The Man with the Compound Eyes (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2014-08-28
Förlag
Vintage
Originalspråk
Chinese
Dimensioner
198 x 128 x 20 mm
Vikt
226 g
ISBN
9780099575627

The Man with the Compound Eyes

av Wu Ming-Yi
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-08-28
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From the author of The Stolen Bicycle - longlisted for the International Man Booker Prize On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. Atilei however is determined to defy destiny and become the first to survive. Across the sea, Alice Shihs life is interrupted when a vast trash vortex comes crashing onto the shore of Taiwan, bringing Atilei with it. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, Atilei and Alice retrace her late husbands footsteps into the mountains, hoping to solve the mystery of her sons 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.
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A 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 WOOL Frankly, astonishing A wonderful novel which deserves a very wide audience -- David Barnett * Independent on Sunday * Inventive narrative The depiction of Atileis magical realm and his innocent wonder at this unfamiliar and murky world is imaginative and moving -- Trisha Andres * Financial Times * Shuttles between ... two realms with a dizzying ease reminiscent of Haruki Murakami, twisting the dreamlike into the curiously credible * Times Literary Supplement * We 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

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WU 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 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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