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複眼人

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內容簡介 在瓦尤瓦尤島（Wayo Wayo），每一位次子都必須在十五歲生日當天離開，作為對海神的祭品。然而，阿提雷（Atile’i）決心反抗命運，成為首位倖存者。遠在海的另一端，施愛麗絲（Alice Shih）的生活因一場浩大的垃圾漩渦衝上台灣海岸而中斷，阿提雷也隨之被捲入她的世界。災難過後，阿提雷與愛麗絲一同循著她已故丈夫的足跡，深入山林，試圖解開兒子失蹤的謎團。在這段旅程中，記憶將受到挑戰，一段特殊的情感聯繫逐漸形成，而一個黑暗的秘密也隨之浮現，迫使愛麗絲重新審視她以為已知的一切真相。Every second son must be sacrificed at the age of fifteen. But will one boy defy all odds and triumph...On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atile'i is one such boy, but as the strongest swimmer and best sailor, he is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive.Alice Shih, who has lost her husband and son in a climbing accident, is quietly preparing to commit suicide in her house by the sea. But her plan is interrupted when a vast trash vortex comes crashing onto the shore of Taiwan, bringing Atile'i with it.In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Atile'i and Alice retrace her late husband's footsteps into the mountains, hoping to solve the mystery of her son's disappearance. On their journey, memories will be challenged, an unusual bond formed, and a dark secret uncovered that will force Alice to question everything she thought she knew.VINTAGE EARTH is a collection of novels to transform our relationship with the natural world. Each one is a work of creative activism, a blast of fresh air, a seed from which change can grow. The books in this series reconnect us to the planet we inhabit - and must protect. Discover great writing on the most urgent story of our times.

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各界推薦 ReviewA haunting and evocative tale, beautifully told. I wept at the description of the dying whales and the approaching tsunami ... I think this work will be a classic―Hugh Howey, author of WOOLFrankly, astonishing… A wonderful novel which deserves a very wide audience―David Barnett, Independent on SundayInventive narrative… The depiction of Atile’i’s magical realm and his innocent wonder at this unfamiliar and murky world is imaginative and moving―Trisha Andres, Financial TimesShuttles between ... two realms with a dizzying ease reminiscent of Haruki Murakami, twisting the dreamlike into the curiously credible―Times Literary SupplementWe haven't read anything like this novel. Ever. South America gave us magical realism – what is Taiwan giving us? A new way of telling our new reality, beautiful, entertaining, frightening, preposterous, true. Completely unsentimental but never brutal, Wu Ming-Yi treats human vulnerability and the world's vulnerability with fearless tenderness―Ursula Le Guin

作者介紹

作者介紹 Wu Ming-YiWu Ming-Yi is a Taiwanese writer, painter, designer, photographer, literary professor, butterfly scholar, environmental activist, traveller and blogger. He is the author of the novel Routes in the Dream (2007), as well as a number of non-fiction books and short story collections. The Man with the Compound Eyes is his first novel to be translated into English.Darryl SterkDarryl Sterk has translated numerous short stories from Taiwan for The Chinese Pen Quarterly, and now teaches translation in the Graduate Program in Translation and Interpretation at National Taiwan University.

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