A compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood, exploring the conflicting emotions that tie us to our children.Edition to tie-in with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut (a film starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal of Normal People)
Leda is a middle-aged divorcee devoted to her work as an English teacher and to her two children. When her daughters leave home to be with their father in Canada, Leda anticipates a period of loneline
2020臺灣文學獎得獎作品。反覆逃離又折回,陳思宏《鬼地方》。不堪卻無以抵擋的過往猶如鬼魂,形影朦朧卻縈繞不去:如同那些看似終於消失的,定睛一看,原來都仍在原地。BESTSELLING WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARDKeith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan Berlin, where he finally finds acceptance as a young gay man. The novel is set about a decade later, on Ghost Festival, the Day of Deliverance.After Keith's release from a maximum security prison, he has nowhere to go but home. With his parents gone, his siblings married, mad, on the lam, or dead, there is nothing left for him there, so it seems. As he explores his uncanny home town, we learn what tore his family apart, and, more importantly, the truth behind the terrible crime Keith committed in Germany.Told in a myriad of voices-both living and dead-and moving through time with deceptive ease, Ghost Town is a mesmerizing stor
Three old members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army have been summoned by the anarchist known as The Shadow to carry out one last revolutionary mission. The Shadow disappears before he can meet wit