

To the East of the East
東方之東
內容簡介
入圍 2026 年美國國家圖書獎最佳翻譯文學獎
來自台灣當代最精緻的聲音,這部探討婚姻與自由的多層次沉思之作,講述了敏惠為了尋找失蹤的丈夫,從台灣前往北京的歷程。
在中國尋求商機期間,敏惠的丈夫無影無蹤地失蹤了,這迫使她在台灣身為作家的平靜生活戛然而止,並前往北京;然而這座城市的混亂讓她陷入困頓。中國政府真的出於善意關心她的利益嗎?當局又有多努力在尋找她失蹤的丈夫?
孤立無援於這座古都之中,敏惠結識了神祕的尚君——一位自稱在她飯店房間裡尋求庇護的人權活動者。隨著兩人的關係萌芽,敏惠允許他閱讀自己創作中的小說:一位被困在紫禁城內的年輕清朝皇帝,被海盜商人鄭芝龍講述的台灣海域故事所深深吸引。與此同時,敏惠也在反思自己急於挽救卻充滿衝突的婚姻。平路運用其標誌性的多層次敘事,將敏惠的尋夫過程、她在北京的戀情、她小說中的歷史背景,以及失蹤丈夫未寄出的信件交織在一起,探討對自由的普世渴望。
《東方之東》由台灣最精緻的當代聲音之一所著,對解脫、命運以及國家歷史的偶然性進行了深刻的沉思。
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD in TRANSLATED LITERATURE
Min-Hui's travels from Taiwan to Beijing in search of her vanished husband in this multi-layered meditation on marriage and freedom from Taiwan's most sophisticated contemporary voice.
While chasing business opportunities in China, Min-Hui’s husband disappears without a trace, forcing her to uproot her quiet life as a writer in Taiwan and travel to Beijing, where the chaos of the city leaves her reeling. Does the Chinese government truly have her best interests at heart, and how hard are the authorities looking for her missing husband?
Marooned in the ancient capital, Min-Hui encounters the enigmatic Shangjun, a self-proclaimed human rights activist who seeks refuge in her hotel room. As their relationship blooms, Min-Hui allows him to read her novel in progress: a young Qing emperor confined within the Forbidden City becomes fascinated by pirate merchant Zheng Zhilong’s tales of the Taiwanese seas. All the while, Min-Hui contemplates the discord in the marriage she is desperate to save. Exploring the universal longing for freedom with her signature multi-layered narrative, Ping Lu interweaves Min-Hui’s search for her husband and her Beijing love affair with the historical backstory of her novel and unsent letters from her vanished husband.
To the East of the East offers a profound meditation on liberation, destiny and the contingencies of national histories by one of Taiwan’s most sophisticated contemporary voices.
作者介紹
Ping Lu is the pen name of Taiwanese writer Lu Ping. Ping Lu writes on a wide range of topics, including society, culture, gender, politics, history and human rights. She won Taiwan’s National Award for the Arts in 2021, and has previously also won the 2021 Taiwan Literature Award for 間隙 (The Gaps), the 2018 Golden Tripod Prize for 袒露的心 (Heart Mandala), and the 2016 Wu San-lien Literary Award. Her short story collections and novels, including Love and Revolution, 何日君再來 (When Will My Love Return) and 黑水 (The River Darkens) have been translated into English, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Czech and many other languages. To the East of the East is her most recent work to be translated into English.
Jeremy Tiang
Jeremy Tiang won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency, and was shortlisted for the same prize for his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day (forthcoming from World Editions). He has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including Zhang Yueran's Cocoon for World Editions, which won the Singapore Literature Prize. He also writes and translates plays—most recently Salesman之死, which was staged at New York’s Connelly Theater, and received an Obie Award. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in New York City.
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