Taipei at Daybreak

一部以台灣太陽花學運為背景的青年成長小說

2014年，曾參與華爾街佔領運動的QQ來到台灣，並最終在太陽花運動中找到了他一直在尋找的東西——一場由激進年輕人發起的草根運動，似乎準備推翻現有政府。

QQ創立了網路報紙《黎明》，以向外界呈現這場運動，同時，他也在與自我毀滅的暴力衝動作鬥爭，這些衝動將他推向抗議的前線。他的虛無主義情結在周圍人群中得到了滋養，這些市民、活動家和記者與他一起穿越台灣的夜晚，當地壓迫歷史的幽靈盤踞其間。

QQ能夠在街頭擺脫自己自毀的衝動嗎？還是他所感受到的空虛最終會吞噬他？他能找到自己需要的連結嗎？還是那個神秘且具毀滅性的夥伴V，將他從夢中糾纏，視為她的所有物？QQ能否面對並生還於自己家族在白色恐怖時代中的共謀？

Taipei at Daybreak是一部融合報導、回憶錄與冥思的獨特小說，探索了推動人們走到崩潰邊緣的隱形力量，無論是個人還是政治層面。這是一部前所未有的成長小說，描繪了外在與內心的激烈衝突，以簡潔風格與閃爍的黑暗詩意呈現。

An Asian American coming-of-age novel set amongst social protests of the early 2010s in East Asia.

In 2014, a veteran of Occupy Wall Street, QQ arrives in Taiwan and finally finds what he’s been looking for in the Sunflower Movement — a grassroots campaign of militant young people that looks set to overthrow the existing government.

Setting up an online newspaper, Daybreak, to represent the movement to the outside world, QQ also battles with self-destructive, violent impulses that drive him to the frontlines of protests. His nihilistic streak is fed by those around him, a host of other citizens, activists and journalists who travel together through the depths of the Taiwanese night, when the ghosts of its repressive history loom large.

Will QQ manage to outrun his own self destructive impulses on the streets, or will the emptiness he feels eventually consume him? Will he find the connection he needs, or will V, the mysterious, destructive partner who haunts his dreams, claim him as her own? Will QQ be able to confront and survive his own family's complicity in the era of the White Terror?

A unique blend or reportage, memoir and meditation on the unseen forces, personal and political, that propel people to the very edge, Taipei at Daybreak is a coming-of-age novel like no other, following tumultuous conflict both outside and in, and told through a spare style with flashes of dark poetry.