"Every time I miss you, a grain of sand falls from the sky, and the Sahara has been formed since then. Every time I miss you, a drop of water falls from the sky, thus forming the Pacific Ocean. " This sentence is thought to come from this book in many places, but it is not the language in the book. It should be a good evaluation of San Mao. But it does not prevent countless young artists from being full of fantasies and yearning for the Sahara desert.
In fact, their life in the desert is no different from our usual rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea. Jose strives to make money, even in high-risk jobs, it is more difficult to see a doctor in the local area, and it is more difficult to buy fresh vegetables. He can't eat the delicious food he wants and feel the convenience of modern civilization. It is even more impossible to watch TV and brush WeChat online.
Just how does Sanmao treat life? Personally, I especially like her persistence and fanaticism. In daily helpless days, she is still in idolize in the Sahara desert.
Life in the Sahara is unbearable for a romantic, but she has also turned it into a poem. What is the value of human existence if all secular standards and visions are put aside? Is it secular life? Or the journey of your life?
She and Jose were walking in the desert and registered to get married. In places where restaurants are hard to find, there is no catering, only happiness during the wedding.
In fact, San Mao and Jose's life was not easy at that time, so they had to leave gran canaria to work in the remote La Palma Island, but they were happy to have each other.
Of course, from the book, we can see Sanmao's love for this small town near the Sahara desert. She and Jose crossed the desert many times, traveled, ventured into the desert and all kinds of stories that happened were wonderful and unforgettable for the audience, and the audience accepted them very well, but both of them enjoyed these experiences.
These short stories make this book full of vitality. Because there is a companion lover, this wandering hardship can be described by light and humorous words.
In Sanmao's works, the Sahara is such a beautiful place with magnificent scenery and amazing landscape. Of course, there are Saharans who seem to have retained many backward customs. Women in their world have no status, they can't take off their headscarves easily, they get married at the age of 12, they don't have the opportunity to learn knowledge, they seldom take a bath, and they don't go to see a doctor when they are sick.
But their generation thrives there, just as Sanmao is interested in some of their customs and disgusted with their bad habits. It is also a small world, with its own survival rules.
Personally, I like the process of dressing up a family in a tomb area as what the magazine wants to recommend, and starting a family from scratch.
Because every piece of decoration and furniture is hard-won, but it is destiny takes a hand, such as all kinds of furniture made by Jose himself, sofas made of coffin boards, painted stones bought by the old man in the desert, and various decorations picked up in the garbage.
In a word, it's worth it. It's worthwhile to spend some money to make life better for the sake of beauty.
Many people once doubted the authenticity of this book and Jose, but I still believe this story really exists. It may be a little flattering, but what happened must have a prototype.
The love between San Mao and Jose is real, and it is especially lucky to find a soul mate. They share common values and respect each other's lives. So later Jose left first, San Mao couldn't forget it, and finally chose to commit suicide.
Then talk about their real home in a small town near the Sahara desert.
San Mao and Jose live in Tirda, a seaside town in gran canaria. About the introduction of this island, in Sanmao's words, gran canaria is a very commercial place. Because of the comfortable climate, countless Europeans come here for vacation and shopping in winter. It has long been an international tourist city.
Sanmao doesn't like the prosperity that tourists love, but she lives here because it is closest to the Sahara that she loves. She and Jose chose a house far from the city, on a hillside not far from this valley.
When I wrote this article, I think I read a travel book. The author went to La Palma to explore Jose's grave. La Palma Island covers an area of 728 square kilometers and has a population of less than 65,438+10,000. In the middle is Ta Briante Crater, which has become a national park. Its capital, Santa Cruz, is a port and the place where Jose worked in his early years.
Jose's tomb
Facts and truth are often colder than imagined. Just the journey of life accompanied by relatives is still enough to make us deeply moved.