survive, relying on and trusting each other, they are looking for a romantic and romantic way together. Horrible way out. And this became a secret that Jacob kept for seventy years.

3. "Five People You Meet in Heaven"

His name is Eddie. On his eighty-third birthday, in order to save a girl who was in danger in an accident And die in the playground. When Eddie woke up, he was already in heaven, and then he realized that it was not the Garden of Eden where pastoral songs lingered, but the overlapping reappearance of fragments of life on earth. Five people who are either remembered, ignored or forgotten by Eddie take turns to appear, leading him to search for the lost time and ask for the answer to the mystery of life. Invisibly, there seems to be a huge chain between heaven and earth, and Eddie is just a link in it.

4. "Tuesday Date"

This is a true story: Murray, a social psychology professor who was over 70 years old, suffered from amyotrophic lateral cord disease in 1994. Hardened and died a year later. As Morrie's favorite disciple in his early years, Mickey stayed with the old professor every Tuesday during the fourteen weeks he was in bed, listening to his last teachings. After his death, Mickey embroidered the teacher's enlightening words into a chain. Titled "Meet Tuesday".

5. "The Time Traveler's Wife"

If life is a journey, Henry's journey must be more circuitous than ordinary people's. He suffers from chronic time dislocation syndrome. Unconsciously drifting between time. He thought he met twenty-year-old Claire for the first time when he was twenty-eight, but Claire said: "I have known you since you were a child." After marrying Claire for many years, Henry suddenly found himself back in his childhood, and This time I met six-year-old Claire.

Because those things disappeared involuntarily, Henry would witness his young self encounter those past over and over again, but he could only watch and taste the happiness, sadness and pain over and over again.

But what about Claire walking on the normal journey of time? She was left far behind by her husband and anxiously longed for her lover to return to her as soon as possible. Although Claire possesses time, she can only touch time by touching Henry. What filters the passionate love of this pair of lovers, and what drives them to bravely explore the complicated and intertwined destinies, finally making time become insignificant in the face of love?

6. "I'm Waiting for You in the Rain"

My name is Enzo. I always thought I was a human, and I always thought I was different from other dogs. I was just stuffed into a dog's body, and the soul inside was the real me. This is a record of the ups and downs that my master Danny and I have spent together: when his wife died miserably, when his parents-in-law turned against him, when he was suddenly arrested with shackles on his body, only I knew the truth. However, I am just a dog, I cannot pronounce or speak... Now I am old and about to leave this world. I want to share my story with you. If you are willing, just open the book and I will wait for you in the story...

7. "The Ridiculous Things in Brooklyn"

This The book tells about a state of life after letting go. The hope of life is often filled inadvertently. When you think you are ready to give up, only when a person is in a state of "letting go" is the first and best. Every character in the book is lifelike, just like a friend around you. You are puzzled, thinking, sad, and sad about the unexpected encounters in his life, or you are saying like his friend, "Be careful, this is It's a trap." But when the story ends, you will feel that you have to thank the author. In this dark world and dark era, in this book, you will find a sense of community, belonging, and family affection between people. , love, friendship, etc., you will feel full of fighting spirit and hope for life again.

8. "The Voice of Heaven"

If you feel hopeless about life, after reading this book, you will understand: you can find a gift that life gives you every day , you can discover the true meaning of beautiful life and find yourself. As long as you open your eyes, you will find that there is a wonderful gift waiting for you every day. It may be as small as a ray of light or a beautiful leaf, or it may be a big happy event. Sometimes these gifts are hard to find and you have to put in some effort to find it.

9. "Lost Horizon"

There are sacred snow-capped mountains, deep canyons, dancing waterfalls, tranquil lakes surrounded by forests, and adults wandering on beautiful grasslands. The flocks of cattle and sheep, the sky as clear as a mirror, and the magnificent temples are all breathtakingly beautiful. Pure and hospitable people warmly welcome guests from afar. This is the holy land of religion and paradise on earth. Here, the sun and moon are parked in your heart. This is the legendary Shangri-La.

