Nana Ogawa's Works Series: How Words Heal Life

There is a cured female writer Nana Ogawa in Japanese literary world. Her life is intriguing: reduce indoor lamps, work at sunrise and rest at sunset; Reduce TV and network information and keep the five senses sharp; Stay away from mobile phones and give priority to people and things at your own pace.

She tells you with the warmest brush strokes how we should spend an ordinary day as ordinary people.

Are you addicted to trifles and feel that life is hopeless?

Do you think life is boring?

Do you feel that there is endless sadness and despair in this world?

Then I suggest you read the following five books on treatment written by Nana Ogawa. He reminded us that true happiness is to cherish the beauty around us.

0 1 camellia stationer

Reading time: 4 hours 17 minutes.

This book is undoubtedly one of the most popular novels of Nana Ogawa. In Kamakura, a tourist city in Japan, there is a stationery store that helps people write ghost letters. As a descendant of 1 1 generation, Gong Yu Hatuko took over the ancestral shop when her grandmother died, writing letters of condolence for the dead pets, announcement letters for the couples who announced their divorce, and rejection letters for the grumpy uncle who refused to borrow money. A pen, a world, a letter, a life.

I was lucky to read this book when my career was at a low ebb. It brought me initial peace, and many delicate details still linger in my mind. For example, when writing a letter, Yan Ge will consider such trivial matters as the age of stamps. For example, Mrs. Barbara, a neighbor who planted hydrangeas on the balcony, still enjoys the joy and love of life even in her old age. For example, by reading her grandmother's letters before her death, Dove finally realized how much she loved her. Literal words, warm-hearted words and peaceful life breath pervade between the lines.

This book tells us through more than a dozen letters with temperature that no one is an island, and those thoughts buried in the heart can finally be seen with the pen.

02 "Shining Life"

Reading time: 4 hours 12 minutes.

This book can be used as a sequel to camellia stationery. In the first "Camellia Stationery Store", Dove often went to a small shop for dinner. The shopkeeper is a widower, living a hard life with his daughter QP and his sister. Pigeons like to chat with little girls through words. In this book, Dove married QP's sister's father.

Pigeons who once rebelled now live in humility. While trying to open a new store with her husband, she continued to run a camellia stationery store and passed on the words buried in her heart to her guests. In this book, customers' requirements are becoming more and more unique, such as helping blind teenagers write letters to their mothers, helping their wives who can't get over it to write letters to their dead husbands, and helping single elderly female readers write letters to themselves in the name of their beloved writers. Through these letters, Dove gradually discovered "What? No matter who you are, you can't choose a life where everything goes well. "

Tears welled up in my eyes when I read the chapter of QP's sister's biological mother in Dove. The kind woman walked into the supermarket with her daughter in a happy mood on a sunny morning. She was going to buy ingredients for the barbecue at night to entertain her hard-working husband, but she never came out again. She protected her daughter with her body and died under the butcher's knife. Since then, this little girl named Sister QP has never dared to go to the supermarket again.

This year is the fifth year since my grandmother died. She left without saying hello. I tried my best to get back to my hometown from Shanghai to see her for the last time, and then she slowly fell asleep in my mother's arms. The moment she left, I felt that my life would stay at 26 forever. Many things have died in my heart. She loved me all her life for 26 years, but I didn't even say "thank you, I love you". This heartbreaking pain can't be declared in my mouth or in my pen until today. I began to yearn for the existence of ghosts and gods in this world, so that we can have the hope of reunion. When I read this sentence, I burst into tears:

"As long as I'm not dead, the dead will live in my body forever. This feeling has been getting stronger and stronger recently. I'm not bragging about anything, I just think they are with me. "

03 woniu canteen

Reading time: 3 hours and 54 minutes.

After graduating from college, Nana Ogawa worked in a magazine. As a result, she lost her job as soon as she finished the first issue. At that time, she couldn't even pay the rent, so she had to live with her boyfriend. Later, she worked in a bookstore related to architectural books and met all kinds of people. This opportunity gave birth to Nana Ogawa's first novel Snail Canteen.

The heroine, Lunzi, was devastated because her boyfriend robbed her of all her property and articles, and lost the ability to speak. Lonely, she returned to her hometown and borrowed money from her mother to open a snail canteen. In addition to helping my mother raise a pet pig every day, she also carefully manages this small shop, limiting a group of guests every day and cutting delicious dishes. Lunzi silently used vegetables to treat the guests around him and himself:

Xiong Sang, an enthusiastic uncle abandoned by his Argentine wife, a little wife of a rich man who has been grieving for many years after his lover's death, an introverted girl who wants to have a crush on two of a kind, an anorexic abandoned rabbit, and a terminally ill mother who is waiting for her first love, gets love, hope, life and the meaning of life by chewing her lover's dishes.

I just became a mother when I read this book. Just a narrow escape, the company's physical examination process is not very ideal. Looking at young children and declining parents, I am also very nervous. Nana Ogawa's style is like hot soup simmered on the stove, which is particularly kind to read. The smell of food soothed my nervous mood along my senses. On the surface, this book is a cooking novel. In fact, it relies on a series of cooking to explain a profound theme, what is the relationship between parents and children, what is the difference between life and death, and what is self and others. There are thousands of rooms in Guangsha, but the night sleep is only seven feet, and the family is rich but three meals a day. Eat drink man woman, the world of mortals is rolling, but that's all.

04 "The Sewing of Time"

Reading time: 3 hours 14 minutes.

If you want to know the creative process of camellia stationery, reading "Needle Method of Years" is the best choice. This is a short article that I spent a week reading on the subway commute.

During his stay in Germany, the writer Nana Ogawa described the daily life in Berlin with fresh and meaningful words. When people reach middle age, they can learn troublesome German again. In a foreign country, you can also make unique ingredients in your hometown. This essay, which reads like a diary, describes the writer Nana Ogawa's life in which his body is getting old and his mind is always young, and his feelings about life and family. Nana Ogawa spent some time saying goodbye to her mother's death. Even if the bad blood is long, with the approach of death, the unforgettable gap will eventually be alleviated and replaced by understanding. Nana Ogawa's words have the power to shake hands with the world.

"I hope that at that time, no matter how far away or how faint the light is, I can take my steps towards it. I also hope that my works can give readers strength and push them to the light. Just as plants are born in the sun, the power to make the heartbeat face the bright side is a vital thing in life. "

05 "Go out to buy eggs"

Reading time: 2 hours and 30 minutes.

This is Nana Ogawa's happy diary in the past year. Two people, one dog, three meals a day, four changes. These trivial little days have become a shining day.

I have to say that Nana Ogawa is a woman full of interest in life, and also a great observer and recorder of life. She can carefully record the taste of every red wine, every cooking method, every sunny morning and every movement of her dog. Her writing style is simple, clean, relaxed and warm, which makes people feel the spring breeze. Sometimes, she will say one or two famous sayings that are deeply rooted in people's hearts, which makes people really feel the temperature and warmth of life.

After reading this book recently, the life of maternity leave made me full of doubts about myself. In the days of daily necessities, life is getting more and more confusing, and I always feel that every day is like copying and pasting the day before, and there is nothing new. In fact, when we think about it carefully, we find that every moment of taking care of children, accompanying parents and getting along with relatives are small and beautiful things that cannot be copied. As long as we have expectations about how to arrange this day and the people, things and things around us, this day will become different. Words convey not only the touch of life, but also self-dialogue, four changes, joys and sorrows, ordinary life, and more redemption and respect for life. As the cover of this book says:

Inject a little difference into ordinary days, and there will be different scenery.