谁能接受一无所得的工作？
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
我想起我那堆旧平装书，书页已经变得松软，仿佛它们曾经属于大海。
The novel is the most ambitious attempt to capture the totality of life.
"The power of literature lies in its ability to make us see the world differently."