Taigael: Stories from Taiwanese & Gaelic

A saliva goddess vanishes without a trace from a Taiwanese temple. A Hogmanay party is interrupted by an uninvited guest. In Taipei, an elderly prophet foretells an attack on the subway. A woman walking home from court discovers a sheep tangled in the brambles...Four stories, by four writers, in four languages. Tâigael is a first-of-its-kind collaborative writing and translation project that brings together writers from Scotland and Taiwan to explore language, translation, and culture. Elissa Hunter-Dorans and Lisa MacDonald (Scotland) join Kiú-kiong and Naomi Sím (Taiwan) in stories that cross between languages and cultures — speaking of things unspoken, and finding new and surprising connections along the way.Gaelic and Taiwanese (Tâi-gí) are both languages that have been historically marginalised and suppressed. Tâigael presents two newly commissioned short stories in Gaelic and two in Taiwanese (presented in both Han characters and romanisation), then translates them between the two languages, via Traditional Mandarin and English — opening a dialogue across the languages, traditions, and cultures of these two nations.A book for lovers of folk-tales, for fans of literature in translation, for language learners, and for those who want to slip across the boundaries between worlds.