10. "A Thousand Splendid Suns"

The second work of the author of "The Kite Runner", Khaled Hosseini shows half of the story in "A Thousand Splendid Suns" What Afghan women have endured for centuries. Individuals must endure the constraints of hunger and illness. Families bear the trauma of war and the displacement of refugees. The country must endure the war between the former Soviet Union, the Taliban and the United States. This is a history of Afghan endurance.

About unforgivable times, impossible friendships and indestructible love. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is once again set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, spanning thirty years in time and space. It uses delicate and touching touches to depict the hopes, loves, dreams and losses of women struggling under the old family system in Afghanistan.

11. "Rebirth in a Day"

Let a long-dead relative spend another day with you. Only one day. If it can come true, do you need such an opportunity? The opportunity, at an awkward moment, fell to Charles Bennett. This retired baseball player could no longer find any reason to live amidst frustration and alcohol consumption - his career was on the wall, his marriage was broken up, he was addicted to alcohol, his family was betrayed, and even his daughter's wedding was unwilling to let him show up... Charles He thought of committing suicide, thinking that as long as a high-speed car and a selfless run, he could wave goodbye without taking away a single cloud.

However, in the flash of lightning, his physical body wandered between this place and the other side; suddenly he woke up and saw his mother who had died unexpectedly many years ago.

Mother led him into yesterday. Yesterday was one familiar stranger after another, one tragicomedy after another with strange angles, and one series of entangled hearts after another. Following the road pointed by his mother, where will Charles' destination lead? Is one day of enlightenment enough to change a life?

……

When I opened my eyes again, I was surrounded by fallen branches, twigs, and leaves. The stone pressed against my chest and stomach. Lifting my chin, I saw: the baseball field of my youth, bathed in the morning light, the two waiting areas for players on the side of the field, and the puff of dust where the pitcher stood.

Also, my mother, my mother who has been dead for many years.

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I can barely move. But her arms wrapped around me, and I felt her hold me again, the air blowing across my face. All I saw was darkness, as if we were flying behind a long black curtain. Suddenly, the dark curtain opened and stars appeared in front of my eyes. Thousands of stars, she put me down on the wet grass and returned my wounded soul to the world.

12. "On the Road"

"The greatest experience in my travel life is about to begin. In a truck with a flatbed trailer towed on the back, I lay about Six or seven young men... I ran up and asked: "Is there any room?" They said: "Yes, get on the bus quickly, everyone on board has a seat." Before I could sit in the car, the truck came. Then it opened. My body was swaying, and a passenger helped me. I took the opportunity to sit down and someone handed me a bottle of bad whiskey... The drizzle in the Nebraska sky kept falling. However, without being poetic, I finished my drink and said, 'Ah, we're on the road again!' A young man wearing a baseball cap called... They said they were going to travel all over the United States this summer. 'We're going to Los Angeles now.' ...'What to do? 'What to do? We can't tell, don't worry about it'..." - Excerpt from "On the Road"

13. "When I was five, I killed myself. 》

The book is told in the voice of an eight-year-old boy, Bolden, and describes a lonely spiritual world of a child that is not understood by adults and has always been distorted. He can only survive in a world that is incompatible with it. The story Quite touching. Among them, Bourden's innocence is in sharp contrast with the complexity of the adult world. His inability to escape from the annoying adults around him is easily reminiscent of the French classic "The Little Prince"; while Bourden is seen as transcending convention. , the dilemma of not being understood, and the confusion about the adult world, he is often cited as Holden in "Catcher in the Rye".

I really want to post two more links. They are answers to other people’s questions in the past, and they are also recommended literary works, but not only contemporary, but MS. I only need to post the URL, and Du Niang will post my answer. I swallowed it, so I sent you the URL using Baidu hi. If you are interested, you can take a look

I hope you can find something you like. Happy reading!