You can either travel or read, but either your body or soul must be on the way. Here are four books that you can take on your trip.
⒈On the Road, 1957, by Jack Kerouac
The book is a popular guidebook about youth. The main character drives across the US continent with several young people and finally reaches Mexico. After the trip, the characters begin to realize the meaning of life.
⒉Life Is Elsewhere, 1975, by Milan Kundera
Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." The book describes a young artist's romantic but bitter life, about how he reads, dreams and has a relationship during his trip to Central Europe. The book invites you to deeply reflect on your current life and to honor the Czech-born writer Kundera.
⒊My Name Is Red, 1998, by Orhan Pamuk
The book, a masterpiece of the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Orhan Pamuk, has been translated into more than 50 languages and published around the world. It describes a young man, who was away from home for 12 years, coming back to his hometown in Istanbul. What embraces him is not only love, but a series of murder cases as well.
⒋The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,2013, by Rachel Joyce
The novel tells a story of a 60-year-old man who lived a boring and unhappy life, until one day, he received his old friend's letter who got cancer. In deep shock and sorrow, he went out to send his reply letter.627 miles in 87 days, he walked depending on one belief that "his friend can survive as long as he walks".
