As the saying goes, opening the book is beneficial, and we all know the importance of reading. However, the full schedules and busy workdays are exhausting and at the same time, they also deprive us of most of the time we can leave for reading.
Don't worry, seize the fragment time, the same is reading!
Today, take stock of a few short stories that are suitable for fragmented reading, let's take a look!
Tokyo Kittan Set
Haruki Murakami / Shaohua Lin / Shanghai Translation Publishing House / 2006
The Tokyo Kittan Collection contains five short stories, namely "The Accidental Traveler", "Hanalei Bay", "Wherever You Can Find It", "Kidney Stones Moving Every Day", and "Shinagawa Monkey". The strangest of the five odd tans is the last one, "Shinagawa Monkey".
A young woman named Mizuki Ando suffered from a kind of "amnesia", once or twice a week she could not remember her name, and after several twists and turns, it was found that the "amnesia" was caused by a monkey... Although it is said to be "strange", Haruki Murakami still discusses metaphysical life problems in the novel.
Tan Tong talks, and Qi Tan means strange talk and strange news. As we all know, most of the titles of Murakami's novels are loud and west, avoiding the real and imagining, but this short story collection is the same in appearance, and it is indeed a strange tan that happened in Tokyo. The novel highlights the mystery of life's fate through chance.
In this short story collection, Haruki Murakami, as always, is still quietly tearing down the fence between reality and unreality or between the world on this shore and the world on the other side, still hovering like an eagle over the subconscious kingdom, looking for a deeper and darker bottom, still trying to strip away the soul information and human nature from the ordinary worldly life.
"There are only three ways to get along with a girl: first, listen to the other person silently; second, praise the clothes she wears; and third, try to give her good things to eat." Simple, right? If this is still not possible, then it is better to be dead set on the ground. ”
Descendants of the god of the sea
Miyuki Miyabe / Yibing Cao / Shanghai Culture Publishing House / 2022
The Farewell Ceremony: No one knows better than the technician that a robot is just a bunch of cold parts. But the arrival of a girl made him collapse inside, only because her robot said, "Let me die." "Why? Obviously, I am the real person! But why is there no emotion in my life?
Descendants of the Sea God: For metropolitan journalists, the gods of small fishing villages are just ignorant superstitions. But only they themselves know that it is a secret for the sake of retribution, and it all starts with the end of the war...
"Sheriff's Tomorrow": There is only one living sheriff in the whole town, and half of his body has been replaced. What is the purpose of the infinite reincarnation of the town story? What's going on in the world outside of the town? That day, the killer came. The killer knows his true identity, and he knows who the killer is...
Mothers Act: Under the Mothers Act, abused children are adopted by good parents, and biological parents can continue their lives. What a perfect bill. Until one of the adopted daughters couldn't help but see her birth mother for the last time. Which mom should I love? Is the Mother Act wrong?
"Even if it is a robot shaped like a bucket, people who want to be children will still be children, people who want to be workers will still be workers, and people who want to be bullied will still be bullied."
I love you, waste wood
[Israel] Rafael Bob-Waxberg / Qi Yue /
Beijing United Publishing Company / 2022
I Love You, Waste Wood is the first work of Raphael Bob Wackersberg, screenwriter of the animated Bojack the Horseman, and is a collection of short stories that have received rave reviews overseas, featuring 18 stories of awkward love between urban men and women. They are lonely, shy, kind, afraid of being hurt and afraid of hurting others, but the eternal desire for love in their hearts brings them closer to each other.
The Chinese version of the "Father of the Horse Man" work was first introduced, and he told us: "When you face life, you can be timid or brave. Either way, you have to live. Therefore, it is better to choose to be brave. ”
The same is true when faced with love.
Chat about The Difference
[Qing] by Pu Songling / Zhonghua Bookstore / 2009
"Liaozhai Zhiyi" is a collection of short stories in the early Qing Dynasty of the mainland, with a total of nearly 500 novels, or about folk folk customs, strange stories, or about the strange changes of everything in the world, with a wide range of themes. With its unique storyline and colorful artistic image, the author Pu Songling had an unfavorable life and a poor life, and had a profound understanding of the society at that time.
The countless seemingly absurd stories and artistic images he created have the basis of ideological content rooted in society, and thus tortuously reflect the social contradictions at that time and the aspirations and love and hatred of the broad masses of the people, among which, they also cast the author's own feelings and pinned on the author's own lonely and indignant feelings. This book has always been regarded as the leading work in fiction, with a reputation of "unprecedented".
"It is not greedy to support oneself, and it is not vulgar to sell flowers for the sake of karma." Man must not seek wealth, but he does not have to seek poverty. ”
Daydreamer
James Thurber / Xu Hao / Zhejiang Education Press / 2021
Thurber's style of work is extremely distinctive. His paintings and essays are known for his exquisite, ironic humor, unique whimsy and sharp insights. In the world he created, those trembling little people always rely on some little cleverness that does not know whether it is a blessing or a curse, and almost desperately try to break free from many obstacles and dominate their own destiny.
These traits are abundantly reflected in his most famous character, Walter Mitty, a shy dreamer who fictionalizes a magnificent secret life to make up for real-life frustrations.
This book contains 27 of Thurber's most popular short story masterpieces. In his writing, every ordinary person is a unique polyhedron, and even a dog is full of personality.
The men in his writings always try in vain to escape from something indescribable in their daily lives, but they are always on the verge of escape, unable to act, and only whimsical in the spiritual world. The sense of comedy in his works comes from a deep understanding of tragedy, a keen sense of human weakness, and a harsh ridicule of pretentious middle-class life, which makes people laugh and feel sad.
"He stared at me for a long, long time, as if I were a slot machine, and after eating the coin he had just stuffed in, he didn't move."
Oh, Fragrant Snow
Tie Ning / China Braille Publishing House / 2008
The main content of "Oh, Fragrant Snow": If someone hadn't invented the train, if someone hadn't laid the rails deep into the mountains, you wouldn't have found the small village of Taiergou. It and its dozen or so villagers, single-mindedly hidden in the deep folds of the mountains, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, silently accepting the warmth and roughness that the mountains arbitrarily give.
However, two slender, shiny subway tracks extended over. It bravely hovered on the mountainside, and quietly tentatively advanced, bending and bending, and finally circled to the foot of Tai'ergou, and then drilled into the dark tunnel, rushed to another mountain, and ran towards the mysterious distance.
Soon, the line was officially put into operation, and people crowded at the entrance of the village, and saw the green dragon roaring all the way, carrying a strange, fresh breeze from outside the mountain, and rushing past the poor and weak back of Taiergou. It walked so hurriedly that even the sound made by the wheels when they rolled the rails seemed to say: non-stop, non-stop! Yes, what reason does it have to stand in Taiergou, is there anyone in Taiergou who wants to go out? Does anyone from outside the mountains come to Taiergou to visit relatives and friends? Or is there oil storage here and gold deposits buried? Taiergou, in any way, does not have the strength to hold the train around it...
"No matter how much noise there was on the road, everyone was very friendly when they broke up, because an exciting thought arose in their minds: tomorrow, the train will pass, and they will have a wonderful minute." 」