Douban score: 8.2

Childhood memories are often obscured by what happened later and become hazy, but these memories have not disappeared.

Many years later, I returned to the sea of forgetfulness, and my childhood memories reappeared in my mind.

In that memory, the nanny was a monster from another world and the neighbor was a mysterious witch.

In that memory, the ocean can be put into a bucket, and people will know everything when they sink into the ocean.

In that memory, I met a witch friend Letty. She looks three or four years older than me, but I guess she may be three or four thousand years older than me.

That memory is too wonderful, but it is very real. Standing on the forgotten seashore, I vaguely saw Letty sleeping in it. ...

Dolgoe proshchanie

Douban score: 8.2

The Long Farewell is a true story of spiritual communication, a story of spontaneous mutual understanding between people, a beautiful fantasy held by human beings, and a story of deep disillusionment inevitably caused by it.

A mysterious, elegant and charming alcoholic, a lonely and unruly tough guy detective.

A glass of wine, a promise, friendship between men.

Huge bills, dreams, a series of murders,

A mystery, a long farewell.

Saying goodbye is to die.

The rainy season will not come again.

Douban score: 8.6

When Sanmao was twenty cents, she wrote "The rainy season will never come again". These words published in her 17~22 years old truly show the growth process from tender and sensitive Ermao to intelligent and mature Sanmao. The innocence and beauty revealed in The Rainy Season Never Comes can clearly confirm the traces of her legendary character.

Loneliness is too noisy.

Douban score: 8.8

This book is the author's most important masterpiece. It has been brewing for 20 years, and three drafts have been changed. As the author himself said, "I live for it and postpone my death to write it."

This novel poetically tells the story of Han Jia, a packer, who worked in a waste paper recycling station for 35 years. He picked up precious books from the waste paper pile, hid them at home and held them on his chest. He binged on beer and slurped out those "beautiful words" like candy. This is a sad story, the sadness of love and the sadness of culture. Han Jia finally put himself into a waste paper bag, and he flew into the sky in those books.

Kanshanhai

Douban score: 8.4

Guanshanhaijing is a popular reading of Shanhaijing, which is rich in content and illustrated, mainly showing rare animals.

The painter Sugizawa is inspired by the classics of mountains and seas, and combines contemporary aesthetic taste and its unique Chinese painting style to create paintings. Hundreds of magical animal images in ancient legends have been vividly and luxuriantly interpreted, and with concise original texts and interesting interpretations, they have inserted another imaginative wing into the legends of ancient legends in China.

In the process of creation, Sugizawa spent three years conceiving and combining various documents, so that the shaping of every animal image is not imaginary, but has profound cultural reasons.

The annotation part was written by the author Liang Chao, who took Hao Yixing's Notes on the Classic of Mountains and Seas as the base, referred to the proofreading versions of Guo Pu and Yuan Ke, and finally made annotations in plain vernacular, at the same time, he extended some stories and added a lot of novel and interesting knowledge.

In addition, this book also makes a lot of Chinese phonetic notation for a large number of uncommon words in the original text, in order to bring readers a better reading experience.

Lost corner

Douban score: 8.8

Silverstein, an artistic genius, is a classic handed down from ancient times. More than 30 languages have spread all over the world, and the sales volume in the United States has reached180,000 copies!

A fable about "maturity" and "dependence". His charming works once again prove that in art, the simpler things are often expressed, and the truth can often be expressed in simple words. A circle is missing a corner, and it is looking for it while singing. Some corners are too big and some are too small. It crossed the ocean and finally found the most suitable corner for it. They formed a complete circle, but the circle found that it couldn't sing any more, so it gently put down the corner it found and set off alone ... This is a classic handed down by Silverstein, an artistic genius, and one of his most popular works.

This may be the fastest book you can read, but I'm afraid it will take you a lifetime to chew. Silverstein explained a fable about "perfection" and "imperfection" with the most concise and tasteful lines and words, which made people daydream infinitely. It's moving, and it's moving. I finally found that long-lost corner, but I couldn't take myself forward. Should I be disappointed? Should be happy? Should we wait? Or should we move on?

Original address: Xinhua Book List No.5: Six masterpieces of Douban-Zhihu.