Who do you want to spend your life with?

Friends. What binds us together

The companion book to "What Kind of Life Do You Want?", the healing picture book that has touched billions of people worldwide. A gift book you'll never want to give away, but can't help but keep buying for others. ◎ Editor's Recommendation ★ This book is the companion to "What Kind of Life Do You Want?". The two authors have collaborated again to interpret the "emotional journey" that people experience from 0 to 100 years old, depicting the birth, separation, and touching reunion of a friendship. ☆ A heartwarming and healing picture book popular worldwide, providing solace to the soul. There are no "good intimate relationships" in the standard sense, only the "intimate relationship" that is most suitable for you. ◆ This book offers a deep opportunity for readers to reconsider their relationships and their own lives: Who do you want as a friend? Who do you want to fall in love with? With whom do you want to spend every day of your life? ◇ Concise yet poetic, playful yet melancholic. The enthusiastic and meticulous observation of various friendships has captured hearts. The recipient of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award, the Portuguese Picture Book Illustration Grand Prize, the Bratislava International Biennial of Illustration Award, and the Korean CJ Picture Book Award, the pure hand-drawn illustrations convey various facets of friendship beyond words. ● All the people you cherish deep in your heart are here, ○ All the things you can't say to your friends are also here. ● The friendships that were accidentally lost, or evolved into love, or fortunately lasted a lifetime, are all commemorated in this book. ◎ Media Reviews The best gift book you'll never want to give away, but can't help but keep buying for others. - Berlin Literary Weekly It's this enthusiastic and meticulous observation of various friendships that has captured hearts. And it doesn't exclude the unpleasant, or even dark, side of friendship - such as estrangement and indifference. - Swiss German Radio This book is very suitable to give to someone you miss. - Augsburger Allgemeine Concise yet poetic, playful yet melancholic. - MDR Kultur Narrating the differences and regrets between friends, this book is like an irresistible and captivating whirlpool. - Book Culture Magazine A declaration of love for friendship. - Badische Zeitung With just a few strokes, it captures the essence of friendship. Poetic and picturesque, it touches the heart. - Elved Magazine No matter the age, everyone needs good friends, and this book perfectly illustrates what friendship looks like. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Diverse perspectives inspire us to reflect on our own friendships and explore the specificity and universality that exist in friendship. - Stuttgarter Zeitung ◎ Content Summary This book was born from a birthday party. The guest of honor at the party was a friend whom author Heike Faller had known for only a few months. This friend described their acquaintance as love at first sight friendship: an instant, inexplicable fondness. "Why did my new friend and I get along so well? Will this friendship end halfway, or will it last forever?" With questions and emotions about friendship, Heike Faller decided to invite illustrator Valerio Vidali to collaborate again to explore the true meaning of friendship. To better understand friendship, she created a chain of friendship: asking one friend to tell the story of one of their friends, then asking that person to tell the story of another friend... Among these stories, some friends became family, some lost contact, some evolved into lovers, and some became strangers. She integrated these stories into this book, depicting the birth, separation, and touching reunion of friendship. The book does not define friendship, but simply outlines various emotional journeys. Through a picture and a sentence, you will experience the intimate relationships that each of us may have had. We believe that no matter who you are with now, a certain scene in the book will remind you of someone you cherish deep in your heart.

2021-11-01

北京联合出版公司

184

9787559656131