0 1 "You Jie grocery store"
Keio Toyo
Douban score: 8.6 (2 186 13 people score)
I used to watch Walking in the Dark and the Sacrifice of Suspect X, and then it was really amazing when I came to see the worry-free grocery store.
I didn't expect this "cold" person named Keigo Higashino to be so "warm".
Three thieves were forced to hide in an abandoned house called "Langya grocery store" because their stolen car broke down, only to receive a consultation letter.
Through the old magazines left in the store, they found that this grocery store was once famous for "solving worries"-
Just write down your troubles and put them in the mailbox of the grocery store, and you can get the boss's reply in the milk box behind the store the next day.
So, the three thieves also learned from the boss and began their journey to solve their worries.
I still remember that when I read this book, my mood didn't fluctuate greatly, but my tears kept flowing.
For people who have nowhere to talk in modern society, a worry-free grocery store is like a perfect spiritual destination, where every lost and lonely heart can be comforted.
02 "Living Together"
Sh? Ichi Yoshida
Douban score: 7.5 (evaluated by 735 people)
This is a book about social life.
The protagonist of the story is five young people working hard in Tokyo.
Among them are juniors who work in restaurants to earn money, unemployed people who are in love, illustrators who can't sell illustrations, night workers who sell their youth, and ordinary employees who work in film companies.
Although the relationship between these five people seems calm and harmonious at ordinary times, I read a great sense of loneliness from their own self-reports.
Everyone in the story is a loser in life. Everyone has a heavy past and troubles, but no one can share them.
They are eager to establish close relationships with others, but they are afraid of maintaining relationships, so they wear masks and carefully keep a safe distance from each other.
So even in this room full of people, you seem to have stepped into a vacuum.
I think this book by Shuichi Yoshida will bring you a kind of pain from human nature. But at the same time of pain, it will also make you realize that the only thing that can break this cold wall is ourselves who put down the mask.
03 a man without a woman
Murakami Haruki
Douban score: 7.7 (rated by 5664 people)
I remember the first time I saw the title of this book, there was a deep * * * sound, because I felt as if this book was written for me.
However, when I opened it, I found that I was wrong, because all the men in the book actually had women at first, but in the end, for various reasons, women left them.
Among the seven stories written by Murakami, the one that impressed me the most was Independent Organ.
It tells the story of a single lover who only wanted to have sex with women for many years and finally died of infatuation.
This ironic story is full of questions about the meaning of life. As a plastic surgeon, Du Hui asked many questions in the book: What am I?
"Deprive me of my plastic surgery ability and career, lose my comfortable and superior living environment, and then be exiled to this world as a naked human with nothing. What will I become?"
Although Watanabe didn't get the answer, in my opinion, the most important thing to pursue the meaning of life is not the answer, but the process of eternal pursuit.
04 Box Man
Hotel Abe
Douban score: 8.0( 109 score)
For readers in China, many people may not be familiar with the name Abe Mansion.
But for Japanese literary circles, Shoji Abe is a great writer who can be on an equal footing with Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburo Oe.
The Box Man written by him is a novel full of experimental spirit.
In the book, Abe's public houses create a new type of urban tramp-"box people", who put themselves in boxes, even if they walk. Just dig a hole in the box and peek at the outside world.
The whole work can be summarized as the notes of "Box Man", interspersed with the process of "I" becoming a box man, the entanglement between fake doctor C and drug-taking military doctor, and teenager D who was caught peeking at the female teacher's toilet. ...
However, after reading these wonderful stories, I first realized that the "box man" is actually around us.
In order to escape from this world, many times we choose the same way as the "box man". Hide yourself, put yourself in a safe area, and then cut off from the outside world.
As everyone knows, while we are closing the world, we are still blocked by the way out that can really change our hearts.
05 Baihe night boat
Banana Yoshimoto
Douban score: 7.7 (143 1 person score)
This is a short book with only 100 pages.
It contains three short stories about sleep by the author, which are collectively called "Sleep Trilogy".
What I want to focus on this time is this article entitled "White River Night Boat".
In this story, the hero is deeply tired because of his friend's death and unusual love experience, so he falls into a crazy sleep.
At first, she could hear her lover's phone ringing. Later, because I slept too deeply, I didn't realize anything, as if I lost consciousness. In the process of her sleeping day after day, she is getting farther and farther away from the real world.
It was not until one day that she met the soul of her lover's wife that she decided not to fall asleep, but to cheer up, live, do a small job and try to get in touch with the outside world.
I think, although Gibbon's books always reveal a gloomy mood, behind the gloomy mood, you can always feel a core spirit of pursuing light, which brings you both warmth and courage.