Fifteen years after graduation, American columnist Mitch Alboum suddenly learned that his teacher was suffering from muscle atrophy lateral sclerosis, and time was running out.
So Albom met with his teacher every Tuesday to hear the teacher finish the last fourteen lessons on how to face love, fear, family, marriage, money, culture, aging, and death.
The last lesson is the teacher's funeral, and the notes from these fourteen lessons form an autobiographical long documentary novel, Meet Tuesday.
"Meet Tuesday" has been a best-seller for 23 years, and now has more than 50 translated versions, with a total sales volume of more than 20 million copies, and has been adapted into a movie and drama.
After being well known to more audiences, Arbom returned with a new book "The Next Person You Meet in Heaven", which is based on the story of a little girl who has encountered changes in her life and is revived, exploring many hot topics such as "the relationship between children and parents" and "how to open your heart and face loneliness and confusion".
New book "The Next Man You Meet in Heaven"
This book was translated by yao yao, a post-80s writer, and on June 9, Yao Yao, together with writer Jie Chen and editor Yang Yijing, attended a new book sharing meeting at Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology (Qingshuihe Campus) to share the reading experience of the book with the students.
What does Arboum bring to the reader?
Some people read about healing, some people read about sadness
"Mickey Albom is really a master of positive energy." Jie Chen sighed at the event. "The story he wrote happened to a little girl on the other side of the ocean, but the contradictions between her and her mother, the generation gap, the story of what happened between her pet, the detours she took in love, the setbacks she encountered, the important choices in life... It's all happening to us. He writes the stories of others and explores every proposition of our lives. ”
Yao Yao shared a deep feeling when translating this story, because she had a kitten, and she saw the little girl in the story reunited with the deceased pet, and the pet became an old woman, "Arboum used this story to let me clarify the relationship between people and pets, he woke me up, compared with pets need us, we need pets more, we need comfort and companionship." In fact, I was the one who was taken care of, and it was like an old man, leaning down to take care of me. ”
Unlike the translator Yao Yao, JieChen did not feel healed in this book, but read sadness, helplessness, and "vulnerability".
Yang Yijing was surprised to hear JieChen say this: "Jiechen very keenly captured the characteristics behind this book, because this writer had just lost a relative when he wrote this book, so he exuded a sense of vulnerability. ”
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Arbom is the originator of a golden sentence
Suitable for young people who are very "mournful"
Yang Yijing believes that Albom is a writer who lifts a heavy weight, and seems to write very simple and simple, but he is not a simple writer, and the words he writes are worth thinking about carefully.
Nowadays, everyone likes to use Weibo and Xiaohongshu to send some touching "golden sentences", Yang Yijing said: "Arboum is actually the originator of the real golden sentences, everyone has seen many sentences copied by Albom on the Internet, if you read this book, you will definitely find more highlights that touch you." Yang Yijing mentioned that young people who can say that they are "lost" can read Albom's work.
At the event, Yang Yijing recommended Alboum's "One Day Reborn" to everyone, she said, this novel is a bit like this year's very popular movie "Hello, Li Huanying".
Jie Chen said that because she felt that "Meet Tuesday" did not have a roundabout and tactful thing, she preferred Albom's "Come a Little Faith", "This book is also a work full of positive energy, definitely more than "Meet Tuesday". ”
Works by Albom
Swiping your phone will get you bored
Reading paper books will delay boredom
"The book writes that the media is blindly chasing hot search events, and now that everyone looks at mobile phones for a lot more time than reading, how should people use reading to heal their lives?" Yang Yijing asked questions at the scene.
Yao Yao said that the book you have read is like a seed, buried in your heart, and one day in the future, it will play a very important role in your life.
"I'll pour some cold water!" Jie Chen calmly said a different point of view: "Reading is a very long thing, and our lives are very limited, if we are greedy to read a lot of books, we will exhaust ourselves." Therefore, reading should establish a direction at a young age, find some source works, and read systematically, at this time it may have an effect on your own life, and the framework of reading will be more obvious. Jie Chen gave young people some suggestions on how to read from another angle.
Jie Chen believes that the acceptance of images is one-way, but text reading is two-way, and it is necessary to mobilize energy and the fictional world of words to have an exchange before reading can be established. "If you brush drama or brush video, brush to a certain time will be nauseated and want to vomit, even if the colorful image data is put in front of you, in the end you will be tired." 」 But words and images are not the same, it will delay your boredom, and even arouse your curiosity, which is also the value of the existence of books. ”
Red Star News reporter | Chen Mou
Edited | Duan Xueying
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