"An old man, a young man, and a life lesson." The publication of Meet Tuesday 23 years ago quickly made American columnist Mitch Albom a global bestseller. To date, the book has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, produced more than 50 translated editions, and has been adapted into film, television, and stage productions.
Meet Tuesday comes from Mitch Albom's real-life experience. Murray Schwartz, a professor of social psychology in his seventies, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and was running out of time. As Morrie's proud protégé in his early years, Mickey visited his professor every Tuesday to listen to the old man's final teachings, and after his death, compiled his thought sparks into "Meet Tuesday".
After Meet Tuesday, Mitch Albom released his second book, The Five You Meet in Heaven, which was a hit again. The novel has been translated into 35 languages in 38 countries and regions around the world, and the cumulative sales have exceeded 12 million copies. After 15 years, the Chinese edition of Mitch Albom's new work "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven" was launched by Shanghai Translation Publishing House, can it continue his publishing miracle?
These are two interrelated books. "The Five You Meet in Paradise" tells the story of Eddie, an 83-year-old playground maintenance worker, who saves a little girl she never knew, Annie, at the cost of her life. Before dying, he experienced flashbacks of five life segments and realized that each life was crucial. After Eddie's story was marked with a terminator, Anne's life continued. "The Next Man You Meet in Heaven" takes Annie as the protagonist, and the original accident cast a lingering haze on Anne's life, and she chose to dust this memory. At the moment when Anne regains her love, she has to face the pain of separation again and embark on the same journey as Eddie. Loved ones, pets, lovers, children... Alternating and unexpectedly, she re-felt the love of the people around her in the flashback of a personal life fragment.
"Mickey Arboam writes books about love, and his love is always passed on." At the flagship store of Duoyun Academy, Ge Shuyi, a writer who participated in the new book sharing meeting of Mickey Arbom for the fourth time, said that it was like watching a TV series, seeing characters who had appeared in the author's book before, and becoming the protagonist of the new book a few years later.
"When I was a kid, I went to the bookstore, and the book 'Meet Tuesday' was hung under the label 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' all year round. Today, the popularity may be 'poisonous chicken soup', that is, to achieve a similar effect to chicken soup for the soul through more extreme or more negative ways. But Mitch Albom stewed a warm bowl of 'chicken soup for the soul'. Writer Fu Kick kick said.
"How to speak your true voice, this is what everyone needs to learn." Writer Xiang Siwei said that what touched her the most was the mother-daughter relationship in the book. Mitch Albom often emphasizes the connection between people and people, and the book writes about Anne's original family, her mother is a single mother living alone with her daughter, when the mother and daughter meet in heaven, Anne listens to her mother's story and realizes that her mother has actually made a lot of sacrifices. "There may be some people in life who will silently sacrifice without telling each other, and may feel that there is a sense of beauty here, but it is actually the wrong direction." We should learn to express, learn to speak. ”
"There is a popular psychological view that all the problems of a person's growth are attributed to the problems of the original family. Arbohm is different, he always chooses the perspective that the original family may have problems, but the problems of the original family are not the only source of a person's subsequent unhappiness. He wrote about how to understand loneliness, how to understand the love between mother and daughter. He encourages readers to start from themselves, to look for upward strength, to find ways to change the status quo. Fu Kick believes that what Albom gives is neither an empty chicken soup for the soul nor a "poisonous chicken soup" that "throws the pot", "He found a very good angle, although it did not tell you how the chicken soup was cooked, but it was indeed very warm and healing after drinking." ”
"Mitch Albom's work is always a reminder that something is always around you, but you may not have noticed or felt it. There are no 'bad people' in his book, and he does not overemphasize the difficulties caused by the original family, but in the process of looking back at the pain, let you find the parts that you did not pay attention to or value before, including the love of the mother, the love of the pet, etc. Ge Shuyi said.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Shi Chenlu Text Editor: Shi Chenlu
Source: Author: Shi Chenlu