The Man with the Compound Eyes: A Novel
A Science Fiction, Fiction, China book. So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you...
When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people—an outcast from a mythical island and a woman on the verge of suicide—are united in ways they never could have imagined. Here is the English-language debut of a new and exciting award-winning voice from Taiwan, who has written an “astonishing” novel (The Independent) that is at once fantasy, reality, and dystopian environmental saga.Fifteen-year-old Atile’i—a native of Wayo Wayo, an island somewhere in the Pacific—has come of age. Following the custom of his people, he is set adrift as a sacrifice to the Sea God but, unlike those who have gone before him, Atile’i is determined to defy precedent and...
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- ISBN: 9780307907974 / 0
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So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear. Wu Ming-Yi, The Man with the Compound Eyes // In all honesty, I dont envy you the possession of this power over memory, nor do I admire you. Because humans are usually completely unconcerned with the memories of other creatures. Human existence involves the willful destruction of the existential memories of other creatures and of your own memories as well. No life can survive without other lives, with the ecological memories of other living creatures have, memories of the environments in which the live. People dont realize they need to rely on the memories of other organisms to survive. You think...
Expect some magic and references to be lost in translation, as the book is originally written in Mandarin.I found myself translating English back to Mandarin at some points and found the writing rather poetic. Even so, I appreciate the translation choices, most of which kept the references and/or lyrical nature of the writing. The book... I am, in reality, dreadfully torn about this book. The subject matter--the oceanic trash vortex, Taiwan's political binding by China, the indigenous groups and their relegation to sex work and hard labor--all speak to me. Wu Ming-Yi has done a wonderful job of confronting the complicated nature (both figurative and literally) of contemporary... Yorumun asl ve devam Yorum Cads'nda.Balarda biraz sklsam da, bir yerden sonra kitap beni iine ekmeyi baard; sayfalar merakla evirdim. Kurgunun alkn olmadm, farkl bir havas vard; bu hava sayesinde, skldm ksmlarda bile kitaba devam etmeyi baardm. Ayn tre ait, ayn konuya sahip kitaplar okumaktan skldysanz Petekgzl Adam tpk benim olduu...
