Mitch Albom, author of the best-selling book "Meet Tuesday", "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven", was recently introduced and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. On the evening of May 14, the book held a new book sharing meeting at the Yanjiyou K11 store in Guangzhou, and the translator Yao Yao, the writer Mai Mai, and the editor-in-charge Yang Yijing had a dialogue.
The scene of the event
Fifteen years ago, after several years of consecutive bestseller lists with Meet Tuesday, Albom continued his publishing miracle with Five People You Meet in Heaven. French writer Marc Levy praised it as "like a Hope painting and like a Coppola film"; Tan Enmei, a famous Chinese writer and author of "Happy Blessing Society", has repeatedly recommended that "this is a story worth rereading again and again, it allows you to constantly see yourself and the world with new eyes." The novel has been translated into 35 languages in 38 countries and regions around the world, and has sold more than 12 million copies. Readers have been looking forward to its sequel for years, and now they finally see the full picture of the story.
"The Five You Meet in Paradise" tells the story of Eddie, a playground maintenance worker, who saves a little girl she never knew, Annie, at the cost of her life. Eddie's reunion with the past made him realize that every life is crucial, and that every seemingly insignificant individual plays an irreplaceable role in the time of "others." After Eddie's story was marked with a terminator, Anne's life continued. Readers will find that this little girl has experienced the trauma of growing up with them, and now she also has to face the same problems of life. The original accident cast a lingering haze on Anne's life, and she chose to dust off 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.
Relatives, pets, lovers, children, passers-by who meet in Pingshui but are closely related to our lives, alternate flows, accidents overlap, this life and the other world face each other again, those who have left slowly come, breaking down the barriers, bridging all loneliness, everyone who has to face separation can feel the continuation of love from this story, and finally find the comfort of the soul.
"I think this writer will give the wonderful feeling that he is using a very simple, colloquial way to explore the deeper 'course of life'. The establishment of his writing is very interesting, in fact, it is to set up 5 themes, 5 topics or 5 stages for your life, and then these 5 topics are represented by 5 people. Everyone's life experience may not be exactly the same story, but many feelings and understandings of life are actually very similar. The famous writer and reading promoter Mai Mai said about Albom's creation.
The book "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven" continues Arborm's consistent warm and healing style, the storyline is smooth and natural, fascinating, full of unexpected reversals, after fifteen years of time precipitation, showing the maturity and introversion of years. Compared with the previous work, the novel presents the simple side of complex life in a more transparent posture, evoking every reader's admiration and desire for home, while the affectionate translation of Yao Yao, the popular author of the "One· One" app, uses her light and flexible words to add a little gentle mood to the story.
When talking about the origin and feelings of translating the book, Yao Yao mentioned: "Mitch Albom's great place is to extract these concepts that are closest to us in life, and use very simple stories and fresh and timeless writing to dismantle this topic that is actually very profound, but may not usually be touched." In the process of reading and translating this book, she also felt a steady stream of comforting power, "How do we look forward to the future, how do we look at life and death and the various accidents in life, or more importantly, how to face my own world, how to start our own life?" 」 This is the question that Arboum has always insisted on exploring, and it is also the answer that we have to pursue all our lives. ”
The parent-child relationship, intimate relationship, and pet relationship discussed in the book are actually common topics in modern people's lives. The author uses a cruel approach to tell the story of love and kindness between people. Those tragic, unexpected dilemmas and accidents, cruel and real at the same time, can resonate with people, but in the end it can call for the warmth and love in the reader's heart.
Speaking of Arbom's text, the editor-in-charge Yang Yijing and the translator Yao Yao both talked about the "sense of picture". "When translating, it feels like a dream, and it is very imaginative for the infinite release of color blocks and color imaginations. Although he wrote very simply, we can still feel the strength of his writing, three words and two words can present the picture very intuitively in front of you, when reading the text, you can see what he wants to depict the paradise, the color is what it is, I think it is a very good reading experience. Yao Yao sighed.
The most important point of Mickey Albom's work is to teach us to look at everyone and everything we encounter in life with a different vision, with a broader vision, and with a higher latitude, which is also something we need to learn in the course of life.
This time, the translation publishing house will also list the author's new edition of the collection of essays at the same time, and launch a high-value warm heart-warming suit suitable for the whole family to read together, so that we can slow down the pace of life in reading, and taste the small but precious warmth and waiting in ordinary life.
Nandu reporter Zhu Rongting intern Chen Xinru