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Taipei Story

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內容簡介 來自《紐約時報》排名第一的暢銷作家匡靈秀（R.F. Kuang，著有《Katabasis》與《黃面孔》），帶來一部冷面幽默且深刻動人的成長小說。故事以令人難忘的台北夏天為背景，直面悲傷、語言與文化衝擊。大學新生 Lily Chen 就像在她之前的許多華裔美國學生一樣，前往台北參加暑期密集語言課程，希望能與她繼承卻從未真正理解的文化建立連結。然而，一個好的開始很快就宣告瓦解。她的課程非常嚴苛，室友讓她快要發瘋，而一次與幾乎不認識的男生前往溫泉的魯莽之旅，很快就讓同學們對她進行惡意的蜚短流言。她感到飄泊無依，在她以為會像家一樣的國家裡，自己卻成了一個外國人。隨後震撼的消息傳來：Lily 的爺爺去世了。這場失去迫使她去面對如今已無法得到解答的家族歷史問題。在 Lily 哀悼的同時，她被捲入了一場自我發現之旅——在一連串幽默又令人心碎的連結嘗試中，拼湊著記憶、故事與沉默。《Taipei Story》提問：如果離散族群對回家的幻想永遠不會實現怎麼辦？如果學習一門語言無法讓你更靠近那些你試圖接觸的人怎麼辦？如果你尋找家族的歷史，但你的家人卻不想分享怎麼辦？如果你等待太久才問出正確的問題怎麼辦？當 Lily 努力尋找答案時，她的夏天變成了一場對自我、家族以及「家」的含義令人心酸的理解之旅。From R.F. Kuang, the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface, comes a wryly humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock—all set against the backdrop of an unforgettable summer in Taipei.College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program like so many Chinese American students before her, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly unravels. Her classes are grueling, her roommate is driving her insane, and a reckless trip to the hot springs with a guy she barely knows soon has her classmates viciously gossiping. She feels adrift, a foreigner in a country she thought would feel like home.Then shocking news arrives: Lily’s grandfather has passed away. The loss forces her to grapple with now-unanswerable questions about her family history. As Lily grieves, she’s drawn into a journey of self-discovery—piecing together memories, stories, and silences over a series of hilarious and devastating attempts at connection.Taipei Story asks: What if the diaspora fantasy of homecoming never comes true? What if learning a language can’t bring you any closer to the people you’re trying to reach? What if you search for your family’s history, but your family doesn’t want to share? What if you wait too long to ask the right questions? As Lily struggles for answers, her summer becomes a poignant search for understanding—of herself, her family, and the meaning of home.

作者介紹

作者介紹 匡靈秀（R.F. Kuang）《紐約時報》暢銷榜榜首作者，著有《Katabasis》、《黃面孔》（Yellowface）、《巴別塔》（Babel）與《罌粟戰爭》（The Poppy War）等知名作品。其創作擅長探討文化認同、歷史記憶與複雜的人性衝突，文字兼具冷面幽默（Wry humor）與情感張力。Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 來自《紐約時報》排名第一的暢銷作家匡靈秀（R.F. Kuang，著有《Katabasis》與《黃面孔》），帶來一部冷面幽默且深刻動人的成長小說。故事以令人難忘的台北夏天為背景，直面悲傷、語言與文化衝擊。